17 posts tagged “homework”
man. I've been painting all day. I started at like 11:30 and just cleaned up my stuff at 8:00. Ridiculous. I spend way too much time on these things. It is unnecessary and it hurts my back. And I've still got another painting to do before Thursday. But hey I'm pretty happy with the painting. It looks good. Want a picture?
and, BTW, I hate acrylic.
Okay, my dinner is done cooking now. Mmm, food.
I said I'd post a picture of the as-big-as-me drawing once I took one, so here it is:
What happened: I got to class about an hour early just to give me some time to erase stray pencil lines, re-ink some spots, and generally clean it up before critique. I worked on it a little bit and everything went fine. But then 5 minutes before class was to start, I was putting my supplies away and cleaning up my area when I grabbed my nearly-full bottle of blue ink by the not-actually-screwed-on cap and spilled the whole thing onto the table, the floor, and the right edge of the drawing. Disaster! My frantic 2-second solution was to cut the figure free from the now-stained surrounding paper and add some more color splotches to make it look intentional. I think that cutting it out was a positive change.
As far as the drawing goes... it is about things like the beauty of the human body, starvation, protest, veganism, efficiency, body temperature, thermography, maps, and size.
I wish I had a place to put it.
I just got around to taking pictures of more school things...
The pink and blue one was done in one class session. I kind of like how the mailbox sorta looks like a second dog.
This is a combination of Mexican folk art designs and amanitas muscaria mushrooms. I was running on 0 hours of sleep when I drew it.
This was for drawing concepts. We had to paint a portrait of someone we had never seen, based only on the information given in his/her obituary. This is Kate Webb, an Australian woman who was a foreign correspondent news reporter in Cambodia during the Vietnam war. She was captured by Vietnamese troops and mistakenly reported as dead. After being held captive for three weeks, she was released for no apparent reason.
detail:
and how I imagined her feet might've felt...
I'm not sure how to begin to explain this one, but it means a lot to me and I am very happy about it.
This hairy sucker sort of relates to Stuffed-animal Face up there. These are also from drawing concepts.
That's all for now. I still need to take a presentable picture of the big drawing. I'll do it later.
PS: I just set up a flickr account where I'll keep all of my art junk organized! --->LINK
Here is my design 2 final! It's what I was laser cutting the other day.
The assignment was to make a 3D object whose design was to be based on a plant or animal of our choosing. Clearly, I chose a millipede for my inspiration. Because millipedes are awesome.
I was pretty excited about making it, since I so seldom stray from the 2D world. Something not flat! Amazing!
I also think it looks pretty neat upside-down:
And for scale:
I am building a millipede! Today I used the laser cutter to make something more substantial than the little keychainswe made during the lasercutting demo, and it was fun and educational. There were some difficulties with the process (my sheet of acrylic was warped so the laser didn't cut evenly and the acrylic was re-melting together in places etc) but in the end it all worked out and now my milliede body is coming together. I'll show you when it's finished.
Yesterday I was at school from 8:00am to 6:30pm working on my drawing concepts final, which is a 3'x5' drawing.
(This is my "I have been at school for 10 hours" face:
I got it mostly done. I am working with ink, and I had a bit of a disaster on my hands this morning when I unrolled it to find that in many places the ink had not dried completely when I'd rolled it up to take it home the previous evening, and it was stuck to itself all over the place. There were some little tears here and there but nothing too terribly horrible and I was able to cover most of it up by re-inking it. A second disaster came, though, when I spilled some acid-green ink on my bedroom carpet and my pants :(. It didn't come out of either very well. Fortunately none of it spilled on the drawing, which was mere inches away and which was sort of all I cared about anyway. Score.
My floor, currently:
Let me tell you, IPS Weld-On #4 For Joining ACRYLIC is the shit. It is joining that acrylic up like no other. And it doesn't even get my hands sticky when I clumsily stick my fingers in it. It dries so fast that when it touches my hands it creates a cool sensation and then disappears completely, almost instantly, leaving my skin just slightly drier. I don't know if it's absorbing into my skin or just plain drying, but I like it. Yay chemicals!
Yeah, dude. Making progress on the finals.
One more week, four more classes, four more days.
The Iron Giant is a good movie. Have you seen it? I've been getting into watching a ton of animated movies lately. You should rewatch Bambi. It is am-a-a-zing. That kind of animation drawing just doesn't happen anymore. And the storytelling is perfect. There is just the right amount of talking--which is to say, not very much. Kind of like No Country for Old Men. Ha, there's a comparison for you.
I'll leave it at that.
I promised myself I would be asleep by 4:00 this morning, and it's looking like I will keep that promise! Good. Painting homework: check. Modernism research paper: not check (yet), will have to do the rest of that tomorrow between classes. Not fun, but doable (probably). Oh how I dislike Mondays and Tuesdays. WEEK 13/14! YES! It's the final countdown!
PS Note for the future: if I ever develop cancer, it was caused by turpenoid. Just so I know.
FIRST: IF ANYONE HAS AN EXTRA ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CODE ON THEIR HANDS AND WOULD LIKE TO HELP ME OUT IN AN ENORMOUS WAY, SEND ME A MESSAGE!
Here is what I've been doing in comp and painting, in chronological order, the one in color being the most recent. Oil paint. Most of them aren't finished because 5 hours isn't really long enough for a painting class. The ones that ARE finished are things I did at home. Most are 16"x20". (The spacing of these thumbnails is all retarded because vox is dumb).
The rest of these are from drawing concepts...
These two are from the Ugliest Person I've Ever Seen assignment. The one on the left is my interpretation of someone else's ugliest person, and the one on the right is my ugliest person. These were fun to do. I shouldn't even be posting these pictures though, as the terrible photos have killed most of the detail, which is sort of the most important thing about them. These are pretty big; 18"x24"
Um, if you'd like an explanation of this one, I will give you one.
This is most recent. We went on a field trip to downtown LA to draw the people and scenery around us, and our homework was to use those sketches as the basis for a finished drawing. This is a mash-up of things I saw at the Alamdea st market. (I demand you full-view this! Notice their hands!)
I don't know.
I'm painting. Analyzing master paintings is booooring. Actually I'm now done painting -- for tonight, anyway. One more to do tomorrow. I still need to do a perspective drawing tonight, though.
This is what I looked like after finishing the first one:
And then I did this:
I will do something more interesting some day.
These are all (with the exception of the second guy) [terrible scans of!] drawings of fellow students. Friendmodeling for headsnhands. (I posed for others as well, and later had a bad head/eye-ache from having stared into the bright modeling lamp for 30 minutes. Now I fully understand why the models take so many eye-rubbing breaks)
Show us your hands.
Okay! Here are my homework hands from the other week.
(The non-skeleton hands are from Michaelangelo sculptures. Do you recognize David's?)
And here are some in-class hands