Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Jellyfish Mania!
Finally getting around to posting some of these jellyfish! This is one I've been working on this week. The drawing is pretty much done, so i'll probably paint it tomorrow. It's three separate pieces of wood I snagged from the shop at the end of last semester. When its done they would be viewed with about 1/2 inch between each piece. I wanted to take a picture of it while its just in pencil, just in case the painting doesn't turn out as planned. And because my camera broke—and I'm broke too—I had to scan it in (if only martha could see my correct use of em dashes!).
Monday, July 20, 2009
Vector Mei
Vector Mei that I made in Illustrator from the drawing I posted before.
I also painted a casting of my friends breasts (a thing they do for breast cancer awareness) for her, but I didn't have a camera to take a picture of it, but hopefully she will send me a photograph so i can post it! And I still have to paint mine too...
I also painted a casting of my friends breasts (a thing they do for breast cancer awareness) for her, but I didn't have a camera to take a picture of it, but hopefully she will send me a photograph so i can post it! And I still have to paint mine too...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Summer: __________
Finally I found some time to post a few things from summer so far...
Wiibounce was an interesting experience that really opened my eyes. It's kind of hard to explain, but I read a quote that relates:
This summer has also been the summer of Studio Ghibli I've watched just almost every Studio Ghibli film now. I think my favorites are: Spirited Away, Whispers of the Heart, Pom Poko, and My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicca, and Laputa. I do not like: Grave of the Fireflies, Ocean Waves, or Porco Russo. I hope Ponyo is good. Its got the cute character down.
This is a little drawing of Totoro and Mei. Totoro turned out a bit skinny and leaning to one side and the two are standing on different levels, but oh well. I'm going to create the girl into a vector image and try and make it an amazing color vector to try and get better at vector-ing.
Audrey Kawasaki is my favorite artist and about once every few months she sells prints of her new paintings for around $300. I would love to own one, but definitely do not have that much money to spare. And all the ones recently have been very small (8.5/11) and dont seem to be worth the money. So... I decided to create my own. So I picked one of my favorites and traced it on a window (I knew I would never be able to draw it as good as her, and I wanted it to be as close to the real thing as possible, so it was a guilt-less trace. Normally tracing is like quitting to me). So then I painted it with gouche and I the original Kawasaki is painted transparently on wood, but I didnt have wood large enough so I used water color paper, and painted it opaque with bright colors instead of transparent just to see what it would look like. Plus I knew I could never replicate her painting skills so why not do my own?
Of course its no Kawasaki original, but it will do as a Kawasaki tribute on my wall. She is so talented. I really love all her stuff.
Wiibounce was an interesting experience that really opened my eyes. It's kind of hard to explain, but I read a quote that relates:
"So, here I sit - the equivalent of a graphic design short order cook just waiting for someone who might appreciate a true gourmet."That's basically what I felt when doing designs for Wiibounce. I was just doing quick turn arounds for a client who really could care less about how good the design was. Which is fine, I'm not bashing that side of design, I realize there are clients that just want something done to get the information out there and don't have a huge budget to hire a design studio. But that's not what I want to do with my career. I don't want to be churning out frequent buyer cards, and gift cards (which don't interest me at all). I want to be creating interesting, thought-provoking stuff and that requires interesting clients that actually care about the design. I just hope when I graduate I can get a job at a great design studio, because it seems that is the key.
This summer has also been the summer of Studio Ghibli I've watched just almost every Studio Ghibli film now. I think my favorites are: Spirited Away, Whispers of the Heart, Pom Poko, and My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicca, and Laputa. I do not like: Grave of the Fireflies, Ocean Waves, or Porco Russo. I hope Ponyo is good. Its got the cute character down.
This is a little drawing of Totoro and Mei. Totoro turned out a bit skinny and leaning to one side and the two are standing on different levels, but oh well. I'm going to create the girl into a vector image and try and make it an amazing color vector to try and get better at vector-ing.
Audrey Kawasaki is my favorite artist and about once every few months she sells prints of her new paintings for around $300. I would love to own one, but definitely do not have that much money to spare. And all the ones recently have been very small (8.5/11) and dont seem to be worth the money. So... I decided to create my own. So I picked one of my favorites and traced it on a window (I knew I would never be able to draw it as good as her, and I wanted it to be as close to the real thing as possible, so it was a guilt-less trace. Normally tracing is like quitting to me). So then I painted it with gouche and I the original Kawasaki is painted transparently on wood, but I didnt have wood large enough so I used water color paper, and painted it opaque with bright colors instead of transparent just to see what it would look like. Plus I knew I could never replicate her painting skills so why not do my own?
Of course its no Kawasaki original, but it will do as a Kawasaki tribute on my wall. She is so talented. I really love all her stuff.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Paper Craft Fishies
After all our final projects were done, some studio friends and I finally had time to do a collaborative Fish Market project! The theme of May's Fish Market (which is the College of Design's gallery downtown) was "scale". So the 5 of us made about 20 paper craft fish. We hung them up the night before the gallery show at about 2 am, and the unexpected shadows made the whole thing look amazing! The shadows really make it look like they are swimming in water. I love happy mishaps.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Final Projects Part 4: Extended Design!
Studio Collective 2009
Here's some photographs I took at studio collective (a sort of design school gallery crawl) a few weeks ago.
The super cool screen printed studio collective poster.
My leetle section of stuff.
Some cool laser cutting work from the junior GD studio
Other cool junior work.
Some clay heads we found in an art and design sculpture studio.
A swing/chair in an art and design studio. i had permission to sit in it... really...
Art to Wear 2009
This year was even more amazing than last years! This set is by Alyssa McNamara, and they are all based on garden foods. They're so cute, and detailed. Photography by various other people.
Sadly, I dont know whose collection this is, but i love it. Photographs by Grace Yang.
Speaking of design:
This is my awesome new Samsonite! Its a suitcase from the 30s. So cute! I got it from a flea market in charlotte for $15. It was pretty dingy, but I cleaned it for hours and now it looks brand new! If only trains were a feasible way to travel, I would be so 20s with my samsonite, 20s hat, running to the train to see my man in the military...
Ok well, there's my blog purge. Hundreds of hours of work (and play) all put into a blog in one day. This summer I am going to try to do a blog post 5 times a week at least, maybe even every day. Im going to also try to draw/paint/make something every day. Summer is for art! I've got lots of materials ive been saving, like wood to do some audrey kawasaki inspired paintings. And of course I have my obsession with jellyfish and siphonophores—that will come into play im sure.
Here's some photographs I took at studio collective (a sort of design school gallery crawl) a few weeks ago.
Our sophomore studio!
The super cool screen printed studio collective poster.
My leetle section of stuff.
Some cool laser cutting work from the junior GD studio
Other cool junior work.
Some clay heads we found in an art and design sculpture studio.
A swing/chair in an art and design studio. i had permission to sit in it... really...
Art to Wear 2009
This year was even more amazing than last years! This set is by Alyssa McNamara, and they are all based on garden foods. They're so cute, and detailed. Photography by various other people.
Sadly, I dont know whose collection this is, but i love it. Photographs by Grace Yang.
Speaking of design:
This is my awesome new Samsonite! Its a suitcase from the 30s. So cute! I got it from a flea market in charlotte for $15. It was pretty dingy, but I cleaned it for hours and now it looks brand new! If only trains were a feasible way to travel, I would be so 20s with my samsonite, 20s hat, running to the train to see my man in the military...
Ok well, there's my blog purge. Hundreds of hours of work (and play) all put into a blog in one day. This summer I am going to try to do a blog post 5 times a week at least, maybe even every day. Im going to also try to draw/paint/make something every day. Summer is for art! I've got lots of materials ive been saving, like wood to do some audrey kawasaki inspired paintings. And of course I have my obsession with jellyfish and siphonophores—that will come into play im sure.
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