A blog for arts
In illustration class, we had to choose an illustrator and then do a self-portrait based on their style. I chose Dorothy Lathrop, a children’s book illustrator in the early to mid 1900s. She did a lot of pen and ink drawings that had areas with lots of texture combined with very flat areas. She also liked to draw animals and sometimes included them in drawings where you wouldn’t expect them to be, hence the rooster in my drawing.
I used a combination of pen and ink and Photoshop to make this.
I was playing around with my tablet and this is what came out. I mean, he’s a dinosaur, what do you expect him to do?
Here’s my crab animation! I made it in Flash.
I’ve been working on a short Flash animation all weekend that I’m going to enter into a contest. (Hopefully I finish it in time!) Unfortunately, I didn’t get anything done for my actual school assignments this weekend, but oh well. I’ll still get those done. If only all my assignments were as fun as playing around with Flash…
Anyway, here’s the star of the mini-movie:
I think he’s pretty cute.
I created a deviantart page to display art on because a dude who came and talked to our class said it was a good way to network.
Here’s the link: http://asmallgiraffe.deviantart.com/
For Illustration class we made book covers for certain books. I chose Animal Farm. I decided to go with a Soviet propaganda look so I used only red, black, and white for the colors and the hoof and horns flag drawn to look like the Communist flag. I tried to give the cover sort of a stark appearance. It was made in Illustrator and the animals are vector drawings.
Here it is:
We also made black and white illustrations for an excerpt from the book. I chose the part where the pigs write the poem for Napoleon on the barn under Napoleon’s profile in white paint. I drew the pig standing since that’s a pretty major plot point and shows the inequalities between the pigs and the other animals on the farm. This was also the first time I really used a tablet for anything, so that was interesting. I wanted it to look simple and cartoony.
Here’s the illustration:
In Illustration class, we learned how to use scratchboard to make interesting arts. I made this frog on a piece of scratchboard and used Photoshop to color it in. He is an awesome frog. It looks like he’s giving a speech.
I entered my Mario video into a juried show at my school. I don’t know if it’ll win anything or even get picked for the show but you can’t win if you don’t enter, as all the teachers in the art department were telling us. I guess we’ll see what happens. I’m a little nervous about it, to be honest. I also don’t really know much about the show since I’ve never done this before and I wasn’t even planning on entering until the very last day for submissions when I learned that we could put digital media in the show too. Who knows?
Update: Mario didn’t get into the show. Oh well, there’s always next year.
I finally got the camera to fly through my landscape! Then I had to wrestle with Blender to get it to render without crashing. I figured out that I could have it just render 100 frames at a time and then I put it together in iMovie. I’m still not sure why it kept crashing, but here it is in all its glory. My first real render with actual animation! Woohoo!
I’m taking a 3D animation class this semester and we’re using Blender, since it’s free and we can all download it on our own computers, which is very helpful.
This is my first render, although it’s not animated (yet, hopefully there will be some camera movement and maybe other interesting things later).
It’s…something, isn’t it? It’s supposed to be a weird, surreal landscape. It was pretty fun to make but I’m still not sure how to get the camera to fly through it yet. I looked at the online tutorials but I didn’t find them very helpful for what I need to do, but one day I hope to have the camera flying around my crazy landscape.
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