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| 5-10 min Turnaround sketches in black chalk |
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| 20-30 min chalk drawing (looking at light and negative space) |
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| 30-40 min white and black chalk drawing |
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Life Drawing - Week 6
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Character Design - Arcs in Motion
Today's lesson was looking at curves in motion. I was put into a group of 4 where we had a selection of different situations and whilst one pair reenacted the scene the other pair would draw the scene in stickman form for the first set of poses, then add some flesh to the character for the rest.
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| The policeman and the Drunk. |
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| The Bully and the Nerd. |
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| The Mad Scientist. Captain Awesome. |
- Gender: Female
- Age: 17
- Location: Been sent to the Spirit World (part of a ceremony?)
- Characteristics: Bright, but shy. (big shoes to fill?)
- Quirks: Slightly clumsy and jumpy as she's still learning.
- Build: Slight and elegant.
- Why in the Spirit World: Seek a God/Higher spirit. (Fox?)
- What's being offered: Her services/soul. (in the form of her weapon, a samurai sword?)
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| Looking at environments for the Spirit World. |
Monday, 23 October 2017
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Sunday, 15 October 2017
Scream - Why it's Postmodern
Is Scream Postmodern?
1) Pastiche. The film follows the same plotline on purpose so it replicates past slasher films.
2) Parody. The film plays on the idea of it being a slasher film and predictable like all the ones before and mocks it, for example, when the main character Sidney states “They’re all the same - some stupid killer stalking some big breasted girl who can’t act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out of the front door. It’s insulting.”
3) Appropriation. The use of the killers mask is replicated/influenced by the famous painting “The Scream” by Edvard Munch.
4) Irony. Throughout the film, the characters will mock a scenario, and then moments later it’ll happen to them, such as when Randy shouts “Look behind you” when the killer is right behind him.
5) Intertextuality. The film references multiple films such as “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Halloween.”
Saturday, 14 October 2017
Perspectives - Sherrie Levine - Week 4
Sherrie Levine uses other peoples original artwork and makes it into something very similar but changes just a couple of things, she put's her own stamp into the works changing the history of the piece and inserts parasite meaning to it. Marcel Duchamp did a similar thing beforehand by "vandalising" the Mona Lisa, the idea of individuals doing this to work was mischievous and exciting.
Postmodern Definitions - Week 4
Avant - garde - Making a new piece of work, using methods not seen before which are experimental and unorthodox.
Nostalgia - Taking a serious piece of work/film etc and adapting parts to exaggerate it, often to make it humorous.
Appropriation - Copying something, but changing the context and/or meaning.
Pastiche - A cultural artefact composed from elements appropriated from other works.
Parody - Mimicking a individual/ piece/ genre etc, and exaggerating it; often to make it humorous.
Irony - Using words or images to convey a meaning, normally opposite to it's literal meaning.
Ideology - A set of beliefs or theories that guide society at that time.
Genre - A specific style or category, such as Art or Film.
Postmodern Definitions - Week 3
Metanarrative - Large scale theories and philosophies of the world, such as religion, science history and art.
Essentialism - Things have a set of characteristics defining them and what they are.
Utopian - A perfect place, the idea of creating a "perfect" society.
Axiomatic - Something that's completely truthful and unquestionable, transparency.
Dystopian - The exact opposite of utopian, a unpleasant or bad place.
Scepticism - Being doubtful about an idea or theory.
Pluralism - Working together for something or a society, despite cultural differences.
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Toolkit 2 - Moom Weightlifting - Poses & Arcs in Motion
Moom weightlifting from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.
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| Extreme Pose 1: 180 |
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| Imbetween Pose 1: 198 |
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| Extreme Pose 2: 201 |
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| In between Pose 2: 205 |
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| Extreme Pose 3: 211 |
Life Drawing - Week 4
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| 20 min Chalk, Charcoal and Ink drawing (focusing on the light source) |
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| 1-5 min Ink Sketches (Part 1) (focusing on both weight and fluidity of movement) |
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| 1-5 min Ink Sketches (Part 2) (focusing on both weight and fluidity of movement) |
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| 20 min Chalk, Charcoal and Ink drawing |
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Character Design - Shapes and Styles
The first task I looked into was exploring the fluid strokes of Japanese Calligraphy and finding parts of the symbols that I could recreate through-out my own images and use similar strokes and the same fluidity in my own world.
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Above I have looked into incorporating the lines I have practised with the calligraphy. I explored the simplest strokes (giraffe on the left) and more detailed work, pushing how many lines I can add to an image before it over complicates the piece (fish at the bottom)
Here I was doing some quick line-art using the techniques I had learnt in the lesson to create a very stylised ninja, using brush and ink.
Monday, 9 October 2017
Character Design - 10 Life Drawing Styled Ninja Poses
For my character design lesson, I was required to do 10 drawn images drawn in a realistic style, as my character is a Ninja I looked into various poses and outfits.
Sunday, 8 October 2017
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Life Drawing - Week 3
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| 20 min Chalk and charcoal drawing |
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| 20 min Chalk, charcoal and pencil drawing (Face Study) |
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| 4x 5 min Chalk, pro-marker, black pen with water brush and pencil sketches |
Sunday, 1 October 2017
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