Sleeping Man

Here's my final drawing of the semester.

Bone and Rib Drawing

Here is my 3/4 and top view of the vertebra and rib.

Self Portrait

Final Words For The Semester

Throughout the semester I've learned quite a lot. The study of the skeleton improved my anatomical understandings of how flesh should be drawn on human body. The flesh moves along the skeletal structures, and when you can achieve that understanding, your drawings will look and become more accurate when drawing human bodies. The lines and their curvature movement on the human form will help persuade the weight and angle of the form. So it is wise to pay good attention to where and how lines are curving around the human body form. Using simple boxes such as a cube can help you depict the plane change of directions when there are times you have problems with where a change of plane should occur. Playing with the darkness and lightness of tone can also help depict space and the overall composition.

Full Skeleton Study

Here are both of my full skeleton study so far.

Torso Ribs

Here is my torso drawing we critiqued in class.

I notice a women manikin is cut in half through the stomach area where a secondary stand is placed below it for support. I notice the manikin is placed near the upper left corner of the stand and angled at a 45 degree position from the corner of the stand to give a focus direction for the viewer. I notice the shadow being cast from a light source coming from the upper right hand gives the manikin a sense of depth and 3d form feel to it. I notice the colored necklace on the manikin's neck, sets a contrast on the overall look of the manikin.

I notice the dull gray color in the background makes up 80% of the composition. I notice the light pink heart with a male part sticking out, creates a focus point on the composition. I notice the outlines around the heart-like-shape creates a contrast for viewers oppose to the background. I notice the very small text at the bottom of the page is center proportionately to the paper size. I notice the small text is hard to read from a far distance.

I notice the bottles have a glassy feel to them. I notice the bottles are lined up side by side proportionately. I notice the bands around each bottle. I notice the bottles are set on a shelf like stand. I notice the lighting is casting shadows from a right angle. I notice there are different shapes and sizes that makes some bottles different from each other. I notice the bottles in the back are taller than the ones in the front which allows the viewers to see them from far back.

Germany Art #2

I notice a ship and some lines dropping down to a octopus like creature. I notice the octopus creature is at the bottom right of the paper. I notice some wrinkle folds in the paper. I notice the ship is near at the top of the page and above the water shapes. I notice the background of the ship is a tan color. I notices shadings on the ships to show a sense of depth. I notice the water turning to a lighter tone as it drops down to the bottom of the page.

Germany Art #1

I notice gaps between thin and thick lines. I notice there is a tan or brown color to the type of ink or material that was used. I noticed the markings are made more towards the upper right of the paper. I notice the word NOT is at the bottom left of the paper.

White Teeth by Jonathan Simard

This book deals with 3D Animations and Modeling. The author tells us that sometimes when creating characters, either in 2D or 3D, you don't have to think too much. Let your mind just flow with what you want to come out from a character. For example, when the author modeled White Teeth, he basically said that he just wanted a character with a big mouth larger than its head. The outcome of his character looked amazingly cool and interesting.

Sometimes when modeling in 3D, the author mentions about composition. You must try to visualize the composition before you model or create a character. A bad composition can really kill an awesome model or character. Sometime it's all about the composition, is what he was trying to say. For those who might not have had experience with 3D modeling and rendering, the rule of thirds is still very important. In fact, the rule of third should be placed almost everywhere whenever you can. White Teeth, the modeled character, was built on the rule of third. However, the author describes in detail that even though the rule of thirds was used, he had to breake the rule a little bit to satisfy his modeling purposes. So you don't always have to follow the rule of thirds.

If you read more further into the book, you can start to learn some cool tips and tricks to take into account when modeling in a 3D application.

This image was done in my Intro to Photography class. It is one of the images out of the three I put together. The image is suppose to address funky, strange, and weird. Instead of taking pictures of regular things, I wanted change my way of taking pictures. That is manipulating images to create new images. I enjoyed this style of manipulation.

This video project was done in my 3D Animation 1 class during my junior year. The concept here is about a little worm traveling in the dessert. The worm is worn out and very exhausted. In the end of the video, the viewer realize the worm is traveling in a never ending circle but the worm doesn't notice. I tried to add a little humor and irony into it. Although the clip is short, it does take a lot of time to make a 3D animation video.

3D Animation 1 - Maya
I worked on this with another friend in my major. It doesn't have a name or title but it is something about a gate opening to heaven or something supernatural. The gate is suppose to have some kind of life, that is why the feathers are sticking out. The stairs is there to represent some kind of path into a different realm. The overall theme is suppose to be something dreamy and fantasy.

What I want to spend this semester learning about ~

I am taking this class in hoping to get better with precise measurement and alignment when drawing figures and objects. I have a little interest in business as well and hope to later in the future work together with artist and be able to understand them from their perspective and from a business person's perspective to better combine the two and allow for easier communication. I also want to experiment and observe how art and business work together in the current era.

Through some personal experience and through reading online forums, I realize that not a lot of people in the business who works with artists, whether they are the head boss or the person running the business financially, will not usually understand the procedures of what an artist must overcome and go through in order to complete their job. In other words, the people running the business financially just want things to get done by their hired artists and make profit but yet most likely will not know what good advice to give to their working artists to accomplish their task. It is usually up to the artist to know what to do to be able to complete such an assignment given by upper people working in the business. This is something I want to explore more into as I learn more about the business world and art.