This installment was originally to explore the senses, or lack thereof. It has become an exploration in the beauty of the pen tool, and a celebration of the senses, and of colors. Its just simply a call to enjoy, and think. Be aware of what is around you. I didn't want to create any sort of really intense message or anything, but nor did I want to create a YOLO attitude. I just wanted three clean, minimal prints. If you find some deeper meaning in it, I'm glad. That is your story for these images. I want everyone to look into them and see a narrative of their own making.

WIP final project

I guess the sort of mood that I’m trying to put into this piece is just awareness. I want people to stop at this, and think about things. I don’t really want them to feel a certain way, although I welcome emotional response, I just want them to dive in and think.

I have a few ideas to add to the piece, but none concrete, and I actually feel I should discuss them with the class, to really decide in full.

I really want to print this piece fairly large, at least life size, because the subjects are meant to reflect in some way on everyone.

I do not have any alternate plans for the presentation, at this stage. It may develop later.

What I really want in terms of feedback from my classmates is just a sounding board. I have some ideas for what I might do, and I’d appreciate a group to bounce these ideas off of.

Proposal

My plan for the final project is to make a series of images, sort of like the See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil concept(or the five senses), with the pen tool. Earlier in my high school digital class, we made paintings with the pen tool, and I’d like to expand on that. I am interested in this type of process, because I’m very fond of painting and it achieves that effect.

I don’t yet have a plan for the size, but suffice it to say that I think they will be rather large. At least 24x24. I just want close ups of, say, a mouth, and to paint everything but white out the specific part in the image. My idea is still evolving so I’m not sure if it will end up like this in the end, but that’s my initial idea.

My plans regarding whether or not I appropriate imagery depend on what is out there. If I do take images off the internet, I will do so only from those who offer their images as stock use. If I cannot find what I need from these sources, then I will make my own images.

technologic

so here is the song that reminds me of this project, and that inspired the name. here

Technoscape/ Digital Nation

So first off, for the technoscape project, i do not plan at this tie to appropriate any imagery.I also do not really want to do a pro- or anti-technology sort of piece, although I imagine it will come off as pro-technology. My plan is simply to take pictures (not sure what kind yet) and put them together in some way (either as a gif or a still image) that would not be possible without technology. I plan to make something aesthetically pleasing, yet completely without any sort of meaning beyond that. Of course, as I work and procure pictures, some sort of meaning will work its way ito the piece, but im not planning that at present.

In response to Digital Nation

Some real benefits of technology seem to be in the way we can use the advances to make ourselves into smarter, healthier people. We can save more lives, and even save more minds than we previously could without such advances. The price of these amazing computer age things is the addiction that the world seems to be developing. Addiction in any form is inherently a bad thing, and it seems to be telling us that this technology is great, in moderation.

The way technology has changed the making of art is obvious. We can use computer programs to create modified images, even images from scratch, that don’t exist in the physical world. By extension, this changes how we view art, because instead of needing it to be physically in front of us, it can be viewed in cyberspace, or under the guise of a video game. Prints of art that might have had to be printed and shipped from one central location can now be produced at any printer you have access to. In this way, we have access to a much wider array of art, and a many more ways to create and share that art with the world.

This project was inspired by a few crazy daydreams in the middle of the night, and cyriak, which is kind of the same thing.
So, i decided im going to type more later. on my home computer. at my home. later. yeah.

so here we are. a photographer that my dad found somehow this monday, and i fell in love with. i know this doesnt relate to our assignment, but its too cool. his name is Thomas JORION. check him out.

artistic mapping project

i chose to map my drawing process, because it has been evolving lately and i thought that this would add a new level to it. i started by scanning in a drawing, step by step, then layered them all together and dropped the opacity on each so they blended on top of one another.
i didnt appropriate any imagery, its all mine.

my message is pretty simple, that even the process of art can be some form of art, by showing a glimpse of how a finished product can come about.

four seasons

four seasons pretty obvious which is which, and why. pretty simple. huzzah.

artistic mapping proposal

My idea for our next project is to map my drawing process, and perhaps taking a page from Jason Salavon's work in layering pictures of a drawing at each point during the progress so that at the end, you can see vaguely each step that it takes to come up with a completed picture. this interests me because i love to draw and lately i have been experimenting with new approaches to drawing and so i decided what better to do than to combine my love for drawing with my love for digital art. might make a crazy baby, but i hope it will turn out nice.
my plan is to set up a piece of paper and a camera, and record every change i make, ever pencil/pen/marker/colpen mark that i make, and layer every image on top of one another, so that each mark that stays is darker than each subsequent mark, making a record of time within the darkness of each line. also, as i"m one of those people who erases a lot, i think there will be a few ghostly almost afterimage quality lines that would normally be lost.

click here for my choice. it"s a map of lyrics of songs (either still being built or woefully incomplete) as they relate to other songs with the same words in them. click on a word to see a map of other songs with the same word in the lyrics.

i chose this map because i am obsessed(slight;y) with songs and lyrics, and i like the way this lays them out and compares them to one another, creating a silent, visual representation of music. i also like the way it connects via one word only, not phrases or other larger pieces, so you get many truly unrelated things pieced together by virtue of a single word.

also, my runner up was this site, showcasing the connections between facebook friends. give it a gander as well.

I'm not one hundred percent happy with this, mostly as it's not as clean as I would like it to be, and I haven't had time to fiddle with it as much as I would like to make it seamless. Nevertheless.

I made this image by taking an image from princess bride, and adding over the faces of the original characters the faces of a Twilight vampire, and one old classic-looking vampire. I turned and sized each original image so that the faces would fit over the heads of the original characters, and masked out the extraneous parts. For the Twilight vampire, i had to put a hue/sat layer over it and take the saturation to 0, which i also did with the princess bride image, so they would all fit together color-wie. I also dropped the contrast on the new faces so that they matched the base image more.

These images were fair to appropriate, because I was attempting to use them in a parody. I took the images purely to make a comment about the obsession with twilight, and not to profit from them, or pass the originals off as my own. However, the parody is my own, and a different work from any of the originals.

Finally, my point was to make a comment about the obsession with all things Twilight. I used the well known fight scene from Princess Bride to do this. AND perhaps i will write more later but i have to get to class now. ;P anyway.
enjoy.

Psychological Self Portrait :P stuffs

So this is my Self portrait. Paragraphs to follow in another post. Because I want to mull it over.

soooooo. literally just found this artist, but i can already tell she rocks. imho.
digitalessandra
yep there it be. aaaand no one cares. toodles!

Optimism/Pessimism

optimism

pessimism

me, myself, and i

'ello?