'Sex and the City 2': From Downsizing to the Desert - WWD.com

I love the clothes, color and backgrounds from this photo shoot!
So Fun!



Check out these outfits from the next movie.
'Sex and the City 2': From Downsizing to the Desert - WWD.com

Art History - Visual Analysis Final Draft

I have truly enjoyed my Art History Class. What I thought would be boring and monotenous has turned out to be really intriguing and enlightening.

Our Teacher, Henry Altmann, has a great way of continually repeating information so that we retain it without making it obvious that he's doing it. He also is extremely talented at entertwining a piece of artwork with a clever story or anecdote in order to give us a more entertaining relation to the time period or artist.

I've learned quite a significant amount about how connected art is to its environment during different time periods, as well as the artists purpose and subjects due to these circumstances.

I also feel I have a better understanding of how it relates to the present day because of this.

Here is a jpg of my Visual Analysis Comparison - Final Draft.

The pages should enlarge if you click on them.

There is more info on the artists I chose in my previous post if you want more info.

The paper generally covers the 3 artist's history, influences, style, medium, subject, criticism and personal opinion.

Henry allowed me to chose the subject & artists so this was especially rewarding and interesting to me.

Check it out and would love to hear what you think!

Drawing Class Update- 6 More Drawings

Here are 6 more completed drawings from my Drawing Intensive Class.
Our teacher Joanie Ryan has us using several different mediums to gain some confidence while we experiment with them. All are monocromatic to allow us to see light, medium and darks in depicting light and shadow. It's tougher than you might think!

We've used:
Charcoal
Charcoal on Toned (colored) Paper
Ball Point Pen with Abstract Line
Acrylic Paint
Water & Ink

I also included a reworked Charcoal Drawing I did for extra credit... you'll see it on a previous post, but this one has darker shadows in the background. I think it helps bring the other objects to the front in perspective.

Some of these techniques I am more comfortable with than others.

Also, some of these techniques work better with my style than others

but it's definitely been very fun to try them all.


Reworked Extra Credit
Charcoal Drawing

Toned Paper

Experiment with Light & Shadow Source
Change Focal Point of Original Drawing

Ball Point with Abstract Line


2nd week
Ball Point with Abstract Line

Acrylic Paint

Sumi Paint Brush, Water & Ink

My Fashion Illustration Icons

There are so many Fashion Illustration Artists that I admire, I thought it would be cool to share some of my favorites. These guys continue to inspire me on a regular basis. There is no particular order... Feel free to share your comments or some of your own fav's

Ruben Toledo- you've probably seen his Nordstrom Ads

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Sujean Rim- She may look familiar from the Daily Candy of better times

Alberto Vargas- Vintage Playboy Illustrator

Erte- Sculptor and painter... classic

Eduard Erlikh- Fabulous style

Bella Pillar- may look familar from Target, Papyrus or any other specialty notecard store

And the master of Fashion Illustration Portraiture- David Downton

3 Paths of Illustration-Panel Discussion

Cool Panel of 3 illustrators doing different styles.

The 3 Paths Lecture held this past Monday at AIB gave great insight into what it takes to be working professionally in today's Illustration and Animation industries. Joe Quinones, Mike Annear, and James Yang all come from diverse backgrounds and are at different stages in their own careers. They each presented their own process of working and discussed how they each broke into their industries. James Yang said it best, "Do what you love" -sound advice from someone with over 20 years in the industry.

Joe Quinones was a cool and light hearted speaker He specializes in comic characters

http://joequinones.blogspot.com/

Mike Annear had a cool K-Town Video, a funny clip about teachers & students in an elementary school

http://mikeannear.blogspot.com/

But James Yang was my favorite.

His work was modern yet retro... kind of timeless and it was very versatile.

Plus he was very successful and seemed to constantly evolve through the 20 years of his career.

Check out his video "it's your globe guy" funny... and true

http://www.jamesyang.com/category/videoanimation

Drawing Drawing Drawing Fundamentals

Drawing is the toughest class I have. Probably because I thought it was going to be easy and assumed it would come as second nature to me.

Um, wrong!

I'm so used to drawing as a hobby... it it's not something that I imagined or a project that I am inspired by, I wouldn't even have considered do it.

Defining fun: an image I have in my mind that I take my own sweet time playing with and drawing in my cute little studio.

Defining tough:
4 hours of drawing objects I have no desire to draw and using mediums I have no clue how to use. Using new techniques such as diagramatical lines, measuring, negative space, and a bunch of other stuff... you get the just of.

This class is exhausting and I'm so glad it's on a Friday afternoon because I need the weekend to recuperate and absorb all that I've learned.

Our teacher Joannie Ryan... very cool and talented. But serious. She's not messing around and is pushing us to learn everything we can. She's also really good and pushing us depending on our level, so noone is getting an easy ride.

The class is making me understand true perspective and real scale drawing which is super helpful in relation to my exagerated drawing style. We are covering light sources, objects in relation to one another and how to be extremely observant in really seeing the shape of what we are drawing... not what we think we see or depending on what we believe we understand about a shape... seeing what's really in front of us. Training ourselves with good, thoughtful observations and learning to trust our judgement.

Here's the progression so far:

Week 1:

Class Drawing-Statue Study- Organic Shape

Homework:

Box Study

Week 2

Class: Statue & Object Study- Organic & Geometric Shape

Homework: 3 Objects- Geometric Shapes

Week 3

Class Study: Geometric Shapes & Still Life Composition- Perspective Work

Week 4

Homework: Diagramatical Lines- Still Life Perspective & Negative Shapes

Class work: Interior Space, Negative Space, Perspective

Week 5

Homework: Shading, Gradation, Subtleties in tone & value

Homework: Value & Tone-Still Life


Week 6

Loving My Work Space ;)

Class work: Time for a nude man! Yikes... and yes, he really was naked while wearing his hat

Interior, Geometric & Organic Shapes, Negative Space & Value

This week we're working on a portrait at home... Ya think I can get Jay to pose naked! HA

One of the things my teacher keeps addressing with me is my elongation of the human figure. She kept bringing it up in class... hmmm, looks a little long... I can't figure out why you're doing that... everything looks right. I then mentioned my preference of drawing fashion illustrations and all made sense. She understood and was able to give me some helpful tips... it really showed in the figure above... he looks like a real man, not an alien creature with super long legs and a skinny torso! ;)