Art 2 was great! I guess I was skeptical that I could really improve much with a month of art class, but this class really helped. Unlike Art 1, for Art 2 we only worked on 1 piece for each project (more or less). The projects were perspective/figures in action/figure drawing/zoo/character sheet/maquette figure. Also unlike last month instead of of a chunk of our grade being "effort", our entire grade was based on our final portfolio.
With our first project we started of where we left of in Art 1, perspective.
For this project we were to create a fictional city using 2 point perspective. So you pick 2 points on your paper that are on the same horizontal line and draw some guidelines expanding out in every direction from each point. My left point was off the paper and my right point was on the far right of the paper.
Perspective Piece
I had the teacher approve the castle idea, and he really liked how this turned out. This was the only 100% I received on any of my art projects, they kept this one for the gallery.
Next we did figures in action. Our class broke up into groups and went outside and made about twenty 10 second movies doing movements based on the ideas of Action/Tragedy/Drama and Mystery. We then picked 2 of our favorites and drew them out using line of action and construction shapes. There really was not a whole lot to do in this project because we were supposed to leave all the construction line work intact, so this project did not get a whole lotta love.
The lion tamer action animation is me.
Figures in Action
Next we had 2 entire days of nude figure drawing, we were provided a large drawing pad of butchers paper that we completely filled up within the 2 days. Day 1 was a male model, day 2 was the female. Both days were fast paced and a little stressful. The longest we had on any 1 pose was 10 minutes. Most of the poses were 15 seconds-1 minute, so we were burning through the sketch pad. This project I did the worst on (88) but actually made the most improvement. Drawing people, or figures was something I did not really want, or know how to do. However, I now have a solid approach to it, and enjoy it. The turn in was just our entire pad.
Here is a panoramic of the classroom set up for the models, as well of some of my drawings.
After that was out of the way we all met up at the zoo for class one day mid month. It was HOT.... and HUMID and we had to fill up a 40 page sketch book with animal drawings. Besides the gross weather it was nice to get out of the classroom. Besides the 40 page sketchbook, we also had to work on a project involving the zoo. The one that most the class chose, including myself was to create a mythological creature combining at least 3 animals together. The idea was to keep it believable pulling 90% of the attributes from one animal and 10% from the others.
This is supposed to be a black handed spider monkey with striped texture, piranha teeth, and horns. This got really high marks, and was also kept by the school.
Zoo Project
Next we did character sheets. For this we first were provided a theme (pirates vs Atlantians) and a small random pictures of characters to base our characters around. Mine was some weird goat wearing a robe. My character ended up being a female Atlantian villain. Character drawing really is not my niche, so this project was a pain. For the final sheet we needed 5 expressions, 5 canon shots, 3 silhouettes, and a 3 point turnaround.
Character Sheet
Home made ghetto tracing table that I made so I wouldn't have to go into open lab after hours.
For our final project we had to pick out a silhouette from our character sheet and build a sculpey clay maquette to match the silhouette.. This project was great, the only bad thing is we had very little time for it. It came in the last week, which was a very busy one in both classes. I took several pictures to show the process of how it was made. For my first clay project, I was very happy with how it turned out. It could have been a lot better if I had more time, and the proportions were a bit more accurate, but I thought it was one of the cooler ones in the class.
Here are some pictures of the progression.
this was right before she got baked
There were many really great artists in this class. The guy that sat next to me wants to be a concept artist, and actually has the skills to do it, ...probably now if he wanted. His stuff was pretty unbelievable, I had thought that his laptops background was a photo of a young girl tell I started talking to him, and found out that he had made it.
So that was Art 2, next month is Method of Design and then that is all for the art classes. It kinda sux, but its also kind of a relief.
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My next class was shading and lighting. Shading and lighting is pretty much what it sound like. This class starts out teaching us how to properly light scenes. We learn about all the different kinds of lights, and how to adjust their shadows. The second half of the class focuses on creating photo realistic textures either using techniques within the software, or by using patterns taken from photographs and manipulated within photoshop.
Here were a few of the lighting projects. We were provided a reference image and told to match the lights, light color, shadows, and shadow softness. These scenes have 3-5 lights in them.
This was our first texturing project, we had to first match lights, we then had to create all the textures for the scene. This became complicated when you take into account all the small things like reflectivity, glossiness, and the grooves and depth that are in different textures. Here is a picture of the reference image I was provided with, followed my my project render.
REFERENCE PROVIDED
MY RENDER
still have not got back grades for any of the following projects.
The next project we worked on focused on matching to a photograph, so it was much more difficult, if not impossible to match a lot of the textures. Here we started to dabble with glass, leather, and brushed metal.
Here is what we started with
After texturing and rendering
Our last project was a cafe scene, in this we had some artistic freedom and did not have to match reference. We were just handed a list of what we need to do for each object in the scene. We also used photoshop a bit, and touched on 3d projections a bit.
Cafe Scene
Then there was a final written test, and an in class practical today that was pretty stressful. I was happy with the outcome and think I did well with it.
Overall I really liked the class. I plan on expanding on the content that we learned, as it can really make the work look stunning when done well.
So that was my month. Next month I have method of design by itself because transfer credits got me out of taking college mathematics.
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