MOD tries to teach students to use more of a organized structure before jumping into a project. They also expect all the 2d projects to be colored. Unlike the other art classes, MOD wants all the practice work or "pre-pro" to be turned in. They also wanted very specific things for all the pre-pro.
I will include some pictures to help explain. There were only four projects in this class. Each project however had writing assignments to go along with them.
Project 1 was called re-design
The idea was to find something boring around the class room, and draw it from a more interesting perspective. After tons of prepro we would color a final piece and then make a foam sculpture of our object. The foam was very fragile and difficult to work with.
Here is some of the pre-pro
The final
Sculpture pre-pro
The foam sculpture final.
Project 2 was called the aesthetics project
For this one we were to find an art style that we did not like. I chose dada art. We were to then pick out a famous piece that we did not like, and recreate it in a way that we did like. This project was fun, and very time consuming. Doing colored pencil well takes a long time, and this was a large piece of bristol.
Here is the piece I chose "GOD 1917"
Its a pretty big jump, but here is the recreation in 3 stages.
All I really kept is the composition of the shape of the pipe.
We had to then write a bunch of essays talking about what we did.
Project 3 was a cardboard sculpture
I did not like this project because cutting cardboard with an exacto blade just sucks. The idea was to create an interesting object with good negative space. Nuff said, here is the pics
Pre pro,
Final
Project 4 gave us 3 options to choose from
We were to read 2 stories from the grim fairy tales, "The Goose Girl," and "The Juniper Tree"
We could choose to either re-design 2 of the characters and do character sheets, create an environment from one of the stories on 3 separate planes, or do storyboards. 80% of the students went with characters so I went with an environment from the goose girl.
The environment had to show atmospheric perspective, meaning that the further back things are the less detail and contrast they will have, as it is in real life. This is why the back looks like it was gave so little time being colored. I also over-achieved and did mine in 4 planes instead of 3.
4 of the 20 or so prepro drawings required.
Final pieces
After being cut, and layered.
Was really happy with the top layer on this one.So that was it for school projects. I just got my grades back today and actually ended up with the highest grade in the class "99.4%" and took the advanced achievement award. The school kept my aesthetics, and environment project for the gallery! So yeah... im pretty badass
Actually there were again several highly talented artists in the class, but they did not have all their stuff done.
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On the Side Stuff
So I did a few side projects but not nearly as many as I intended, and I also started playing with some fluid simulation software called Realflow.
The first project I did was just intended to get me used to a digital pen, I have heard that a few projects in future classes will require their use, so I wanted to familiarize myself with them a bit. This was a digital painting a did from some random chic picture I found on Google.
Was for sure very fun, and could turn into a future hobby.
I also got back into texturing as I really enjoyed it.
This was the chair I modeled in MCR a few months back after being textured, lit, then brought into Photoshop for some composting.
I have a super high res picture that looks pretty cool but it wont let me upload it =(
This one had depth of field played with.
This is another project I did just for fun. I modeled a pear, cutting board, and the room walls, then textured and lit everything. All the textures I made myself from photographs using Photoshop.
Texture used
There are lots of places where I could have made it look better, but its a learning process.
SO THATS IT for traditional art classes...sorta.... besides 2d animation in a few months.
Next month is character design and creation (CDC), and measurement and geometry..... not sure why I did not get out of that one.
