random sketch

Giving instructions - playing a tune on an instrument

create a collection of reference materials for the subject.
what information do you need to impart?
be mindful of the process stages and hierarchy.
try to use as little words as necessary if not any.
keep all sketches and notes in learning logs

before you start the final artwork take a critical look at your roughs and compare one element to another and be especially aware  and be especially aware of what is happening in the immediate background image.

Abstract illustration - gershwin

the exercise is to listern to a piece of music and create marks the conveys the essence of the music.

the best example of this is fantasia by Disney. allthough this is an animated example, some of the fantasia pieces either tell the story or create and abstact represntation.

i chose rapsody in blue.

  

final final piece

after reviewing the picture i had created for the last exercise i realised that it was a bit to much like the original. so i decided to have a stab at it again.
I created it on a a3 watercolour paper all though the paper did prove to be problematic on multiple layers.

i liked the final result allthough i messed up some parts of it. 

Image Developement - Poster

Image Development - take 2!

the original exercise for this asks you to photo copy someones artwork or a scene from a photo and then use paper cut L shapes to create 'cropped views'. ok so i personally dont really like using up a lot of paper, so i did this totally digitally with the crop tool. i used an artist i found on a gallery full rights are his. link is posted down below.

• Do some images seem to have more drama?
• has the focused changed?
• have you made the original subject more or less important.

ok missed an important tip, retain the content of the  original but try presenting it in different ways. seriously how are you meant to change the view of a scene to give it a different meaning without cropping out any content just by changing its form ie landscape. portrait square ect.


http://beta.imaginefx.com/gallery/user/arjenv/group-photo

Titled Group Photo

flying solo, i think its some times hard to quantify drama. the whole picture has alot going on in it, and it is somewhat hard to look at the whole without noticing the "elements" does this have less drama, i think not but it is less busy. i think that this is the exact opposite of the original composition it is meant to be about a group as a whole, this is a solo an individual. the focus becomes more about the bids expression.

 town on the hill, turns the chaotic scene to a landscape painting of a town on a hill, it is more serene then the original. the focus shifts to the bird flying. it makes the 

tiger and the knight

ghost in the tree

family outing 

birds of a feather

 birthday bumps

day out

 panoramic

 summer day

flowers

The below started out as a bit of an experiment into watercolour i wouldn't say a brilliant experiment but it sort of worked. i decided to use it for the exercise in cropping as it was what i was working on at the time.

mother - the close cropping of this image reminds me very much of a mothersday card or a table cloth, i think maybe i should have cropped it futher to remove the one remaining stalk. i think it gives it a more of a softer feel then the  other images. It also has more of a limited pallete of pinks and purples (ignoring the stem) i would probably take out the one paint splat aswell as it doesn't seem to fit. square format

grace - bigger blooms this time and a couple of paint splats going from hot to cool mostly. this one only has partial view of the foliage which to me looks a bit odd i dont know if thats because of the whitespace. portrait format

Summer - i like this the most i think i would crop out the pink flowers completly and only use the warmer ones or maybe replace them with warmer tones. allthough maybe the contrast is what helps. 

Hmm i just reread the exercise and i think i might have initially missunderstood.  which means i think i have to start over :(.