Morlock Adventure

Morlock adventure can be found here! : http://pbckt.com/aR.FKQsR Group members were Jeremy Wilson, Steve Schiavello, and Nima Sadooghi

Artist Inspiration Assignment

For this assignment, we were given an artist to which we had to research their style, and create a piece of art in a way that was from inspiration of said artist. I was assigned James Ptterson, A.K.A. Presstube. A lot of his work is done in flash, so I decided to create  my work in a 'screen-shot' style. I noticed that a lot of his characters are very crudely drawn in a 'sketchy' and rough sort of way, usually keeping it black and white. I also noticed that his creations are not traditional art form or normal everyday things. They are usually imagined objects or creatures with similar resemblances to human or plant characteristics. I also noticed he likes to add weird hair and facial hairs to his characters. This inspired me to come up with this.

 It was somewhat easy for me to come up with this type of picture because I am not that great of an artist, and I feel I can better draw abstract things that don't need to look a certain way. What initially launched my ideas was one of his Flash projects in which a pair of forearms and hands are one of the first things you see.

From this I tried to imagine what was previously attached to these, and from there just used an abstract and weird guided imagination to create a James Paterson inspired picture.

Skateboard Work and Completion!

The inspiration for my skateboard design idea came to me while I was sitting in my hot tub. It was a cold night, with a very clear sky. I didn't even know where to start for an idea, other than the fact that it had to be 'Predator' themed. Even though it was a clear night, there were some passing clouds. the mixture of the heat from the hot tub, the steam rising from the hot tub, and the head of a lion I envisioned in the clouds all came together to conclude as my skateboard design. It was very hard the next day to put what was in my head onto paper, but after a few rough sketches, the idea took a physical form.



Once it was on paper, I began to implement it into Illustrator.

The style I was going for was the sort of 'child-like' styles on some boards in skate shops, and came up with a simple first draft. I left the lion head out as the final and most important part. To implement a texture that we had to make, I took a picture of ceiling stucco, and used that for the texture of the moon. The texture for the volcano was from Illustrator. I finished and refined pretty much the whole board until it was time for the lion head.

I had a tough time coming up for a design for the mane, and also had to reference Google images of lions to come up with a face idea.



I used many tools such as warp, crystallize, wrinkle, and twirl.



By mistake, in adding a radial blur and making a compound path I came up with an interesting alternative

But decided to stick with my original and mounted that to my board.

Skateboard Design Progress

This is what I have come up with so far for my skateboard design project. There is still work to do, and hopefully I can be done for Thursday or Friday.

Field of View Assignment

Here are some pictures demonstrating Field of View, including focus on foreground, middle gound, and background objects, with a final picture of the entire field in focus. I used my trusty Peter Griffin bobble-head, hybrid 'donkey/elephant/tiger' Kinder Egg toy, and another 'metroid' style Kinder Egg toy:

(P.S. - Also, new Canon T2i was used for these pics;) )

 

TEL Building Tour Photography Assignment

DMA204 TEL Building Assignment can be found here -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/56089860@N06/

These are the pictures I took to create a 'tour' of the TEL Building on the Seneca @ York campus for an assignment. I tried to find open areas to take the shots, and tried to make each picture descriptive and relative to the uniqueness of the building.

Skateboard Deisgn

For our assignment to create a skateboard design with the theme 'predator(s)', I have rough ideas of how to design my skateboard, but have not landed on anything yet. I have a general concept in my head right now, and have jotted down some sketches (random or relevant) that will become part of the final design. Although this post is not the actual Skateboard Design Outline, it is a rough idea of what I am thinking of or working with at the moment.

The dominant focus of the board will contain parts of these sketches:

Colour options include teal, red and black, or yellow ,with white trims (all together):

 

 
 or a gradient of purple such as this:

http://files.myopera.com/coxy/albums/527288/COLOURlovers.com-Start_Wearing_Purple.png  

And for a texture, as of now I am thinking of using stucco.

*Final outline for design will be posted soon.*

DMA179 "Soya Sauce Restaurant" Assignment

For this assignment I was given soya sauce, and 10 minutes to create a menu background concept for a restaurant in New York, called Ninja Restaurant. I had trouble thinking of initial ideas, and when I finally thought of some ideas, I found it even more difficult to convey my thoughts through my brush. I think if I had more time, I would be able to improve my design. However, this is what was created:

DMA204 "Shoe Ad" Assignment

For this assignment, I was to take a picture of a pair of shoes, and create an ad and slogan in poster form. I used a pair of Vans Spitfire AV6 (Anthony Van Engelen) shoes. From the many ideas and attempts I experimented with, I narrowed it down to these two pictures:

 

 

From these pictures, I used Adobe Photoshop to create these possible choices:

And chose this one, because I did not take the background picture of the skateboarder for the other two options, and felt that the actual colour of the shoe would be needed:

DMA101 "Vectors" Assignment

For this assignment, I was supposed to find a sketch or drawing from my sketchbook or from a professional artist. Since I am not a great at traditional sketches, I found a drawing on deviantart.com. The drawing I chose was of a chef, done by Omar Essam (http://dizzy-miro.deviantart.com/). This is the original drawing:

 

From this, I worked with Adobe Illustrator to trace and colour the image, to come up with this final product:

 

DMA133 - "Less Is More" Assignment

For this assignment, we were supposed to find a natural object with textures, and sketch six versions of it. The first three sketches are done in black and white. The versions include, 1. The object as seen in full view, 2. the object as seen zoomed into a section that still makes it recognizable, 3. The object as seen up very close or under a microscope, 4. Number 2 in reverse colours, 5. Number 2 with one colour added, 6. Number 2 with all colours included. My object was a leaf and this is what I came up with:

DMA179 Paper Zoo

This is my Paper Zoo!

Finals:

DMA179 Paper Zoo

This is my Paper Zoo!


Roughs: