Saturday, May 18, 2013

Fun with Film!









Well, summer is upon us and I went home for a week. I left my camera at my apartment so I picked up a disposable camera at the drugstore. I love the way even a cheap film camera captures life! I had so much fun using it.

 I also learned how lighting plays an important part in photography. When I use my digital point and shoot, I can always retake an image if I mess up the lighting, but with film I couldn't see the final until I had it developed. Overall, it was a fun time and a great learning experience!

Honors Project- Arsenic and Old Lace





The image above is the final for my Honors class, the Space Between 2D and 3D. This class allowed us to explore what the space between 2D and 3D to us. For me, I love the idea of staging an environment in real life or 3D, and then photographing it so it then becomes 2D. The environment that was staged was temporary and wasn't meant to be kept forever, but the photograph is meant to last. 

I based this scene off of the play Arsenic and Old Lace. In the play, two old sweet sisters murder old men. They have a few nephews, one who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, another who is a criminal, and one who is about to be married. In my rendition, I have the aunts younger and they're poisoning a young man. 

My friend and excellent photographer, Karl Allsop, took the photographs for me. Thank you to everyone who helped me with this project! Tyler Dunbar, Maddie Miller, Lauren Purkhiser, and Emmett Shearer
Here are some of the rest of the photos from the shoot.  







Here are some of my sketches and an inspiration board. I was using the interior of my apartment for the shoot. 






Friday, May 10, 2013

Helmets and Headgear!

The final project for my illustration class was to illustrate a helmet or piece of headgear. We were also supposed to try something new and step out of our comfort zones. I'm interested in creating props for film and theater so I was pretty excited about this piece!

Here are my first 2 line drawings of possible helmets:




I picked the bottom helmet to continue with and did a variant on it:







Here is the final! I stepped out of my comfort zone by painting it completely in photoshop. I usually don't work solely in one program, but this time I'd thought I'd try it.






Digital Illustration- Paper Toy- Slue Foot Sue and Pecos Bill

For the last project in my Digital Design class, my professor assigned us a fun project. We had to create paper toys based on a myth or legend.  At first, I thought I'd like to make a phoenix, but I also wanted to try to make a toy that fit my illustrative style. That, along with my love of tall tales, led me to Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue!

Here are my initial sketches:







Here I practiced building other paper toy templates. This was very helpful in figuring out how I would go about constructing the toy:





I found that creating tabs that inserted into each other was more efficient than gluing and taping. 

Here is the final:




Feel free to print it out and make your own Slue- Foot Sue and Pecos Bill!



Monday, May 6, 2013

#5- D4M- The Final Project!


This project has been a whirlwind! At the beginning Karl and Beth and I were excited to recreate a scene from a play. When this proved to be too constricting for our creative minds, we sought to create a music video for our talented, Beth! This would allow us the artistic freedom in creating a music video of our choosing.

It was decided that Beth would sing “You Belong to Me”- by Patsy Cline. This song gives itself to much imagery, which I was looking forward to creating all these places that the travelling man would journey through. Karl would also get to explore a one shot style.

Making the sets out of cardboard seemed like the best solution as far as resources went. However, we had some difficulty finding enough usable cardboard. Some of the sets weren’t turning out and others were all right, but overall I was extremely worried for it. 

We experienced many troubles during this project, but the one that caused the most drastic changes was the fact that our travelling man actor backed out last minute. Now we had to come up with a different plan of action since the sets I had been making had no use. This came as a sort of relief since I couldn’t see the cardboard sets turning out too well, but now with only a few days before filming, I had to come up with some sort of set.

I went back to the drawing board and looked for ways to make a cheap, but decent at the same time! With the basic color scheme of red, white and black, I made tissue paper pom pons and had a numerous amount of balloons and glitter and confetti.

Here are some pictures of the old set pieces and the new set!











Overall, this project was extremely stressful and disastrous, but I believe it turned out extremely well. I'm so very glad to have been able to work with Beth and Karl, they are both extremely talented.  

If I were going to change anything that happened, I don't think I would because even though so many things went wrong, they were important lessons and I learned from them. I now know a bit more about how to prepare for working with cardboard or what to do when everything goes wrong! It was a great experience.