At Summer's End

I will say that I did learn more about the value aspect of drawing. I will admit that I did struggle with this course at least since I mostly did my drawing more line based. But I think this does help in my idea of how I draw. I learned more there's more to it than just using lines. I am disappointed that some of my drawings still don't really look professional, but that just means I'm still learning and I've got to practice more. I do know that I need to sometimes put more work and time into some of my work and I will get better at it. This class did show me that much.

Resting her wings

It's like this collage is like a visual from a dream or fantasy tale. The images chosen look all mixed and so do the color values and textures. It's defiantly a good example of a collage, yet I still see it very odd in how it's put together and just even the choice of images. It's like there's not really much sense to it, kind of like a dream or the like of it.

Abstract Tree Flower Collage Painting

This collage practically yells abstract since it has much of it in lines, patterns(like the flowers in the trees.) and form. While I think the book pages are an odd choice for the background for a beautiful piece like this one, it still connects to the abstract theme as well as to the form of collage. The painting portions of the collage have a great sense of color value and tone also.

Boston Terrier Pop Art

If this collage doesn't say Pop art or Modernism, I don't know what does. The image and the theme pretty much speak for themselves. I've seen other Pop art images and while they, like this one, don't seem to make a whole lot of sense or looks strange, well that's just what it's suppose to do. The different texture, value and images of the pieces use work effectively in terms of Pop art, like the artist was just taking the image of a terrier and just making it their own.

Deconstructing Venus

While I do know that this is a collage, it also looks like a diagram from a book. Some of the images of the composition don' t look like they go together, but they look like they have a common link even a small one like color value or imagery, like they link together like lines in a diagram, which makes the collage and its images more effective in its composition.

Images in the Heavens 2

The artist of this collage features an image she got from a postcard and a page from a book called "Earth, Sea, and Sky. The edges are painted, so this collage includes mixed media.

I find this piece to have a whimsical feeling to it. The images she used really seem like they fit the collage's composition together, like I can almost see this image like it's from a children's book or with the page in the background I sort of get the idea of something from a church. It looks simple, yet still nicely put together.

It was tough at first with the drawing half, but that was because it was pretty hot out and it made it tough to concentrate(although this is nothing compared to the summer heat wave I deal with back home in Austin.) but I managed. The ink wash was hard because I had to add quite a few drops at a time just to even make it dark enough. At least as the sun went down it got cooler. I was able to keep the value idea in mind even as the shadows kept changing. I'm glad that I put in effort into getting it done.

Here's the image at 6:45 pm

Here's the image at 5:45 pm

Here's the image at 4:45 pm

Here's the area I did for my drawing at 3:45pm

This is also one I like. I think it's kind of cute. I can also see the mark making in the feathers and wings of the robin. This piece was done by Steffan Johnson and he used multiple techniques to do it, including charcoal, ink wash and paint. The mark making defiantly adds to the look of the feathers. The ink wash has a different effect to the paper. It just looks like a dripping background, then again it looks like it completes the piece.

I really like this one and not just because I'm a huge cat person. Done by Peter Clark, this one's mark-making was done in a collage style. I think while the value is in effective with the different papers used for this piece such as maps and such, I think it's pretty unique and kinda funny.

This piece was done by Edward Bowen. He did this one only in pencil and mostly in lines. The value didn't look that hard to get down since it's a line drawing but, it's like the lines mark making layers over the dark areas at least provide the most value.

I ended up having to do my landscape drawing inside and looking outside a window because it rained and it got pretty cold so I didn't want to freeze out there. This is a little house across from my dorm and right outside my window. Of course my drawing is a little more close up, but it's similar.

Night Drawing Experience

I ended up having to do my drawing inside since it was cold out, so I did the parking lot image outside my room. It was a little tricky to draw, but it was really because the light was close to the window and it blurred it a bit. I didn't want to have to draw the dumpster but I had to add it so the picture would work. It was mostly just a bunch of twiggy trees and a fence. Not much, but I say the better nighttime view that I can get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XX9LX2es4

There's defiantly some good black and white contrast with this one, but it looks pretty balanced throughout the whole thing. Plus it looked kinda funny.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-flash-11874750-newton-discovers-gravity.php

This one plays once you get to the page. It looks like a small silhouette only instead of black and white, it's black and color.

http://animation.videosift.com/video/Black-and-White

I think this is an interesting animation since it goes from a white to a black contrast. The white light and the characters add to the contrast as well.

The Three Crosses

Another drawing done by Van Rijn. This one defiantly has a good positive/negative relationship to it. The light and darkness to it basically appear back to back and that makes them look balanced and equal.

Abraham Francen

This piece was done Rembrandt Van Rijn. I think the positive/negative relationship is a good one. There's light coming from the window and that adds to the positive space while below the window it adds to the negative affect. I think it has a very good contrast and value balance to it.

The Potato Eaters

This is a piece done by Vincent Van Gogh. I kinda like it. While I do wish it was a tad more brighter, I think the light and dark contrast fit, since the room the characters are in would be dark anyway and since it's lit by a small flame so I think it has a good positive/negative relationship to it.

I'm going toward a major in Computer Animation. Back home (which is Round Rock Texas) there weren't many art colleges that at least offered the kind of major I'm going toward, plus I wanted to get out of Texas and the almost never ending hot if not humid weather, so I looked up some and came across MCA and I'm glad I did, because it's got pretty much everything I'd want in college. I'm enjoying it so far.I hope to get an animation job at studios like PIXAR because I really like the work that they do there. I just think it's cool.