Visual Research #8

Hello There

by Hibbary

http://hibbary.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2qej9b

I have a deviant art account, and although I never check the thing, occasionally I spend a long time going over the piles and piles of images that have stacked up in my watch box over the months. This was a wonderful little gem I found. It is so cute and playful, the hard dragon in comparison to the soft little goat is very neat. The artist called this an accident, they did not intend to color it, it started off as a doodle on not very good paper. But I am glad that they did because this is a very nice accident in my book.

I love goats :)
~Chelsea

Personal Image #8

If you remember my post from a while ago about ravens and crows- well I made a quick photoshop version of the main idea. I am thinking I will make a painting of a raven, and make it alot more interesting than this one. The bird is just kinda there in this picture, it is not very visually interesting. Sorry... I just wanted to get my main idea out really fast.

~Chelsea

Assignment #8- Book

Okay so our final assignment for this class was to complete and 8 page book using InDesign. This is what I came up with! I figured that this would be a good time to print out my short story "Runaway", and lucky for me it fit perfectly! The printing was a pain though, I had to print out the pages on regular paper and cut them all out, I am eventually going to mount them on stiffer paper and actually turn this into a little book. :) If you want to read the story click on the pages and that should zoom you in enough.

~Chelsea

Personal Image #7

Alright so a long time ago, freshman year of high school, I started writing a novel. I continued to write this novel on an off till... now... it is still a work in progress. However I have not written anything in it for a good 6 to 8 months, I still continue to draw some of the characters because I know them so well they are easy for me to draw and experiment with. This is Rowan, the main character from my novel.
Lately I have been trying to keep my style consistent, because in the past it has often changed from drawing to drawing as I figured out what looked best. I did this as a test to see if I can stay consistent with a style through different expressions. Here I think the last two look like the same style, but the first one seems a little off, but it could be that it seems that way because it is slightly smaller. Let me know what you think.

~Chelsea

Visual Research #7

"thin white line running from rock to rock"

By Caleb Neubauer

In high school I was a part of the AP art class, and in this class I had the opportunity to meet many talented artists. One of these artists was my classmate, Caleb. Each member of the class had to create their own concentration of work to send in for the AP art portfolio, for my concentration I focused on the study of figures in both humans and animals.
Caleb's concentration was centered around two of Jack Kerouac's novels, On the Road and Big Sur. The art pieces are his interpretations of specific lines of text from these books. If you are interested in seeing the rest of his concentration you can go here: http://flickr.com/gp/mistyaeons/5M84WN
I chose to show this piece because I like it the most, although all of them are fantastic, I really like the feel this one gives off. The bridge is very imposing and frames the piece, and I like that most of the ink is on the left side and the right with the clouds seems to fade away. I am extremely jealous of Caleb's talent with pen and ink, take a look at his other pieces and you will know what I mean.

~Chelsea

Assignment #7- Magazine Cover

The assignment we had this week was to use InDesign to make a magazine cover, so this is what I came up with. The first magazines I could think of were like those "Dog Fancy" and "Cat Fancy" magazines, so I desided to make a moc one of those based on my favoirte breed of dog- the english setter. Visually I am not too impressed with the result, but this was my first time working with the program and I had to hurry to finish before lab time was over :(

I Really liked this photo, it was nice to show the contrast between two of the colors of english setter, the only way it could have been better is if they had a tri-colored one in the middle. I have a liver colored english setter (like the one on the left) named penny at home, and I hope to get a blue colored one (like the one on the right) when I have my own place.

~Chelsea

Visual Research #6

Okay, so here at college I have not been able to keep a regular TV watching schedule of any kind, so series' are impossible to follow. So I watch a lot of Animal Planet, because no matter what time of day it is there is something interesting on that does not require background knowledge. So the other night I was watching this show about the wildlife of the different regions of Russia, it was very interesting. But what caught my eye visually was when they were talking about how ravens are extremely intelligent birds, who are one of the few animals who act silly just for the fun of it. They showed these black ravens laying down on their backs and rolling down snow covered hills. The contrast was beautiful and the playfulness was just so endearing. It got me thinking about what the typical western perspective of ravens and crows, how they are dirty scavengers who are a sign of death. This image of them is entirely wrong, and this playful footage of the ravens shows that. I am really inspired to make an art piece featuring ravens and snow in an attempt to change the image. Not sure of what media to use, any suggestions?

~Chelsea