The assignment I did these for was “A series of four solar plate relief prints”, pictured are the digital drawing I translated into a plate (made in Krita) and three of the final four prints. For the subject matter, I wanted to incorporate the same sort of city skyline I was exploring the design of in painting last semester, but I also wanted to include some figures so I could work with that kind of …
A more formal writing of the notes I took during my close looking at Leonard Baskin’s Children and Still Life. Baskin’s Children and Still Life is more or less what it says on the tin in terms of subject matter. Two children stand, half hidden, behind a vase of plants, while some fruits and nuts are scattered in the foreground, a cricket sitting there as well. The scene is entirely in blacks and whites, shading …
Just a small progress post, I’ve been thinking about the table we’re building and I sort of want to put a chessboard in the top. Yet to work out the logistics for that, I know how to make the board by cutting and gluing strips of light and dark wood, but I don’t know how I’m incorporating it into the table. I’m also designing chess pieces based on characters of mine, as seen on the …
As per the specifications of this assignment, I tried to look at the work I’m researching, Children & Still Life by Leonard Baskin, where it hangs in the library for a solid 60 minutes, while taking notes. Regretfully I only managed around 25 minutes, and it probably would have been even less if I hadn’t been listing to music for some of it. I clearly need to practice sitting still more? Anyway, here are the …
To figure out which parts of my normal research process are effective, and which need work, I did some research into the history of chair design, and documented my workflow as best I could. This is the result. Topic + Reason for Choice Research Notes Sources Topic + Reason for Choice I’m looking into chair design throughout history, specifically how the industrial revolution and mass production changed chair design. It’s a topic that was brought …
It’s going to be interesting taking this class, since I’ve generally considered myself a “2D” artist. I’m looking forward to it! It’ll be interesting not only because of the process of making art, but also in the process of analyzing it. During our class on the 4th, a lot of aspects of 3D art that I never really paid attention to became apparent, particularly how the viewing experience differs from 2D art. I’m putting the notes …
I learned how to make custom themes for Google Slides semi-recently, so I made one with the CDVL colors for use in our presentations. Feel free to use it! Import theme to your library here!
It’s a new semester, and I’m back in the CDVL! It’s wild how much about this place has changed since I started working here, we’re almost unrecognizable as the same organization on a surface level. (On a related note, I’m still having a hard time calling it the CDVL instead of the D Center. It’s a whole syllable longer and that makes a difference.) Anyway, it’s nice to be back! We have a much more …
Hey again guys! I think I have an “about me” page on here somewhere, but I don’t really have anything that relates to my work at the Digital Center, and since that’s one of the main things I use this blog for I should fix that! So, here’s some facts about me and what I do digitally, plus some stuff about school:
Well, I finished my final video! Here’s a link to it, since the filesize was too large for me to imbed it. I like how it turned out, I think.
