Last week life drawing

Sorry for the delay of my life drawing pictures.

However this lesson was different. We had a male model this time, because the last one got sick.

So this one was just a substitute.

My first picture is really small, but I think I was measuring the model a bit too realistic. Instead of making him big on paper, I actually measured the distance of how far the model was from me.

So I need to work on making my pictures fill up the paper I'm using.

Actual size

Close up

On the next portrait I have made the model in the picture a bit bigger, but I still need to make him even more bigger, big enough to fill the page.

Actual size


Close up

On the last picture was for everyone to draw the subject in five minutes. The idea is to see if everyone can draw the model by measuring with their eyes. Even though my picture looks good.

I still need to make it bigger.

Actual size

Close up

So my goal for life drawing is to make my pictures bigger.

An idea for my Final Piece.

I have an idea for my final piece where I focus around the hiding/camouflage element of the portraits, because I am quite interested in the idea of seeing a picture of the sitter who is trying to hide their idenity. The questions that fly through my mind are why are they hinding? Who are they hiding from? What are they trying to hide? Do they even have something to hide? And so on.
I know that Andy Warhol does some artworks which revolve around the hiding idea in some of his works. I just need to look at more artists, whos' artworks involves the hiding element.

My self protrait 2

I thought of mimicing Aziz + Cucher's Rick, an image with no face. To give me an idea of the type of portrait I should make.

'Rick' is from the series Dystopia. where there are many faceless portraits. When I first looked at the image it was quite frightening and at the sametime interesting. To me it looks like something from a dream where there's a person with no face, is it friendly or not, can you trust it, do you know it and so on.

Well here's my attempt at mimicing the portrait.

Althought it looks kinda good, there are some blurr makes around the face, but it does give off a spooky feeling.

My self portraits 1

Okay I've been delaying this for far too long it is time for me to post some of my own portraits.
The first one was an idea I've had for a long time. Drawing your portrait without picking up your pen, and drawing your portrait without picking up your pen and looking at the paper.
The effect of this portrait is that you see someone familiar but you can't make them out.
I have this problem a lot, who doesn't, like meet someone who knew me but I don't remember them.






This is the picture I used for my portraits, I tried to take my picture with out flash but The always come out blurry.








My first portrait was drawing my picture without picking up my pen. I sort of failed at my attempt at this because sometimes I did pick up my pen. However I did tried to place my pen to it's original spot. To me the picture looks happy, yet when I took my picture it was neutral. also in the picture it looks like I was Drooling.






And here are my last two. The picture on the left is drawn by my right hand and the one on the right is drawn by my left. I drew the pictures with my left and right hand because I wanted to see what effects they will have. I only drew my head not the body because I want my face to be distorted.





First lets look at the picture that was drawn by my right hand. In this picture I look angry and animal like. The animal that comes to mind is a bull. It's just the way my eyes look and the shape of my mouth and nose.

However on my last picture, which was drawn by my left hand, I look tired. And once again I look like an animal, but not a bull but a goat. It might be the lengeth of my face and the way my eyes , and my mouth and nose are positioned.

I actually thought that drawing my protrait without picking up my pen was a good idea and liked how it turned out. Just I need more practice on drawing my picture without picking up my pen a bit more.

My Photoshop and Illustrator works.

For the past few weeks I had some photoshop and illustrator lessons and I have made some alright work, and I realised that I haven't posted any of them. So here they are.

This picture was my first photoshop image two weeks ago. The goal in the lesson was to add some pictures we found on the Internet and combined them into one completely new image, by using different ways of marking a piece from one of the pictures we have and copy and pasted it into a completely page.
I actually liked how my image turned out. To me it looks kind of real, but maybe that's because I'm just new at photoshop and maybe later when I get some better Knowledge on it. My opinion might change.

Here are the images I found on the Internet and used for my picture. From left to Right.

Here are some more images I found but didn't use.

I didn't use them because taking the tree and the deer from their pictures was tough and so I just left them out of the picture.

For illustrator we were looking at it's functions, like font, shapes, fills, and modifying them.
The teacher told us to make a logo.

So I thought for my logo I would go for an ancient Greece look, by giving it tiles and some textures around the boarders. However I gave my name a weird out of proportion look.

Last weeks in photoshop we were learning different ways of editing pictures by lighting up the pictures and removing certain pieces to makes the photo look better, and editing pictures in layers.

The first picture we had to edit was a badly taken image of a bridge.

everything was too foggy and blurry to see so we had to darken the light areas and lighten the dark areas. and i thought this was kind of cool.

First image and edited image.

Next we had to remove objects in the picture and just leave the plants and the hills by cloning and smudging some areas.
This was also fun to do because if you look at the edited picture it looks like the people, sign and the stone are not there. It's a shame i didn't remove the bridge properly.

First image and edited image.

The last image of that week was editing pictures in layers.
Once again this was fun to do because you can edit anything one at a time.

from the cream on the cup to the background.

The tutor told us to just remove the cream on the cup, using the masking tool.

Once we finished that, he then told us that using the colour black will make the cream invisiable, using white will make it visiable and using grey will make it see through.

First image and edited image

I won't post the illustrator work because it was the same as the last one.

Finally this week photoshop and illustrator works.

For the photoshop one we had to merged all the images into one big picture again.

To tell you the truth I thought this would be a bit boring but it wasn't.

the final picture looks great, it gives off an apocalyptic feel.

Here are the images we used in our picture.

For our illustrator work we were still looking at the functions it has.

I also thought it would be boring but it was actually interesting.

I liked hoow the colours mixed with each other and the shapes that came out of it.

Thats all of them. I will post more when the next lesson comes.

Two models in one day.

Today I have finally finished all of my 3D homework.
The first one is the toaster which I had already uploaded in my blog
The second was my Magnifying Glass.

Magnifying Glass
Scene Layout & Render












Making the Magnifying Glass wasn't very hard, it was actually very easy.
I would of finished it yesterday but room DM3, the room I was working in, was closing.
It closes at five. I don't think I have ran into any trouble while making the Magnifying Glass.


Electric Fan
Scene Layout & Render














Making the Fan was Long and very annoying to make.
There were so many parts to make for this model.
First was the fan blades, next was the support disc and the cage disc, then the fan head and the fan head detail, the fan stem, and so on.
The guide I was using to make the fan had alot of errors, but at the sametime it felt like a learning experience. Using your head when you get stuck.
In the end, it was all worth it. I have made a pretty cool fan that I am proud of.

My 3D toaster

Today I have finally finished my toaster.

Scene layout & Render












I think the only problem I had came across was the wire.
I did a mistake on it so I had to remake it, other that that this was quite easy to make.
I also realisedm right now, that I had forgotten to reposition my render camra.
Now it looks like the wire is plugged into the ground.
I don't know if this is an improvement or a bad mistake.