Category: Drawing
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I went to hand-drawing the poster for Graphic Design History Assignment based on Robert Crumb. It definitely reflects the topic, but I wonder if too much. Would it have been more clever to adopt a contrasting style like art deco or Russian constructivism? Update 11-24: I wanted to jazz up the poster with a little…
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Today, the class learned how to do portraits. Claire had us make a face diagram for all the suggestions on how to make a face look more face-y, including the tips: shade the upper lip, suggest the lower lip with the chin shadow, the eye line has five eye-widths with the two real eyes separated…
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I’ll be posting these all season. I have always been a fan of making my own cards for christmas. I hope to give you some ideas to make your own christmas illustrations that will fill the living room with laughter. Or at least the polite “heh.”
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The most elevenly moment of my insignificant life was spent watching this demigod/demagogue celebrate the occasion with a quote from Kurt Vonnegut and a song that mentions Now and Laters and coffee percolators. I’m still processing the show like a good dream laden with these moments where time paused and everything floated. Update 11-22 (I swear…
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I’m gearing up for the holidays. Making my cards and my lists as to whose going to receive cards. November is that month for me because I think it’s important to be organized and thoughtful this time of year without getting caught up in it.
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Claire’s critique yesterday left everyone with something to think about. Some common ailments included: low contrast, bad paper choice, slightly awkward compositions and abstraction to the point of obscurity. She had little bits of editing advice that she said that we could do on the computer, to push the pieces a little further towards the…
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More mid-term relating drawings. I am not sure yet whether these will be the pieces that I use, but I really like how they relate to the theme in their formal elements.
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Today was a work day for the mid-term in drawing class. The lovely Claire went around to everyone and pulled a gun, a Tim Gunn. She would try to understand your sketches then offer her takes on your direction and try to pull you to something that she thought youd be sucessful doing. When she gave…
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