chaptah 8.

This chapter is called "Constructing Meaning".  Its a talks about "building bridges" between the viewer and the art piece. We choose pieces to make or look at that effect us in a way that some times can be logically explained verbally and some just effect you in a way you cant speak words at all. Good pieces of work use language, iconography, grabbing the attention of the audience, using words or pictures that make us believe what they are trying to explain through the piece even though all your life you have believed in the opposite; thats what makes a good piece in my opinion.
One piece that caught my eye in the chapter was Shi Jinsong's Na Zha Cradle. I personally like to call it the Death cradle because its a stainless steel cradle with majestic ax like cradle bars at the bottom and sharp materials hanging from the mobile.

Chaptah 6.

This Lovely chapter i am reading is titled "Cultivating Creativity".  Creativity and design is similar in the fact that you got to look in the past what are things  or ideas that you can make better. We use rational thinking which in simple terms is to think with logic not with "wants" for now but for "needs" as in necessary to achieve such goals. and we also use intuitive thinking, which using your instincts to move the piece in a direction that feels right not because your lazy and want to put it there. that never feels right. To some rational thinking and intuitive thinking can be contradictory which i agree can be but it depends on if you have that magic power that if you just thinking intuitively it works out perfectly. some days i feel magical, most days there is more logic to my designs. Chapter six also talks about the ways of thinking about work and the habits involved with projects which i believe was a good section to read about. It doesnt neccesarily just mean in working on art projects but i felt it can be used in daily life.

Chaptah 5

Chaptah five is a spicy little chapter about the importance of "Problem seeking, and problem solving". This chapter covers the many ways to research a project before starting it well i guess you could say it would be the first step to working on your project. I know for my job its important to come up with a game plan before making a logo i need to know where exactly the company is wanting to go business wise and so i can make sure their new logo that i am making follows the same parameters they want to express. Is this a modern restaurant or business? if so then make a sleek modern design. if its traditional then use traditional text for god sake. My advice is do your research just like the book says. NO ONE!! likes going into a meeting or showing their piece of art work and not having the correct information backing up the piece.

chaptah 7

Chapter seven is all about critical thinking. I liked this chapter because it gave me some new perspective on how to critique a piece of art to get down to the nitty gritty and really analyze each inch of it.

pretty much. be honest, be classy use your manners when nicely ripping into your own work or someone elses. 

chaptah 4.

Chapter 4 is about creating the illusion of space. Which this was a good read for me because I like linear perspective I think it’s a very interesting topic. Learning about linear perspective in the past has helped me with my landscape designs, especially city scape designs. One- point perspective is used for drawings, paintings, pretty much what ever you want to make whether is a frontal or areal view of a city, beach, a person in a crowed its to pull the viewer into the image. Two-point perspective is used when you are trying to show an object at an angle, it could be the same scenery example as what I said about one-point perspective just angled differently to the point where you are visually trying to look at two points in the distant normally placed on two opposite sides of the landscape design. This chapter is also about motion, and how to properly display it. In my opinion, motion is probably the hardest thing for me to draw. 

chaptah 3

Chapter 3 is about principles of two dimensional design, for example when drawing you could ask yourself “ why did I draw that person looking in that direction? Am I going to draw something in the back ground to show why that person is looking? Should I draw it in that person’s visual direction? (probably, no one likes looking right in the yonder and seeing nothing there, but there’s clearly something there in the left side of the art work. Its just plain confusing)” so yeah, pretty much the things to know is balance, symmetry, patterns, proportion, flow of the piece(rhythm).

RHYTHEM OF THE NIGHT!

PRETTY MUCH THis chapter made me think of this song.

CHAPTAH 2

Chapter two of “Launching the Imagination” is about the element of color. I really liked this chapter because it showed how important color is to the piece of art. 
Im really interested in design and color schemes, so this chapter was perfect for me. 
I have always had a problem with using just two colors of complementary color system for working on an art piece. It just bugged me and in away was extremely disharmonious to me. I respect the colors green and red being complimentary colors but there’s something about those two colors in a art piece with out other colors just gets to me. So I am extremely positive about split complementary color schemes and triadic color schemes. Lately I have been on a flat color style of design. It’s used a lot for new applications for phones, tablets, and other technological tools. I’ve realized that in the past two years colors choices have changed dramatically. Choral, mint, tans, are being used more for accent colors when used properly. Flat blues, reds, greens, purples are used more in application type design right now which are understandable because the reds, yellows, blues, and greens, are normally used to show importance they kind of have their own special lingo. So if you look on google.com, you can see their color schemes for their apps are red, blue, yellow, green.  msn.com has red, yellow, blue, and green in their logo and web design color scheme.

chapter 1

Chapter one of “Launching the Imagination” is about the elements of two- dimensional design. These elements are line, shape, texture, value and color. 
The chapter discusses why they are important for an art piece to have these elements. 
I felt reading this chapter was slightly repretitive due to the fact that I have had previous experience in two-dimensional design but I thought it was also a good refresher. I wouldn’t say I am perfect at it, far from it so it was nice revisiting and learning more about value and texture portion of the chapter.  it was very informative. It made me think about what is more important is it the lines, or the shapes, well if you think about it lines create the shape. there for shape is just an idea of multiple lines forming together. And texture is definitely important but what if you don’t have texture, then that’s definitely a factor one must take in to discuss or visualize the piece better. Value is important because it shows the the direction of light, which is important for realistic drawings, shading is effected by light tremendously. Finding the right color or colors when drawing or painting is important because color grabs the eyes of the looker and depending on what color scheme one uses it might work out and grab their attention or it might make the looker look away cuz it is tremendously horrible color scheme

a good quote from my hero.

“Art, in its most technical and creative forms – isn’t something that belongs to these special gifted snowflakes – it’s for anyone. How relatively good or knowledgeable you get at it, is just a simple matter of much you’re willing to let it consume and permeate every fiber of your being. That willingness to put your entirety into something to the point of obsession, regardless of what it is — that … that’s something that might not be in everyone.”-Sam Spratt 

http://samspratt.com

It's quotes like this, that form great ideas and I believe that everyone should have the chance and the resources to do the things we get to do every day. what I'm talking about is digital art, Guys. its important to know the simplest web or graphic design is part of a bigger picture that is life.

critique away my friends...

So I made a digital collage for one of my classes and it would be super awesome if anyone would like to give me some feed back on it.

"internal struggle of the un-natural kind"

Man, its all about that perspective..

This blog post is all about perspective. Im not sure who the artist is for this but I just love it! Ive been searching for awhile so if anyone knows please comment so I can edit this post to show the rightful owner of the art piece. but I would like to say a few things on why i like this. 

1. at first you think its a painting, then you realize that each item is perfectly placed in a way that at a certain angle its shows. This just boggles my mind and makes me think about what we see in items, whether they are kept for materialistic items or emotional ones. it just really makes me think. 

it is just flat out magical....

Ella & Pitr

I was scoping out some perception art and I came across this french artist group called Papiers Peintres in english its Paper Painters. Their art is more on a large scale than anything else.  I love their stuff and just wanted to show just a few examples of their work. 

you can find more of their work at http://ellapitr.tumblr.com/ 

or http://papierspeintres.net/

Tetris in a pumpkin, what?

i saw this on tumblr and I couldnt get it out of my head. So cool. I figured i would put this on here because well sometimes we talk about new media art and I believe video games whether they are archaic like tetris or new like destiny its all art. so I present to you, the tetris pumpkin. i guess you can also argue that this a time based art instalation because it doesnt last forever due to mold and what not so yeah and its interactive hence being an installation piece.

How to make a sick looking Farmer Skeleton even more cool looking in Illustrator!!!!!

awesome, so now we have our natural looking farmer skeleton!

1.its saved as a png or a jpeg what every you want. We then go into illustrator and go into file button then slide your cursor down to (place).

2.then change the size of it with your black cursor button to whatever size you want. 

3. when you click on the picture in the tool bar it should already come up with an image trace button, if so click it. another tool bar with more alteration buttons for image trace will come up and you can tweak the numbers to change the photo if you need to. this one worked out almost perfectly so i didn't have to change it that much. i then pressed expand and that gave me all the paths and anchors i need to alter the photo. 

4. with the white cursor click on the white background in  the photo. press the delete button on your keyboard. 

4. put in a circular border with the circle tool back sure it is behind the skeleton you want the hat to poke out (just use the stroke color and leave the filler nonexistent)

5.then put another circle behind the skeleton and behind the circle border.

6. with the square shape maker put a color in the background....far background.

7. then some words..i warped mine around the circle. kind of made it look like a woodstock poster to me. all that matters is if you like it.

8. THEN BOOM YOU SHOULD BE DONE!!!!!!

don't worry if the coloring might be off i made 10 different ones trying to find good color combinations to represent what i wanted to show. 

here is a few final examples.

how to make a sick looking farmer skeleton in photoshop!!

so for my propaganda poster it seemed pretty basic but you have no idea how much work it got into making a farmer skeleton.

 1. find an awesome skeleton!

On photo shop make sure the background layer isn't in eye mode. Then take your fun little magic wand tool and delete all the original white background in the photo!!! should be pretty easy. 

 2. i search far and wide for a farmer hat that looked right, i looked for texture, coloring, if i wanted to make it simple with clip art or find a real one. i ended up finding this farmer... i don't know his name so we will call him FARMER FRAN! THANKS FARMER FRAN FOR LETTING ME ERASE YOU IN PHOTO SHOP AND STEAL YOUR HAT! MANY THANKS!!!

3. I  needed to find a way to make the skeleton look like he is wearing the hat, so i decided to split the hat in two. the top part to be placed upon the skeletons head and the second was to be placed behind the skeleton. 

a. top layer (layer1)

b. bottom layer (layer 3)

AWESOME! NOW WE GOT THE BASIS OF OUR SKELETON IN PHOTOSHOP BOOM POW! 

now you just need to save as a png(i like to do this because when you save it saves with no background and when you place it in Illustrator you don't really have to mess with the extra deleting of white space.)

fixed the farmer 

Save a Farmer.... buy locally

propaganda sticker....

I made this to show that we need to keep our local farmers in work buy purchasing our produce directly from them instead of purchasing produce from the grocery stores that do not support local farmers. 

abstract text

I took my initials that I normally use when signing not so important documents because well i leave my middle name out hence not important.... MVS

I made each letter a different font, M was a fancy curly one, the V was a basic strong looking font and the S was a not so curly looking font but still pretty curly. 

I added more anchor points with the pen tool to the V and the S where ever i felt had too much of a space between the original anchor points. 

After banksy presentation.... muse...

Even though i like the clean lines in the original i feel the graffiti style ruggedness fits my personality more.

negative space and design

I made these illustrations for Art 102, we were working on a negative and positive space project. I wanted to blog them because it was a good practice in working with anchors points and a great practice in tracing with the anchor pen tool. you can look at the process of making this simple design in two ways. Expert..or Beginner.. 

Experts could see these designs as extremely easy to create and manipulate.... thats why i made it. in my graphic design background we make designs that are easy to manipulate by changing colors, by changing the spaces between the tee-pees. 

Beginners could possibly think the same way but figuring out how to do so is a little time consuming.  Personally the hard part was tracing the bear trying to figure out how to trace is in pieces so i can make it look not just like a flat photo. that is where the color choices come in.. i wanted it to look like a flat design (Flat designs are being used now a lot more in the past couple years, for phone apps, logos, my opinion is that its a cleaner look and possible a lot easier to manipulate them for different media purposes.)

“Futuristic Glitch Mode Squad”

The assignment was to create a photomontage that examines a specific time or place but did not necessarily state that the montage could not have a futuristic feel to the piece.  The photos I found were ones of areal shots of New York City in different eras ranging from 1920,1998, 1990, and 2010.  I combined the New York photos with areal shots of an Icelandic volcanic river.  I chose New York because it is the most used city for montage areal shots and I wanted to put a twist on it. When I was looking at the base photo of New York, I felt there was something missing. I guess you could say it spoke to me and so I deleted the water, and layered the volcanic river photos underneath to make it look like it’s flowing through, around, and under the city. It definitely gave it a surreal look. I wanted the volcanic photos underneath the city because I wanted it to represent internal destruction and how it comes from with in and deteriorates everything around it.

When I look at the montage it makes me think about how our world can be disrupted so easily. The past and future must work together in order for destruction to not happen. The piece makes me think about what I should do and need to do to make this world a better place.

My original muses I guess you could say would be post modern Dada montage art, and glitch art. 

"Conforming Which Way?" , sef portrait mash up

"Conforming Which Way?"

My art piece is a mash up of a Roy lichtenstein painting and a self portrait. What I wanted the piece to portray or pretty much what it came out to be is that no matter what ending result whether a girl transforming into a stereo typical beautiful woman from a Lichtenstein painting or the Lichtenstein painting transforming into a real life girl. The ending result is still a girl transforming into something that is visually an external change but you can also question if its an internal change as well.

I wanted to make this to show change. All change is good, no matter how tough the process is the, the result is always better than an empty canvas.