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.