Blog Assigment #2

Honestly my idea developed because of the stress of worrying about getting the assignment done on time. It mostly revolved around trying to meet the requirements.

Image Essay #7

The artist makes good use of texture in this piece. The textures used are to give the image the look of a star field with some nebula. It is almost like an abstract version of photo from a NASA satellite. Even though it is not that realistic, it makes one think of a starry night sky. If one looks closely at the piece the backgrounds kind of looks like an area of grass at night. The image also makes me think of Final Fantasy X, because when one looks closely the stars kind of look like pyreflies. The texture looks like it could be that of some sort of fabric. There does not seem to be a dominate shape in the composition. If there is any dominance it would probably be in the brightness level of certain stars. Also the way the stars are positioned in a way that leads the viewer off the page. The focal point seems to be the brighter stars that form a triangle shape. Then from there the viewers eye kind of dart around the page. There is a lot of repetition in the shape of the stars. But overall it looks like the piece was referenced well.

Image Essay #6

The composition above is a page from the doujinshi, Ten Years of Death by Anna Matheis(also known as Ore-sama). If you don't know, a doujinshi is a fan made manga. The way black is used really brings out the angst the character is feeling on the page and the faces of the character outlined in white, along with the way they juxtaposed with the character in the middle really add to it. It kind of makes the reader feel sad for the character. The artist used a little bit a shading and noise to make the characters look a little more three-dimensional, thought in the bottom panel the characters, including the shaded one look a little more two-dimensional. It also kind of look like that all of the images are within a curvilinear shape. The noise in the corner which probably represents that the image is a memory, kind of gives it that look. The value contrast of the noise going from black to gray to white kind of give off the effect that the image is a memory. There doesn't seem to be very many differences in line density. Though that kind of thing is sometimes common in comics.

Blog Assignment # 4

Art: 21-Place
1. I guess we define a place.

2. Laurie Anchorson was inspired by many different places. Sally Man preferred the south and worked with what was there. Because they were there was the reason why her children were involved in her pieces. Barry McGee and Margret Kilgallen preferred the outside. Graffiti also interested them and most of their art looked similar to graffiti. Pepon Osirio is inspired by his memories of the place where he grew up and his artwork reflected that.

3. Honestly, it was never really something I thought about before. But I knew that location could serve a purpose in art.

4. I'm not really sure if I felt a connection to any them.

5. Each artist used a different form of media. Laurie Anchorson had the huge chair. Sally Man's work was mostly photography. It was mainly graffiti for Barry McGee and Margret Kilagallen. Pepion Osorio used everyday objects one would find a certain place.

6. When I was a kid, anywhere where I could be alone was good, and school turned out to be the scariest place on earth.
a. school gym - hell
b. bedroom - sanctuary
c. hometown - boring
d. public library - fun
e. arcade - loud

7. The gym of my old school had basketball hoops, and other sport equipment. Even Ping Pong and scuffle board. The gym floor was smooth but hard. Though falling on that doesn't hurt as much as getting run over by one of jocks. With them it's like crashing into a metal wall. The basketballs were ruff and hurt when they hit you in the face. Even though it's brightly lit it's a dark place when you're athletically inept. Especially when there are those jocks who get a little too into the game and nearly kill themselves and everyone else just to get to the ball.

Stories
1. I'm not really sure. There are so many old stories that are still told today, and it's kind of hard to say which new stories will still be told years from now.

2. If a story is still being told after a long time then the story must have some significance.

3. The artist used used sketchbooks in journals to put ideas in. I guess sketchbooks and journals could count as art. Artist use them to keep track of ideas, and sometimes something drawn or written out of boredom could provide ideas for a project.

4. 4 Year-old Voice:
Why isn't Daddy here anymore? Why does Mommy always have to go to work? Why can't I leave the yard? Jake think he's leader. I'm the oldest. I'm in charge.

Present Day:
There was so much about the world I didn't understand when I was four. My parents were divorced but I still didn't understand why my Dad wasn't around anymore. I didn't get why my mom had to go to work everyday, mainly because I missed her while she was at work. But now that I'm older I fins that it's easier to do things without a parent breathing down your neck. I was probably more adventurous then, because I always wanted to know what was beyond the backyard. (Sigh) I think was more confident when I was four. At that age my cousin Jake considered himself group leader. (Group meaning Jake, me and my sister.) I felt that I should be in charge because I was older. But it also may have come from the fact that I was taller than him then too.

Image Essay #4

This image of Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion makes good use of symmetry, both symmetrical and asymmetrical. It's symmetrical in two ways. Rei herself is vertically symmetrical, and her reflection in the water also makes the image horizontally symmetrical. But there is also some asymmetrical elements. The way the loose feathers are positioned make the image a little asymmetrical. So the image would probably also be a good example of Gestalt. Rei is also the focal point of the image. But when one looks down at her reflection it takes the viewer off the page. If ones breaks down Rei into geometric shapes, then one would get, circles, triangles, and rectangles. The triangles are the most dominate shape because there are more of them than circles and rectangle's. Shading is used to make Rei look more three-dimensional. There is also a large value contrast. There is a lot more light than dark, which causes Rei and the moon to pop out more.

Image Essay #3

The image here makes good use of repetition. The border images are the same image that is in the middle, but it appears that each has been altered by a different filters on Photoshop. It looks like Photoshop was used to alter an original piece of art work by Kaori Yuki for her manga series Angel Sanctuary and combined then together. A few of the images are still the same color only with different textures and a few are different colors making a few breaks in the pattern. Those breaks keep the piece from having any rhythm. The filter used also made the image kind of abstract. The image in the middle seems to be the most dominate one, since it is the largest, while the other images appear to be the same size. But it is apparent that the images around the larger image is just the same image at a smaller scale with different Photoshop filters. The middle image also overlays the other images, while the other images are juxtaposed. The smaller images are the subordinates of the larger image. The different filters are probably an attempt to add more variety to the composition.

Image Essay #2

This fan art for the anime and manga series of Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto, is good example of Triangular Hierarchy. When it comes to hierarchy in art, whatever is highest up is the most important. The artist put the characters in which is believed to be the order of importance. So it makes sense that Naruto is one who is higher up because he is the main character of the series, and it is even named after him. The artist must have felt that Sasuke is a slightly more important character then Sakura, so he is up a little higher than her. Also the way him and his teammates and friends are arranged and overlap make a triangle shape.

The artist also used shading, using light to dark gray, and the values of each color used to make the trio look three-dimensional. There also seems to be some use of value contrast.

Image Essay #1

There is use of curvilinear design in this fan art of Haku in his dragon form from Spirited Away, one of the anime movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It fits well from the way his tail is curved. Also the way the tail is curved adds a little depth to the picture. Haku is also the most dominate form on the page on the page and is the focal point, also known as the area of focus in the image. Haku is the first thing the viewer would notice over the clouds in the background. Also he overlaps the clouds. The image is asymmertical. Not all of the lines have the same density. Such as the outline around Haku is denser than the outine around his scales. His scales are a pattern with only a few breaks in the pattern. One can see the texture clouds and they look every accurate. So they must have been pretty well referenced, which is true to the nature of Miyazaki's work, since in his movies everything animated from fire burning to how a cat moves is referenced from the real thing. The image is kind of dynamic becuase the postion Haku is in and the background suggest that he is flying through the air.

Image Essay #5

The piece above is good example of Gestalt. The image has symmetry and balance and is a couple of different things combined. There are what looks like splats of either ink or black paint. But one can also see the shapes of what looks like two dancing women and two ballerinas. So it seems a dance related theme. Another way this a good example of gestalt is that the women and the ballerinas look like they are fused together, which makes the image an unified whole. But if one looks at it more closely, it appears that the ballerinas overlap the dancing women.The two dancing women also seem to be overlapping. The way there are overlapped kind of makes it looks their fingers are laced.

Besides the dancer there are other shapes one can see in this piece. The dancers seem to be in somewhat of a heart shape. Also the negative space between shapes like a butterfly. It is similar to the those illusion pieces that is both a vase and face. Out of all the principals of Gestalt, this piece seems to mostly follow proximity. The image also seems to make use of the curvilinear shape, since the image looks like it also forms a curve shape.