Image Essay #10

This piece would be one of the many Naruto fan arts done by Ore-sama. This piece makes good use of value contrast. How the moonlight reflects on the water and the characters look about accurate. How the shades of gray go from low-value to mid-value to high value bend in well. The use of value also makes the characters, the tree, and the moon look three-dimensional.

The foreground is the darkest. The middle ground has the mid-value shades of gray and is also where one can see the shades start to blend. The area where the moon is in the background is the lightest. There is also some use of value on the moon itself to give it a more three-dimensional look.

The two characters and the tree are the most dominant on the piece. The moon looks very small to make it look like it is far distance away. Also the trees in the background are solid black and two-dimensional compared with everything else and it gives off the effect that they are a far distance away. The piece is also in linear perspective for it seems to lead the viewer eye form the moon to the characters or vice versa, depending on what the viewer notices first.

Image Essay #8

This Trinity Blood wallpaper makes good use of value contrast. The black around the image makes it pop out more and makes Esther kneeing besides Abel's coffin the focal point. It keeps the viewer's eye on the center.

Where is Esther is seems to be the lightest area since she is wearing a white dress. The value gets lighter as it gets closer to her. The use of shading makes the flowers, the coffin, and Esther look three-dimensional. The value contrast of the white and grays bring out the folds of Esther's dress. There is also plenty of value contrast in the flowers and on the cross that is on the coffin. It makes it seems like the place is dimly light. Also the use of the black, the white, and the different shades of gray give the image a sad and depressing feel.

The way Esther and the coffin are juxtaposed is also a good use of value contrast, since the coffin is black and Esther's is white, which also helps Esther stick out more.

Esther and the coffin seem to be the foreground for they stick out more, and the flowers are the background for they look kind of blurry.

Image Essay #9

This fan art of a scene from the anime Naruto is a good example of definition. The character who is ready to come at his opponent with the lighting-based attack is the most dominant form on the piece. The other character is smaller, along with how the rails of the bridge are set up to give off the illusion that he is a farther distance away. The mist is also helpful in creating the distance illusion for it is thicker near the smaller character and as thick near the larger character.

Shading is also used to make the picture seem more three-dimensional and there is a good use of value on the character that is closest to the viewer's eyes on his clothing and hair. The the smaller character is not as detailed to help with the distance illusion.

The piece also has a linear perspective. The character getting ready to strike is focal point of the picture since he is the largest, so the viewer will notice him first. Then the bridge leads the viewer's eye to the other character.

Blog Assasignment #5

Takashi Murakami

1. My major is digital arts. Takashi Murakami has many digital works in different forms and is the founder of KaiKai Kiki Co., where assistants help him with his artwork and as an environment for marketing his work and the teaching of new Japanese Artist.

2. His work is mostly social commentary of mass media. Like Andy Warhol he takes something that considered low culture and repackages it. But what makes Murkami different from Warhol, is that his work is available in many different forms, such as paintings, sculptures, videos, plush dolls, mouse pads, key chains, and cellphone caddies. Even Louis Vuitton handbags. In 2005 he inspired the "Cherry Blossom" logo.

3. I like how he made use of the anime style to comment on otaku culture. Also he has work in both the fine arts and digital arts. Also the style he uses called Superflat is new to me and kind of interesting.

4. In some pieces the dominance seems to be in size or number. The most dominance thing on the page sometimes seems to be the largest object on the page or whatever has the most number of eyes.

5. Murakmai had made statues of an anime style woman and an anime styled man. The anime woman statue called Hiropan has unrealistically large breasts with a bikini top that barely covers them and other statue called My Lonesome Cowboy is a nude anime-styled man using semen as a lasso. The works are comments on overly-sexed anime.

6. I can see that one can do a lot with the anime style, especially since I like to draw that way. The works might be helpful in helping me push my ideas more.

7. Murakami's work is literally every colorful. He mostly makes good use of colors and hues that normally look great when they adjacent to each other. He doesn't use complementary colors often by the looks of most of his work.