Hey, welcome to my blog! This blog shows all of my assignments and work with the CyberArts program. I'm here for work, classmates, teachers and friends. There will be lots of changes and art work as the months pass by. thanks for visiting and enjoy my work!
This week I chose art inspiration. I decided to choose a very skilled, young and modern artist named Tyson Hesse. He has created a variety of sketches, flash animations and comics. One of Tyson Hesse's most popular comics is known as Boxer Hockey. He has a great combination of characters with different personalities and styles. The reason why this artist inspires me is because of his unique sketching/colouring techniques. The final images look well done, simple and clean.
The flash contains a couple of light mature scenes but it's pretty funny!
His style uses lots of shapes within his sketches, for example the fingertips are square instead of rounded. He makes it so they really stand out and are noticeable.
The colours he uses seem to fit together well and creates a nice sense of unity. Overall he seems to have a wide range of talent!
For this weeks blog post I decided to look up a cool tutorial on how to make a insperational political poster, I was inspired by one of my classmates. This looks fairly difficult and I haven't attempted to try it yet but it relates to our black history assignment by honoring those who were left out. Here are a few of the poster I looked up that I thought were pretty creative
Looking up into the sky can be great, seeing birds fly, the clouds slowly floating along and the amazing sunsets. A couple of months ago I remember letting my dog outside and stepping out on the balcony. For some weird reason, I looked up and stared at the night sky looking at all the stars, I noticed the moon seems different from when I was younger. It's allot brighter than it used to be. I kept staring at the moon and the dark blue sky around it started to change. The sky around the moon looked as if it started turning black and very slowly swirling, like some sort of vortex. I think this was because of how bright the moon was compared to the sky. I thought it was really neat though. Sometimes the little things in life can be pretty pleasant if you put your mind to it.
Our assignment was to find a poem made to catch someones eye. I looked around and came across an animated poem called "budapest". I found this poem was enticing and represented how I feel about drawing. It relates to me because most of the time what i'm sketching just comes to me, I usually don't have a concept. My hand is like the wild animal that wants to explore and try new things. I usually feel the need to draw, like a very odd addiction that keeps growing and becoming more vivid.
The style of this video makes it feel as if the hand is a skittish little creature doing what it needs to survive. The lighting is dim and the film looks aged. The narrator Describes the arm and hand as if he's been researching them for a documentary. I find it strange how at the end of the poem describes how he wants to go to Budapest. I think what he's trying to say is that he's not focusing on what he's writing, he is focusing on other subjects. Letting the mind drift away sometimes can trigger great ideas that can have impacts about the way we react to things.
The sounds you can hear in the video are pens scratching and sniffing, most of the video is quiet so you can listen to the narrator. His voice is low and monotoned, it matches the overall mood of this poem. He's not excited, he sounds as if he may even be forced to say these things. The scene were the hand is using the pen and it looks as if it is drinking the ink is very creative, it's although it's an actual animal drinking from a lake.
The poem itself seems as if he's a prisoner doing his job to get money for his family so they will be able to live comfortably. The man dosen't want to do this job, he wants to be free and go explore and travel, but he is caged up in an office that is dark and blue. When he looks out the window, the sky is bright and stands out. This poem is a bit depressing but is how many people actually have to live. I think the author, Billy Collins demonstrates how everyday life can be pain, how some people feel like prisoners in cages.
I know allot of people around the world love getting creative. Sometimes, it's difficult to find, purchase or even consider buying the supplies we need. Art supplies can be expensive and hard to find depending on what you’re going to create. One of the best known art supplies stores in my opinion would have to be Michaels. The store sells a verity of different materials sold at a fair price and has special events based on the months that come and go. The store has different courses you can take to learn and create vibrant pieces of art. The courses have cooking, sewing, clay making, arts and crafts, painting and many more with allot of different age groups and family activities so anyone can participate! I’ve been to about 5-10 of these in the past 3 years, I find them really interesting and a great learning experience. One of my favorite items to buy at Michaels are the little make your own foam houses, I have 4 of them. I like making them because sometimes I’m really stressed out and just need to take a day to do something to calm me down and relax. They usually turn out really well but if I don't concentrate they turn out horribly. All in all Michaels is a great artists store and you should check it out!
Our assignment was to research a list of four different historical figures. This post will describe and talk about who they are and what they did to make a change in the world we live in today.
Don Moore:
Born in Philadelphia, 1938 Moore played piano but switched to the bass in 1959. He was a very well known musician who performed with many famous stars such as Jackie McLean, Frank Foster and Lee Morgan. Don Moore Is currently living in NewYork.
Olivier Le Jeune:
Date of birth unknown, but passed away on May 10th, 1654. Olivier was the first recorded slave purchased in New France. He was A young boy who lived in Madagascar He was known to have been less than 8 years of age. In 1632, He was educated in Quebec by a priest known as Father Le Jeune.
Isaac Phills:
Isaac Lived in DartMouth, Nova Scotia, He was A steel worker of west Indiana Origin. He was a hard worker who raised and saved money for his families education.
Negro Creek:
The Creek was discovered in the 1860's, It was a creek located in the east Kootenay region of British Columbia. It was Originally known as "Nigger Creek" but was changed in 1961. The creek was used for mining by Chinese and Europeans.
