Squishy Dreams

So, 2nd year at Sheridan is done, and I’ve got a nice little package of materials I’m going to be posting. Pretty much all the colouring was done digitally and the drawing was done traditionally.

Enjoy!

Success! More work is on the way!

I’ve recently been given the great opportunity to have and use a Wacom Cintiq Screen. I’ve been practically using it every day that I’ve had it (for a week and a half). I must say, having it has made me more productive and more interested in creating art than anything I’ve had. As well, having this setup doesn’t make me stop using traditional mediums anymore. I can faithfully say that no medium will make you anymore of a stronger artist. It is all entirely a matter of persistence, skill and practice. Things not only became a little more teadious in the digital medium, but knowing I had no excuse now to not go back and correct mistakes, is quite an experience.

I feel almost this ability could be taken for granted, as when it comes to professional inking and cleanup work, you cannot erase a thick black brush stroke. In this medium, you can either take the long route or the short route. Either way each route will take you a bit of time to master. The eventual short route would be learning how to do cleanup and drawing perfectly, which we all know that takes LOTS of time and experience to master. It doesn’t take any less brain power as the long route does, either. The long route involves drawing and erasing each and every line until it becomes natural. In a way, I feel that the latter sometimes takes away from the life of the line. We really need to understand how the life of the line describes a form in a single thought. Having to labour over each line just to accomplish think and thin isn’t what it should be about, we should be describing a form in every thought we have.

Anyways, I hope to post more digital work shortly, as I have a package of stuff I’m going to post real soon.

Take Care!

Boy, I haven’t posted in a long time. In fact, I feel guilty for not posting sooner. I’ve been incredibly busy with school work and have had no time to post WIP.

For now, please check out the following film/animation. I feel it’s an incredibly beautiful film, made in what entirely looks like flash / CG with a bit of watercolour. Lovely work overall. It’s produced by Ashlee Perkins, from the Savannah College of Art. http://www.awntv.com/videos/buddy

It’s amazing the amount of technology we have as artists today, that we can produce a whole film by ourselves on a computer. All one needs to do is invest a few dollars in technology and you’re set. As well, the amount of exposure out there is incredible as well. Artists: definitely get your stuff out there!

Here’s a much needed update. Been working hard in all my subjects, I’ve been finding painting to be the most successful thus far. Here’s a few of my first assignment tonals. I’ve created some colour versions of these, and I shall be uploading them shortly.

All of them are digitally created in Photoshop, the layout design is not mine, but all the painting is.

Enjoy!

One of the “good” animations I am posting. The others need a bit more work before I feel they’re polished enough to get onto the site.

Enjoy!

Colour narrative for the third painting assignment. These keys were put towards the final Leica board that we developed for storyboard (that will come later).

Traditionally done with watercolours on 4×6 arches w/c paper

Thought I’d do this in all one go. Preliminary tonal studies done with graphite (1) and two in marker. Final Product is gouache and w/c medium. Second Assignment for Painting this year.

To kick off a bunch of posts from stuff done at school, here’s the final result (a follow-up to the previous post) with the final product of my first painting assignment of the year.

Gouache and W/C medium done traditionally.

Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian photographer, has been a favourite of mine for a number of years. His sense of composition reaches an inquisitive part of me that really questions the way we handle our everyday materials.

I feel that the fine Canadian program, The Hour, has done this man a real service by releasing an interview of him discussing his work. Very fascinating photography. I don’t remember if I missed him at this year’s Contact Festival in Toronto. Definitely a photographer worth checking out.

Just the other evening I was pointed to a blog post by a professor of mine, located [here]. I must say, I have never seen him display as much disgust and dissatisfaction to a cartoon than I did here. Being the article is quite old, I might’ve just missed the boat here, but I believe I should argue in defence of the cartoon, Adventure Time (viewed [here]).

In fact, let’s start off by talking about the script. Popular cartoon scripts these days don’t need to make sense, Pete. It’s just the way businesses work these days. Producers and directors and writers need their vacation time, as much as anyone else these days, and don’t have time to read “the script”. It’s obvious to them, if they’re not paying attention to it, the audience won’t even really mind any ways. These are the things that keep The Simpsons on the air, stringing together a sequence of non-sequitur events to lead up to a simple outcome. I am in favour of the producers on this one, as they know half of their audiences are on the computer, cell phone, playing music, chatting with friends, and watching TV at the same time. Even though this is a flash cartoon, all you have to do is play it in the background with some loud trendy music playing, and everything will make sense.

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