Progress: Repaint a Classic

Worked during and after class. Would've kept going had another class not came in. Sigh. Probably about another... 2 hours? We spent the first hour critiquing our abstracts, which I keep forgetting to take pictures of. Update coming soon. 


Starting to get into the details and fixing things. I do believe I've accidentally made too much space at the top and too little space at the bottom, but there's no going back now unless I want to start all over again and I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT! 


Excited for my beginning painting final project, which is whatever we want as long as we want to portray SOMETHING... which is what I really need to work on the most in my pieces. Stoked, but so nervous because I'm not sure what I want to do. I might try to paint one of my recent drawn concepts, some of which I haven't posted because I'm too lazy to scan things. Things about feeling unsafe wherever I go, or things about how smoking is not only bad for you, but for people around you.




Notes to fellow painters:


1. It is good exercise for the shoulders to carry a wet canvas across campus while trying not to seem like a show off, look crazy, get paint on yourself, and to not get debris all over the canvas. 


2. It is useless to try not to get paint on your clothes unless you've got one of those fully body jumpsuits, but that still classifies as clothes, so you're still screwed either way. 

Final Project: Zombie Stop Motion WIP

Hooray! That is my new stolen catchphrase.

http://hellxia.deviantart.com/art/Zombie-Stop-Motion-WIP-162366830

Super low quality, and only about half the movie is mostly done.

So far, 3 days in class, and probably an equal amount of time outside class. Got another week to finish it all D8 D8 D8

Flash and the stamp and patch tools on PS CS4 are pretty much the most amazing things ever. Bloody expensive though. Soon... soon...

Going to be awesome when it's finished.

Assignment: Repaint a classic piece

I chose to paint Francois Lemoyne's Woman Bathing because I need work on nude figures and landscapes [I think I already mentioned that?]. Just doing an underpainting for right now. I know I'm not supposed to put color in it, but I couldn't help it. Also, I ran out of dark brown paint. I am lazy and dislike mixing paint. lol 


In just the one hour I've spent on this so far, I've learned that this is a cross-shaped composition. Everything is based of a giant cross in the middle. Feels great to already be learning so much!


Here is the original. I hope to get somewhere near this:

After 2 hours. Ughhh I am so impatient. Need to learn that dark comes before light. Details are annoying.

And after 3 hours. I should've gone to bed... 3 hours ago. Hooray. ಠ_ಠ [stupid macs won't give me the font to see this stupid face aughhh it is the best and the worst face]

The colors are much warmer in my room than in the study room, that's why the photo colors look different. 

Note to self: Twist upper body to the left, make leg on right thicker, make ankle on left less bulbous, can still lower dirt / decrease water size a bit, consider raising the head, tilt girl on right's head forward from the top, decrease pointedness of elbow, work more on trees and fabric 

Things I've learned tonight:

1. Cross composition

2. The lighting is very different depending on where you are ughhhh

3. I must overcome my impatience because DARK COMES BEFORE LIGHT

What do Vegetarians Do When Vegetables Attack Progress

Painted over almost everything. I like this a bit better. Using a reference is much easier, but I'm not going for photo-realistic, so that will be the slightly more difficult part... or maybe not. I'm not sure. We shall see.


For the next project, we're supposed to re-create a painting from the 1800's. I wanted to work on painting nude figures and backgrounds with actual scenery, so I chose Woman Bathing by Francois Lemoyne, which should be here, but the website is going super slow right now, not sure why. It's also a better quality picture than a bunch of others, therefore easier for me to re-create.


But what I'm excited to work on during the summer is a spoof that may or may not have already been done on Jean Francois de Troy's The Ascension, as seen here. When I first saw it, the colors and figure positions just shouted Superman at me... so... what's up sacrilege? I'm gonna replace Jesus with Superman. That's what's up.


AND, currently my favorite song is Tommy Mac's Another Day. It's a very upbeat chiptune song that always makes me want to bob my head and sway haha I would link it, but I'm not sure what the link is for it. Found it on thesixtyone. WIN!

Update

I got the Social Justice Art Internship at the Multi-Cultural Center on campus! SUPER STOKED!!!! Was so worried because the supervisor that called me sounded hella down and I'm pretty sure she sighed at one point and I was like... dangit. But I got it. YESSSSSSSS!!!! BOOM. DONE. THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT.


lol 


As for the "What do vegetarians do when vegetables attack?" painting, I'm revamping it A LOT. Completely redoing the lady [ref here], fixing the sky, might change the hill colors. Changing the light source so that it is coming from the left. Yadda yadda. Might as well completely redo it. Right? What have I got to lose when it comes to an assignment for a beginning painting class?


And for my final project for Beginning Digital Art, I decided to sort of make a bigger deal out of the zombie stop motion animations that I've done in the past. Pretty stoked. My professor showed me the basics of how to use Flash and I was like... 2012 acting status. MY... GOD... [2 minutes later] ... MY... GOD!!! But yeah, it was pretty amazing and so I am excited for that as well. Not sure what I'm going to do for my Beginning Painting final.... eek. Even though I feel like a lot of people bullshit the work in class, and I do it too... not even gonna lie... but I actually learn a lot through... bullshitting. lol Just gotta go all out and see what happens, learn things along the way. 


It's the journey that counts, not the destination, right? 


ALSO: thesixtyone is pretty much AMAZING for pretentious indie hipster music. Check it out. A lot of the downloads are free too. 8D LEGIT.


And if you want electronica, then 22tracks is good. Updates every week, I think?