Final 2D/Color Project

This is the last piece of the semester! I did a piece dealing with the loneliness of an immune host after an apocalypse. 2D/Color was my favorite class this semester!

Final Drawing Project

For the last project in drawing, we had to make a series of 3 drawings based on a short story. I did mine based on this short story:

RESURRECTION  by Robert J Shea
“You’re a fascinating person,” the girl said. “I’ve never met anyone like you before. Tell me your story again.”
 

The man was short and stocky, with Asiatic features and a long, stringy mustache. “The whole story?” he asked. “It would take a lifetime to tell you.” He stared out the window at the yellow sun and the red sun. He still hadn’t gotten used to seeing two suns. But that was minor, really, when there were so

many other things he had to get used to.
 

A robot waiter, with long thin metal tubes for arms and legs, glided over. When he’d first seen one

of those, he’d thought it was a demon. He’d tried to smash it. They’d had trouble with him at first.

“They had trouble with me at first,” he said.  

“I can imagine,” said the girl. “How did they explain it to you?”

 
“It was hard. They had to give me the whole history of medicine. It was years before I got over the notion that I was up in the Everlasting Blue Sky, or under the earth, or something.” He grinned at the girl. She was the first person he’d met since they got him a job and gave him a home in a world uncountable light years from the one he’d been born on.

 

“When did you begin to understand?”

 
“They simply taught all of history to me. Including the part about myself. Then I began to get the

picture. Funny. I wound up teaching them a lot of history.”

 

“I bet you know a lot.”
“I do,” the man with the Asiatic features said modestly. “Anyway, they finally got across to me that
in the 22nd century — they had explained the calendar to me, too; I used a different one in my day — they had learned how to grow new limbs on people who had lost arms and legs.”

 

“That was the first real step,” said the girl.

 
“It was a long time till they got to the second step,” he said. “They learned how to stimulate life

and new growth in people who had already died.”

 

“The next part is the thing I don’t understand,” the girl said.

 
“Well,” said the man, “as I get it, they found that any piece of matter that has been part of an organism, retains a physical ’memory’ of the entire structure of the organism of which it was part. And that they could reconstruct that structure from a part of a person, if that was all there was left of him. From there it was just a matter of pushing the process back through time. They had to teach me a whole new language to explain that one.”

 
“Isn’t it wonderful that intergalactic travel gives us room to expand?” said the girl. “I mean now that every human being that ever lived has been brought back to life and will live forever?”

 
“Same problem I had, me and my people,” said the man. “We were cramped for space. This age
has solved it a lot better than I did. But they had to give me a whole psychological overhauling before I understood that.”

 

“Tell me about your past life,” said the girl, staring dreamily at him.

 

“Well, six thousand years ago, I was born in the Gobi Desert, on Earth,” said Genghis Khan, sipping his drink.

Here is my series:

 

Figure Drawing

We had a model come in and did a few rounds of figure drawing in drawing class. We didn't really have any instruction at all and this was my first time doing real figure drawing, but I think I did alright. Most are 30 second poses, some 1 minute, some 10 minutes.

Photo Sequence

For Lens-based Communication we had to do either a photo sequence or photo essay to tell a story for our final project. I decided to create a sequence that centers around an origami butterfly. Here's what I came up with.

Double Exposure Experiments

I've been working on final projects lately so I don't have anything to post for a couple of weeks. I tried out some double exposure today though and some of them turned out pretty cool.

 

 

 

Short Stories

For my drawing class, I had to create a piece based on one of many short stories that we could chose from. I chose ANOTHER PLANET by Phil Gardner:

The craft flew through space at warp speed, its destination: Mars.  

Alien experiments had resulted in an army of cyborgs: robotic bodies with organic brains, each hellbent on the destruction of Earth. 

Mankind’s salvation lay in the hands of just one man: Captain Ben, the Space Corp’s finest. But
time was running out. 

Impatiently, he armed the defensive shields and ordered the crew to fire up the thrusters.  

An urgent voice came from below decks.

“Benjy, your bacon and eggs are ready!”   

Benjy dropped the paper maché spaceship, swept the robots into the toy box, and ran downstairs for breakfast. 

So for my piece, I decided to do it with the top half fantastic and in his imagination and the bottom in reality. I really liked this project.

 

Color Study

For my drawing class, we had to take something from nature and paint it in four different color schemes; graphic (actual real life colors), desaturated, warm, and cool. I used a flower, top left is cool, top right is graphic, bottom left is warm, and bottom right is desaturated. Overall, a good project to study different colors.

Perspective Collages

For my drawing class, we had to make collages with both our own photos and drawing/painting that created a new area and dealt with perspective. My first collage ended up too surreal and I was unable to use it for the project, but I still think it turned out cool anyway.

My final piece for this assignment was this which I also really liked the end result of. I have one that I was using for planning where I printed the image and just painted with white and sketched in pencil as well.

 

The final one was done with photos, traditional painting, cloth, and photoshop painting.

Environmental Portraiture

This assignment was for my Lens-based Communication class. We had to take photos of five people in their environment. Essentially, we had to take photos that would show what the subjects that we were photographing were like. The first 5 are my final ones.