Reflection - Digital Apps

to day was the last day to be working on our zines and it was another very usefull day because not only did i get my 2 zine ideas finished and completed, we were also shown how to make animations using a program called Adobe After Effects. at the moment, my animation is only about 5 seconds long so i need to work on that so i can play it as part of my presentation


Update:

i have now uploaded my final 15 second animation enjoy ;)

Reflection - 3D Design

yey my model is looking great! but OMG i havent finished it yet and next week is the deadline and i have got loads to do :o
i am going to have to stay for a full day on wednesday to get it finished. slightly woried but i think i can do it. i also got a chance to see some examples of the portfolio sheets so i now know what to kate is expecting to see so i have got to do that too.

Reflectiion - Digital Apps

today was a usefull lesson because not only was i working on my final zine idea, we were also taught how to use Adobe Illustrator so that we can make our own fonts however, i think i will need a bit more practice using the program

Reflection 3D Design

wohooo. i finaly started my final model today and i cant wait to get it finished. in my opinion i started rather late as i now only have one whole day left to complete it but not many others in the class have started theirs yet so i dono. first i did some test pieces using copper (because i have decided that is the material i wnat to use for my final model) and rivits. the first one i did i didnt like because you can see the rivets so i had a think and came up with a simple but efective solution. instead of riveting the pieces to each other, rivet them to a seperate piece. i also did some soldering today to make a rectangle out of copper and it want a bit wrong as it just broke straight away :( but i know why that was now. i didnt heat it up enough because when Kate did it, it went proper glowing yellow. but now i know how its done.

Reflection - Fine Art

today went well as i got a chance to experiment with new techniques such as etching and scratching. i also got to use the saw in the workshop so i now know how it works.

Reflection - Digital Apps

today was an ok day. got to learn a few tips and tricks for using Adobe Photoshop and i look forward to the tutorial on Adobe Illustrator next week. got some prety cool images done to day but over all i found it boring. :(

Reflection - Visual Studies

finally completed my very large drawing of a adjustable pipe cutter in the style of the fantastic artist Jim Dine. i don't normally work on such a large scale and my best pieces are usually very small in size but this drawing actually doesn't look too bad. well it wouldn't if you spent over four hours on it. i think for next week i am going to try sitting down a bit more because my feet were in absolute agony  from all that standing.

Reflection - Contextual Studies

Another Fantastic lecture by Graham today learning about how to look at paintings and the deeper meanings behind them.

today we studied this painting by Hans Holbein who is a German artist. this painting has an anamorphosis in it.

An anamorphous is a distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion.

here the anamorphous is in the form of a skull at the bottom of the painting.
'The Ambassadors' by Hans Holbein

The skull at the bottom, which would be seen from standing on the left side looking from a 27° angle downwards.

Reflection - CAD/ICT

an OK lesson just a bit boring because we were only learning the very basics of Adobe Photoshop (which i have already learnt) but i suppose it was a very useful for the students that haven't had the privilege of using the software in the past.

Reflection - 3D Design

Another fantastic day with a lot of progress being made in terms of a final outcome. I am now dead sure that i am going to design a residential building and make the 3D model as my final outcome for the project. I made a realy fantastic looking test model using some copper and aluminium scrapps so i know what the skeleton of the building looks like. I was having problems putting my designs and ideas down onto paper so decided to make a model and work from that. I am not yet sure about what material to use to make my model from (cant decide between wood or metal) bit i will soon come to a decision about that. But other than that, its looking good :)

Reflection - Fine Art

What a bloody fantastic day! My shadow art worked very well and was very efective. Not only did i manage to make some faces, i also made the Empire State Building and the Taj-Mahal. I am now looking to develop this technique and make it even more intresting. This technique and my inspiration came from studying the work of Kumi Yamashita who is a fantastic artist and i think is very talented :) please do check out the artists website

pics of my work

        

Reflection - Digital Apps

Digital Apps went very well today and all the mood boards looked VERY intresting. i was men  t to finish mine off in the morning befor class started only to find that colour printing is only available AFTER 09:00AM :-( so instead of printing of my image of "bad architecture" i used the space with the frog that Kerry had got me :-)  i am looking forward to this project because its all starting to come together now and i know what we are all aiming towards (and most importantly; what a 'Zine' is)

Reflection - 3D Design

what a loooooooooong day! today was my first time table lesson and i had 3D Design all day with Kate McAngus. the title for the project is Negative and Possitive and we started of with doing a group brain storm. we were also looking at resistant and none resistant materials. over all the day was a bit boring but i guess the first day always it.