My Top 5 Projects of Quarter 1

Normally I update on Saturday's and Thursdays, but last Saturday something came up that I needed to spend some time with and then ultimately got me feeling sick by being out in the down poring rain for a day. So now It's Thursday and the 1st quarter is wrapping up. In celebrating one quarter down and making up for a lack of a post on Saturday, I decided I would upload my top 5 projects of the quarter that haven't been posted yet.

This is a Japanese horror movie poster that I made as a final project for color theory. We had to research a foreign countries layout out and color usage for either horror movies or sci-fi movies and create a movie poster of our own portraying what we learned. The poster also had to have a concept for the movie behind it. I chose Japanese horror movies. 

All the Japanese Kanji is done in an online translator. The content of the text isn't as important as the placement of it, the color of it and of course it being in a foreign language. The concept of the movie I came up with is a spirit that posses people forcing them to consciously murder their friends and family. If the person possessed is killed by another person the spirit secretly transfers to the killer and the cycle continues. The picture in the poster represents this by the spirit reaching out of the eye. This was all photo manipulation in Photoshop.

This next project is also a color theory project. This was my Psychedelic Portrait for week 6. We were allowed to go all out with colors and just have fun. There are a lot of things in the picture so to fully enjoy it I recommend clicking on it and viewing it in a larger format. Of course because this is a portrait; I'm the one coming out of the liquid and the eyes in the sky are mine as well. This was all done in Photoshop.

Another project for Color Theory makes it to my top 5. This one is again in Photoshop, but this is digitally painted rather then dabbling in photo manipulation. The project was to design a Tattoo with symbolism and colorize it different ways following color schemes we had previously learned. It was more of a review assignment but offered a great opportunity for me to practice digital painting. I am prior military and the symbolism represents how I felt the Navy was holding me back, more of a past feeling because now I can afford to go to school because of the Navy. 

Here is a painting I did for Fundamentals of Design class. This project was for week 6 as well. I'm demonstrating my understanding of visual rhythm. The best way, I thought, to demonstrate rhythm, more specifically progressive rhythm, was to slowly morph an object into another object. I was trying to think of opposite's that I could apply this to. Even though a pencil and an eraser are common around each other, what better opposites then a tool for creation and a tool for destruction. The vertical line of the pencil also enhances the rhythmic feel as apposed to an already curved shape. This was done in acrylic paints.

Finally this is a 1 point perspective drawing for my Observational Drawing class week 8. We were instructed to walk around the school and find an internal location to draw in perspective. The lines on the wall are the shadows cast by the light fixtures. This is all done in pencil.