Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Orpheus & Eurydice digital thumbnail sketches

           Been over loaded and stuck in my home by all the two and four inches of snow, homework has been a pretty good breeze. Also, it was a nice transition to get from the great weekend with my family plus driving home with my big brother :) I will him luck for the year and hope he enjoys it. 
          First off, quick update from last week, I turned in the illustration 2 homework but I really felt I needed to redo some of them. As you can see, the night scene is the most interesting and interactive composition than day and dust scenes. So below on the left, I re did the dust& dawn scene, now knowing how to use the wet ink media and the layering direction. I'm still working on the day time scene, hopefully soon as long as I can balance it with the new assignment. We know have to research the origin of a Mother Goose rhythm and prepare for watercolor medium next thursday. It pretty much an adaptation of an grim fairy tale but upon a childhood poetry.



           Next I went into life drawing 2, learning that I should continue my lines down the page and balance the composition with everything in sight. We also went into ink wash painting again like freshman year, where you use of black ink, paint brush, paper towels and water create a figure in the result. I would say that there is a little improvement in the mark making, compared to last year.

          Lastly, during my spare time I have been able to practice with drawing with my tablet and photoshop elements. One of assignments is to take the greek story of "Orpheus and Eurydice", the tragedy tale of a husband trying to rescue his wife. Here is a quick summary but I would recommend viewers to read this story and see what thumbnail scenes illustrate:

           Orpheus was a talented musician that could entrance man, beast and god with his music. Then one day, his newly wife Eurydice was wandering into the woods when she come upon a poisonous snake that took her life. Orpheus then journeys to Hades, approaching the god himself to listen to his plead. In the end, Pluto (aka Hades) release his wife to him but asks him to not look upon his wife until he reaches the moral world. Once crossing the ferry man and returning to the surface, Orpheus turns around to make sure Eurydice was still with him but suddenly sends her back to Hades. She isn't angry or disappointed because she knows of her husband good intentions but unfortunately returns back while Orpheus is unable to retrieval her again. He then goes to depression that affect his music until he comes upon thracian maids who end up murdering him and destroying his instrument. His body piece are retrieved by the lake nymphs and are then put to rest where he finally be with Eurydice.       
            

 

Sunday, January 25, 2015

What I was actually doing this week

                     Okay, this weekend I got to part take in an global gamer programing activity well known as 2015's Game Jam. Here, we are given three days to produce a simple playable game to upload and share with everyone. There are not as extreme as Call of Duty or Five Nights at Freddy's but small indie games that display beautiful artwork, encoding this gameplay and the many different approaches on this year's theme "What do we do now". 

                     The game I help made was a point & click puzzle game called "Girl Scouts", where you are the girl scout leader deciding what to do for each situation that you come across. Your objective is to make it through all 16 questions with a majority of your girl scouts, answering them with logical tactics or risking taking choices. 

                   My job was to illustrate all 40 icons that you would choose from for each question. However, our game was completely finished for the Game jam upload due to the time management (just needed three more hour) however we decided that it would be finished otherwise. So once it is, I will make a link or have it accessed through my blog for you to try it out.       

                  At first, I didn't mean to get into the game jam but once I went to the artist talk and their presentation, I found a good group that was doing the types of game I enjoy, which is basic puzzle point and click. I really did enjoy it, making it the first time to part take in creating an indie game, and while doing it, I was really liking it. The art design behind it is something I would be great out, even when picking up the small items or icons that are displayed on screen. This was a great challenged, and you could say that this can be added to my portfolio. I encourage anyone that have a small interesting in game making, this is a great event to take part of with this limited time next year. Be sure to check out their website and you might be able to see all the games that people have made this weekend.