Monday, May 23, 2011

Artifical


Flying

Sketchbook Assignment: Flying




1. Sketched/Inked version- I sketched this first, then I rendered it with a black pen




# 2. & # 3.


2. Rendered- I scanned it, then I traced it using gimp.


3. Color test- Before colouring it, I tested out some colours for this, and I found some suitable colors that matched it




4. Final- Coloured and edited, and added texts

celebration

Sketchbook Assignment: Celebration 


The sketchbook assignment, I did is called celebration. the first thing that came up to my mind for celebration, is a party. The concept for my sketchbook assignment, would not include the concept party (well maybe) because I felt that it was overused, so I decided not to use it. Instead of using that concept, I thought of a new one. The new concept  is about a guy taking all the credit of making a cake, while an little guy, who actually made the cake, is arguing and trying to get the cake back, while the guy is trying to push him away, and trying to impress someone. 
 This is the inked version of my celebration. I inked this picture on my sketchbook using my highlighter, before scanning it.


This is the rendered version, I did on gimp. I first scanned it, then I outlined it using the paintbrush tool.



This is the other rendered version with out the sketch behind it
This is the colored version I painted on gimp.
Over all I enjoyed drawing this, because not only was it looks simple but it also, shows the story by itself, with out even reading a summery.

Slither

Sketchbook Assignment: Slither 

For my sketchbook assignment,  slither, I decided to draw a snake wrapped around a kid for my sketchbook assignment.     The first thing I did, when I started the assignment, was thinking of ideas for it, such as spongebob wiggling his hands, or Ursula the sea witch, looking at her magic bubble or just a simple plain snake. Of all the ideas, I chose the snake because I think it is the only one theme, that portrays the idea of the sketchbook assignment better, and also  you can get lots of countless ideas of a snake in various situation, such as a snake trying to eat a huge mouse, or even a snake slithering away from a huge foot, or an snake hypnotizing a boy.

I picked the snake hypnotizing a boy because the idea was way better than the others, and it was easier and simpler to draw , and it also portrayed the theme of slither perfectly .

This idea was inspired by a scene in the movie “The Jungle Book”, when  Kaa (the snake) was hypnotizing   Mowgli (the boy) with his eyes, and his body wrapped around him.

After I confirmed the idea of it, I decided to sketch it down. The first thing I drawed , was the boy, because i wanted to know where I should position the snake and that it was way easier drawing the boy first, because you can get an direct sense where you could draw the snake.

                   After drawing it, I outlined the drawing using a fine linear.


                                  
        

       After that I scanned my rendered drawing, and outlined it using gimp.
                                                    
After outlining it, I got rid of the background layer, and I painted it using gimp
These are two different versions of  my slither, one has a white background, the other has a black one.

(Slither process: 1, sketch/inked   2, Rendered using gimp   3, Painted   4, Painted background test )

While the black one looks very great, because the black background help boosts it color, I have to say the white one is way better because, the white one does recovered its black outline, while the black one doesn't. whither or not you like the white one or the black one, it doesn't matter, because the good thing is that you like it. 

Monday, April 11, 2011

"There Was An Old Woman" Nursery Rhyme

Nursery Rhymes
Assignment
       This assignment is about creating a pen and ink art piece of a Nursery Rhyme. The Nursery Rhyme that was given to me would be used to be Intrepted into a drawing. 
The Nursery Rhyme that was given to me is called “There was an old woman who was tossed up in a basket.”
The Nursery Rhyme is basically about an old woman (Probably a witch), who is tossed up in a basket, flying to the moon to sweep off, cobwebs off of the sky.
There was an old woman 
Nursery rhyme:
There was an old woman
Tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
Where she was going
I just had to ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.

"Old woman, old woman,
Old woman," said I,
"Please tell me, please tell me,
Why you're up so high?"
"I'm sweeping the cobwebs
Down from the sky,
And I'll be with you
By and by."
I like this Nursery Rhyme because, this poem was very intriguing, and it gave me lots of ideas for my Nursery rhyme.
The ideas that I came up for my assignment are mainly depicts, the old woman in the nursery rhyme, in various crazy basket, flying to the moon.
Since my poem is about an old woman, flying to the moon, I decided to use that idea and portray her as an modern grandma, flying an basket like space ship, to space, to sweep away cobwebs surrounding space. In the poem it mentions that she was 16 moons high in the sky, so I decided to use that concept, since it makes lots of since, to my artwork since she is in space and that it will fill up the spaces in my artwork.


Ideas/Drawings for Nursery Rhymes:

(Old lady flying to the sky, with cat in a basket, while a kid is trying to get her attention.)


(Old woman flying in a helicopter while kid is struggling to get in the basket.)

(Far view)






(Old woman in basket rocket, in space, while a kid is chocking to death)







(Granny in basket)



(Granny expressions)








BASKETS Ideas:



(Basket Helicopter)




(Basket Rocket)


(Basket Plane)




(Basket Slingshot)

Granny in rocket positions: 



















(Characters)


Granny rough copy

 Final Copys:

 


(Click for a larger picture)  


The ideas I had used for my nursery rhyme is, an old woman in an rocket-ship basket, 17 moons, cob webs, and tiny aliens. The reasons why I used those ideas for my nursery rhymes is because it would make my work more appealing, and it would also fill in many empty spaces, like the corners of the page, and several spaces beside the basket. Adding moons to my artwork  was an very great idea, because it made my work feels like it was in outer-space, and it add some depth and feel to it. I had also decided to keep many ideas, that were referred to in the rhyme, like the cobwebs, her holding an broom, and the idea of 17 moons below her.
The first thing I had drawn on my rough copy and on my final copy is the moon. I drew the moon first, because the moon was the easiest  to draw, and that if I drew that first, I would know what size the basket would be. After drawing that, I drew an basket that is tilted sideways, after that I drew the old woman holding an broom. The hardest part of drawing the old woman, is drawing her leaning down, on the basket, sweeping cobwebs. I faced it, by drawing her in a desired position first in stick people, then after draw her in, after she looks right on it. After drawing the old woman, I added in, large flames of fire underneath the basket to make it look like she is in the basket, after that I drew several cobwebs on each corner, and on the old women's broom to make her look like she is sweeping away cobwebs. The Final thing I added to it, is adding in boxes to the bottom of the basket, adding texture to the basket, and drawing in stars, planets, and alien ships to the background.