tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63537854082409013102024-03-08T07:25:46.659-08:00Amanda Panda's ArtAmanda Panda's Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001875177050079139noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353785408240901310.post-74910541827070156702014-01-10T08:53:00.001-08:002014-01-10T09:40:47.010-08:00Final Storyboard<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JCbOpcJ_wCE/UtAuYCyahAI/AAAAAAAAANE/uc5oLQ_TOPA/s640/blogger-image--407522182.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JCbOpcJ_wCE/UtAuYCyahAI/AAAAAAAAANE/uc5oLQ_TOPA/s640/blogger-image--407522182.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OoEhKNzNqzA/UtAuagaoyqI/AAAAAAAAANM/v3FbbOEIuvo/s640/blogger-image--559653429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OoEhKNzNqzA/UtAuagaoyqI/AAAAAAAAANM/v3FbbOEIuvo/s640/blogger-image--559653429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AO1bjlqyKG4/UtAucgHxX7I/AAAAAAAAANU/NW1vITnF6jA/s640/blogger-image--762249023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AO1bjlqyKG4/UtAucgHxX7I/AAAAAAAAANU/NW1vITnF6jA/s640/blogger-image--762249023.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OoEhKNzNqzA/UtAuagaoyqI/AAAAAAAAANM/v3FbbOEIuvo/s640/blogger-image--559653429.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JCbOpcJ_wCE/UtAuYCyahAI/AAAAAAAAANE/uc5oLQ_TOPA/s640/blogger-image--407522182.jpg"></div></div><div><br></div>In the final storyboard my unamed character was chilling at the dock in her PJs, when this glowing mermaid thing (which is the angler fish's lure) comes out the water. She's supposed to be like crouching while looking down at the lure, with a concerned look on her face. I'm not really sure how I fudged up her design, but somehow I did. I drew her pretty awfully.<div><br><div>Anyways, while the lure is trying to bate the girl into the water, the angler fish is waiting underneath the surface. I tried to make the sky an water look dark. If the water is dark then there's no way the girl would be able to see what's hiding below. Even though I did kind of want to darken the water more, I felt like making it darker would have messed it up.</div><div> </div><div>I was feeling good about this, until I started drawing the human faces, then... I don't know. They just look bad. I also feel kind of silly for making my good character an amputee with an undercut (her hairstyle) because the view of the drawing is from the left, whereas she doesn't have a right arm and her head is shaved on the right side. I guess I didn't think about the until I had already been coloring.<br><div><br></div></div></div>Amanda Panda's Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001875177050079139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353785408240901310.post-34941469127014795282014-01-08T08:00:00.000-08:002014-01-08T08:01:53.164-08:00Character Designs<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like drawing fat, brown people, so that's how I came up with my first character. She doesn't have a name, just a random girl. She is missing her left arm and lives near a dock, which is where she spends a lot of her time. I think I've set this to take place during the summer, otherwise she'd have better things to do than sit on the dock all day. The first background I've posted is during the day, so she's wearing a prosthetic arm. However, at night (the second background) she doesn't wear the arm, I guess since that's when she sleeps. </span></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> It’s very important to have the right proportions in a figure drawing,
otherwise your drawing could end up looking like a weird alien (or simply
something that’s not human) Having correct proportions has everything to do
with anatomy. Honestly, if your anatomy is right by default so are your
proportions. </span></em><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> Practice makes perfect, so all of the time we spent practicing figure and gesture drawing helped a lot. We watched a couple videos about gesture drawing, which helped me understand the technical things about it (such as time management, technique, etc.)</span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> My work kind of always looks not good and this time was really no different. Since my anatomy didn't look right, neither did the drawings. What I'm trying to say is that gesture drawing didn't hurt my art skills, but it also only helped a little bit. </span></font></div>
Amanda Panda's Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001875177050079139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353785408240901310.post-15067009529784916222013-12-02T13:55:00.001-08:002013-12-02T13:55:32.442-08:00Animals That Move<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">To make texture with prismacolors, you have to control your pencil
strokes and make sure to put in the high-lights and low-lights of the skin,
fur, grass, etc. Since I needed to make fur for my pig, my pencil strokes were
long and linear. I needed to look at my reference pictures a lot, to know where
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grass was very easy because all I needed to do was use different shades of
green and make it darker the further back it went. However, the mud was not so
easy for me; I'm just not sure what kind of texture mud has, so it ended up
being a guessing game. In the end, I decided to make squiggles and swirls in
browns and black. The fence looks a little wonky, since it's more yellow than I
wanted it to be.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> At first I had a lot of trouble making value in this
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is supposed to be a picture from the perspective of under a bed. On this project I only used pen and ink. It was kind of difficult because I've never used pen and ink before, and the different techniques take forever to make such a big picture! I used cross-hatching for the bedposts, the dresser, door, and the sheets (they are a little small, but are right in front of the legs). I used stipling for the boards underneathe the mattress (not pictured), the light socket, and the shadows the feet make. I used plain lines for the shadows on the legs, slippers, and toys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm not sure why I decided to draw someone (or thing) looking out from under a bed, it's just one of the first things I thought of when I heard the idea "oh the places you'll go." My other ideas were the inside of a coffin, and falling down a pit, although that last idea wasn't exactly my favorite. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Why is value important and how do you feel you achieved the look of the bag through volume</i>? </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Value will give an object dimension and make it look realistic. Real things have many areas of lightness and darkness, cast shadows, and are three-dimensional. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My main challenge with this project was that the top half of the bag looks very light compared to the bottom half. The reason is that I shaded the bottom half too darkly, so I limited myself in the values I could add. If I tried to make some of the creases on top look as dark as on the bottom it wouldn't make sense, considering the bottom half of the bag was completely cast in shadow. I think I did succeed with the all the creases of the bag and the shadow beneath it. </span></div>Amanda Panda's Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001875177050079139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353785408240901310.post-48768064872521898582013-09-29T09:45:00.000-07:002013-10-08T08:21:30.749-07:00Interesting Perspective<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came up with a list of about 15 ideas, and chose three to sketch out. The idea I liked the most was a sketch of an angle below my dog sleeping on a couch. In the background is a bookcase and a photo collage. My dog sleeps a lot and often enough I take pictures of him sleeping, so it seemed obvious that I draw that. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a very interesting angle, I think, because I haven't seen too many drawings looking up at pets. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The process was very long and stressful. There were so many textures and shading that I needed to do, and as it stands I'm not a very good artist, so I freaked out for a good chunk of the project. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ended up using 7H, 8H, and 6B pencils for a lot of the drawing, but I'd never used different graphites before, so that was a challenge. The other challenge of this project was drawing the textures of the couch and the wooden bookcase. Making the couch look bigger as it got closer was probably the hardest part for me, especially since where it got bigger, it also got lighter. There was some trouble drawing my dog, since I didn't have the luxury of having him right in front of me to look out, but I think I did a decent job on him. </span>Amanda Panda's Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001875177050079139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353785408240901310.post-2019598238521619272013-05-31T20:21:00.000-07:002013-05-31T20:21:40.498-07:00Removing Dye from Fabric<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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patterns for your clothes. If you do it that way, you would first make sure that
your fabric was tied tightly with the string. Then you would dunk the fabric
into a bucket of bleach and wait for the color to turn from black to a red or
brown color. That will usually take at the most 15 minutes. When the fabric
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and sometimes it’s necessary for a person to feel sad or angry or any other
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have made your design, you take a spray bottle full of bleach and spray it on
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This project was way more fun than I thought
it would be! Like most art projects, the starting point for this project was to
sketch out a design. I choose to design a panda cub in the middle of a bamboo
forest sitting inside a basket. It’s kind of difficult to see where the bamboo
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ink, such as wood, linoleum tiles, or in the case of our class, a rubbery type
of block. Carving out your design can be very difficult. You have to have a
steady hand and make sure that the type of carver you’re using is going to give
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use your roller to spread it all across. When you have enough ink on, you press
it onto what you want to have your print on, this will usually be a piece of
paper. To put new ink on your pattern all you have to do is wash it off and
start over again. For our project, every student had to make an artist’s proof,
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Painting is really hard. It was
difficult to find a place to start, but after looking through quite a few
National Geographic magazines I found inspiration from a picture I found of a
lightning storm and a picture of tropical trees over water. Before I even
started painting, I made a plan for what I was going to do. I just drew out
some lightning and trees and water on plain paper. Then I choose a color
scheme. I was a little indecisive at first, but I settled on a blue analogous
color scheme. Analogous means that all the colors used in your art are closely
related on the color wheel, and in my case I only used variations of blue,
violet, blue-green, green, and lighter green. It seemed hard to make a painting
out of just those colors at first, but there are countless numbers of tints (a
color + white), shades (a color + black), and intensities (a color + its
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> My sky was the lightning storm; my
background was the water; my middle ground was the trees; and my foreground was
the bare land with a boat on it. There's not much light in the painting,
because it's taking place in a storm, so all of the light comes from the
lightning. While painting I didn't really notice what kinds of brush strokes I
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worked with clay. I made a bowl that is 7.5 in x 6.8 in x 1.5
in. Throughout the project our teacher stressed that our ceramics had
to have the design elements color, shape, form, and texture. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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clay I took a big ball of clay and rolled out a slab on a slab roller. Then I
put the slab into a hump mold to make it into a bowl shape. I now use my bowl
as decoration, but I would be able to eat from it.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This project taught all about glazing and how
to make a decent sculpture. If I had to do it over again, I'd make a better
design for inside the bowl.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Fun Fact: I got my inspiration for the bowl's
shape from the Windows logo!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I organized items I found from home in a very
simple way, with some of the items sitting behind the others. Before I even
started to use my pastels I made a thumbnail sketch. A thumbnail sketch is a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">small sketch an artist does to figure out what they wish to draw
and how they would set it up. Some students in our class used viewfinders to
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not find it helpful and just drew the items in the way that I had taken the
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darker colors to shade in places where there were shadows, lighter colors to
shade in where the light was hitting an item, and I drew some items
slightly smaller to give the appearance of it being further away. I had a
balcony light as my light source, so all the items have light </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">over top</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> of them, making most of the shadows underneath and to the
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