I had two studios: Illustrating Texts, with Jeff Pike, which focused on taking a variety of textual sources and creating illustrations that dealt with the source on a conceptual level - and looked good. The second studio was Visual Worlds, with Doug B. Dowd, which focused on developing a personal style and a distinct way of seeing the world - aka, making a crap-ton of drawings. Both pushed me in different ways and exercised different muscles, and, by the end, I'd made enough pictures to cover a wall - and I did, during my final review. For Jeff's class, I started off the semester by illustrating a song lyric ("So what, I'm still a rock star"),

and going to the mall to draw people at the Cardinals merchandise store, in a three panel series. Here is the first, and my favorite, panel:

In Jeff's class, our next assignment was to illustrate one of two Flannery O'Connor stories. I went with The Turkey, a story about how a child's (Ruller) relationship with God is shaped by his pursuit of a wild turkey. Here is one of the spot illustrations, depicting the end of the story, where Ruller loses his catch to some country boys:


Just click the first image, and then use the Next button in the slide to progress through.
Apparently, my talents do not lie in storyboarding. But that is okay; I had fun doing the assignment, once I finally settled on an idea. I hope you get a hoot from the ending!
This was the first month or so of the semester. More to come...
\o/ Finally! Lol. I'm still in love with the image from the mall project.
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nice! looking forward to seeing more~!
ReplyDeleteit's hard to update during the semester, cause.. yeah. studio. yeah.