ilustration

need more work with paint skills the colors seem flat and not fave
more depth to it and also the shading isn't grate  

I also did a illustration as it was one of my interests however I need lots of work to be any good at this part of art illustrations a usually very well colored and well polished as they represent a animation a movie or a game and are usually finished to a very high standard.

so as the subject mater was human form in the constructed environment I decided to to a lady standing on a hill and there is a city in the back with lots of wires connected very where representing human nerve system or blood wains so  its all connected like in a body

in the first a tempt i simply  sketched out the out line of the city and the lady and than painted around it and the tried in filling in the city and lady which did work well so for the second attempt  I did it layers so I had painted the background and then make the other futures on it which still docent satisfies me so I will upload the image to photoshop and maybe ad some more colors

the colors where much deeper after I gone over it in illustrator
as it easy for me to control the color on Photoshop than wit
paint as it is unpredictable 

I added the wire post and the wires are nor strait and squiggly
next time would do it I would  learn how to use some kind on
tool that will help me have that nice curve 

the electricity in her hand and on top of the tower look good
and I am happy with that part of the illustration its,I simply had
colored it on  

 so I did imported the image in to the an using the same colors that where on the painting i had painted over the painting with the brush tool and i also redrawn the walking lady and added a hint of fantasy to it with her having powers and i also added power lines. the illustration turned out ok but not amazing I would need a lot of practice to to get closer to high standard professional work they is accepted in the industry unless I go for more easy to draw stile for me

costume

to make my costume for the catwalk I had to do lots of experiments and designs to make the final peace. I started of with sketching out  couple ideas on making my design linking in to human form and constructed environment so I tried some body extensions and such other features parts that can stick  out and represent constructed environment.  from my very first sketch I knew that I want to create shoulder pads that that would be the key future for the constructed environment or human body I also planing on creating a head peace. for the hands I thought I could do something like a city wall or something like that I also want to ad a cape to cover up any things that are at the back like stripes or other things that can be supporting the rest of the costume that might need support to hold them up right quickly thought of some kind of tower shoes but there is no time to lose so i have to get to experimenting and working out what will work for the costume.


I knew that making the shoulder pads will be the most difficult part of making the costume, to began wit I made a simple and rough tower with wire mesh and cowering it with plaster bandage I had mad a dent in the boom part to fit on to my shoulder better  after it dried I made some padding to protect my sounder then I added some straps  to support it on my shoulder however the structure was not stable eggnog and I had to think of something different. so I decided to do a cast of my shoulders that  would build on after do after I made the cast of my shoulders using plaster bandage I had reinforced it with wire so it had more strength to it so it could hold the construction I was going to make on top of it.After messengering out the straps I had cut holes in the cast just before the wire I had putted in the cast. Then I had used my knowledge of casting betels that I obtained in the level 2  so I casted two parts of the bole and I casted a bottom part of a bucked for the top part of the watch tower I was going to make after it all drayed out I had connected it all together with plaster bandage stripes and then I had connected it to one of the right  shoulder cast using more plaster bandage then I cut out some rectangles at the top of the tower  and for the left shoulder I had casted my left arm that after I attached on the shoulder cast and they bough seem seating stable on my sounders. to paint them and make them look more like they are made of concrete I had  mixed paint with sand and a bit of glue to have more interesting texture.

Unforgettably making the shoulder had took majority of my time so I had less time to experiment with other materials for rest of he costume but i manage to great leg attachment that were meant to represent the constructed and manipulated gardens by cuting a bit of fabric and hot gluing some tissue paper to it and ting it to my legs. I also made a simple top  that I made using Sewing Machine then I had attached a peace of dark blue fabric as a cape which was a body extension as well as it was a background  that would contrast with the constructed environment. I also managed to make and belt that was meant to represent cairn lifts lifting logs but I didn't have time to figure a way to support them up so they didn't look as good as I would like it to.

Over all I was happy with my final creation I like the shoulders because the most as they are the main structure of my costume and are a vocal point  however if I was to going to make it again I would
make my design easier and not as brave so I would have more time to make the rest of the costume more interesting and good looking
  

Research for a costume

To get a better understanding of constructed environment I had walked around the town to observe some structures and see how I could implement them in my costume design. I had looked at normal houses walls and churches to look for interesting futures that can be made in to a costume.

The  roof had Interested me it had a some features that I could use in my costume design the parts that are sticking out a bit and are painted black could be used as some key futures of my costume. I also like the chimney at it stick out and can be very eye caching if was to be placed somewhere on a costume.

 Walking by the church I thought I could inspire me to make something interesting and big with my costume I really liked the two towers on the sides of the church they could be used in my design standing out and being interesting and innovative   

 I thought that the wall had a nice structure and texture i also like how random it the rock sizes making it look interesting with all different shapes and shades It would be cool to achieve similar effect on my costume. 

I also had my life drawing for my researcher. 

Face cast modification

I have taken the face cast i made and had to build on top of it to make an interesting mask that can but don't have to be used in my costume and i had decided to make a house face i had made a door in the nose are and cut out the eyes for the windows and also i made the roof on the top using wire framing that later i cover with plaster bandage i didn't get the chance to paint it because i need to work on my costume more. But if i had to do it again i would make sure that the structure is even. 

I took some wire and attached it on to the face cast with plaster bandage across the eyebrow area a placed the wire and putted 3 layers of plaster bandage over it and and allowed it dry to make good and stable supporting structural wire then i attache thinner wire to it to create a triangle representing a roof .

then I had extended a hole of the nose and cut out circles in the eyes to make the windows then i made door with wire and plaster bandage and attached it to the big hole where the nose was.

face cast

we did some face casting with paper bandage to make a mask that can be use in the costume later. So we had to cut up the paper bandage in to short stripes (not ripping them up to prevent the dust hazard) then I took a person i trust and establish safety signs incise there will be complications during the process so i had clear film putted to about half of my face to prevent the paper bandage from sticking to the hair on the face  to cover my face and hair but leaving the nose exposed to allow me to breath my body and neck had been covert with overall then the strips of paper bandage had been whetted and applied on my face stripe by stripe until the face had bean covers the and after hardens removed from my face. and will be modified by applying modifications on the top of it.

life drawing cross reference

so we had did a drawing of a 10 min of the model in standing position just go get warmed up and then we where introduced to cross references where you would have to drag out a line of a cetacean body part to  cross another part of the body  which meant to help to keep the proportions and the figure should show up in the lines eventuality but i had some problems with that the lies didn't seams to be joining at the right places and over all it just confused me. I ll need more practice to understand and be able to adapt this in to my drawing

got frustrated with most of them 

progress

3D work life drawing

we draw some of our work from 3D because we didn't had a model this week for life drawing so to make it bit more interesting to do we had used work we had made in the 3D class with different materials i did some painting at first but then i tried something new and i drawn one the skull with charcoal and after painted a shield quickly to use out all the paint after that i cut out the skull drawing and glued it to the painting the shield just to experiment a bit

life drawing

I had decided to use paint for this session of life drawing  and experiment with it and use it in new ways so one more i had decided to mix the paint on the paper using the yellow for the light red for light shades and blue for dark shades and mix it all together with wight paint to achieve the skin tone so this means i had to work fast in order for the paint not to dry out . and did it few poses trying to change the way i was working each time to develop my work more.

materials euationval

so far I had worked with few materials in the 3D room creating 3D forms and structures that were interesting and enjoyable to make for the most of them so far I had worked with

clay - forming with clay is an enjoyable thing to do I did some references to the life drawing of  skeletons we did it is interesting to use it and you have to be patient to create stuff with it.
clay & wire work I made I don't think I would use it the next project of making a costume but maybe in future for other stuff.

wire and  - using wire can get frustrating at moments when you tiring to join it with different wire and it is also more dangerous  to the user so protection must be worn. I do enjoy it over all and might use it  in this project to make some interesting costume but only small amounts how i developed my clay work in to wire and plaster bandage.

plaster bandage - it is nice to work with it apples on to the wire or and bottle relatively easy and if don right, dries over one night and came of stuff you formed it around and sticks to the wire well I might use it in the costive project enjoy using it (reference in the previous link ) might use it in the costume but small amounts because of the heavy weight.

willow branches - it was a new material to work with defiantly interesting and good to work with hard to manipulate but possible to tight together with string or tape and make an interesting form. my willow creation  it would be interesting to se some hint of that material on it

wire mesh and paper mache - similar to work with but it seem bit more stable. I do enjoy it over all and might use it  in this project. only negative thing about paper mesh is that it is time consuming to make it and then apply to the  wire I might do parts if the costumes with that materials .wire mesh and paper mache  will use it for the work

cardboard-we had to do some work to out of a card board to create and standing abstract  structure. I enjoyed it can be variable to damage but it can be manipulated easy I might use it in my costume.

most of work did is related to our life drawing.

 I relate most of my work to Picasso work and some of over abstract and automatic artists as  Basquiat

2D to 3D

we had researched Picasso work that had been made in to monuments that was made  on big scale with hard materials i had to do some abstract work resembling life drawing and i came up with this after trying out some sketches  after doing that had cute it out to see it it will be able to stand the did the same in bigger scare in card board citing with blade (in safety gloves to reduce the hazard)
and in the places where it bends i had slightly went down with a blade to make it bend easier