digital art - After Effects Practice

This is the first time I have ever used After Effects, and produced this little animation of a picture of a fish. I enjoyed playing with all of the different animations that you can set the image to do. I used almost every animation possible, and kind of organized them together o happen right after one another. This animation you are seeing is just a quick practice of what I did in class. If I ever have any free time, I will be sure to play with AFter Effects more to see how professional and interesting that I can make something look.

"New Everything!" >>> Spring 2011

I will be using my WASH blog from spring 2010 this semester! So expect new updates on all of my projects and artwork from ART 262 (digital art) and ART 164 (life drawing 1); they will both be combined on this blog. I am turning this blog in to the blog for my SHSU college career.

Visual Haiku Final Project

This is it for the year!!!

"Book Making :)" >>> Visual Haiku Study Books

All of my haiku studies books are completed. I made three of them, only because I have to have things perfect and I could not mix colors together. So I made one for atmospheres, black and white gestures, and stencils.

My background book:

All of the pages inside are suppose to look and feel like trees so I used a slice from a tree as the cover. My dad helped me chainsaw a piece of firewood this weekend.

My first time using coptic stitching. It actually came out pretty cool looking!

And some pages in the book. I love using this stitching because it allows the cover to fully open.

My Stencil Studies Book:

I love the cover for it, that is actually one of the stencils I had been using.

A page in the book. And I am using this method of putting texture under stencils on my paintings.

And I made pockets for all of my stencils. Well I put the best ones inside the book and you simply pull them out.

My Form & Gesture Studies book:

Just some little details of the book. Originally i planned to stab bind them but then I realized my birds would be cut off from the inch of sewn paper. So I resulted with this method instead, which I actually really like!

And the left side in the book was forms while the right side was gestures.

"Pre Planning Is Not Always The Best Idea" >>> Visual Haiku Process

I began sketching some thumbnails of how my paintings will ultimately look. And so far they do not look like these. Oh well, I'm just kind of guessing as i go.

My dad helped me cut some MDF board into 2 x 4 ft pieces.

and then i premiered them all and covered one with fabric.

"The Day We Waited For" >>> Inlfatopia Fair

Finally, we had our Inflatable fair. We had been working on it for weeks, but it all paid off and everything turned out GREAT!!! I really enjoyed working with the group I had. It was a wonderful group, that actually made me like group projects just a little bit!

a map of everyones inflatable locations

a flyer I made to attract visitors....it worked!!

XXit :)

Even a businessman came!

A LONG line for people wanting henna

a bunch of people relaxing in the inflatable

our first henna tattoo :)

the team logo

and our inflatable!

"Phew" >>> Inflatopia Process

We ironed the panels to the inflatopia and finally blew it up again. It worked great!! And Bill was happy to finally see it, he had been waiting for days!!!

Than we decided to cut our windows out and paint around the windows with some Henna inspired designs.

The ropes and grommets had ALOT of pressure on them, but worked great!

And we felt like it was missing something....paint on the front! So Agnes with her incredible Henna abilities jumped up and began painting.

ta da!!!

there was a rainbow out right after we got the inflatable completed. But you can't really see it in this picture..it must of been good luck though!!! :)