Academy - Week Seven
Mark English's assignment (bad photo). I'm pooped.
posted by Tyler at 2:30 PM
Thursday, July 19, 2007
HOW TO FEEL MISERABLE AS AN ARTIST
- Constantly compare yourself to other artists.
- Talk to your family about what you do and expect them to cheer you on.
- Base the success of your entire career on one project.
- Stick with what you know.
- Undervalue your expertise
- Let money dictate what you do.
- Bow to Societal Pressures.
- Only do work that your family would love.
- Do whatever the client/customer/gallery owner/patron/investor asks.
- Set unachievable/overwhelming goals. To be accomplished by tomorrow.
ASSIGNMENTS
[12] - Wanna-be Academiers- June-July
Try to do the Illustration Academy assignments, or at least the idea-making and thumbnail part of it. Experiment, try something new, push yourself. Also use this time to catch up on old projects if you want![1] - SELF PORTRAIT - due Aug 31
Posted finishes:
Chris | Cat | Erika | Sarah | Tyler | Heather[3] - HALLOWEEN - due Oct 2
Posted finishes:
Cat[4] - EDITORIAL - due Oct 16
Posted finishes:
Chris | Heather | Cat[5] - SHORT STORY - due Oct 30
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Heather | Tyler[7] - CELEB PORTRAIT - due Jan 31
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Tyler[8] - CONVERSATION - due Feb 28
Posted finishes:[9] - NIGHT COLOR - due Mar 31
Posted finishes:[10] - ENTERTAINMENT- due April 30
Posted finishes:[11] - MAD COW - due May 31
E-mail me if you need the article again Posted finishes:- *I'll update these if people update their finals
COMPLETED ASSIGNMENTS
7 Comments:
I LOVE the colors in this, and the vantage point is very cool too. Oh and I love the tile floor. The ONE thing I would change would be to extend the floor in the top left corner so that the wall starts where the bottoms of the picture frames currently are (that sentence was so far from being grammatically correct). I'm curious to hear what was said in the critique.
ummmyeah.... that's the booth their sitting in. I guess a second value might have cleared that up a bit. It goes tile floor, booth, wall with photos. You can sort of see a slight value change in the photo.
It was a strange critique, probably meant to speed it along because it was Friday afternoon. We put ten or more up at a time. Mine was identified as one of the more successful pieces. I think Jane had issues with how the lower figure was drawn. I think that was the only negative. "Big Daddy" helped me fine tune the composition before I started painting.
I like it too Tyler but I think it could use a brighter light., seems like I am looking at the scene through sunglasses. If big daddy say sit looks good then it looks good! Still don't get the value thing in Mark's assignment description.
I am sending you two dvds with scans of Ludwig's work and david johnson's work for your viewing pleasure!
get some rest - Don
Some of that is the bad photography and the rest is the oil wash I used to tie it all together temperature-wise.
Like Cat said, the vantage point on this is awesome. I like how you have still capture some emotion in the people, even though they have no facial expressions. It looks to me like the girl is sulking a little bit, maybe she feels like she spent too much money at the store (the bag), and he patting her back and saying, "it's okay you deserved those $100 shoes". :)
ohhhhh Tyler, I see it now, It should have been a dead give-away that they aren't sitting on chairs! My bad :)
Thanks for the comments everyone! I appreciate all the feedback.
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