Of the comments I recieved on my piece from people who either wanted to speak or forced themselves to say something.
Great work in keeping the use of lines in my digital piece, if they were not added it might have made my final piece just of blob of minor detail and color.
Some of my features were exaggerated, however I may have not done my ear effectively as the rest of the face, looks a little “elvish” and maybe has the appeal of an earring.
Shading and blemishes of the piece really add depth and tone, color and the use of heavy line work really stand out and really bring this piece together.
Overall, I feel that this was a huge learning experience as the first major project of this class. This is definitely getting me into the mindset of being able to draw whenever I want instead of seeing this form of art as a chore. Really looking forward to the next project as it deals with physical 3D material which I feel may have a really good outcome. We will have to wait and find out!
Caricature- a picture that exaggerates a person’s features to produce a comic or grotesque effect (TheFreeDictionary).
Origin- The word caricature comes from the Italian words carico and caricare, meaning ‘to load’ or to ‘exaggerate’. In the 1590s the Italian Annibale Carracci (and his brother Agostino) applied these words to some exaggerated portrait sketches they created (Caricature Art).
Evolving even more through the High Renaissance, and making the style making its way to the modern era.
Thomas Nast-
(born September 27, 1840, Landau, Baden [Germany]—died December 7, 1902, Guayaquil, Ecuador), American cartoonist, best known for his attack on the political machine of William M. Tweed in New York City in the 1870s (Britannica).
He studied art at the National Academy of Design and at the age of 15 became a draftsman for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper and at 18 for Harper’s Weekly.
Nast did some painting in oil and book illustrations, but his fame rests on his caricatures and political cartoons. From his pen came the Republican Party’s elephant, Tammany Hall’s tiger, and one of the most popular images of Santa Claus. He also popularized the Democratic Party’s donkey.
Mort Drucker- Mort Drucker is most famous as one of Mad Magazine’s “usual gang of idiots.” He mostly illustrated their film and TV parodies, which allowed him to show off his immense talent for caricaturing (Lambiek).
Drucker was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. While he showed a talent for drawing and was encouraged to take art classes at the Pratt Institute he was actually more interested in sports.
About 1950, he began freelancing for comic books. All throughout the decade he contributed to mystery, war and science fiction titles, published by both DC and Stan Lee‘s Atlas line.
In 1956 Drucker joined Mad Magazine through Nick Meglin who had recognized his talent. Original founder Harvey Kurtzman had left and Al Feldstein and William M. Gaines became the new chief editors. Drucker immediately learned that Mad had a different approach than most magazines.
George Cruikshank- George Cruikshank was born in London on 27th September, 1792. His father, Isaac Cruikshank, was a successful caricaturist. After a brief education at an elementary school in Edgeware, Cruikshank worked with his father in his studio.
Cruikshank wanted to study at the Royal Academy, but his father insisted that he needed his help in the studio. He taught him the rudiments of etching into copperplates; at the age of thirteen he was executing the titles of his father’s caricatures, and also putting in backgrounds, furnishings, and dialogue.
In 1835 Cruikshank was considered to be the most important graphic artist working in England.
Lorenzo gave me the feed back of possibly giving my caricature head a sweater/sweatshirt to the bottom of the floating head.
FILE MANAGEMENT OF CARICATURE PROJECT
FINAL IMAGES OF PHYSICAL DRAWING/DIGITAL COPY
LEFT SIDE IS THE PHYSICAL DRAWING, RIGHT SIDE IS THE FINAL DIGITAL COPY
REFLECTIVE WRITEUP
This project was definitely a first for me, Caricature art would honestly be the last style I would choose. However, this is a great start into becoming a better artist, deciding to go off an artist who uses very basic lines was very comfortable for me to do. I didn’t want to overwhelm myself. I was very happy how the physical copy turned out, though bringing into Photoshop was going to be a challenge as I haven’t used Photoshop in almost a year, it took a little time to get used to the features on the platform. What got me really excited in the end was the decision to add varied hints of shading. I first it was very basic base colors of the skin, eyes, and hair. Though with a little incentive from a fellow artist, I began to experiment with shading and adding tones of blemish to certain parts of the face. This was my first time applying shading to a art piece and being very happy with the outcome! Photoshop is an amazing tool and when you start to remember the short cuts of the program. You can come up with really cool solutions to problems that can take hours for someone who is unaware of the short cuts. Experimentation and encouragement from other artists has made me want to figure out and research on how to add shading to all future art pieces. Cause even though it might be an extra step in finishing a project, a little bit of shading, can go a long way when it comes to 2D drawing! The feeling I got when I saw the first Digital draft to what is now on this post. My heart skipped a beat from the joy I felt seeing that enhanced look of the shading. I definitely want to explore more with shading, not just on Photoshop, but in drawing on pen/pencil and paper.
THIS IS THE GENERAL DIRECTION I WANT TO GO WITH THIS SEMESETER LONG PAPER
FILM
Art has its own sense of evolution, from paintings in caves of the primitive man to the height of pieces blasted on the sides of buildings. People have their own way to express their ideas and visions in art. Some draw, some write poetry, some paint, and some even create it through music. For me, I favorite way to communicate art is through film making.
There are many components that go into making any kind of film. It could be a narrative (science fiction, fantasy, war, romance, comedy), a documentary, visual art piece. There is a process, and one must know and understand the stages to become successful at making it into the film industry. Yet, most don’t know the history
In the early history of film making, we can look as far back as 1832, when the zoetrope a small optical toy that is a rotating drum and, on the inside, has successive phase drawings of things in motion. Eadweard Muybridge popularized this technique with his very famous “moving picture” reel of a horse at full gallop to see if horses did in fact have all four hooves completely off the ground at some point.
Even when you understand the history behind film, knowing the five stages of processing is a whole other thing. There is development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. However, when you are just talking about the building process, you only have to worry about the middle three.
Pre-Production: In this stage you work out your filmmaking idea and how you will tell your story.
Production: You should shoot a bit more than you need, but if you shoot hours of footage it’ll take you forever to sort through it to find the bits you want. For a one-minute drama film you might need to shoot between three and five minutes of video. Documentaries – where you can’t control what there is to film – will need much more than this.
Post-Production: Do a ‘rough cut’ of the whole film (if it’s short) or individual sequence so you can get a sense of the bigger picture.
Sure, you can make your films on your own, but when your looking on getting into the industry. There are many avenues you can go and jobs you can take up to have a good career. Some of the most well known ones include and not limited to Editor, Cinematographer, Colorist, Director, Actor, Producer, 1st Assistant Director, and many others.
The use of very little color and just relying on the use of basic tones and shading to create a simple, yet an amazing piece of art. The symbolism is use very well to portray whatever was going on in Blake’s mind.My attempt at Blakes version of The First Book of Urizen 13.
Blake was an engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, and author of many pieces which were etched, printed, colored, stitched, and sold with the help of his wife Catherine. Even though in life he was neglected, by the early 21st Century Blake was regarded as the earliest and most original of the Romantic poets.
Visions were commonplaces to Blake, and his life and works were intensely spiritual. “His friend the journalist Henry Crabb Robinson wrote that when Blake was four years old, he saw God’s head appear in a window. While still a child he also the Prophet Ezekiel under a tree in the fields and had a vision, according to his first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist”(Britannica).
Blake was christened, married, and buried by the rites of the Church of England, but his creed was likely to outrage the orthodox. He was a religious seeker but not a joiner.
Started his career as an engraver and based his work and his commissions on that type of work. Blake apprenticed James Basire, a highly responsible and conservative line engraver who specialized in prints depicting architecture. While pursuing his career as an engraver, in 1779 Blake enrolled as a student in the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts: His greatest ambition was as an artist was to be an artist and nothing else. His materials were watercolors and paper, not the fashionable oil on canvas, and he painted subjects from the Bible and British history instead of the portraits and landscapes that were in vogue.
Art has its own sense of evolution, from paintings in caves of the primitive man to the height of pieces blasted on the sides of buildings. People have their own way to express their ideas and visions in art. Some draw, some write poetry, some paint, and some even create it through music. For me, I favorite way to communicate art is through film making.
