various doodles and whatnots from over the course of the semester...both in class and in house:
My entire senior project was due last tuesday. I spent the weekend catching up as much as I could, but admittedly did not make it to the most recent cnn photos for the final presentation. This was in part due to the fact that I wanted to work on the little collage pieces that are shown below, but also because the most recent front page photos were annoying, boring, political faces (bush, etc.)
The professors had nothing bad to say. We discussed the element of presentation for a while, but it was finally determined (again) that the drawings' place is in the little booklets I've drawn them in. I dont' know if I managed to explain this, but each of these drawings are only about two inches tall. They're very tiny. So in effect, when you page through them in the booklet you're admitted into this private experience with the images. This stands in opposition to the mass media framework on sites like CNN.
To be continued? I kind of fancy the idea of having booklet after booklet of these. If it wasn't for all the other work I had that prevented me from keeping up, the task of rendering a drawing a day would be great just for practive purposes. Plus it'd be pretty incredible to even have a full 365. I'd like to do it. But I do need a break.
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I made a little mistake. I fell asleep at 9 PM last night, only to eventually wake up at 1:30 AM fresh as a daisy. It's 7:30 AM and I finished another page of the comic. I have no resources to scan it in at the moment, but here are the other bits that I've finished in the meantime:
I'm behind maybe 25 days or so, but I can do about 10 a day so its no problem ;)
My class notes (aka frequent doodles) have somewhat dwindled this semester. This is partly due to the fact that I only have 2 classes, and that I've been drawing so much in my work hours I have little time to muse on my less structured artistic endeavors. The following is sadly the meager collection of drawings I've done in class, the majority of them Tank Girl fan art as motivated by my recent seminar presentation on Tank Girl.
z0mg more CNN's!
I'm alive!
So it's come down the point where my routine day is as follows: get up, make coffee, check internets, draw, draw, make coffee, draw, check internets, draw, draw, make coffee, draw, go to sleep.
It's fun! Or maybe stressful. I'm enjoying myself too much right now to really decide between the two, but I have to admite drawing is not so much fun when you have to complete two all-encompassing collegic projects in a matter of 3 weeks or so. Yes, a bit tight at the edges. This is how we roll.
Here are the twelve pages I've produced for my Media Studies senior project, a graphic novella (of sorts) that looks into the meaning of identity and media. Maybe that's not clear through the panels, and a lot of pieces are left blank due to the fact that I still have to figure things out. I think I'll have to make about 4 more pages before its complete. The next four pages will bring all three characters together and have them engage in some sort of...identity conversation.
Comments, criticisms, suggestions, tomatoes, and kittens encouraged. Also! Check out character 3 for a hidden easter egg (I'll give you a hint, its vox :P)
That's how it is! Here's how it goes:
Character 1 (April)
after great consideration, I decided to start doing the CNN drawings again. I'll explain a little more why and how my professors are taking it in a little later. For now I'm just going to upload the pics (because they've been dragging around my desktop for a month or so now, in fact). Be forewarned, they are completely out of order, and the few in the first tier that are 'weird' were experiments á la Adam Helms.
Believe it or not my school is offering a graphic novel seminar, and I'm in it! The first assignment we had was to read this comic history book (who's title is beyond me at the moment) and translate one of the chapter's chief arguments into a graphic representation. I spent more time working on a sort of summary of the chapter in my piece. The chapter discussed the role of comics in post WWII America, and the way morality themes and heroe's saving the slums and bringing the little man to justice were exchanged for more fantastical stories, teen comics (like Archie), jungle woman comics, and crime comics. Sorry if you can't read the text...no scanner here :/.
