business cards

Here's my business cards :D  I'm not very good at designing them, even though I spent a whole semester on it in Graphic Design but I enjoyed using my own artwork and photography as a grphic for them (the middle one is a personal work I did in makers which I forgot to put on the student drive, whoops!)  Too bad I was a bit lazy with the font...

Digital Art Websites

www.deviantart.com

  Deviantart is an artists’ social networking site I’ve been using for about a year now but has been around for quite a while.   Most of the works posted are digital but it also caters for traditional artworks as well, which is why I find it so appealing.  Chances are if you’re an artist you’ve probably heard about it at some stage so Googling it won’t be a problem, but a search for ‘art websites’ will direct you to it as well (it’s the first one after the sponsored links).

  The home page displays the most popular artworks within the last 8 hours and down the side tab you can find the different art categories.   Once signed in you get your own page to submit artworks to your gallery, post journals on your thoughts and search through other artists works and add the ones you like to your favourites gallery.  This website is very diverse which is probably why it’s so popular, with amateurs and professionals alike posting their works.

"Greed" by Liol

http://browse.deviantart.com/digitalart/paintings/?order=9&offset=24#/d1skn08

 I enjoyed this one because of the concept and the artists approach to the concept.  It's a very fresh way to look at the topic of climate change and man's abuse of the world's resources as it doesn't take the usual approach most green campaingers take.  I also thought it was well executed, in technique and composition, with the man's face just cut off to make it that little bit ambiguous.  He still looks corporate, but the balme doesn't go to any one person and rather many people.

 

"Ink Angel" by sakimichan

http://browse.deviantart.com/digitalart/paintings/#/d4fg313

  I like this piece for because of the way the artist has mimicked ink using digital tools and also by the way they were able to add small digital detail without affecting the overall effect of the piece.  The composition is quite nice as well, lending a lot of energy to the piece and the stark contrast between the red, white and the black makes this work all the more effective.

"The Workstation" by Jujika

http://browse.deviantart.com/digitalart/?order=9#/dbkols

I found this piece quite fun.  The artists slightly cartoony style is balanced by semi realistic shading, allowing it to adjust to the unusual setting quite well.

Mouse Drawings

In this exercise we were to do drawings of objects using the mouse.  I did mine at home so the objects are a bit different to my classmates.  My old gameboy pocket also makes an appearence again, it seems to be becoming a common theme in my artworks lately :/. 

Work Documentation

  Documentation of some of the works I did in other classes this year.  I liked seeing the difference between the white and black borders.

Photoshoot

  Here's the final image for the photoshoot assignment :D  I didn't have as many props as I would have liked and it didn't turn out quite how I pictured it but I'm still happy with it all the same.

Object Selection

Here's the selection with the pen tool exercises.  I actually found this very helpful since I didn't know you could use the pen tool to make selections. BTW the objects in the cupboard are disproportionate on purpose :P

Photo-shoot Proposal

Ideas

-          Incorporating a giant ball of string in an unusual situation (i.e. in the background of two people casually drinking tea, in the middle of the street, etc.).  This is reference to things being out of place and that aspect of society that expects us to “fit in”. 

-          Incorporating numerous different cultural items in a normal setting. 

-          Incorporating different items that have a reference to today’s popular culture and the materialism that is often associated with it.

Chosen Idea and Concept

Incorporating numerous different cultural items in a normal setting.  Australia is a vastly multicultural country.  The influx of so many different cultures over the last 100 years in particular has definitely had a profound effect on our own culture to the point where it’s difficult to distinguish what is definitively ‘Australian’.  Recently I met a Chinese woman who is very well travelled but being her first time here she wants to know about Australian culture, which of course is hard for me to explain because of the previous explanation.  The incorporation of different cultural items in a casual setting suggests that perhaps this amalgamation of different cultures probably is what defines Australian culture.

Props

Table and chair

Chinese lantern and string to hang it from

Japanese teapot

Maxwell Williams country garden pattern teacup (English)

A fez (Turkish)

A plate and some samosas (which will be my lunch after ;D) (Indian)

Australian flag