3rd concept

my 3rd concept image os of nemo and the character whos eyes we see the story through, they go out into the depths of the sea in diving suits to search for the mysterious light, they have to treck over mountains and through forests and travel on a trecherous journey towards the light source which we finally find out to be atlantis. i looked into images relating to under water cities and atlantis to get ideas for my story, at first i didnt quite inderstand the scene but when it came to the interim crit phil told me to read on further and i then found out about them finding the city, this then gave me an image in which to work with. here are some of my researched images.

this image i really like as it seems really mysterious and the style in which i would love to capture in my image but for what i want to create the image is inapropriate.

second concept image

my second concept image was an underwater forest so i started off by doing some searches on underwater forests and what i got was kelp forests, and when reading the book it says that they stand like iron rods, which is like long thin kelp trees. i got lots of reference images to help with my idea.

whilst looking through the images i noticed a pattern in the colours but colours for me made this a problem as i am colour blind so i had a big set back on this project. i found it really hard to try and find the colours that i needed so i tried to stick to black and white as shades as much as possible. in the book it says the colours that they see but this was of no help to me. so in the end i tried to follow the colours of my research images.

second project space

right i really should have started this a lil while ago but have only just got round to it, had a lot of things going on over the past few weeks lol. anyway in this project we have the theme for "space" as in why things are positioned and not the outer space kinda stuff.

i got the book twenty thousand leagues under the sea for my project with 3 scenes written down which i am producing concept work for.

my first scene is cap'n nemo's museum/study kinda thing which i got the dimensions of 30 feet long, 18 wide and 15 high, pretty big room, so i looked into angles and the room iteself the nautilus and other things i could think of. here are some of the research images i found.

after looking at these for a few references i created some draft scetches to try and find the best perspective, the strongest image for my concept image.

this image i believed to be the strongest and so i chose this image to create my final image for my first concept. im no good at creating a perspective, i can see it in my mind but i cant put it down onto paper and so the way i got around this problem was to create the room in maya in less than 5 minutes and then add a camera, i made the room acording to the size mentioned in the book and then moved the camera until i found the perspective view i wanted. i then used this to draw my final perspective view and scanned in the image to start working on.

here is the image atm, i still have some work to do to it but its coming along nicely.

Essay research

well it is the beggining of the 4th week and im sitting in the base room as i arrived at Uni very early due to having to get the early train this morning, i decided to use this spare time to my advantage and get working on this essay.

i have done research by browsing various websites which i shall post a few links to at the bottom of this blog.


from the research i have done i have found that portraiture or portraits are artistic representations of a person in which the face and its expression is predominant, this is captured in a painting, photograph, sculpture or other form.


the purpose of a portrait is to display the likeness, personality and even mood of the person in the portrait.


when an artist tries to capture the likeness, personality and mood of one-self the image is called a self portrait. examples of self portraiture became numerous around the late middle ages but the first self portrait was by the Egyption Pharoah Akhenaten's sculptor Bak, who carved a self portrait representing himself and his wife.


portrait photography has now become the main priority when it comes to family portraits which many families enjoy having professionaly made to hang in thier homes, special portraits to commemorate certain events such as graduations and weddings are also very popular. since photography was invented portraits have become a popular commercial industry all over the world. This massive popularity in the middle of the 19th century was due to the large demand for inexpensive portraits which studios sprang forth in cities around the world, some studios making up to 500 plates a day, maybe more.




well this was part of the research i have found and so im going to leave it at that for today, i will write up more later hopefully, gonna work on my portrait image a bit more, signing off

bye


http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559633/portraiture.html



http://www.artspan.com/portraiture

week 3 at uni

Hi again, I'm back, at the start of the week we had our interim crit and i got some positive feedback on my ideas but i still feel as thought my projects isn't coming together properly, unlike in college we got told what we had to do in uni its completely different and we got thrown into the deep end, we don't get told what to do we just get told we have this project and everything is in the brief, but the brief doesn't explain the project in as much detail as i would like. o well i just gotta stick it out lol.

i have a few ideas for my project and i have a new idea which relies on photo shop quite a lot as it is a big part of image manipulation and so i am going to give it a shot and see how it turns out, i am also going to create my other idea and once both images are completed i am going to get some feedback from others and see what they believe is my best piece to submit for my project, i am also going to ask Phil to see what he thinks of my work.

im going to upload some images that i have later tonight of photos i have taken for my image, and hopefully i may get a comment or 2 on what ppl may think of my work.

well im off for now until later.

signing off


Alan

second week at uni

Hi again

Im in my second week at uni now and I feel my project is coming along, I have a few ideas which I posed last week and I have started sketching some ideas this week ready for monday. Im still not sure which idea to go for a but Im sure it will come to me soon. I have done some research on the internet on portraiture and self-portraiture and I am going to ask about the essay to get some help with writing it up, Im not to sure about the topic in which we are supposed to be talking about, I know its portraiture and that but what is the question we are asking. I need to ask phil to find out which I will do at lunch if I can find him. once I have spoken to him I believe I have everything I need to write up my essay. I am also going to print of my research and write up notes on things I have found to build up my research for the final critique.

Im not sure what else to write about so im signing off

talk later

bye

First day of blog

Well I only just started this blog today but I am already writing my second blog as I think I am going to use this to write down ideas for my work as I can then use this to show development and stages.

Iv had a good day today, we finished off our first lesson quite quickly as most of us already knew what to do and we raced through the brief as it where. we then finished off the day with a workshop induction which was a lot of fun and I believe with some of my work in the future I will be using the workshop to help with my presentation of work.

After uni I got home and thought of the work we have set for this sememster, we have to do a self poirtrait and from the videos and slides we have been shown I was thinking of what I could do and so I wrote down how I see myself and I believe I have my idea for my portrait, but its still in devolpment these ideas. I see myself as a puzzle as im very complicated and a bit of a mystery so maybe pieces wont be there, I also dont like to stand out from the crowd, I try to blend in way too much and dont do much outgoing and for this reason I believe my portrait might be faded. also im not very colourful with the way I see things and you could call me a very sereotypical person, I dont vary too much and for this I cant see my picture in colour but rather black and white whith all different shades in between as to represent what would be colour. these are a few ideas and so my project is under way. I have no idea on how this is going to turn out tho so the final result will be very interesting.

Im off now to think and maybe try out some things, I may write later.

Signing off


Bye