Monday, March 24, 2014

Day five: vans project.

At breakfast table, we decided which designs we would submit for our class, second period would do the same. I'm pretty sure I won out of both classes for the art theme. 
I did an aztec theme fused with a rainbow side panel. 
And as per request I sharpie'd the design to give it a final look. 
Close up of the side panel design. 

Day four: vans project

Front and side design. 
I wanted to design as much of the shoe as I could, so I even made a design in the tongue of the shoe. It's a llama, like in Mexican weaving and artwork. 

Day three: vans project

We began finalizing our designs. I liked this Aztec look and began to incorporate that. 
I began drawing other views of this shoe to be able to visualize how it will look on the actual shoe. 
These were the left and right sides. 
As well as the back. 

Monday, March 10, 2014

Day two: vans shoe project

Our main goal was to draw the shoes top and side view so as to prepare ourselves for the design. 
top view(above)

Side view(above) 

And then we were to begin designing our shoe; I chose the art theme. 
Here's my basic drawing; I'm planning on going for a vintage Aztec-esque design. 

Day one. Vans shoes

Our class had to wait a bit because our instructor had jury duty, but during that period we practiced our contour drawing skills. The objective of which is to connect your eyes movement to your wrist's sketching. The catch is you cannot look at it but you still need to keep sketching. It's encouraged to not pick up your pencil as it disorients your sense of placement. 

This was my most successful attempt at drawing Gabriella.

We then had the warm up activity to draw our non drawing hand.
 

New project: Vans shoe contest

Some potential requirements are time management; craftsmanship; follows one of the four themes: art, music, sports (like surfing long board etc.), and local flavor; uses the white van shoe; and has been accepted by the class to go to the top four. 

Requirements for poor mans batik

*Craftsmanship
(Crisp lines; careful painting and washing)
Mine kinda strayed from its batik borders, but that's to be expected from painting small areas with excess paint. 
*Movement. My bottom design had an interweaving design that caused your eye to venture. 
*Time management. I worked every day and still finished late. However I did spend majority of my time working on the poem's presentation. 
*Has a feeling/mood. Mine was surprise or spontaneity. I thought of this emotion the whole process. 
*poem representation. My poem used letters and words from magazines. It was describing surprise by its shape and I used couplets in order to convey that. 

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Day six: poor mans batik

We were supposed to envision an emotion while we were making our batik so we now try our hand at poetry by writing about that emotion. I chose surprise and spontaneity. 
I used the letters from magazines to make my work, but we were encouraged to try a different kind of this same thing, where rather than letters you cut words. 
I chose my words from a song(starry eyed surprise by Shifty) and arranged them on a normal 8x11" piece of paper. 
And then you choose the better of your two; I chose the magazine one because I thought it looked cooler.