HUNTER OWENBY
ILLUSTRATION BLOG: (All Weeks)
Blog #1: 50 Words and 50 Illustrations
2020 February 6th
Week 1
In the first 2 weeks of this course I have made my 50 Sketches and 50 Words and began brainstorming for my first Comic page for the next assignment. The idea I was going for with my Illustrations was to create objects that have a certain value to me but it is possibly different to someone else. For example, the spin top image, when I look at that I see kind of analogy for age. How when it is first spun the object is perfectly still but after time it begins to wobble and fall. I could possibly right an essay on all of the ideas that I used to come up with my sketches. A lot of the drawings that have identifiable objects and subjects, they probably have a word that connects to the drawing but maybe not in the way you believe the word to mean. For example, when I think of home, I think of a cozy safe place where my house is. But, to a homeless man, the word home may have a different meaning. So, if we were asked to draw something when given the word "home," we will have different drawings. Here is a friendly challenge, try and guess which card is for the word "weak"? *hint* Its in the far right column.
Blog #2: Character Illustrations
2020 February 14th
Week 2
In this project we are supposed to illustrate characters of our creation in our sketchbook, this is definitely not my strong suit when it comes to drawing but I based my characters on TV shows I saw as a kid such as "Ed, Edd, and Eddy" and "Johnny Bravo." My personal favorite is the picture of the character based on a piece of wood. Most of the motivation for this assignment comes from the fact that I am not really good at drawing realism. I would rather have a simple design with perfect straight cut lines than try to have a realistic drawing/character. When drawing these sketches I started to realize a sort of style that I have when it comes to drawing cartoon like images. I have been drawing with this style since I was in art class in elementary school, I like the big buggy eyes and emphasis on facial structure while the bodies are smaller proportions than normal people. I can tell by all of the comics I have read that I can relate my style to the creators of "South Park" in the way that the heads of the characters are larger in proportion to their bodies... besides Cartman of course.
Blog #3: Comic Magazine Page
2020 February 21st
Week 3
On this project, I referred back to my 50 illustrations that I drew for my 50 drawings and created a page from a magazine comic. At the beginning of the work I was focusing on keeping the main idea of having textures be the concept of the page but later changed to combining some of my favorite sketches and things in everyday life into each part of the comic. I also had some inspiration from my roommate who was in the room helping me with ideas for images to draw. I was going to try and tell a story through the magazine comic but realized the effort and creativity an artist must have to do so and I find that quite impressive looking at more artworks now. I told people to try and guess which piece of the comic I did first and most people thought I started with the top right and worked my way down but it was actually the opposite, I found that interesting. While working on this project as well, I realized how important the element line can be in creating art and the power it can have over the whole piece to create solid straight and consistent lines.
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Correct It / Save It / Post It / Print It
2020 February 29th
Week 4
This is basically a part two to my last blog post about the magazine comic. In this post, you can see there is a scan of the original copy of my magazine. The second image above is an edited version of the first that is just making the ink from the paper a deep black and also creating the paper background of the scan to make it a bright white. The last image or the third image to the right is the final colored version of the scan and the reason I chose so many colors is because I wanted the paper to really pop. None of the colors really have "deeper" meaning, they are just colors I chose to add. My inspiration for the color is from one of the artist shown in class, Jean-Michel Basquiat, his artwork has great use of bright colors and use of a lot of colors. The popping colors causes the magazine to have a completely different effect to it when the viewer is looking at it. For example, the eye on the page when it is painted red with the grey background, the eye has more of a deadly and kind of frightening look to it versus beforehand when it looked like the eye of a cat. My personal favorite piece of the magazine when color is added is the bottom right portion with the crazy colors and the perfectly straight lines in the foreground and background.