Weekly Blog Assingment #10

Artistic Inspiration

NaBHaN (deviantart)

http://nabhan.deviantart.com/art/When-you-grow-up-94506386

http://nabhan.deviantart.com/art/Never-Give-Up-374386626

http://nabhan.deviantart.com/art/What-used-to-be-109443647

 

NaBHaN is a digital artist who has a talent for really colourful, cutesy works. NaBHan has a really unique sort of style with accentuated sphere shapes in many of the images. I love the round stylistic look of NaBHaN’s work and the really pretty small details you can usually see in the backgrounds.

Weekly Blog Assignment #9

Tips and Tricks

I found this really neat tutorial online that I thought would help me learn how to use the shortcut buttons on both Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.  The tutorial shows the keyboard but replaces the keys with the various things that the shortcut key leads to. I think the tutorial is helpful because I personally have no idea what most shortcut keys are, really all I know are the transform and undo shortcuts for photoshop.  I hope that the guide will help me learn the shortcuts and through them learn how to use the program easier.

Weekly Blog Assingmnet #8

Wild Card Optional

Music

I love music. It’s a vague thing to say but eh. This is my wildcard and I can do what I want. Music makes me feel things. I’m usually a really distant person, I’m not one to let emotions get the better of me, but music makes me feel things to an extent I just don’t normally. I think it’s this exact reason that music inspires art for me. I love almost every genre of music and each inspires something completely different. Music makes me want to create and I think it’s probably the most powerful inspiration for art that I've ever come across.

Weekly Blog Assignment #3

I chose this particular tutorial because I have always struggled with drawing people, especially the hair. Some people have trouble with the eyes or noses when drawing people but I find the hardest part of drawing a person to be getting the hair just right. I feel like the hair is one of those finishing details that really makes or breaks a picture. With poor quality hair a picture can lose quality, depth, realism and the shape of the face can appear skewered. I thought this tutorial had a really good grasp of the important parts of drawing hair. It doesn't go as much into detail as some other tutorials do and it doesn't always take you through each and every step but it has a range of all the main concepts you need to remember for drawing hair which I find to be most practical. I also really like how the artist goes shows a variety of different hairstyles instead of one repeated over and over.

For some reason the picture wont attach...

Weekly Blog Assignment #7

Personal Inspiration

Recently I spent time putting together new furniture for my room and I was the only one in my family who really seemed to get the instructions and the feel of how everything fit together. I know it doesn’t really sound like an inspirational thing but something about the diagrams and shapes just helped me relax and focus. I’m a person who values structure and organization, thanks to a mild form of OCD, and when I can line things up and sort them in a coherent manner it puts me at ease. In this sense putting the furniture together was something that I enjoyed doing and felt comfortable with and because of this I’ve decided I’m going to experiment with drawing diagrams and using geometric shapes more. I usually use very loose, natural kind of shapes and I think maybe this would make a good change for me and perhaps work as a way of helping myself focus. I like diagrams because they are linear and coherent which I think is something some of my art could use more of as I am much more prone to symbolism and/or indirect meaning and/or no meaning.

Weekly Blog Assignment #6

PERSONAL INSPIRATION

Sometimes the things that inspire us are the things that have always been there but we didn't take heed of previously. This week I noticed the sunset is different in the winter, notably a lot shorter and even a bit more captivating. Standing on my patio the other day I noticed the sky was orange and pink from the sunset and part of the colours reflected in the snow. It’d be cheesy to say that I had some kind of dramatic realization at that moment but I was captivated by the colours and softness of the light. After about 15 minutes I was also interested by the brevity of the scene, the sky got darker and the colours changed in what seemed like a blink of the eye. Sometimes it's the simple things that affect us, little things like how the colours of a sunset blend together can be the inspiration we needed.

I have two quick pictures with my phone of the two different sunset colours. The quality isn't great...I guess it's a you had to be there kind of moment.

I'll add the photos Monday when I get on the computer

Weekly Blog Post 5

My ARTISTIC INSPIRATION this week is Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of the renown Ghibli Studios. Hayao Miyazaki was a film director, animator, screen writer and critically acclaimed manga artist. I decided to make Hayao Miyazaki my artistic inspiration for the week because the other day I was doodling a little creature on some scrap paper and when it was done I realized how similar it was to some of Miyazaki’s creatures. I grew up watching Miyazaki films and they stuck with me just as much as Disney movies or classical films, I thought because Miyazaki had influenced me through his films that he was certainly a suitable choice for my artistic inspiration. Hayao Miyazaki is a worthy artistic inspiration of the week because he was highly accomplished in his field(s) and he was known for a beautiful style which has been credited as inspiration for many of the new generation of animators, artists and directors. Ghibli Studios has often been referred to as “the other Disney” by many young North Americans. Miyazaki continued working well into his senior years, finally declaring retirement for the final time in 2013. Miyazaki was also known for his surprising lack of "evil" or definite villains. Miyazaki’s films tended to place protagonists on difficult situations with problems and people to overcome but there is hardly ever someone who is actually evil, instead the antagonist is usually just someone with a different goal or belief. Miyazaki was an inspiration to thousands of other artists, he was accomplished in his many fields, he was a brilliant artist and he got to see many of his works come to life which is why he is my artistic inspiration this week.