Year 2 - Week 4 - October 24th - 28th

After having watched the year 3 ideas pitch, I’ve been quite scared to pitch my ideas if/when the time comes. It’s got me thinking about it quite a lot, with it being a year away there is time to think but I shouldn’t be worrying about it just yet. This week we started out with returning to Bradgate Park for the 3^rd time.  Now I’ve previously said that going to the same place is okay for the different times of year as it the colours and scenery changes but we went there just a few weeks short of this time last year, so it’s basically just drawing the same time of year at the same place, but just picking a different area to draw for a final piece...

Despite it being the same old thing again, we got to explore more which was nice though we didn’t really get to see much more as the areas we were trying to get a good shot of were blocked off. Essentially Bradgate is a great place for colour, this week I’ve managed to do a few more pieces of fruit and I’m  glad to say that I’m getting faster, usually I’d spend about 2-3+ on a piece when I was first getting use to a tablet and pen but now I’m spending about an hour or less. One thing in Art is that a piece of work is never finished, it’s just abandoned cause you can always add more if you wish to change something, what I’m trying to say is you ‘abandon’ your work when you feel most happy with it and I’ve been ‘finishing’ my work once I’ve felt happiest with it which originally would take hours now the time is shortening. This week I managed to complete my dinosaur final. It was all about looking at rendering techniques so I thought grey scale would be the best showing positive and negative spaces. I've started to use a machanical pencil in my work which had made my rendering (I think) turn out better.

Prep Work.

Dinosuar Final

Inverted Version

In 3D I’ve finally ‘finished’ and submitted my Treasure Chest. I’m happy with the outcome, the bump and specular maps really made it what it is, I want to practise with bumps and speculars though to understand them a little more. Three weeks proved to be too little time to achieve what I really wanted to on this project however, there was a lot more detail on the chest I wanted to add but didn’t find the time, mainly due to the legs of the chest being quite a complicated thing to not only model but unwrap. The unwrapping took me 2 weeks to do on top of painting the textures, and I ended up pelt mapping all the legs in the end as it proved the easiest way of doing it but the good thing is I’ve learnt how to pelt map now as it’s something I’ve never done before. We’ve moved onto the trash project now which to be honest seems a little easy but I think it’ll be good to get it out the way to make a start on my self portrait which I’m not looking forward to. Having finished the last project is now given me a little more time to work on some of my own stuff I’d like to do like my football pitch, I’ve taken some references from some parks I’ve seen around Leicester and I’m on the way to modelling the full thing in my own way.

It’s something like this is what I want to do for my FMP (Final Major Project), but I’m asking myself the questions of will people like it etc... I’ll talk more about it in due time.

In critical studies we watched about 40 minutes of the film Paris, Texas. From what I saw it was a really interesting film, it doesn’t have much text to it’s like what was talking about last week how the Art can portray things sometimes better than words can. It’s a sort of very lonely film with the impression of wanting to get away quite a lot. The visuals are amazing with bright colour in literally every scene; I fell in love with it immediately. I definitely want to see the rest of it sometime and probably talk about it later.