Lesson 4 - Printing

In this lesson we continued in working with our characters. I had already done printing before (link here), but I have never done it as a collective work. It was fun making a part of a monster without seeing other parts of it and the result was pretty hilarious. 

Homework 3 - Still life self-portrait

For this homework, I had to draw a still life drawing with objects that reflect my personality. I didn't know what should I choose because I left most of my personal things at home.

 I chose these things:

1. Darth Vader figure - I like Star Wars and it was a gift from my boyfriend

2. Horalky - it's a Slovakian wafer, it represents where I am from and that I love sweets

3. Small easel with canvas - I am an artist

4. Spider - I have always like spiders, this is a model of spider I've got when I was a child

5. Canon - my DSLR camera Canon 600D

6. Flower crown - I like flowers and I often wear flower crowns

7. Amethyst - I love crystals and purple colour

8. Cactus - I like small cactuses and plants

9. Sunglasses - sunglasses with my favourite colours (blue and purple)

10. Book - I've always liked reading since I was a child

11. Drumstick - it's a memory of my first Muse concert in Rock In Vienna festival, they are my favourite band and it also reminds me of my best friend because we caught it together (I can't play drums)

Continuous line, black liner

I am not sure how I feel about this drawing. I liked the sketch but continuous line isn't really my style. I If I could do only simple clear lines, it would look better. 

Graphite pencil 3B

This drawing was disappointing for me because I know I can do better. Maybe it just wasn't a good day for drawing for me, I don't know, but I don't like my shading in this drawing at all.

Coloured pencils

The last drawing is better than my drawing of still life self-portrait with graphite pencils, but I know I still can do better. I like the spider, crystal and glasses with cactus are OK, but the rest of the drawing is not really good.

Edit: I wanted to redraw them all, but because of lack of time I did only continuous line which looks better, in my opinion.

Homework - collage characters of a tribe

For the homework, we had to make three more collage characters who should belong to the same tribe as the character which we made in the lesson. I decided to make them all different, that's why they don't have the same arms, legs or bodies. They are all combinations of human and cat bodies and they are still from the same tribe. When I found the picture of a persian cat, I remembered Omid's presentation about semiotics and Iran. I decided to add persian patterns and I named them "Princesses of Persia".

Homework - camera shots and angles

Extreme wide shot (establishing shot)

Cars

Wide shot 

Frozen

High angle shot

Submarine

Low angle shot

Atlantis

Dutch shot

Deadpool

Midshot

Lord of War

Medium closeup

The man who fell to Earth

Closeup

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Birds-eye view

Game of Thrones

Lesson 3 - Sound

For this homework I had to do an animation with sound. It was a bit hard to find a sound, to imagine what can make that sound, count all the frames correctly and draw it. I was worried it will not be good, because my math skills aren't good, but I am glad it all fits well. I thought the hardest part of it will be counting or drawing, but actually it was looking at videos of exploding bombs, because I am scared of them.

The biggest mistake is the timing with the sound. The sound of the explosion starts at the same time as the bomb explodes, which may look good in the first moment, but when I thought about it, the bomb seems to be really far away, so the sound of the bomb should be delayed a bit, because the sound wave is slower than light.

However, I like rotating eyes on the bomb. It makes it less scary than the actual bomb and it looks cartoonish. 

Lesson 3 - Life Drawing

This lesson was a bit easier, because I knew what to expect. However it wasn't easy, because the poses of our model were complicated. I struggle with drawing legs and feet. I probably did too much drawing and not enough planning, although I planned angles and proportions, I just did it too fast. The most diffucult thing was fixing angles of arms and legs, because our model often moved them a little bit.

Lesson 3 - Collage making

I think the only way I can explain this, is creativity after staying up all night. I don't know why I couldn't fall asleep at night, but my mind did hilarious things that day. We were making collages and the first one is literally my experience from the first month in Avon hall.

In the second collage we had to make a character. My character is a cat (not Trump). The cat can't listen to Trump anymore, she is fed up with his lies and doesn't believe him anymore.

Homework 2 - Negative space

For this homework we had to draw household objects with negative space. I live in halls and I couldn't find any suitable typical household objects, that's why I drew objects which I had found in my room - sunglasses, plushie, peg and self-timer for my DSLR.

Homework - The Sock

For this homework we had to make a storyboard with the title "The Sock". It was a little bit difficult for me to create the story and make my socks as characters.

The establishing shot shows the light from the drawer at night. In the next picture we can see that the light is there because socks are having a party. In the middle are two white socks, a pair, dancing together. In the 3rd picture one of the socks left the other one because of another sock, which is "rich" (Nike logo). The sock is sad because its pair is a gold-digger and cries. In the last picture is my hand holding the sock in the morning and searching for the other one. It's not there because it left with the Nike sock, which belongs to my sister.

Homework - Balloon

In this lesson, we were watching balloons deflating and then we had to make an animation of it. This animation was a bit confusing for me, At first, I didn't know why, but now I know what I have done wrong. I didn't know how to do timing right and I focused mainly on rotating the balloon because I didn't understand the timing. It's better in my animation of a bomb from the next lesson. My favourite part of this video is the hand in the beginning, it makes the animation a little bit more interesting.

Lesson 2 - Bouncy Ball

This animation was a collaboration with Kristina, each of us made one-half of the animation. My part is the second half, together we made 38 frames. We wanted to make the ball bouncing away but it hasn't worked the way we wanted to. We also tried to use the squash and stretch principle and timing. I think it's not completely bad, it was only my second animation in my life, although I know I can do it better, it was just a training exercise for animation.

Lesson 2 - Sketchbook making

In this lesson we were making sketchbooks. I really enjoyed it and I like differrent types of papers we used. I still don't know how I want to use them, I want them to be special.

The first sketchbook was the easiest one. It was only one big sheet of paper folded to make "pages".

The second one was more complicated, we had to sew the pages together in the middle.

This sketchbook is my favourite. It has really nice pages in many blue, purple and white shades.

We didn't have much time (and paper) left for this last one, but it's still nice.

Lesson 2 - Life Drawing

In the first lesson we did life drawing. I haven't done it before, that's why I was worried. I have never been good at drawing human body and figures. It turned out better than I expected, although I can see all my mistakes which I need to improve.

Graphite pencil 3B, 20 minutes

My favourite graphite pencil for sketching is 3B, but I think it is too light for A1 paper. I am also used to drawing on small papers, this was a huge change for me, but I like it.

Graphite pencil 3B, 10 - 5 - 2,5 minutes

Another challenge for me was drawing really fast. My drawings usually take very long time, that's why I was scared of drawing in a few minutes, but I've got used to it quickly.

Without looking on the paper, charcoal, 15 minutes

Drawing without looking was a little bit uncomfortable, because I couldn't look anywhere else but on our model and she was looking at me all the time. It was also the first time I used charcoal. 

Semi-blind drawing, charcoal, 15 minutes

I am not really sure what happend to my hand when I tried to draw the nose. I enjoyed drawing with charcoal, but semi-blind drawing was still difficult for me.

Liner, silver sharpie, charcoal, 10 minutes

Drawing with three differrent medias in 10 minutes was challenging too (I think all drawing lessons are challenging for me and that's good). I had to draw really fast because after 5 minutes I used only a liner.

Left-handed, graphite pencil 3B, 20 minutes

I am still surprised how this drawing looks almost like it's supposed to look, because drawing with my non-dominant hand has always been a disaster for me. Long straight lines are really bad, but I quite like the hand and torso.

Graphite pencils 3B,5B, 30 minutes

Although this should be the best drawing of the lesson, I think it was the worst one. I didn't have enough time, because the posture was complicated. I also don't like my shading here, 

Homework 1 - Self-portrait

For the first homework we had to draw a self-portrait from a mirror. In the past years I have drawn many portraits from photos and I've got quite good at it, that's why I was scared to do this homework. I had never drawn myself before and after the first drawing lesson I have felt like I couldn't draw anything. When I finally did the self-portrait, I felt even worse, because it proved my worries were right. It turned out really bad. I felt really miserable and I decided to try it again. I didn't have time to do it whole month which helped me to find out what I had done wrong - I had tried to do something that isn't my style and without my techniques. For this second time I dropped the front view, contrast lights and shadows. This time I drew myself from the 3/4 profile view, which is usually considered as the hardest angle but for me it's the easiest angle. I also used harder pencils for shading - not only 3B, 6B and 8B as before in my first try, but I used 4H, 2H, H, B, 2B, 3B and 5B.

Lesson 1 - Storyboard

In the first lesson we were given to create a storyboard for homework. It had to show emotions "nervousness", "confusion" and "anxiety" during my first week at the university. Because we could use only 6 frames, I tried to put all emotions together and I found making the story quite easy because I could relate to them.

Lesson 1 - Metamorphosis

This is the first animation I have ever done. We had to make pairs with classmates and morph the first letter of our name into the first letters of names of our classmates. I was working with my friend's drawing, which wasn't easy because first letters of our names both begin with a letter K. Fortunately they weren't exactly the same, so we could morph them into a different shape.

The biggest problem was working with a webcamera on a Mac, because the webcamera doesn't focus on the picture properly. It also goes up because we weren't using peg bars. Now I am making animations in my room with my DSLR.

Overall I am not disappointed with this animation, because it looks better than I expected for my first animation.

Lesson 1 - Portrait Speed Dating

Sketching potraits of my classmates. 

I have drawn many portraits before, but I am used to drawing them from a photo and not that fast, so it was a new experience for me. I quite like the portrait of Sean, semi-looking, but overall I am not satisfied with my work. I need to get better within a very short time.

Jess, 20 mins, graphite pencil

Luke, 10 mins, black liner

Luke, 5 mins, graphite pencil

Luke, 2,5 mins, graphite pencil

Emily, 5 mins, no looking, graphite pencil

Sean, 5 mins, no looking, graphite pencil

Sean, 10 mins, semi-looking, graphite pencil

Sean, 15 mins, 2 hands semi-looking, graphite pencil

Kian, 5 mins, left-handed, black liner

Kian, 5 mins, left-handed, graphite pencil

Nikkita, 20 mins, graphite pencil