A New One For SooJin Buzelli, PLANSPONSOR Magazine.

A new one for SooJin Buzelli, PLANSPONSOR Magazine. 

ART 122-01, Week # 7 (Catching up on blogs)

So, I am weeks behind. I'm gonna be posting a bunch up til now.

In this class, we have a manifesto that we need to do for our final. It needs to be 200-something words incorporated into a graphic design element.

Honestly, I'm not sure what to do. I've seen the examples provided but I still do not know what to go for that I know how to do. Drawing is my main thing, but computer programs are not- and while it is possible to learn at least enough to get this assignment done, I have four other finals due for other classes- in three weeks. (Maybe four).

On one hand I should try to do something that is outside my comfort zone, but I am afraid of biting off more than I can chew. I will have to mull over what sounds best to me. I'm leaning toward a comic- but maybe I can try at illustrator to do it? But then printing it out and binding it and.. I dunno- it can be done, but I would rather just upload it directly here and click through pages. I will have to talk with my instructor about it.

GIF: Bill Domonkos, 2014 (Photo: Fitz W. Guerin c1902)

Full size here. This is a sort of blanket response to the questions I get this time every year about what various Lackadaisy characters would wear for Halloween.  

I thought of dressing them up as early 20th Century icons and people of historical relevance - you know, something vaguely intellectual - but then I got distracted by the amazing, abominable craft-work concoctions pictured up top.  Well, I couldn’t not draw that.

(The topmost images are mostly from Dennison’s Bogie Books of the 1920s.  They’re a hoot.) Happy Halloween, everyone!

ART 122-01, Week # 8 (aauughblbl)

Continuing the trek of getting caught up and such and stuff.

So, when it comes to this manifesto I was thinking of doing a comic. However, I do not know if this would be good for the assignment, because the thing I have in mind might be a bit muted and will not come out as optimistically as the assignment calls for. I was thinking of talking about the life process of having this one thing you've always had and worked on, and how up until people talk about careers and jobs and "Who are you?" And "What are you going to do?" All you've thought of was how this was always with you, but the big world has you thinking it may not be. Like, imagine that drawing and animation are your best friend from childhood, and you love to draw and hang out with this entity and the characters and stories in it by drawing and spending time together-- but then as you get older this entity becomes a celebrity and there are swarms of diehard fans in the tens of thousands- and they are between you and it. You didn't know in order to pursue you'd have to wade through this throng and if it's even worth it, because damn, they are hanging out with other big wigs and they seem way more worthwhile than the movies you'd watch at home and the late nights with your sketchbook- so why would this entity need you anyway? So then you have to assess your beginnings and what your relationship meant to you and decide if you want to be in its circle anyway?

I dunno, this is more of a free write. Also, not as concretely focused, more uncertain. Will think on for later.