Project 2: New Yorker Phrase Narratives

"Well, back to the old drawing board."

With Project 2, the class had to pick a quote from a magic fez and sketch out possible scenarios with New Yorker cartoon style. Once I was done with my thumbnails, I decided on two scenarios I liked best, and would describe the quote. The first image on the right is a mother and a child inside their home. The child was caught writing on the wall (even though she drew a nice message) and the mother was not pleased. Therefore, I thought it would be humorous enough to go along with the quote. The image on the right, I illustrated a caveman in a suit resting on a stone. You can see he is holding a hammer and next to him is a chisel. Since he is a sophisticated caveman who was probably used to technology to do his drawings by now, he is now caught back to drawing on his stone rock. The quote goes along with what he's angrily thinking. There were other ideas I had in mind like for example an alien destroying the incorrect planet and not what he had in mind from his drawing board idea, but I thought that was too graphic for a humorous illustration. So, I sticked to these two idea illustrations.

In-Class Telephone Assignment

For our Week 2 In-Class assignment, as a class, we grouped together by sitting in a circle. Before grouping, we each made our own booklet of 8.5 x 5.5 in. with 11 pages in total. Then we had to each think of a quote and write it down on the front of the booklet page. Once we were done, we had to pass our booklet to our right and the person next to you had to illustrate the quote. After their illustration, they had to pass it to their right again, and describe the illustration to the person without looking at the previous pages. The pattern continued until the booklet was over and now it was revealed the thinking process of everyone from where you started to the final end. It was an interesting and playful exercise as well as shocking to be able to see how things can quickly change from different point of views. The images above show the quote I started and how I illustrated the last page of my booklet due to the past description from someone else (raining money with owls). 

Project 1: Shape Potential

In these first two drawings, I drew a bird's wing and an opened door. With the same shape, I had planned out carefully to draw these two things differently. The bird's wing was actually my first idea because that's all I could think of at the time due to the shape. The door was something I thought of right away after staring at the shape for a minute and using perspective. I drew hallway point of view and slanted to go with perspective.

The third and fourth drawings are an illustration of me driving my truck and a man's collar. The truck window idea came into mind when I got into my truck a few days ago and thought the window looked rather similar to my shape, so I used that observation. The man's collar was something that I thought of after I was watching a tv show and saw how the shot was on the side of a guy's face. I then just realized that collars was something I would've never thought of at all if I didn't noticed.

The fifth and sixth drawings were an upper view of a entrance in a house and a person grabbing their waist. I used my shape as a window and a negative space between the arm and back. I had thought of these ideas before and tried my best to add more details so my shape wouldn't be plain.

I drew a dragon's eye and a dog's ear during class time and were my first ideas. It wasn't difficult to come up with these ideas after thinking of what to draw in class because since my shape isn't that complex, it was easy for me to come up with body parts that aren't visually the same. 

Last I drew a handgun and lollipop. I had a hard time thinking of the last two drawings to draw, but I kept being observant when I would go to places, and came up these two ideas. I definitely had a good time coming up with drawings using the same shape because they all are different illustrations. It has helped me improve my observance skills and how to use it in ideas for drawings.

In-Class Shape Assignment

In this in-class assignment, I was given a sheet that was divided by three sections with a triangle, square, and a circle on each section. We only had 45 minutes to complete our drawings surrounding those three shapes with as much detail as possible. I came up with a graduate's cap as a triangle, a destroying robot with a square shaped head, and a close up of a man's circled glasses. My thought process with these three figures was everywhere and once I organized myself, I decided with these three sceneries. It was a nice first exercise to do because it helped me out a lot for the Project 1 assignment. 

Exquisite Corpse In-Class Assignment

In this in-class assignment, we were grouped together in three's and we each had a paper to fold in thirds. We first started to draw a head on the first folded piece for 5 minutes, then pass your paper to the left so the person next to you in your group would draw the second part of the body without looking in the previous piece. It was an interesting thing to do because I had no idea what to start it off with. Then I just went with instinct and drew a weird guy with a cool mustache.  Once we were done passing it on for three times, we each got our paper back and see the results of the Exquisite Corpse!