tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11229821113813942072024-03-20T08:31:40.062-07:00Branden von UhlA place where personal insights, interests, discoveries, questions and answers are tossed into a blender and served up fresh just for you.Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-12991801219447945192012-10-25T19:37:00.001-07:002012-11-08T15:02:44.048-08:00Well lets see here, I've been recently watching blender tutorials, writing bits and pieces of a story hidden in my brain hoping to coax more detail out by putting pencil to paper, and watching shows that I find inspire my creativity. I've also been slowly learning Wordpress so I can begin hosting a half decent portfolio site. <br />
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There are three big stories in my head and finding the inspiration to write them seems to come in spurts. Material comes from the emotions I get watching shows I like, such as walking dead and cosmos, or even dilemmas I imagine when I read the NASA newsletter I receive by email daily. Some inspiration comes by dream, which is convenient, I hope my subliminal side keeps them coming he's pretty damn imaginative. Soon I hope to share some stories. They'll need to be a bit polished before I throw them to he wind though. The important thing is I keep writing. <br />
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Blender seems nice, I've found tutorials on iTunes U that are much more in depth that i could have ever hoped for. Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-19969712636341107932012-09-23T15:58:00.001-07:002012-09-23T15:58:58.528-07:00Down with the sicknessUgh.... I've been dodging colds and flus for a while now and it looks like the bug has finally caught me. I'm now in prevent mode trying to avoid getting a sore nose from all the tissues or worse yet, a cold sore- nasty.<br />
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I've been exploring Blender a bit, catching some tutorials, it looks like it has been recently updated... It actually looks like a nice piece of 3d modeling software. I can't judge a book by its cover, but I find it in my best interest to learn as many 3d tools as possible. And I think Blender may be a much better alternative to Sketchup, which has worn out my interests as of late. Good luck modeling anything organic<br />
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There also seem to be a very nice community out there devoted to continually improving the software. I'll report my reactions and thoughts soon!<br />
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Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-61331635634016438052012-09-17T18:36:00.001-07:002012-09-17T18:36:23.745-07:00Spacecraft 3dCheck out this app, it's made by jpl I think. It's an app to check out the curiosity rover in 3d via augmented reality. You print off a pattern, run the app and point the camera at the pattern, presto, a 3d model is projected onto the pattern through your camera screen. You can move the camera around and explore the model at every angle, you can even rotate the pattern to move the model. Oh the possibilities. I can just see an employers facial expressions now. I'm seriously thinking about writing an app just for my own portfolio. Easier said than done. see screenshot!<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4pY1Ziy1-M7K7UhhshYv855wDFRumEQd5xtoloecY5niYF_zYBghepKA-n17dXcR8uuUgFBRAXJ4yAuMI7DaaRwbsr3s0gJ-_a6UyVNX4KVfIZlInfCdM2Anj3KlvBaJqh1v6Iysn40/s640/blogger-image--459483324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4pY1Ziy1-M7K7UhhshYv855wDFRumEQd5xtoloecY5niYF_zYBghepKA-n17dXcR8uuUgFBRAXJ4yAuMI7DaaRwbsr3s0gJ-_a6UyVNX4KVfIZlInfCdM2Anj3KlvBaJqh1v6Iysn40/s640/blogger-image--459483324.jpg" /></a></div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-32468400864237307772012-09-17T18:23:00.001-07:002012-09-17T18:23:27.487-07:00Tryin out the new blogger app, on my new phone. I can't believe I survived this long without an iPhone. More liberating than anything, I no longer need to pack my laptop scouring for wifi to get access to Internet. Now the Internet is at my fingertips whenever I want. I'm also trying to meld the ways I communicate into fewer devices and software. I hope to breath more life into this blog to maintain an online presence with old friends and new acquaintances... Look forward to ramblings and such that cannot be told in a single tweet, you can find that too, in the widgets to the right. Also, I've made a poll that I would like to throw out there weekly. <br />
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Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-39290822056000749692012-01-02T22:09:00.000-08:002012-01-02T22:09:30.379-08:00Wedding PlanningInstead of creating an unpersonalized website for THE WEDDING through the machines that drive the wedding industry's cogs, I thought it would be nice to invite my guests here, to my blog so that you, the guests can see what I've been up to. Here you'll find past class work, reflections and other curiosities that you may be delighted to see and read about. <br />
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Wedding Day Directions<br />
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If you've got a fancy phone, you can send this image to other attendees for directions!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-msYbslu4yIo/TwKZw4EMzmI/AAAAAAAAADw/uxR4TSuXTxo/s1600/qr_wedding_map.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-msYbslu4yIo/TwKZw4EMzmI/AAAAAAAAADw/uxR4TSuXTxo/s1600/qr_wedding_map.png" /></a></div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-47750006208316612462011-11-30T20:23:00.000-08:002011-11-30T20:23:19.174-08:00Woah woah woah.....Back it up, back it up. Where has the time gone, it's already December?! It's already been 6 months since college?! You're fucking kidding me. It's too bad I can't be a lifer there, I see Mister <a href="http://kevinpontuti.blogspot.com/">Pontuti</a> has been some very nice additions to the Multimedia Major. <br />
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What's new in my life you ask? Too much. I've already been working at Midwest Manufacturing for six months now. It's a great first job out of the gates, but as a co-worker puts it, "it pays the bills." Forty hours of work a week there at the office, I wish I could match that with my own personal work at home. It's been far too easy to wind down, kick back, relax and go to bed early. As you can see from my last post though, that time is passing by fast. Although it's not the creative atmosphere that I wish to work in someday, this job has been good to me. I've been working really hard and been drawing in my sketchbook everyday, something that I managed to neglect while in college. Another perk is I'm 3d modeling all day long, as well as working with Autocad and GIMP. Yeah, they're not the best software programs I could be using, but it's three programs I had known very little prior to starting there. <br />
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The little spare time I could afford myself I've been either gaming, making my own wedding invitations, reading a few new design books I've managed to pick up, creating an announcement/invitation for my groomsmen (hint: includes a wicked wax seal), or other portfolio material.<br />
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I've also been nagged by something inside myself to expand on some story lines I've worked on in school, as well a few other ideas I've come across in the past year.<br />
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Wow, I'm so thankful Blogger automatically saves my posts as I'm writing them, an atttention deprived pug has been demanding some one on one time and managed to close out the window as I was working on a post. Better post this one while it still exists....Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-33948506465717923832011-08-04T20:11:00.000-07:002011-08-04T20:11:04.044-07:00My fiance is crazy.We found a neat little switch in our bedroom that will turn the lights by motion activation. It's nice, you can sit in bed and not worry about the light turning off before you go to bed. We've also noticed that we have to wave our hands in the air to get the light to turn on again. Well last night, well past our bed time, the light flickers on, I look at Jackie and she has her arm in the air. "What are you doing?" I ask. "I'm Stretching." So I roll back over and go to bed, as best as I can when the bedroom light is like a spotlight in your eyeballs at that time of day. Hours later, I roll over and see her reaching for the ceiling again. "Stop that!" I nagged, hoping she wouldn't trip the light off again. She didn't, and I adjusted myself slowly as to not trip the light myself. Later the next day, I asked her what the deal was and she said she had the craziest dream about robbing stores, specifically McDonalds. She said she was in the middle of a beat down on her accomplice. I think she was trying to get away with the loot. Good thing I don't make a whole lot of money.Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-38921168768412368432011-07-23T14:57:00.000-07:002011-07-23T14:57:28.824-07:00Nice Hiccup.My educational version of modo ended a week or so ago so I havn't had a chance to work on any more castle walls. I have, however, picked up pixilogic's free sculpting program Sculptris. It looks like a lot of fun and I'm trying to get a very good friend of mine to try it out, since he's absolutely amazing when it comes to clay and sculpty. I myself am horrible and find the controls for rotating the object unnatural to me, it's hard to adjust to an angle to work from. I also noticed that Zbrush is about half as expensive as Luxology's Modo, so that might change the game plan up a bit too. <br />
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Work: Work has been good, last week I started my own landscape set that will include a firepit /fireplace, a bench, counter top and planters. If all goes well and I get a lot of the smaller projects out of the way, I should be converting my SketchUp drawings to CAD instructions later this week. The set will hopefully debut in September. Work has me going hard during the week that I find it hard to sit down and focus on my own work to polish up some resumes for a few dream jobs. (I'm still looking around for jobs elsewhere, west-coast particularly ;) The job I hold currently is helping me speed up my creative process while I practice sketching skills and I'm constantly searching for new things to inspire my creativity. I've been using up a lot of creative brain juice lately....espresso and some good tunes has been helping.Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-6490549266228998102011-07-06T20:36:00.000-07:002011-07-06T20:36:48.501-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhII0BQGqwvQcoWySp4boqpknmgQBhlzmt65Wk2orEVEfzl7_VzXCCnLn95zR_miXnHvTYR6slFEnE5JsXTNgprqgn8VRXjOsqAkJnHyXyYPYJ-EqXGqbkPJzqOFEpL06PE_aVEi99oVAw/s1600/Wall_render_01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhII0BQGqwvQcoWySp4boqpknmgQBhlzmt65Wk2orEVEfzl7_VzXCCnLn95zR_miXnHvTYR6slFEnE5JsXTNgprqgn8VRXjOsqAkJnHyXyYPYJ-EqXGqbkPJzqOFEpL06PE_aVEi99oVAw/s320/Wall_render_01.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Working with replicators to construct this wall of block. I would like to continue this to make some old castle walls and parapets. One thing I had problems with is the sheen of the stone. I imagine that the castle wall would be old and smooth in some places where it would have a very slight glare, but I couldn't get that look without the walls looking plastic. I think I'll hafta make other variations of the block layout so it's not so obvious that the wall is full of replicators.Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-17136056442307851232010-12-22T10:15:00.000-08:002010-12-22T10:15:08.412-08:00Flickr Link and Final thoughts.Well despite finishing the skeleton to the level I wanted I'm still quite pleased with it. Looking back to the very first Life Drawing Class I took last year, I think I've grown in leaps and bounds as an artist, but I still have a long ways to go. I've finally became comfortable with my artwork, I find my self doodling more often, drawing in my various sketch books, which in turn helps me be more creative in design and ideation. <br />
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Here's a link to my flickr account with the various work I've done this year.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Before I know it everyone is finished up their own skeletons and I for some reason half maybe half done. Some are amazing! Others are good, but many of them didn’t hear the call of the challenge to draw the entire spine. Maybe I should have done something much more generalized, I would have completed it the skeleton had I not taken the time to draw every nook, cranny and undulation of the vertebrae. I also would not have learned more intimately of how exactly the spine works the way it does. It’s absolutely fascinating to see how this most perfect design, this infinitely complicated vehicle is with us every day and we take it for granted. To see how the vertebrae slowly change from the very top of the spine all the way to the bottom blows my mind away, from a distance I tried to draw each vertebrae as best as I could, I thought I understood how they’re constructed, how they interact, but upon closer inspection, I was blown away. They seem to hinge together near the back, but also overlay each other and at the same time accommodate just enough room to fit each rib in it’s own specific location. I would need another semester to accurately draw this spine the way I wanted it, something is going to have to give, and it did, as was evident in the lower half of the spine, the lumbar got too confusing, became so condensed I had too much spine left, so they became much more generalized, to my disappointment. I also had to very little time to complete the left half the body, which I guess was fine to me, since I thought it would be a neat gesture to see the right half shaded with so much contrast, then to see the left half fade into a general outline. Besides, I was happy with the progress that I had made on the ribs, bone shading and spine shading.</div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-65403288970587528582010-12-21T21:44:00.005-08:002010-12-22T10:21:01.204-08:00The Skeleton Cont. III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzA9pi9jqMRR8c5ZVCd6TxUiVz5JbhJP_VXJYq_pv9CRp9lF8ygm0AIhMsW855MGvaaFBs3L9kQ7vOELvlcd1RCBDH_5IQeCKQUz0ZMKmHI-SQFMkzBHqkY1HuZMsgGKdTQDYTrykmUFI/s1600/1206001724.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzA9pi9jqMRR8c5ZVCd6TxUiVz5JbhJP_VXJYq_pv9CRp9lF8ygm0AIhMsW855MGvaaFBs3L9kQ7vOELvlcd1RCBDH_5IQeCKQUz0ZMKmHI-SQFMkzBHqkY1HuZMsgGKdTQDYTrykmUFI/s320/1206001724.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">After some slight modifications from Amy (the angle of the femur, which I’m so thankful she corrected, as it gave the drawing so much more emotion and flow)</div><div class="MsoNormal">I began on the spine, carefully numbering each as I completed them, squinting, finding the necessary line to draw, looking to my easel, forgetting what the line looked like, looking back at the skeleton, counting down from the top vertebrae to find the line in question, then placing the line on the page. This became pain stakingly slow, as I was quite a distance from the model. A voice in my head started to grow louder and louder (maybe it’s best you come in on your own time and then you can draw from a closer perspective) bad news, as I commute about an hour every day to school. Mondays and Wednesdays are out of the question, print lab duties, and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays my Fiancés would love to see her lesser half. So I avoided finishing the spine, noticing the days left to work on this drawing were dwindling fast, I had to focus on other parts of the body, hips, arms, ribs, femur, scapula (one that I was particularly proud of) and foot. If I could just draw the lines, I could begin the shading process that I wanted to use to make that skeleton fall right off the paper with.</div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-77429107727087418702010-12-21T21:44:00.003-08:002010-12-22T10:18:41.481-08:00The Skeleton Cont. II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4uvsHOe0Pe_S4sXm_H9b-FgIW4_OqDmCm8kQjRuWK8y9NCxDpuGL-X3lB0AXukeLM_STREvevHVTtm1zDrysiZAOrUXYrOyXkJ7EYupNpdBnYLl-hj4Z241zQQP06uBFxBJIY-VrdhQ/s1600/1206001718.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4uvsHOe0Pe_S4sXm_H9b-FgIW4_OqDmCm8kQjRuWK8y9NCxDpuGL-X3lB0AXukeLM_STREvevHVTtm1zDrysiZAOrUXYrOyXkJ7EYupNpdBnYLl-hj4Z241zQQP06uBFxBJIY-VrdhQ/s320/1206001718.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"> After finally getting my board setup and the paper bought I stared at the skeleton for some time thinking about the best way to begin this adventure. I decided that I will have to roughly map out all the key body parts, head, torso, spine, hips and legs to make sure that it all fits within the paper and doesn’t come too close to the edges, the last thing I want is this six foot skeleton to appear to be crowded within the confines of his own existence, especially with his cocked leg, and his right arm dropping as if he wad his own swagger, he looked confident, he looked comfortable. I reflected back to my past drawings and what had worked and what hadn’t. Sometimes I start drawing, and get so involved I don’t take a step back to see how it looks, and what’s worse is that if it doesn’t look right, I won’t change it, I’ll try to sketch or draw around it, as if telling a lie and trying to make myself believe in it, pushing and drawing, sketching, scratching, getting deeper and deeper as I go, with no way out. What do they say the difference in good art and bad art is? Good art is finished and well thought out, bad art is hastily thrown together. Might have been Duchamp or maybe even Grant Wood. At any rate, I came to the conclusion that I need to start this drawing strong, from the foundation. The curve of the spine must be exact; the angle of his shoulders must replicate the same heaviness that is on the skeleton’s arm, as it comes towards the viewer. This will be the first thing I want the viewer to see. His stance should be matter of fact, his legged lifted as if he was a walking advertisement for Captain Morgan’s Rum. With the foundation of this awesome structure in place, I could now focus on the biggest challenge of this drawing, erecting the column of this vessel, the spine.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Ugh, the skeleton! A very daunting task, the life sized scale of this drawing is by far the largest I’ve ever done. Challenging, frightening, but after tackling the facial drawings I believe I had enough confidence to do this skeleton well. It also helped that we had 3 weeks to work on it. I choose to take it on in small, easily digestible bites. I got off to a slow start, didn’t get my spot picked out till everyone else had theirs, mainly because I didn’t get paper( I was hoping to share with Jordan, but his paper wasn’t as long as we had expected, so I waited till the following drawing period to get my paper. By then, everyone present, and not present had a spot. Yeah, that’s right, someone had apparently reserved a “spot” for a classmate who was gone that day, what bull shit. I guess I could have been an asshole and stayed there, but then I’d have to deal with it for the rest of the semester, so I politely deferred the position and moved elsewhere. After some hunting and with the Amy’s assistance I found a good angle at an eye squinting distance, peering in-between two other student’s drawings. I immediately was drawing to the pose, a rear ¾ perspective that showed character, emotion and flow, the perfect opportunity to make a strong drawing, one that I could be quite proud of.</div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-83069789475862169712010-12-21T21:43:00.005-08:002010-12-21T21:43:56.951-08:00Drawing of Nathan Cont.<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Proportions seemed accurate and in this drawing I think I finally began to tackle an idea that Amy had been trying to show me probably from the very start, but perhaps my mind wasn’t picturing what she was saying exactly.<span> </span>But I began to develop the idea that I could hold my pencil out to mimic the angle I see and see where it goes in correspondence to the rest of the face, does the eye brow continue to curve down and this line could be extended to intersect the corner of the jaw just below the ear?<span> </span>Hmm, does my drawing have the same correspondence, Eureka!<span> </span>Another tool to measure my accuracy.<span> </span>I’ve used small little mental tools like this before, like extending the pencil to check if what I see is the same angle as what I had drawn, or to pay close attention to the negative space as an indicator to what I’m drawing, but this was like unlocking another padlock in my mind, letting me grow just a tiny bit as an artist. <span> </span>I tool I will cherish henceforward. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Another challenging drawing that was interesting as much as it was frustrating. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Interesting because of the pose; as he was positioned above us as his face looked upward revealing a very foreshortened face.<span> </span>And frustrating because of how strenuous the<span> </span>pose was, as Nathan had dozed off more than once during the modeling and every time I had drawing a line that seemed acceptable to me, his<span> </span>neck would roll, and his head was tilt another inch, so my check bones, chin, lips, eyes, nose and forehead were all at slightly different angles.<span> </span>I was pissed at first, but after I seen the others were having similar problems I decided to just draw as fast as possible before Nathan had a chance to move again.<span> </span>And I think it turned out quite decent. <span> </span>This drawing seemed to have more of a likeness than the drawing of Dan, but perhaps a little less than the drawing of Jordan.<span> </span>Nathan’s features are more soft and it was also hard to capture this likeness with the angle we were viewing his face.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Dan has such a distinctive look it was hard for me to capture the essence of his facial expression and features.<span> </span>He has a pronounced jaw line that is wide with well-defined lips and characteristic eyes that could have landed the leading role in a western classic.<span> </span>Dan is classically handsome and on a side note would be the perfect character in my Senior Show, which will be a dirty, grubby western trailer modeled from 3d and animated with as much realism as possible. <span> </span></div><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Dan also has a pronounced nose that I seemed to probably capture the most accurately from entire experience.<span> </span>Often times I had difficulties drawing his inset eyes and ears but the thing I struggled with most was his lips.<span> </span>First they were too large and loomed out over his chin, then to thin, too short, too small, too hastily drawn is what it had finally ended up becoming.<span> </span>His hairline was higher than most, but that had only added to his character, one of the few things I thought I captured well.<span> </span>Overall, Dan was a great model to draw from but the most challenging, and thus the most unrealistically portrayed in an attempt to capture his likeness.<span> </span>It lacked character and emotion</span>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-20065208140950741622010-12-21T21:42:00.003-08:002010-12-21T21:42:40.531-08:00Drawing of Jordan<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">This was probably my favorite of the 3 facial drawings.<span> </span>I have a tendency to draw from imagining outlines more than blocking out a three dimensional shape.<span> </span>And as I’m a slow worker it takes several attempts to draw a<span> </span>line that I perceive to be just like the one I see on someone’s face.<span> </span>Since Jordan was sitting in such away that I could see a rear ¾ perspective I could immediately see the pronounced brow of his forehead, nose, chin and neck.<span> </span>If any of the 3 facial drawing had achieved any sort of likeness I believe it would have been this one.<span> </span>To me I could look at this drawing and see the same facial features on my drawing as I had seen when looking at Jordan.<span> </span></div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-30433157052020820942010-11-22T06:39:00.000-08:002010-11-22T06:39:58.032-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYa_cCNU-hLYOsQu_u5wyYD2osAehn-7Xe8eSvJZHOcRI2Uf1AUAA2YqZOawZboSe8YreE6TokIvfMKuceMQ3bjBqDwIxuUEnn3K-wXdSQqL-THfRJCGDl8WNEbmLovzCK3yGaCohbiM/s1600/colt_gun.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYa_cCNU-hLYOsQu_u5wyYD2osAehn-7Xe8eSvJZHOcRI2Uf1AUAA2YqZOawZboSe8YreE6TokIvfMKuceMQ3bjBqDwIxuUEnn3K-wXdSQqL-THfRJCGDl8WNEbmLovzCK3yGaCohbiM/s320/colt_gun.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-54065412527794691012010-10-13T07:36:00.000-07:002010-10-13T07:36:44.206-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEsvgwfjHmSpg-efQpKyMmpyj6kg3IgjHk2lK2TdnKZm8Y7TNUjyMXoyCoMc1uVZakZyrNEDz0hk_B4FsTW8TH-uPcH2fu2_MWb93TedE42kF2dHQzRGtiibUZYmR9iSA5ckFlDY5a_U/s1600/1011001343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEsvgwfjHmSpg-efQpKyMmpyj6kg3IgjHk2lK2TdnKZm8Y7TNUjyMXoyCoMc1uVZakZyrNEDz0hk_B4FsTW8TH-uPcH2fu2_MWb93TedE42kF2dHQzRGtiibUZYmR9iSA5ckFlDY5a_U/s320/1011001343.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Not too bad I guess. It looks a little "pumkiny" I think the back of the head should protrude even more now that I step back from it. Lots of work to do yet, in fact I haven't even scratched the surface. The only thing that I can really tell that has changed is that I'm feeling more confident to throw lines on a page, not so hesitant to draw a line then to erase it. I think because it helps me visualize the drawing more and I can tell instantly if doesn't feel like it's in the right place. I would also like to add that I think I've finally gotten into a rhythm, or mode, or maybe that's just the feeling of the week. I feel like I'm sailing in the calm of the storm, preparing myself for the rest of the semester. I managed to finish 2 big projects and do pretty well on my modern art test today, lets keep it goin!<br />
I like to change out the images on the blog in hopes that when I see it, it will inspire me to do a little writing and a little facial reconstruction from time to time. This week's art is by Franz Marc, and some of his work is in the Walker in the cities. (His most famous, Great Blue Horses) <br />
Franz never depicted humans in his work and "wanted to see the world through an animal's perspective." Professor Bland's words on her favorite artist. I, too are beginning to enjoy this artist and his fantastic use of colors that seem to be a very playful, emotional depiction of the world around us.Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-19709602145899750952010-10-05T09:13:00.000-07:002010-10-05T09:13:58.273-07:00Currently<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWAfsknySHmuCakCuuhmXGB5chMocT16tGd0F87KSFo7d0Ev4cB5J5NEpDQcW0TWMzGSk9iEmoya-RND3YOxu2WeoCONaHWLS32MlrFHKyve9XweLEsgvaCpG_AVL0973mFjqZ9Jgtm8/s1600/1004001658a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWAfsknySHmuCakCuuhmXGB5chMocT16tGd0F87KSFo7d0Ev4cB5J5NEpDQcW0TWMzGSk9iEmoya-RND3YOxu2WeoCONaHWLS32MlrFHKyve9XweLEsgvaCpG_AVL0973mFjqZ9Jgtm8/s320/1004001658a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Here's the 2nd drawing for this week's assignment. My panoramic picture didn't quite line up. value has seemed to work better for me over contour, light and shadow, the cut in the skull really can be confusing, on average I'll erase a line 4 or 5 times before I might get it close. First drawing inaccurately from light, then maybe from a slice in the skull or a dirty scuff. By the time I actually tell me self to stop the bull shit and draw the damn contour line I hastily draw a line that someone represents the angle of the plane I want to define. FOCAS!!Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-34808670955216434432010-10-05T09:08:00.000-07:002010-10-05T09:10:32.361-07:00Tuesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi316WelPxP3XbjEw3dtg24P_GC86FwVjzFZKmmJj0g6drEXntR9xlqQVL3AE0rVAAA7Df2XylE494ikWXM81ALTqpwoc8k2mrHbpZIDV8EOLsJCdmS9_e4Zuis5nfZEpZ5-LZOqVcN0-4/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi316WelPxP3XbjEw3dtg24P_GC86FwVjzFZKmmJj0g6drEXntR9xlqQVL3AE0rVAAA7Df2XylE494ikWXM81ALTqpwoc8k2mrHbpZIDV8EOLsJCdmS9_e4Zuis5nfZEpZ5-LZOqVcN0-4/s320/Picture+4.png" width="320" /></a></div>Keep it up! Damn, gotta keep coming back to this. Those contour lines are still getting the best of me, but my value seems acceptable to me. I cannot tell if I'm making any progress yet, but I'm sure it's slow and steady. Ideally I would love to be in the room at least 2 hours a day, as I'm trying to incorporate my 3d modeling with life drawing, so I'm quite anxious to start getting a better grasp at the human form so that I can use those skills in 3 dimensional programs such as modo, as you can see in the screen shot, from what I've read many 3d artists start from blocks or spheres then work on the very basic shapes of the face, and continually adding more and more detail with more and more, smaller blocks. It's exactly like life drawing.Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-33133693676573781312010-09-22T19:46:00.001-07:002010-09-22T19:46:31.557-07:00Came across this while reading Modo forums. A reference that looked helpful.<br />
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http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=12Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-77600393930693118882010-09-15T11:31:00.000-07:002010-09-15T11:31:07.215-07:00First day of drawing was a bit rough, one of the biggest challenges that stuck out in my mind was how hard it was to draw the nose, without cartilage or skin the large hole in the front of the skull doesn't seem to resemble anything human, so that was an obvious struggle for me. Another problem that I have is I cannot seem to wrap my head around contour lines, it seems that I could draw the various planes of the skull with lines that appear to go in 3 or 4 directions, but with them all on the page, they fight against each other and it begins to look like a flat, very ugly jigsaw puzzle. <br />
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This year is the perfect opportunity to do well in Life Drawing and learn as much as possible as I'm also taking Digital Narrative 2 and Digital Charecters where I plan to use what I learn in Life Drawing and apply it in 3d programs when creating a 3d model of a human. Brandenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10577102647206096606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122982111381394207.post-49920475615307693152010-09-10T07:13:00.000-07:002010-09-10T07:13:39.389-07:00First PostOne thing I really want to do this semester is keep up on the BLOG. Last year I neglected it and it didn't amount to much. So hopefully this bloggin' becomes a habit of mine and I look forward to giving and receiving advice and feedback on others work. <br />
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