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GAT110 Drawing Portfolio 2.0

Unfortunately I had trouble finishing this one as I became overwealmed with work. In hindsight I should have started earlier in the term.

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Drawing Portfolio 2.0

For this year's portfolio, I wanted to give more emphasis on tonal values and contrast in my pieces. After recently visiting MOTAT, it has inspired me to focus more on texture and shading.

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Final Portfolio Comments

Looking back at the piece, there are a few things I would change. First being the background. I’d add more interest to it by putting a small town or city in the distance in the lower right, Then have the light rays coming from that. The light rays were a bit of an impulse thing, I wanted to add some interest to the background instead of it just being black or white.

I’d add more contrast to the foreground of the piece, I chose not to in this because I didn’t want it to be too blown out or have to much contrast. In future pieces, I would look at more references and lighting examples.

Taking my previous drawing feedback into account, I added a lot more detail and contrast to this final piece. I also wanted to do something that would bring emotion to the viewer, and show the emotion of the time period. Having thousands of men and woman without there families, not knowing if they would come home.

Overall, I’m happy where this piece ended up.

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Final Portfolio - Traditional Art - GAT110 - Ryan Bocking

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Update #3

I’ve added a black background behind the soldier to really make the silhouette stand out, Sorry about the glare from the camera. I’m thinking about adding the black around the whole outside of the piece and leaving a border white to frame the whole image.

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  Update #2

Finished the main shading of everything, Now I just need to clean it up and add contrast in the background.

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 Progression Update #1

I’ve been forgetting to take photos along the way, But this is my current progress on my final piece. Still needs a lot of cleaning up. But the rough shapes and contrast are there.

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I’ve drawn a VERY rough thumbnail of how I want my final piece to be presented. I will be using the rule of thirds, with the figure resting against a shattered building on the left line of the 3rds.

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Final Portfolio

I have come up with a few ideas that I want to do for my final piece for Traditional Art. I want to incorporate everything I’ve learnt from the class over the previous months. Including the recent life drawing classes.

Ideas:- 

1. A girl as the center piece posing in a dramatic way against a tree 2. A World War 2 Soldier walking through the forests of The Rhine, or Normandy Beach.

3. A cliff side setting with a figure at the edge, Controlling the force of the wind.

4. A modern young girl reaches out to a WWII solider, Thanking him for her freedom.

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Traditional Art GAT110 - Art and Design Portfolio

These are my final photos for my Art and Design portfolio for GAT110

- Ryan Bocking, BCT17071, 2017

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Rough outline and composition for my final piece. Still a lot to do.

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WIP Rough Thumbnail Sketches.

A little over half of the first page of thumbnail sketches done. More detail needs to be added, but I will continue this later.

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Thumbnail Approach

It is expected that I am to create 2 pages of thumbnails for a final creative piece as part of my Traditional Art project. I have been using many forms of media to spawn inspiration to develop ideas such as TV Shows, images, games, and even music. Some of my favourite inspirations to form ideas from are Game of Thrones, The Elder Scrolls series, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, World of Warcraft along with music from Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Nicholas Hooper and Alexandre Desplat.

Other things I have taken into consideration are the golden ratio and the Rule of Thirds grid. While this is something I need to improve on, it has helped me to layout my scene.

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Self Improvement

Assessing my weaknesses, I have come up with a small list of what I need to improve on. Truth is, before this, I barely did traditional art or just draw with a pencil in general. I’ve purely learnt everything digitally, so this is a challenge for me.

So here’s my list of things I need to work on to push myself forward.

All art

Perspective

Composition

Proportion

Tonal Values

Texture

Traditional Art

Trying new techniques

Different pencil hardness

Pencil pressure

Ink drawing/Line-art

Digital Art

Colour values

Different art styles

New brushes and brush techniques

Here’s Just a few. I’ll probably update the list if I think of anymore.

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WORK IN PROGRESS!

Base linework and simple shading of my scenes. I will use a smudge tool to smooth out the shadows and work on the different contrasts in the shadows.

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You can't put a time limit on creativity

“Release dates are the enemy of creativity. You never know when you’re going to be inspired or whats going to inspire you. You can’t put a time limit on creativity.”

- Dr Dre, The Defiant Ones, 2017

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Tonal Values - Traditional Art

One of my tasks for traditional art class is to do 2x A3 Tonal Value studies.

For this, I have to set up a scene of objects and lighting and recreate that scene on paper. I have approached this by doing 2 scenes with different themes, One around the kitchen, and another around gaming.

For my kitchen scene, I have included a bottle of cooking oil, a container, a mug and 2 eggs. I have laid each object on a white sheet for additional values in the creases of the fabric. This will give me a challenge as I haven’t drawn much fabric before.

With the gaming scene, I have gathered an Xbox One controller, 2 games, a TV remote, and 2 pencils to add more shape into the scene. I have also laid these objects on top of the white sheet and used the flash from my phone to give the items a harsh light.