#art foundation

[cloudberriess]

Personal Project: The Frutiger Family🐬

I drew this for my art foundation personal project inspired by the Frutiger family of aesthetics!

[isorottatime]

doing higher education applications being AuDHD and having OCD is a little odd. "please specify your conditions" and i gotta pick between autism, ADHD, and OCD. only one application so far let me say "multiple" and then specify. like this is a problem affecting their data and categorisations and processing. idk why having the "multiple" option isn't standard.

[grumpy-gamedev]

Finally got started with the studies

Today it finally happened, I started with the first set of homework for the first lesson of Draw a cube (will show some absolutely uninteresting process in the end of todays post).

It feels good to take the first shaky steps for getting started with the foundational skills. And it's a humbling experience for certain. I've been doing artsy stuffs since I was 6 years old (I designed Mario levels in my school books, so already I had my sights aimed on game development). But I've always just gone full steam trying to do things without actually doing some serious training.

This works to a certain degree for sure. I've been able to produce things that I still feel a sense of pride over, so nothing bad there. But now I want to take things up a notch and actually get to a semi-professional level (still keepin' it indie though).

Let's take a break and look into the archives, here's a piece that I made whilst actually being at a art school (and of course they really didn't give a **** about foundation, it was just "draw what you feel like". More about producing personal expressions and some figure drawing on the side.

This is Leviathan, a postcard sized mixed media painting (I used watercolor and acrylic ink). This like the previous post has gone through some iterations starting with a graphite drawing. I do have a digital version in the works, but I laid it to the side several years ago sadly.

Anyway, back the the present. Today I have been churning out most of the homework for the first part of lesson 1 of draw a box. Still have one more page of ghosted planes left to produce. But I want to take things in a healthy pace, so will continue with that one tomorrow.

I am trying to gauge how long time it'll take to finish the curriculum and feel steady with the basics and right now I think it will take the better part of this year really. I want to pace myself in a way that gives the ol' brain time to process both the muscle memory and the theory of the course.

I do have my eyes on some follow up courses after I've finished the DaB course as well. Right now I'm really enjoying Tim Mcburnie's YouTube channels, and I really vibe with his reasoning on both a practical and philosophical level. So when I feel ready I will probably give his big course a spin!

Tim Mcburnie

This is the home of The Visual Scholar Podcast.

And now for the actual work I churned out today! It's quite horrific as expected, but I want to be transparent in my journey and give the ones that find it interesting the complete picture. I have a long way to go, but each stroke is a part of that journey, and I will try to enjoy it to the fullest.

"But Glenn! Where's the first page?" You might ask, weeeeell, the first page has the same things as the second page really, it was a 2 page thing, and I will do one more of the fourth page so I have 5 pages total for the first homework (and page 4 and 5 will get additional scribbles in the shape of ellipses at a later stage as well).

These exercises will also be put in a schedule of warm-up exercises after I've finished the homework, so it won't be the last time I will be doing planes for sure!

Anyways, super psyched to have started the course! I will be sure to you you all another update when I'm getting a bit into the thing! I hope ye enjoy!

Cheerz!

/ Glenn the Grumpy Gamedev

[fmp-cassette-course]

About this comic:

This comic was made for my final major project for my foundation art course.

That blog is @art-foundation-2022

Part 1 is HERE

[max-the-art-machine]

[A very small] snippet of a comic i’m working on.

[artsbyrhea]

Venus of Willendorf ( ca. 25,000 BCE), Artist Unknown

The Venus of Willendorf is one of the most iconic images of the artworks of prewritten history, and has become an intrinsic part of body positive movements in contemporary society. The small scale carved sculpture is over 25,000 years old, and depicts a standard of beauty that is not often, if at all, recognised in modern culture: an unashamedly fat body. While there is no certainty regarding the original purpose of this sculptural piece, it is generally placed into the categories of religious imagery or decorative art. The most commonly accepted theory is that she represents early deification, a fertility goddess with her exaggerated breasts and hips being associated with strength in pregnancy and childbirth.

The sculpture is around six inches tall, a small size that has contributed to the theories of it being used originally as jewellery or in similar decorative ways. The shape of it allows it to sit nicely in the palm of the hand, demonstrating the importance it may have held regarding human connection as ideas of culture developed, as well as suggesting that it was designed to be carried and transported with these early nomads as they travelled. The approach to the female body is what is most remarkable about these early sculptures as they present it in a casual manner, not hiding or explicitly sexualising it as then became the norm during the Hellenistic movement.

The forms of her body are very unusual by modern standards, this aspect of feminine presentation not one that ever reaches mainstream culture. As such, she proves to be a very refreshing artistic image, a celebration of bodies that are judged harshly by today’s standards, and it is likely for that reason that it has become so linked to body positivity movements.

(photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

[mothcreatures]

FMP - more exploration into zines and folklore, small zine featuring illustrations of folklore creatures from Scandinavian and Celtic origins with a focus on Fae.

[crypt-of-crows]

Being a student is pretending to be fine while also being one small inconvenience away from a breakdown at all times.