Attached are the Portrait project final and the complete pages for the Big Hope visual journalism project.

 

Two drafts for portrait-covers of Jackie. Trying to use graphic shapes and iconographic styles to express her attitude and fixation on animals and the ethical issues surrounding their treatment.

“Now in truth,” quoth that man, “I would I had here for thy love, the
dearest thing that I wield; for truly ye have right oft in reason deserved
a greater reward than I could reckon. But to exchange with you
love-tokens, that would profit but little.” […]


“Now, courteous and honourable one,” quoth that lovesome lady,
“though I shall have nothing of yours, yet shall ye have of mine.”

Gawain and Lady Bertilak as a study of courtly love, during the pivotal point in the legend where the knight struggles to resist her less-than-platonic advances.
Next step is colorization(2/3 layers) with texture and paint cleanup until completion.

Known issues with the portrait of the lady and the arm of the knight will be corrected before color adjustment.

Self-Assignment

Working from the silhouette sheet I presented and the critique I received last class, I finished two character turnaround sheets and three renders of other characters, one of whom received 2 alternate renders for the sake of conceptualizing.

The project followed an idea for a science-fiction/fantasy project following a post-human society that loses the ability to die -- without cause for even unnatural death, victims of attempted murder instead are broken up into component parts of both body and mind, and usually require assistance returning to normal life. Providing that assistance is especially important, since in a state of reduced mental faculty these victims are usually unable to help identify their assailants -- detectives therefore also play the role of medics and psychotherapists, and utilize different types of skillsets to help restore assault victims to the way they were.

I have included the original silhouette sheet and color silhouette roughs for reference.

I enjoyed thsi project and intend to work independently on the concept in the future.

Partial silhouette sheet and four color study silhouettes for a series of player character private investigator characters and some of the "ghost" monster characters they would encounter. Final character sheets and turnarounds will be full, detailed character paintings based on the more polished silhouettes in the color studies.

The concept is a science fiction/fantasy world where people cannot truly "die" but where the trauma experienced by victims of violent crime often renders them unable to fully recover or report that crime on their own -- they become confused "ghosts" of varying levels of function until they recover, and usually require outside assistance to return to their normal lives. The detective character therefore needs to play both the role of an investigator and a sort of folk healer.

I decided to work on a thematic exploration of the AVAM Big Hope show with a collection 7 images and an exploratory essay, which is still in draft stages, combined as a booklet. Thematic exploration would be through the point of view of a stranger in a strange land. I included "Recovery" from the main exhibit because it seemed to fit more thematically with the hope show.

Also included are the suggested edits for the previous assignment, which I forgot to upload last week.

File did not finish uploading before class. Fixed.
Editorial revised sketch

Final layout for "Goodnight Moon" window poster.

Thumbnails for "Cultural Exchanges" review of All Our Names,’ by Dinaw Mengestu

Late upload -- text is not final, issue with the upper border needs to be resolved.

Final will be a combination of gouache, collage, and digital media, but here are some very rough color and shape layouts. I prefer the 1st.