Great Googly Goblins

"Heightened awareness of visual and sensory environment" This may be one of my favorite submissions for any of my ideas journals that I have done over the last few years. It is not only because of the way the drawing looks or that I think anything relating to the whole goblin, elf, wizard scene is awesome, but how this drawing came to be. I had just finished a previous picture in my sketch book, and when all of the inking was finished, I found out that the page after had little black dots all over the page! At first I was annoyed that these dots would get in my way and ruin whatever picture I wanted to draw in its environment, but then I started to connect these dots together. What happened was that I ended up with the outline of the goblin head and helmet, so I continued to work on it until it is what you see now. It was astounding to me that just a few dots on the page in its own environment could spark the idea for the vision of a goblin warrior to draw and now I try to look for these little guide points whenever I draw a new image. Who could have thought that connecting the dots could create something so unique and different from everything else that I drew.

Dream Factory

"Appreciate the value of expressing in visual form one’s personal experience" Now with this particular drawing, the personal experience that I am referring to is not of mine, but a friend I know. However, even the experience is not his own either, but the experience of him in a dream. It was random, confusing but entertaining and the picture that you see to the side is of an image that came to my head as he told me about his dream. It was of some sort of factory that he came across and ninjas were shooting batons at him, and a bear that could inhale these projectile batons with tornado breath. Explaining it like this though, probably just confused you more and it was very difficult to construct the image that I had while I was given pointers from my friend on how the dream world looked. It really was a whole new experience to draw from these outside ideas, but it also helped me to work on planning my steps in drawing on a higher level of development.

Art Kart

"Understand ideas and human values in art" Ahhh Mario Kart, one of the many racing games out there that I actually think is enjoyable. Is it the gameplay? The Music? Or the characters to play as? I think that it is the visual style and art direction personally. When you look at the simple image of a go kart, you can't help but feel a need to go fast and fly like the wind. It is that image that triggers something in the minds of humans, and becomes relatable to in their own aspect of life. You could then think up your own ideas and decide where the image will go next, and this was the direction in which this drawing was going for. It is not just a picture of a Mario go kart, but a picture of endless possibilities and ideas for anyone.

"Appreciate range and potential of media for visual expression of ideas" For the few of you out there who know Spike Spiegel, (And the even fewer who know about this blog...) then you know of Cowboy Bebop. One of the few properly syndicated animes aired on North American television and a great one at that, pretty much giving me the motivation to draw from this idea. But at the same time, as I drew what I saw in Spike, I began to pay even closer attention to the details, the expressions, and the style that Spike has in his character. The shading of this drawing was to give off the right mood for Spike and also used to present an air of realism. I started to think if the artists of Cowboy Bebop always think in such detail and to reach their proper moods in their work. Being the amateur artist that I am, I believe that talent doesn't just happen in any old drawing, it takes the time, detail, and discipline true artists must have to create a great anime character like Spike Spiegel.

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"Appreciate the value of expressing in visual form one’s personal experience" (On a side note) Happy 2010 everyone! I may be a few months late for the party, but it's good to be back. To start things off, you may have noticed the odd bird on the skull to the side here. This picture I can say was not entirely my own creation, first of all, the idea of it came from a friend of mine, and second, the picture's colours are inverted. These two differences however blend perfectly to express this particular goal of the art program. My friend had told me about this bird that he thought he passed on the street, to say the least, it did not exist. But still, he thought that he heard the sounds "Woop Woop" and thus the creation of this picture was born. The inverted colours of the picture also help depict both the time of day and the invisibility of our avian friend. Although the scanner did not do as I thought it would, it started my 2010 year off with a bang.

"Be able to extend and transmit a culture by making socially relevant statements" Hotcakes...personally, I have not had the pleasure of tasting one of these pastries, however, this cake has had a long history of being a long lasting statement in society. "They will sell like Hotcakes!!" Surely you have heard this spoken of when someone tells another that their product will sell to the public very well. Here, I have taken that legendary statement, and illustrated it with a particular twist of our current economy. As you should be well informed of our situation right now, things are not as great as they could be to say the least. In a way this picture is slightly saddening, as not even the mighty Hotcake cannot escape the cold hand of the 09 economy. But hey, tommorrow's a new day, and it could be the day for the Hotcake, and now I want cake.

"Understanding of art as an expression of a particular society" There are many different kinds of societies in the world today. As there are, green societies, mechanical societies, poor societies, and rich societies to name a few. My picture deplicts the rich society, a society of class, of elegance, and of fame. Many people strive for the higher class, and some of these people spend their entire lives trying to be accepted into this society. Whether a person needs to be thought of as high class because they are, or because they want to be. This chameleon shows that not only can this animal blend in to its surroundings, but that it can also blend in to appeal to the higher class. Think of it as a disguise to fool others into thinking that you are something that you are not.