Detailed shots III Ganondorf

(Yess I made an even 70)

Detailed Shots II Link

Detailed shots I Zelda

Complete!

DONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNE.

In every sense of the word jesus fuck I'm done with everything.

Oh my goddd

I'm in so much pain right now.. my back.. I haven't been to bed in a week and I hurt so much from sitting in my chair at my computer working on this fuckin' project. Somebody better like it, holy shit.

Preview VII

SO FAR!

Seriously getting there and oh my god am I happy about that..
Got some coffee and energy drinks and I will not stop until this is finished.

fuuuuhuhuhuuuck

At least my lines are done.. I'm getting there!

But right now I am seriously the definition of 'done' with everything

like my life

wat am i even doing with my life

i have no idea

wat

This is seriously one of those 'it seemed like a good idea at the time' sort of things..

Fecteau Paper

Natasha
11/12/12
ARTZ 106

              

               Vincent Fecteau, a San Francisco born sculptor made his name in the art world with his unusual yet ordinary use of objects used for his work. Things like foam core, cardboard, seashells, string, rubber bands, paper clips, kapa board, walnut shells and Popsicle sticks are used most often to create his beautifully crafted sculptures, which are usually done over the course of at least a years’ time. Fecteau takes his time to ensure his sculptures are things of beauty, layering his materials and textures to reveal a painstaking creative process. As alluring as these works of his are, it was actually the piece he had in the exhibition in Berlin that drew me to his work. Since the 2000s, Fecteau has been working exclusively with papier-mache`, turning them into complex pieces usually placed atop pedestals for viewing. However, in 2012 Fecteau showed a cycle of sculptures that were mounted on specially-made hanging devices so they would be able to be viewed from any angle since the front, back, top and bottom were all reversible. What’s even neater is the fact throughout the exhibition the sculptures were taken down and rotated to show off different aspects.

               Fecteau’s works in the Berlin exhibition show really are a sight to behold. Each piece is beautifully crafted and has numerous shapes and curves throughout it that really give it some eye appeal, though I do have a thing for curves so I may be a little biased. But really, these are incredible pieces full of cool colours and depth, angles jutting inward and outward, twisting around or bending back into each other, all of them folding together so perfectly and neatly into one package that you can’t take your eyes away because you’re so focused on where one of the pieces will go, where it will come out, where it may stop, if it stops at all. From every angle there’s something new to look at, and there’s no way to soak it all in at once, it needs to be explored. It needs to have the chance to show what it has to offer, and the only way to do that is to really explore it, look at it from every angle; from the side, from the top, upward, downward, and angled. Every way possible, because these really are so interesting and beautifully made it’ll leave you speechless in the sense you have no idea what’s going on with it... but you don’t care.

               What really attracted me to Fecteau’s work was the sheer fact that his sculptures are so weird. They are, they really are, and I like that. There’s always something new to look at with them, and his use of low saturated cool colours really works with them, and cool colours aren’t something I’m a huge fan of, but for some reason in these they work. I think something else that may have drove me to choose him was that many people would probably not understand them, hell I don’t even understand them, but these are the kinds of sculptures that it’s okay if you don’t understand them, because they’re so beautifully crafted it doesn’t really matter. You’re just enjoying looking at them.

               Fecteau’s dominant 2D elements in this work would definitely have to be non-representational, non-objective, complex patterns and colour, and all in one. These all really just look like blobs of geometric – yet organic – shapes and patterns that all fit together in a very non-objective way with lovely colours to compliment them. What’s interesting too about the way he paints his work, is he doesn't do it in an “artistic” way, but rather in the way a house painter may paint the walls of a home or the outside. Fecteau relies on bold stripes of colour and emulsions of paint on his pieces. Any kind of shading or spatial effects are actually the result of permitted dirt and stains that have derived from the repeated layers of paint Fecteau uses before he settles on a final palette. An even more interesting fact is that when Fecteau is creating the basic forms of his pieces, he actually cuts them up and re-assembles them to create the shapes and flowing movement shown in his final pieces.

 I really would recommend anyone to take a look at Vincent Fecteau’s work, it’ll take two seconds to look him up and it’s definitely worth it. His works have everything; fantastic eye appeal, complex patterns and shapes, and leaves you really questioning it and yourself as to what it is, and why do I like it so much.

Ranch

So these are from a field trip we took last Wednesday to a Ranch! Pretty neat, not really my thing but hey if that's what you like then awesome!

Have some random facts I learned:

• Cows can be re-branded
• Calfs can be branded around February, Older cows in March
• 3 acres are needed per cow
• Automatic feeders help to feed cows more efficiently
• Before placing the hay in the feeder the wire needs to be cut away
• Bales weigh 1300 pounds a piece, and 2 1/2 of them will feed 150 cows a day
• Pregnant cows eat even more
• Before Hay can be used as feed it needs to be cured and dried (also away from the cows because they'll jump fences or tear them down to get to it!)
• Calfs are fed pellets for nutrients
• When cows are ready to birth they're taken to the barn (shown above)
• Calves are pulled out head-first with chains around the legs and hook wenches to pull them out (when the mother is pushing as well, of course)
• After the calf is born something needs to be shoved up the nose to get the mucus out
• Newly born calves need to be checked on every two hours to make sure they're eating, if not they need to be bottle-fed every half hour on the hour
• Calving takes around 15 minutes from start to finish
• Older cows sometimes have complications
• Calves gain 8-10 pounds a day

And that's about it! Pretty neat, actually.. aside from the almost stepping in cow shit all day. But y'know.

OKAY.

I. Have made a decision.

As upset as I am, I think I'm going to just make this my final project and not do the painting. Why? Because there is no way. No. Way. That I can finish this, write a two page paper, make stencils and apply them, and make a full painting all in less than a week. There is so fucking humanly possible way.

I haven't gone to bed in five days.. all I've done is lay my head on my desk for an hour or two at a time.

So I'm thinking I'm just going to make this my final (I'll print it off on poster paper too, I made sure it was of a high resolution so that I could make a nice-sized poster), and really make sure it looks good because I don't want to rush it and have it turn to shit after all the hours I've put into it. I might even make a background, like paint the Temple of Time in the back floating in the distance? That'd be neat.

But yeah. No way, I really took on more than I could take and holy shit is it catching up with me.

Deal with it!

Preview IV

As of todayyyy

I really am getting there but I think I'm going to take a small break for tonight and work on some other things.. mostly because I hate my laptop with a passion and it's so very slow! The file is so big it freezes a bunch and legs like a mofo, my desktop is definitely the way to go with this one..

Stencils

Yeah! Let's do some stencils at work!!

That I'll probably fuck up.. but hey.

wat

this is literally me right now.. i havent slept in two days and ive been living off coffee and energy drinks

h e l p

/relevant to project

Preview III

Welp. As of today I am this far! Not.. even... close.

Looks like I'm staying up another night in hopes of getting it finished.. and if it's not I'm going to drink myself to sleep and cry.

I didn't get done a lot of what I wanted to do today, just the flats down with some gradients to make it more appealing because my laptop screen is like.. 1/3 of the size of my desktop one I draw with so it's a lot more difficult. But hey! That's okay!

Very messy looking, I know! It's a WIP (work in progress).

Preview II

I... am getting there.. very, very, very slowly. I've been working all night and only this done omg /sob

Preview I

carpal tunnel

carpal tunnel stahp

CARPEL TUNNEL STAHP IT YOU HURT

Sketch!

Okay.. I think my sketch is done. I hope. I'm so very tired but I need to stay up so I can line it and colour it.. this needs to be done by Friday oh my god I'm going to die.

This class is going to kill me.
I'm going to die here.
This is where I die.

THE ELECTION OH MY GOD

MY PEOPLE
WE
ARE SAVED

I'M GOING TO GET DRUNK TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE OH MY GOD FUCKYES

YEAH. OKAY. WOW.

So I was a complete fuckin' idiot and deleted my whole project so far.. I mean it was just the basic sketch BUT STILL I LIKED IT SO MUCH OH MY GOD.

I'm going to go drown my sorrows in vodka and cry now..

45min CLASS Gesture Drawing

Did this in 45 minutes.. I could of done so much more I'm sorry. I was way too worried about the small details and just ugh. Oh well! It was my first one ever so I don't think I did TOO bad.

5 & 15min CLASS Gesture Drawings

5 minutes

I THINK this was 15 minutes? itssobadimsorry

15 minutes, I actually like how this came out..

30sec CLASS Gesture Drawings

Some gestures we did in class today.. I was still really nervous in the beginning. My god those first few suck..

30sec Gesture Drawings VII

I'm seriously going to be pissed as fuck if I can't do this again tomorrow. Seriously.
I'LL CRY. I WILL. I. WILL. CRY.
RIGHT THERE.
IN THE CORNER.

30sec Gesture Drawings VI

I need to start doing these in less time.. my friend suggested 20 seconds but it's scary man.

TED Talks Podcast | New title: Holy fuck this is long

       ... Wow. This Podcast really hit home for me, and I mean in a big way. Just everything that was talked about was my entire life thus far and that's insane. Growing up I was always drawing, I mean always. I remember ever since I could hold a pencil I was drawing on something, anything. Paper, boxes, the backs of receipts and napkins in restaurants. Just anything I could get a hold of. Because I loved it. I loved drawing, and I loved how it made me feel. I grew up being that way and loved anything having to do with art and was so fascinated with anything in that department, going to museums in school was my favourite field trips ever. As I got older, though, nearing my teen years and really thinking about what I wanted to do I knew I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to draw, because that's what I loved to do. It's what I still love to do, even though it causes me pain because I have carpal tunnel, I don't care. I was also told by my peers since I was young I should be an artist, even some of my family told me that... until I decided to tell them that's what I wanted to do one day. All I got was backlash telling me I was going to be wasting my life away: I'd never be able to afford anything, I'd always be poor, I wouldn't be happy, ect. For a long time I believed that, so I went through my teen years very angry and frustrated because while everyone else around me had their lives planned out, I had no idea what to do. I went through so many professions in my head: a psychologist, a forensic scientist, homicide detective, policeman. Just a lot of crazy shit that didn't make much sense at all.. and I still wasn't happy. In fact I was even more aggravated because I knew I didn't want to do any of those things. Shit, I have my own problems why would I want to listen to someone else's all day? No thanks.
       School was the same way for me. I never payed attention, ever. I hated High School with a passion, so much so that I faked being sick many a time just so I could stay home. When I did go to school, I never payed attention, I either read or drew the whole time. Don't get me wrong, I'm not stupid, I'm actually pretty damn smart. But I didn't care about school, there were a million and two other things I wanted to be doing at the time and I was in trouble quite a bit for not paying attention to what the teachers were spewing out of their faces. Sitting in a classroom being talked at for six hours a day was not my ideal day, I can tell you that. The only time in High School I enjoyed was art class (until my teacher became a bitch that is). That was the only period I looked forward to all day long, and the only time I was actually happy. Other than that nothing worked for in school at all, no matter what anyone tried to do, because I just didn't care. Which is why I ended up dropping out in my Sophomore year, and went online to get my Diploma (not GED, my actual diploma) nearly two years before the rest of my class did. And I spent... four years. Four. Years. Doing almost nothing but drawing and I know that may sound like a waste, but it got me to where I am today and I wouldn't change that for anything in the world. The idea of college almost needing to be a reality too kind of got me. I am a big supporter of college, but I'm also a big supporter of finding your own way. Everyone has their own ideals, their own ways and strategies to get to what and where they want, and whichever way works for you may not work for another person, and that's okay! We're all different, which is what makes us all so interesting.
       In the Podcast it states how schools suffocate creativity and I can vouche for that entirely. In school you're almost never allowed to have opinions different from anyone else's. When you're a child you're told having opinions is the greatest thing in the world, but what they don't tell you is that they're only great if they correspond with others' opinions. If you have a different idea from someone else I hope you can run fast because most people don't like to be proven wrong or hear any other version of what they think. I think it's because they're scared. They don't want to know there are other ways out there, they don't want to hear them, because it's the whole "ignorance is bliss" kind of thing. The part of the Podcast when he talks about how when children are young they sing, draw, dance, anything else freely without a care in the world, but as they grow older they become aware of other people's judgments, standards and others out there in the same kind of field as they are, so they grow scared and self conscious. This line really hit me hard, because it's the same thing I go through, nearly every day. I worry every day that I'll never be as good as so many other artists out there that I admire. I see their works every day and it does get me down sometimes because it always looks so amazing and perfect and I look at mine and its just... shit. I struggle with that kind of thing almost every day, even though I'm told by so many others that I'm quite good at what I do, I never feel like it's enough and it's hard to change that. I'm trying, I really am, and I've gotten so much better, but it's so very difficult to change your entire perspective of everything overnight.
       That kind of leaks into one of his other ideas; that kids take chances, with everything, because they aren't scared. Like the little girl who drew the picture of God and her teacher questioned her because "no one knows what he looks like." And all the girl had to say was "they will soon." I mean come on, that's amazing to me that someone, a child can have those kind of balls to just sit there and say it like it is. This is what I'm doing. This is what they/it/ect looks like to me. So deal with it. I want that kind of attitude again and I have mad respect for that kid.
       This whole idea of the Podcast sounds crazy. It really does. But maybe it's just so crazy it may work? There's only one way to find out, and I think I am with the whole idea of customizing and personalizing education, because it's one of the most genius things I've ever heard of in my life, and I'm pretty sure that that's what Nate's trying to do, and he's doing awesome at it. To be able to be in a classroom and just let go to do whatever you want? That's a dream come true for me and I'm excited to go to class every day because of that, which I have never been able to say before about school. Ever. I have mad respect for him and his ideals and acceptance toward everything and anything. Even though we've only been in class two weeks, he's done so much for me, unintentionally showing me what I want to do for the rest of my life without fear, relighting the passion I use to have for art, and just everything I've been looking for 21 years for, and I would really, really just like to say thank you for that, Nate.
       Okay enough feelings! I hope I didn't just go on a total rant and completely miss the point.. fuck.

45sec Gesture Drawings I

More! I also ran out of charcoal so I had to use a vis-a-vis marker.. sorry for my dirty paper! My fingers are covered in charcoal.