Small Work: Three Panel Comic

Narrative: small work

Landscape: Small Work #2

So, these are 'paper cut-out's'.

My process was (1)drawing out the figure on bristol board, (2)inking the drawing, (3)Stippling the outline to bring out the form, (4)coloring in the inked illustration with Prismacolor Markers, (5)cut out the illustration with an X-Acto Knife, and finally (6)add the backing.

Landscape: Small Work #1

Landscape: Small Work #3

I cannot see who it is. The thing in this graveyard.

Six PM

  I am currently in Woodlawn Park Cemetery, staying overnight because of a dare from one of my friends. It is currently six PM and I am hiding in some mausoleum, with a huge sculpture of a falling angle on top of it, that someone must have broken into ages ago. I'm also feeling like a complete idiot for taking this dare, this is literally the start of every horror movie ever, oh well I guess.
  It's quite cold right now and the mosquitoes are starting to come out. I've always been deadly allergic of mosquitoes, and I really feel irritated the next day. Luckily I brought with me a few water bottles and some candy... I wonder if the candy is the reason for the mosquitoes.

Seven PM

  I'm still in the mausoleum hiding out, and the sun has almost set. I have a few bug bites and have already gone through one snickers bar (#notspon) and half a water bottle. I've been thinking a lot about mausoleums, and just remembered that the whole point of them is that they scatter the deceased bones inside them... so that technically mean's I'm sitting on a bunch of dead bodies. Honestly that's pretty rad.
  I'm really bored and the smell is getting really annoying, I'd even go as far to say that it's extremely irritating. I wonder if I'm allergic to cemetery's.

Eight PM

  It's finally dark outside, so I think I can go explore. I wonder if I should go outside though, this really feels like an exposition to cookie cutter horror books I read all the time. Well whatever, I might as well just go full throttle with this dare. I definitely don't want to get back to my friend's in the morning saying I just sat in a  mausoleum the whole time I was here, even though this is a little scary.
  I get up and feel aching in my legs for sitting cross-legged too long. I walk out into the graveyard with my backpack full of 'gear'. Fog has rolled in.
  I guess I'll just start wondering around...

Nine PM

  Wondering around for the whole hour has tired me out a little, I'm really out of shape. This cemetery doesn't seem to end. I kind of wish I had stayed in the mausoleum, at least there it wasn't so cold.
  I wonder what the pot of my friend's daring me to do this was... Are they angry with me? Have I done something? Geez I hope no one find's out I stayed here overnight, I'd definitely be a laughing stock. Maybe if I had some awesome story to tell when this is over! But nothing has really happened yet, the most significant thing to happen so far is that I dropped my water bottle and lost the water... well, it's only nine, hopefully something interesting will happen before the day is done.

Ten PM

  I'm sitting by a little fountain that is at the very back of the cemetery. the fountain doesn't really work, so it's more like a puddle... hopefully I don't get Zika.
  This cemetery is really beautiful, I think I've gotten used to the spooky atmosphere, I seem to have calmed down a little. My backpack is pretty much empty now, I wish I had brought more food.
  Ruffle Ruffle
  I quickly turn around, just to see nothing. That was weird, I could have sworn I had heard something. Hopefully there isn't anyone looking after this place at night, I don't want to get in trouble.

Eleven PM

  Ruffle Ruffle
  I keep hearing things. For the last hour it's felt like i'm being watched, that's why I am heading back to the mausoleum right now. I'm probably just psyching myself out...
  crackle!  a huge burst of lightning strikes and rain starts pouring.
  Damn it! I'm getting soaked! This really sucks.
  Oh my god... I'm standing in front of the mausoleum and the angle is gone... There was one hundred percent a sculpture here right? I could have sworn. I remember telling you-
  Ruffle Ruffle

Twelve PM

  Everything is black, I cannot see because that thing took my eye's. I cannot feel anything, I became numb to it a while back... The pain. It was so much in the beginning, but now I cannot feel. It's been going on for an hour now. I do not know how I am still alive, I think it's keeping me alive on purpose, until the end.
  I cannot see who it is. The thing in this graveyard.

Rhinoceros- Small works

Rhinoceros- Small works

Pattern and Ornament: Small Works

Small work 1:

Small work 2: (I fell on my way home from critique and my sculpture broke apart. I'm really sorry. You can kind of see it in the picture of my presentation in class at the top of this blog post.)

Small work 3:

Creative Impulse: Small Work #3

Process shot #1

Process shot #2

Process shot #3

Process shot #4

Process shot #5

Creative Impulse: Small work #2

Creative Impulse: Small Work #1

With this small work I decided to zoom in on the lotus flower.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.