Emily Nally May 18th, 2020 CR 6 What is the process of making comic strips like? Since the Covid-19 adjustment was made to all of our original Senior Project[…]
Category: Studio Art
Onaje CR #6
Coming into this Senior Project, I changed my essential question to “how can I respond to a global pandemic through art?”. Acknowledging there are histories of artists responding to the[…]
Onaje #8: Expanding the Concept
On Monday, I completed “Chaos’ Proclamation”. I feel pretty good about it. In the last hour of my time working on it, I felt this drive compelling me to make[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering — Somewhere in Another Universe…. (Wriley Hodge)
A majority of my senior project has been painting things around me — namely birds and little landscapes — so for the end of my project, I wanted to step[…]
CR 5
Emily Nally May 12th, 2020 CR 5 What is the process of making comic strips like? One thing I know I don’t know yet is how to write a[…]
Onaje CR #5
Over the course of this Senior Project experience, I’ve got an insight into my psychology behind my work. I’ve witnessed the fear and trepidation behind my process. I’ve seen how[…]
#7: Critical Reflection #2
How can art be used to deepen our understanding of the complex topics addressed in Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved? Essential Question of the Week: How can I avoid making a[…]
Comic Strip #6: “Koala Nap”
For this comic, I used the same techniques as my last one. I used layers on Photoshop to create the effect of absence or presence of light. I used[…]
Peter Mamaev senior project update 5/7
5/7/2020 I must say, after a somewhat hectic and discouraging week last week, I think I’m getting to a better place. I am almost done with the pen section of[…]
Creating Light Effects
Today I worked on making light effects because it is something that comes up a lot in this comic strip I’m working on now. In my first drawing, there[…]
Staying Motivated: Breaking My Routine
The end of week 4 to 5 was when I was starting to feel really unmotivated. I’ve never consistently worked on art for this long, so the combination of working[…]
Onaje #7: Distinguishing Masses of Value
After watching a video on composition and value, I decided to organize my next pandemic drawing into 5 value groups before rendering the elements of the scene. Doing so made[…]
Peter Mamaev senior project update 5/4
5/4/2020 It has been hell rewriting those pages. I have in fact ultimately redone them six times over, and now they are finally, miraculously, in a place where they hit[…]
Peter Mamaev critical reflection #4
One of my favorite things about this project is the opportunity it provides for growth in both artistic and writing directions. For writing, I have chosen Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, while[…]
CR#4 Wriley Hodge
CR # 4 Relating Learning To See by Barry Lopez and Why Look at Animals by John Berger to my Senior Project. One of the first times I feel[…]
CR 4
Emily Nally May 5th, 2020 CR 4 What is the process of making comic strips like? Earlier this week, James recommended Making Comics by Scott McCloud to me as[…]
Onaje Cr #4
My essential question is “How can I respond to a pandemic through art”. While figuring out the ideologies and concepts behind my pieces are crucial, the execution is just as[…]
Peter Mamaev senior project update 4/30
4/30/2020 We are steadily approaching the endgame, and I just mass sent two final emails to my interviewees – artists Eric Gapstur and Emily Pearson. These two are actually interesting[…]
Onaje #6
My anatomy and gesture studies are going well. I have finally reached the lower body in my studies, and am currently focused on the humerus, tibia, and fibula. In my[…]
CR#1 Wriley Hodge
This week, a lot of my time was focused on finding, observing, photographing, and painting a couple of wood ducks in prospect park. It started when I got a picture[…]
CR#2 Wriley Hodge
CR #2 Wriley Hodge Today, while sitting on my back porch, I saw something I have never seen before nor expected to see ever. I saw a squirrel running[…]
CR#3 Wriley Hodge
Mimi’s Hummus CR#3 4/28 It has been both sad and inspiring watching the restaurants and stores in my neighborhood adapt to COVID. Many are closed, many seem to be[…]
Peter Mamaev senior project update 4/27
4/27/2020 Cry havoc, and let loose the mass emails of war. Well not really, I’m only interviewing like two more people. Regardless, while my first contact Jed McPherson was a[…]
Peter Mamaev Critical Reflection #3
With my interviews going reasonably well, and the art of my comic being reasonably satisfactory in its current form, the next problem to tackle was time. Time management is an[…]
CR 3
Emily Nally April 28th, 2020 CR 3 What is the process of making comic strips like? So far during Senior Project I feel like I am partially answering my[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Wood Ducks — Wriley Hodge
One of my favorite birds that I have found and photographed thus far is the wood duck. The males have these green headdresses and red breasts and the females are[…]
Onaje CR #3
Over the weekend, I finished the second painting—titled “Unity”—in my series. I feel that it is a step up from the last piece, “The Awakening of Chaos”, in a few[…]
Comic Strip #4: “Birthday Picnic”
This is the final comic, which I documented a piece of earlier. I think this is the first comic where I like the idea a lot more than the outcome.[…]
Comic Strip #2: “Kindergarten”
Kindergarten Comic Strip This is my second comic strip that I made during week 1/2 that I didn’t post. (The image file isn’t working well so there’s a link to[…]
Car Scene: Learning to Use Layers
This is another example that I’ve been working on, showing my process. This scene was particularly time-consuming because I was working on getting the anatomy of the car right[…]
Peter Mamaev graphic novel update 4/24
4/24/2020 I got ink! Well, India ink to be exact, which I will use for backgrounds. While it is a material that I have experimented with in the past, it[…]
Onaje #5: “The Awakening of Chaos”
Today I finished the my first painting for this project, titled “The Awakening of Chaos”. On the technical side of things, I am pretty satisfied with this piece. I feel[…]
Peter Mamaev graphic novel update 4/20
4/20/2020 There is a new threat on the horizon, and that threat is an unfinalized draft. In my time writing I have realized the way that works best for me[…]
Peter Mamaev Critical Reflection #2
Though I have been placed in an art-related cohort, writing still remains a large part of my project. In fact, I would argue that the visuals, while certainly important, are[…]
Comic Strip #3: “Racing”
This is the third comic strip that I finished. I used the exact same process that I have been using for a while now (thumbnailing with maquettes, experimenting with composition,[…]
CR 2
Emily Nally April 21st, 2020 CR 2 Essential Question: What is the process of making comic strips like? The process of working through these comic strips have shown me[…]
Onaje Cr #2
This morning during my cohort meeting, James revealed that we are now one third of the way into the senior project experience. After the meeting, James talked to me individually[…]
#5: Margaret Garner
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#3: Work Space
My workspace is finally all set up and I received my paints in the mail.
Peter Mamaev graphic novel update 4/16
4/16/2020 Well, good news today – I finally got a response from Jed McPherson, the independent comic writer. I’m yet to read through his entire response but his replies to[…]
Working Out Ideas
This is just one page of thumbnails that I’ve done to workout ideas and the layout of a new comic strip. At this stage, I only use stick figures, boxes,[…]
Comic Strip #1: “Kitchen”
This is my first comic strip that I completed at the end of Week 1. When I started this I had an idea for a “storyline” and just drew a[…]
Onaje #4
I feel that my quick sketches and anatomy studies are going pretty well. Every once in a while, I struggle to find the dynamism in a certain pose, but through[…]
Setting Up Maquettes for Composition
After completing my first comic strip, I decided to spend more time on composition in my second comic strip, since I didn’t focus on it at all previously. To do[…]
#2: Critical Reflection #1
How can art be used to deepen our understanding of the complex topics addressed in Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved? During the first week of Senior Project,[…]
Experimenting with the Process and Style
After I spent a couple of days doing some research and finding some inspiration by looking at other artists, I decided to start drawing and sketching. I did not have[…]
CR 1
Emily Nally April 14th, 2020 CR 1 Essential Question: What is the process of making comic strips like? Throughout my Senior Project process so far, I have used my prior[…]