Homework

What a busy night, here is a recap...
1. No class Oct. 31 (This Wednesday) because we are going on the field trip to the Oakland Museum of art. (see earlier posting).

2. Next Monday we will look at your comic book samples.

3. If you did not get a chance to turn in your organic skull you can do so on Monday night. For a total of 4 Art Boards
1. Single B/W and a single color skull sample. 
2. Full page of B/W Pattern. 
3. Full Page Color Pattern. 
4. Full page Color organic pattern.
We will look at the projects on Monday night.


4. When you come to the field trip I will give you a hand out that describes what you need to look for as prep for your final project. (BRING YOUR SKETCHBOOK, PENCIL and a CAMERA).

5. Your final project in class will be in two parts.
    A. First: As a warm up, you will create a quarter sheet zine on any topic that you would like. I have created a template in Illustrator for you and placed it into the class folder in scratch, titled MASTER ZINE. I have also placed a PDF. about zines for you to read into the folder. We will work on the quarter sheet zine in class on Monday. Please bring your subject matter to class that night.
    B. Second: For the big project you will create a 12 page, half sheet zine. (This means 3 sheets of 81/2 x 11 paper printed on both sides.) The 12 pages includes the front and back cover. After the field trip I will go into more detail about the second part of the project and give you a larger template to work from.
6. The hand out that I passed around tonight in class is for you to review and note the changes that a comic must go through before it is ready for publication. Note how the line work, shading and the composition from panel to panel changes. The Artists on this work were some heavy hitters in the comic world: Will Eisner, Wally Wood and Jules Feiffer.

See you on Sunday..... at the museum.

Have a great Halloween

The Mechanics of Comics

Here s a good primer before you begin your comic:
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/comics/the-mechanics-of-comics/



Even if you think you know comics, you will learn something new. 

Homework reminder

Hi,

On Monday, bring in you comic samples and ideas. Be prepared to talk about why you have chosen them. Online comics, short form, graphic novel, newspaper, all of them are ok to use. Again, be prepared to talk about your choices, line, story, technique.... why is it special to you and how does it relate to the kind of stories that you want to tell. Have fun picking your comics.

 

 

Class Update

Hi everyone,
On Wed. we will continue working on the Mascot Project. We will have a working critique on Oct. 17, and the final version is due on Oct. 22. At that time you will turn in the ai. file and a published version of it as a jpg.

Also on Wed. in class, be ready to show some preliminary concept art of your face/skull that incorporates the decorative elements that are associated with The Day Of The Dead.

 For the Day of the Dead people don wooden skull masks called calacas and dance in honor of their deceased relatives. The wooden skulls are also placed on altars that are dedicated to the dead. Sugar skulls, made with the names of the dead person on the forehead, are eaten by a relative or friend, according to Mary J. Adrade, who has written three books on the ritual. The Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations kept skulls as trophies and displayed them during the ritual. The skulls were used to symbolize death and rebirth. The skulls were used to honor the dead, whom the Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations believed came back to visit during the monthlong ritual. Unlike the Spaniards, who viewed death as the end of life, the natives viewed it as the continuation of life. Instead of fearing death, they embraced it. To them, life was a dream and only in death did they become truly awake.
"The pre-Hispanic people honored duality as being dynamic," said Christina Gonzalez, senior lecturer on Hispanic issues at Arizona State University. "They didn't separate death from pain, wealth from poverty like they did in Western cultures." However, the Spaniards considered the ritual to be sacrilegious. They perceived the indigenous people to be barbaric and pagan. In their attempts to convert them to Catholicism, the Spaniards tried to kill the ritual. But like the old Aztec spirits, the ritual refused to die.
To make the ritual more Christian, the Spaniards moved it so it coincided with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (Nov. 1 and 2), which is when it is celebrated today. Previously it fell on the ninth month of the Aztec Solar Calendar, approximately the beginning of August, and was celebrated for the entire month. Festivities were presided over by the goddess Mictecacihuatl. The goddess, known as "Lady of the Dead," was believed to have died at birth, Andrade said. Today, Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico and in certain parts of the United States and Central America. "It's celebrated different depending on where you go," Gonzalez said. In rural Mexico, people visit the cemetery where their loved ones are buried. They decorate grave sites with marigold flowers and candles. They bring toys for dead children and bottles of tequila to adults. They sit on picnic blankets next to grave sites and eat the favorite food of their loved ones.


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/articles/dead-history.html#ixzz28ohK6Gv9

Here are some images to start you thinking about it.

For more on the artwork of Posada click this link

Homework Info

Hi everyone, two things:
1. For Monday please review chapter 25 in the text book.
2. In your sketchbook draw your version of the Great Pumpkin from the Peanuts Halloween special.

Monster Draw Photos

Hi click the link to see lots of photos from the Monster Draw
http://165-166.blogspot.com/

Class Reminder

On Wednesday we will be scanning in the final sketches of your mascot character and begin recreating it in Illustrator. Also, we will look at the B/W & Color Herman Heads.