Some random paintings and a drawing i finished today.
One of the tasks in Images & Narratives was to do a cd cover with a "compressed conflict". That is, words that go against eachother sort of. Sooooo i made this weird cd cover. We also had another task but im not that fond of if so im not gonna show it. :p
The picture below inspired me to do draw this ^^. I also got inspired by these movies; Tatt Av Kvinnen (Gone with the woman), Paris Je T'aime and Amelie from Montmartre which i really recommend. All are set or have scenes in Paris where I very much would like to go to and sometime in the future, stay for a longer while. I was there when i was younger but I didnt really appreciate it back then. The sixth person in the portait in the drawing is my dad who took the photo below. The whole thing is a tribute to my family and the future, whatever that might have in store for me and them :). Unfortunatley my grandparents passed away a many years ago, but dang, i really miss them alot. Especially when i was started doing this picture coz then i had a dream about my grandad:
Me and my dad were cleaning out stuff from their old apartment after they had passed away. I walked into the living room and suddenly fell flat down on my face after tripping on something. Exactly when i hit the floor the sealing light turned on by itself. My dad came to the living room and wondered what had happened. I told him that i just tripped on something and that the light turned on by itself. Then he tries to turn it of but it doesnt work, he tries several times but it just doesnt turn off. I look forward and see my grandparents bed in the livingroom, which of course wasnt there in reality. I could also see imprints on the bed, as if two people were laying in the bed. I ask my dad if he can see the imprints and he can, he tells me that we should go.
After that we are in the hallway of the apartment. Someone knocks on the door, my dad opens and he sees someone who makes him very happy, he goes towards that person and hugs him/her. I suddenly see someone in the corner of my eye, a figure standing behind the wall into the livingroom. I get scared when the figure slowly dissapears behind the wall. But then appears again and its my granddad. He wears his grey trenchcoat he used to wear in the winters and walks into the hallway. He sits down besides me, i say: oh cool trenchcoat! He says: (in swedish) you were a little (in english) into fashion haha. I say: yeah haha... :O END.
Holy shietttt, listen to this, I just received an email saying that T H R E E of my pictures have been chosen to be a part of an exhibition in MELBOURNE!!! ScanArt is the name of the exhibition and it is for Scandinavian design students in Australia. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :)
Yay! I finished (well almost anyway) my ads. Which is the second part of my assignment for the studio applications for advertising-class (the glassware was the first part).
I started a few days ago with some very rough sketches of the concept, but then i wasnt sure which direction i wanted for the pics so i tried a lot of different taglines for the ads which u can see in the sketches. After i had done the sketches i went to Toys-R-Us in Morley to find the masks. Unfortunatley they only had really expensive full-set costumes so i thought i had to make my own masks for a while. Until i passed K-mart, good ol trustworthy K-mart. Or something. There i found these supercheap masks which was exactly what i was looking for. So i bought Spider-man, The Hulk, Optimus Prime (transformers) and Batman. I then had to organize the photoshoot and assemble the people; Joshua (batman), Stanley (the hulk), Nicky (spider-(wo)man and Tri (optimus prime).
And then yesterday afternoon (friday) we had the shoot in the business area of the city which had the perfect big-city-super-hero-kinda-feeling to it. On location i tried a few different things with my heroes and tried to find the right meaning for the pics, which eventually came through. Sadly enough, i can only hand in three pictures so unfortunatley The Hulk got left out. But im gonna edit that picture also and show it here eventually.
Started to edit the pics yesterday evening and kept on editing until 4am and then continued today. The ads are for a cinema company called Union Cinemas i made up (short for U.C, get it? :p).
I was actually really lucky with the finished shot coz i had only planned on to shoot in that area and in a bus stop, and some bench. But after first finding the bus stop for the Spider-man shot, which was relatively easy, we then found a little spot for another batman-photo that i havent edited, but turned out really good. We then walked by a building that we went into and asked if we could shoot in the lobby, but we had missed that it was a government building so no photography was allowed in there.
So we had to go out and as we walked down the street i noticed a really good area with some steps coming down and some tall buildings in the background, ideas started to come up in my mind and the perfect location for The hulk was found. Went in to buy a coffee in a café close by to use as a prop and then after i found the right angle we started to shoot. Everybody helped in that shoot by doing different tasks and we had a really good time.
After those pictures were done we found a van just opposite the stairs which was perfect for Optimus Prime to pose infront of. We didnt want to make it look like we were braking into the car so we had to shoot fast and then walk away. On the way from that location we walked by another really awesome lobby. Went in and asked if we could take a few pictures there and i got the above Batman shot from there. And then we were done and went home :)
One of my assignments for Studio applications. We're just gonna use one pic so i cant decide which one im gonna choose. Stuff like this is so hard for me, decisionssss. Hate it :O I used these two vases from IKEA (smygreklam) that i bought last time i was there, after the shoot they served as birthday presents to Nicky and Stanley, wooh.
I just had a hallelulja moment regardin my other bigger photo assignment. So i have to take a break and draw it down. Laters
Meanwhile, enjoy this awesome video from DR SMOOV, Destro Featuring The Baroness - Get Money :
We do these kind of stuff in my Graphic Design Foundation class. Or most of the part we sketch and do perspektive drawing but this weeks homework was to paint with Gouache and Pastel-colour which i hadnt tried before. Liked the gouache colour very much coz it became much stronger than watercolour and didnt go pale after it tried. Hard to see on the pictures above but ive used alot of water to get the light colours in those.
EDIT: After seeing some of the others work of this homework on todays class, my really sucks!! but that's okey coz i haven't done this stuff before and they're all graphic design students and I'm here to learn :).
Today I got a great nostalgic moment when i found a tv-show that i watched when I was younger. I found this list of: Top Ten 80's theme songs, and this show was numer one and when it started to roll i immediacy recognised it, memories came back and everything felt great haha.
I watched a lot of American tv-shows when i was younger coz we had The Childrens Channel (TCC) and a bit later on; Cartoon Network. Which was really good coz i learned alot of English by watching that. But yes i also watched the ordinary stuff on SVT and other stuff, Bumbibjörnarna (Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears), The Smurfs, Trasdockorna (The Raggy Dolls), the one that was about the blood cells, viruses and people who lived inside the body to teach you how the body worked in different situations but i cant remember its name...
But the ones that i truly remember and attracted me was the animated american action-shows like G.I. Joe, Transformers and M.A.S.K. Ive listed the theme songs from each show and just listen, its fantastic, genius, still awe-dropping, exciting and fun:
And the one that triggered my flashback of nostalgia was Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors:
Just listen to that synth in the background!! (dutidutidutidutidblipblapblipblipblipdutidutiduti)
So much violence, but I love it. Yeah, still! (The worst thing is that i thikn ive written about this a few years ago, but what the hell, cant rmb everything :p)
What tv-shows affected you the most when you were growing up?
EDIT:
The show that i couldnt rmb its name, was...Once upon a time... Life!
There was also a SPACE-version of this show, listen to the funky theme song here.
Made it a week or more ago and then finished it tonight after "Oh Deer". Phew.. now I'm tired. Time to go to sleep soon but first im going to watch the ending of The Shining by Kubrick. Then its read-n-sleep-time. Class from 1.30-8.30 tomorrow. Gonna be long and tiring. Goodnighty!
(I got inspired by the song "Málfur Skinnytoe Junior" by the icelandic artist Kira Kira.
The lyrics are:
"Fog slithers through his nostrils, inside him, what a personality that fog is..."
It was also inspired by the songs; Dracúla Darling and Kittens in his pocket also by Kira Kira.)
From sketch to finished product, not more than 4-5 hours. I'm Happy! Why the deer? I dont know really, i really felt that i needed to do one. A startled deer would be nice i thought and i havent done animals for a very long time. I always did when i was young though. I did airplanes and animals. That was my thing. My favourite airplanes to draw were fighter jets or old war planes and my favourite animal to draw was the gazelle. Oh yeah i did battlefields with underground hospital bases also. Quite fascinating :p
I've have also finished reading Naiv.Super. and it was an excellent little adventure. Easy to read, very interesting and it's written in a fun way that makes it appealing to anyone who has ever been in his or her mid-twenties. I highly recommend it!
Before i started on Naiv.Super. i finished reading Stephen Kings The Shining. It has been a long read coz i've been so lazy to find time and read it but now recently i've began to go to bed earlier and catch up on my reading. When i was i Hong Kong i bought Stanley Kubrick's movie version of it and i also found Stephen Kings own version that he made coz he wasn't pleased with Kubricks version. So i have saved those to dvds to watch till after the book was done, and now it is. So a few days ago i started the extravaganza by watching Kings version.
His version was alot more like the book is, both how the characters behaved and spoke but also how all the scenes played out. But i am going to say that Kubricks version is a lot more scary than Kings version is. Which is also because in Kings version, the actors aren't really that good and even though its much more like the book it feels a whole lot more cheesier. While Kubricks movie is more of a interpretation of the source material and more focused on being a so much more scary.
Two minor details about this is:
Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King, SAME initials; S.K (creeeepy).
The particular edition of The Shining i own once belonged to a girl named Susanna. It was a Christmas gift from her grandmother in 1984 (which is also the year i was born) and i would guess she lived on the island of Gotland outside Sweden, coz that is where i bought the book for 10 crowns (approx 1½ aus dollars) on a flee market. (I got this info from the first page in the book).
I've saved Kubricks version for this moment, to have read the book and be able to compare it to Kings version and that moment have finally come. Off course i've seen it before but that was years ago and now its gonna be very interesting to see it again. It's gonna be a great moment in my life :D
Im reading a book called Naiv.Super. by Erland Loe, it was a gift I got from Carro. Its already one of my favourite books and im getting closer to the end now. The author have really written it like it was a diary, or as if the main characters thoughts were poured onto the pages so it almost feels like your are reading ur own diary. Not just because the way it is written but also what he writes about. The book is about a young man trying to find consistency in life. It's about a ball, a good friend, a bad friend, a hammer peg board, a girl, a scientist and an invitation by his older brother to New York.
Speaking of gifts, i also got a n AWESOME painting she made, a cd with tons of music and a letter from her. The painting looks like this:
Yesterday a bunch of us went to Subiaco for a random photoshoot, the pics are here to be seen. The rest of the weekend was spent in Freo on a birthday dinner for Stanley and Nicky and then on to a birthday party in the village. All in all, it was good.
Oh yeah, the first picture is from a shoot i had with Nicky last semester.
Random drawing became Angelina Jolie, sort of. At least her lips haha.
My old room mate Veronica came by today and gave me two postcards from her brother James, who sings and plays the guitar in Ancient Free Gardeners. They made postcards out of the album cover i made for them. Really cool to see them being printed :)
After my graphic design class i have tomorrow (thursday), my weekend officially starts, i cant wait!
Speaking of my classes. I have made myself an art-class-kit, ooor officially called A.C.K or also AC-Kit. I needed to have some sort of pencil case so i went looking for one and fortunatley my friend Ira found me one when we were in the city the other week which was exactly what i was looking for. Sleek, simple and sturdy! Yes, stuurrdy. After that i bought really good pencils, a sharpener, erasers and rulers to be prepared, which i love to be. Ladies and homeboys, i give you..THE ACK:
Some random paintings and a drawing i finished today.
One of the tasks in Images & Narratives was to do a cd cover with a "compressed conflict". That is, words that go against eachother sort of. Sooooo i made this weird cd cover. We also had another task but im not that fond of if so im not gonna show it. :p
"J'ai besoin de Paris"
After i had done the sketches i went to Toys-R-Us in Morley to find the masks. Unfortunatley they only had really expensive full-set costumes so i thought i had to make my own masks for a while. Until i passed K-mart, good ol trustworthy K-mart. Or something. There i found these supercheap masks which was exactly what i was looking for. So i bought Spider-man, The Hulk, Optimus Prime (transformers) and Batman. I then had to organize the photoshoot and assemble the people; Joshua (batman), Stanley (the hulk), Nicky (spider-(wo)man and Tri (optimus prime).
After those pictures were done we found a van just opposite the stairs which was perfect for Optimus Prime to pose infront of. We didnt want to make it look like we were braking into the car so we had to shoot fast and then walk away. On the way from that location we walked by another really awesome lobby. Went in and asked if we could take a few pictures there and i got the above Batman shot from there. And then we were done and went home :)
Glassware.
We do these kind of stuff in my Graphic Design Foundation class. Or most of the part we sketch and do perspektive drawing but this weeks homework was to paint with Gouache and Pastel-colour which i hadnt tried before. Liked the gouache colour very much coz it became much stronger than watercolour and didnt go pale after it tried. Hard to see on the pictures above but ive used alot of water to get the light colours in those.
Made it a week or more ago and then finished it tonight after "Oh Deer". Phew.. now I'm tired. Time to go to sleep soon but first im going to watch the ending of The Shining by Kubrick. Then its read-n-sleep-time. Class from 1.30-8.30 tomorrow. Gonna be long and tiring. Goodnighty!
From sketch to finished product, not more than 4-5 hours. I'm Happy! Why the deer? I dont know really, i really felt that i needed to do one. A startled deer would be nice i thought and i havent done animals for a very long time. I always did when i was young though. I did airplanes and animals. That was my thing. My favourite airplanes to draw were fighter jets or old war planes and my favourite animal to draw was the gazelle. Oh yeah i did battlefields with underground hospital bases also. Quite fascinating :p
Before i started on Naiv.Super. i finished reading Stephen Kings The Shining. It has been a long read coz i've been so lazy to find time and read it but now recently i've began to go to bed earlier and catch up on my reading. When i was i Hong Kong i bought Stanley Kubrick's movie version of it and i also found Stephen Kings own version that he made coz he wasn't pleased with Kubricks version. So i have saved those to dvds to watch till after the book was done, and now it is. So a few days ago i started the extravaganza by watching Kings version.
I've saved Kubricks version for this moment, to have read the book and be able to compare it to Kings version and that moment have finally come. Off course i've seen it before but that was years ago and now its gonna be very interesting to see it again. It's gonna be a great moment in my life :D
Im reading a book called Naiv.Super. by Erland Loe, it was a gift I got from Carro. Its already one of my favourite books and im getting closer to the end now. The author have really written it like it was a diary, or as if the main characters thoughts were poured onto the pages so it almost feels like your are reading ur own diary. Not just because the way it is written but also what he writes about. The book is about a young man trying to find consistency in life. It's about a ball, a good friend, a bad friend, a hammer peg board, a girl, a scientist and an invitation by his older brother to New York.
Yesterday a bunch of us went to Subiaco for a random photoshoot, the pics are here to be seen. The rest of the weekend was spent in Freo on a birthday dinner for Stanley and Nicky and then on to a birthday party in the village. All in all, it was good.
Random drawing became Angelina Jolie, sort of. At least her lips haha.
After my graphic design class i have tomorrow (thursday), my weekend officially starts, i cant wait!
