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Bits nPixelsRobert Kresse

Savannah

SunsetMy instructor even pointed out

that his favorite element was

the silhouette of the giraffe.

Line DrawingsI chose to create sketches of

these particular items because

each of them are the same, in

that they possess all the same

functions, but they each have

their own distinct shapes andfeatures.

ShapeshiftOur instructor told us what to

create using these features thus

this picture should be similar to

everyone elses, and if it seems

unusual, Im not at fault.


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resse 2Table of

Contents

2- Savannah Sun-

set

4-Hold the Onions

6- Shapeshift

8- Maggot Chow

10- Head and Heels

12- How Its Done18-Value Studies

24-Bird Variants

30-Autogragh

32- Line Drawings

36- Robertmobile

38-Shame


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Savannah

Sunset

Tis one, I believe, is the best o the bunch. Myinstructor even pointed out that his avorite ele-ment was the silhouette o the girae. What Tispiece is, essentially, a girae and an equally-talltree being ramed against a golden red sunset.

I created this using the gradient tool on AdobeIllustrator, to give it the illusion o a darkeningsky. I also created a pair o dark green ellipsesto make hills, and I made the sky out o a bigorange rectangle. Te tree and the girae weredone with the pen unction.

Tere are not really any little details one couldnotice in this work, since its two objects and asunset. Its simple, yet robust.

My instructor even pointed out that his fa-

vorite element was the silhouette of the gi-

raffe.


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Hold The

Onions

Tis one, I think, turned out the best,given that people actually managed torecognize what it was right o the bat, andthat I had a wider array o colors to chooserom. However, the original version o the

piece was criticized or an inconstant valuein color, and didnt have anything that in-dicated that it wasnt seemingly oating inmidair.It was or this reason that I recreated thepiece, introducing a cutting board into thework to give it an indictation that it isnt

just oating.

Anyway, I created the backgrounds orthese pieces by writing my signature abunch o times in various brush sizes andshades o grey.

One detail in the sandwich picture onemight take notice o is how the ham onthe sandwich is just a big blue blotch withcurves drawn about it to resemble olds.Tey should also note how the bread is amere green smudge with a smaller lightgreen smudge on top, to give it the illusiono a third dimension. Finally, they couldnotice how the lower piece o lettuce isslightly lighter than the higher one.

The original ver-

sion of the piece

was criticized for

an inconstant valu

in color, and didnt

have anything that

indicated that it

wasnt seemingly

oating in midair.

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Shape-

shiftTis piece was created as an experimentto test creating lines, rectangles, ellipses,and gradients in Adobe Illustrator. Ourinstructor told us what to create usingthese eatures, thus this picture shouldbe similar to everyone elses, and i it

seems unusual, Im not at ault.

Tis was never intended as an assign-

ment, but I will say that the rst detailone should noticeis the giant cup, the second is the grand-

ather clock, and the third is the door.

I made this by sketching out the sceneand the objects using lines and shapes,

then lling them in with color.

Our instructor

told us what to

create using these

features thus this

picture should be

similar to every-

one elses, and ifit seems unusual,

Im not at fault.


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Maggot

Chow

Tis is supposed to be asteak. I titled it as suchdue to its blue color,which may suggest that

the meat is moldy androtten, making it idealood or maggots. Teproblem here was thatno one could tell what itwas because it lacked anydistinguishing eaturesthat suggest a juicy cut omeat.

I titled it as

such due to its

blue color, whichmay suggest

that the meat is

moldy and rot-

ten, making it

ideal food for

maggots.

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Head and

Heels

In case you cant tell, thesetwo objects are supposed tobe a shoe (viewed rom the

back) and a baseball cap,as the title would suggest.My instructor and my peerswere unsure o what theseobjects were, and thoughtthem to be a can, or per-haps a box. Te main is-sue in telling what they aremight have something to dowith how the shades o blueI used aded in with eachother too much.

In case you cant tell, these two ob-

jects are supposed to be a shoe (viewed

from the back) and a baseball cap, as

the title would suggest.

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HOW its

Done

An Analysis of

My Method

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When I rst started out creating art or thisclass, it was rather dicult. I had hardly ever useda styus and a pad when creating true artwork,and my work ofen came out somewhat sloppy.Tey did, however, receive appraisal rom my in-stuctor and my peers.I created pieces by using

Adobe Illustrator and the aormentioned pad andstylus. We would use the pen tool when we didworks, and lines were made when I place a pointanywhere I wanted to on the pallette. I could addcolor by selecting what hues I wanted to use, andselected apply color. We later moved on to creat-ing pieces without he stylus, but it wasnt all thatdierent.

I had hardly

ever used a styus

and a pad when

creating true

artwork, and mywork often came

out somewhat

sloppy.


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When I complete a work, it is detrimemtal o meto examine it or three elements: Craf, Concept,and Composition.Craf entatails what I did to make the piece,Concept is what the piece is o, and Compsoitonis what details I intend or pepole to see.


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resse 22For my third week oComputer Graphics, Iwas tapped to do sev-eral "Value Studies", aprocess by which oneocuses on the lightand shadow o an ob-

ject and sketches itbased on what they see.

I created these piec-es as you see here togive them a sort o alook reminiscent oposter art rom the50's and 60's. Tisis best reected, Ithink, in the shoeimage. It almostlooks like something

rom a detectivelm o the time.

I created these

pieces as you see

here to give them

a sort of a look

reminiscent of

poster art from

the 50's and 60's.

This is best re-

ected, I think, in

the shoe image. It

almost looks like

something from adetective lm of

the time.

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Focusing on the book sketch,I eel that the rst detail thatshould come to one's atten-tion should be how the coveris slightly ajar, and thus, theront o the book is shroud-ed in darkness, which makesit seem three-dimensional.Te second detail to noticeshould be the small spot o

light on the corner o thecover, which would seem tosuggest that the maker hasa keen eye or pointing outsmall things such as this. Tenal detail should probablybe how the edges are out-lined with light grey, whichtoo suggest a keen eye ordetails.

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Feathers

I was tapped to begin construction on a illus-tration traced rom an image on the internet.At rst, I wanted to trace the landscape o a

sunny beach with a palm tree and the oceanin view, but my instructor inormed me that itwould have to replicate all o the ripples andwaves in the water- a prospect I did not relish.So I settled upon an image o a bird in ront o achain-link ence with a cactus o to the side.

What I did to build up this piece is creatingeach element (the ence, the bird, etc.) in layersso that they would not conict with each other

and risk having to redo a part o it. Te rst detail peopleought to notice should be, o course, the bird, consider-ing it is the ocal point o the picture. Te second detailshould be the ence, which is situated in such a way that

it looks almost exactly like one would in real l ie( whichshould be expected, considering this is was traced roman image). Te third and nal detail should be how thegrass is made up o individual black lines on a greencanvas, as I have ex plained above.

Bird Variants

At rst, I wanted

to trace the land-

scape of a sunny

beach with a palm

tree and the ocean

in view, but my in-

structor informed

me that it wouldhave to replicate

all of the ripples

and waves in the

water- a prospect I

did not relish.

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Silhouette of a Fowl

Bird Variations

Absurd Hue Bird

I created 10 variations o the piece, but Iwas told to present the 3 versions that I thoughtwere the best ones. Beginning with this one, I cre-ted it by lling in the areas with black, white, andrey, using white on the central gure (the bird) toistinguish it rom the background, and to makeure that it is the rst detail that viewers o theiece take notice o. As or minor details, however,he rst one that viewers should notice should behe chain-link pattern in the upper lef corner; theecond one is the grey blades o grass that stick out

gainst the black background; and the third is therey outline around the log, which gives it a sug-estion o light and shadow.

I had a lot o un with this one, choosinga wild array o colors to radically alter the visualpalette o the original version. With this, I have aeeling that the bird is denitely what is going tocatch viewer's eyes at rst glance, since it is themost vividly-colored o any o the objects in themage, with lots o blues, reds, and greens, which

are always eye-catching. What I did here in termso choosing colors was to select colors that did notgo together, to make it seem as antastic and eye-catching as possible.

Te rst minor detail notice is how thegrass is a solid pink, to emphasize the abstractness;the second one is the stark contrast between thecolors o the original, and this one; and the thirdone is how the bird's legs are two dierent colors,to, again, emphasize the abstractness.

Te nal one I did depicts the imagesas it would look i it were carved in apumpkin as a Jack-O-Lantern. I thateel this one is the most innovativevariation I've made or this project ionly that it is the most dierent romany other piece I have created or thiscourse. Tere isn't a whole lot to sayabout detail in this one, but one thingI will point out is that I've added aew lines to connect individual pieceswithin the yellow section to the outerorange section, to make it look atleast a smidgen realistic.

Carved Turkey

I created 10

variations of the

piece, but I was

told to present

the 3 versions

that I thought

were the bestones

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Extinct

Birds

Shown here are bird variations that I did,but as I went trough them, I elt that theseones were not t to be presented in thethree presented variants.

What this one, essentally, is the birdchanged green. It is similar to the rainbow

bird above, but I elt that it wasnt as eye-catching. I created the piece by selectingeach individual section o the bird andchanging their color to a dierent shade oblue or green.

Greenbeak

I elt that this one was too conusingand surreal to make the cut. I alsothought that it was a bit slapdash.What this is, at its core, is the variouselement o the bird strewn about thepicture and enlarged. Te main ocalpoint, I eel should be the birds eye,the second one should be the whiteand blue blotches in ront o thebird, and the third one should be thesquiggly lines.

Scrambled

Egg-Layer

WheresMy Line?

Tis one is essentially the orignalpiece without any lines or shading.I made it the way it is by selectingcertain parts o the image anddeleteing them.

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Autograph

Here we have another experime-nal picture my instructor had myclass do. We were learning how touse the pen tool in Adobe Illusra-tor, and we did so by writing oursigniture multiple times with vari-ous brush sizes.Te rst detail thatI want people to notice is what Iperseve to be the largest signaturein the imahe, which is right in thecenter in red. Te second detail

is the non-cursive vartion o myname that is simply my names in-titals. Te nal detail I want pepoleto take note o is the little smileyace that I put in or the sake oartsyness.

We were learn-

ing how to use

the pen tool in

Adobe Illusra-

tor, and we did

so by writing

our signiture

multiple times

with variousbrush sizes.

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LInE

DRAWINGS

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resse 36 What one viewing these piecesshould see rst is how, in the caseo the coke bottle, there is no ac-tual outline o the bottle; the spi-

raling rings give the impression othe bottles shape. Another detailone ought to notice is how muchmore squat the Pom bottle is thanan actual one; this is becasue I de-liberately exaggerated its round-ness. One nal thing one should

notice is the irregular squiggle onthe handle o the watering can.Tis was to give the piece a very

abstract quality.

Abstract, arent they? Tesewere created with Adobe Illus-trator with a digital pen and adrawing tablet.Our instructoradvises us to do hand exercisesbeore drawing by writing oursignatures using the program.As or the drawing process, itwas achieved by drawing vari-ous lines so that they took thedesired shape o a particular

object, bearing in mind to keepcount o how many lines were

making up the object.

I chose to create sketches othese particular items becauseeach o them are the same, inthat they possess all the sameunctions, but they each havetheir own distinct shapes andeatures. I drew them in the

manner you see, with a great deal

o squiggles and crisscrossedlines, to give it a style reminis-

cent o illustrators like Shel Sil-verstein and Jules Feier.

Pom Pom

Double J

(Juice Jug)

The New Coke

(Bottle)

I'll Have A

Tall One

I chose to cre-

ate sketches of

these particular

items because

each of them are

the same, in that

they possess all

the same func-tions, but they

each have their

own distinct

shapes and fea-

tures.

Kr


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Robertmobile

Tough this might be poorlycrafed,this one was my avorite one

to create, since I've always had a thingor crafing antastic modes o convey-ance. What this is, obviously, is a car

that is likely the likes o which no onehas seen beore.I think I owe a lot to

ed Giesel (alias Dr. Seuss) in terms odesign.

As I did with the other pieces, Imade this out o various layers so that

it would be easy to alter or removeany details, unwanted or otherwise. I

added colors by using the ll optionwhen drawing lines. Tis was a tadtroublesome at times, but it worked

out all right.

Te rst detail I want people to noticeis the goldsh hood ornament. It

would likely clue people in that thepiece was inspired by Dr.Seuss, giventhat the sh looks like one o the shrom One Fish, wo Fish, Red Fish,Blue Fish. Next, people should no-

tice the ag on the antenna. Tat wasmade using a special unction on thecolor selection.Finally, People shouldnotice how the windshield is the same

shape and color as the grate on theront o the car.

What this is, obvious-

ly, is a car that is likelythe likes of which no

one has seen before.I

think I owe a lot to Ted

Giesel (alias Dr. Seuss)

in terms of design.

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