Audio Drawings

A few weeks back, we were asked to pick a non-lyrical song and to make illustrations out of the song. The drawing should have had nothing to do with the title of the song or anything like - but kind of how the song sounds and makes you feel.

It seemed as in class people drew how they felt when they listened to the song, its kind of what i did and I kind of tried to respond/show each instrument in my illustration. I used mostly black ink and charcoal. They had to be only black and white materials. 

Here is my final drawing. I did 4 small ones before I finally worked on this one and became happy with it. I think it really portrays the song well.... It starts at the top left and goes to the bottom - like we read here in the USofA.

 *btw, I did NOT intentionally make those shapes in the top half of the illustration look like music notes. I was going with the song with my ink and brush*

The song I used was "Cascade Locks" - By TalkDemonic

You can listen to the song HERE.

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Memories

Around the same time as the eavesdropping/illustrations - we did this assignment as well. 

We had to create something about memory only using tape, pencil and paper and ink if we wanted but only 3 items. 

This did not come out to the high quality that I would have liked it to have been, I was kind of suck on this assignment and didn't really have a super solid idea for it. 

So what I did was I traced some old 4x5 negatives I have had and took a few years ago and then made it look like a photo album - relating sound, sight and what not to memory. 

 It isn't the best thing I've done but I did spend a decent amount of time tracing the negatives and cutting the tape as the photo borders. 

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Often Overlooked

Often Overlooked was our final project in Design 1. [art 140]

"Each Student will find ways to "drift" through the surrounding area of UNCG in search of aesthetic visual experiences often overlooked. To do this, students must take a closer look at the place we live and see things at a "micro-level"- highlighting the beautiful, corky and unique nuances of our city."

Originally all our photos were going to be made into one big book of the whole classes findings - but then our teacher decided to make us some how distribute our findings and make the work public - To let people know about what is often overlooked everyday.

The link above and here - www.oftenovergso.blogspot.com

is where I posted my 8 findings with photos and directions to them.

I made flyers for the blog and put them on Tate St and around the art building. I spent about 2 hours on making the poster itself... Its not as great as it could be but it is what it is and it grabs your attention.

I still have plenty and should distribute them further. I 'm going to try and keep up the often overlooked blog over the summer with similar items and things I might just find funny - If I get to photograph them - if not. I will try and write about them descriptively. I'm also doing an internship at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative this summer and its almost all about often overlooked items, So I might post photos and things I experience there at Elsewhere.

Our teacher also told us about this artist, Kate Pocrass, who he went to school with that he called the "queen of often overlooked". I got inspired by her journal of so called "mundane journeys" through her city, where she lives. I love the way she talks about things most people dont think about it and how poetic it is. You all should check her out at Mundanejourneys.com

I had a great semester in Design 1.

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I hope whom ever looked at this blog enjoyed it as well.

Compositions

Early in March we had do this assignment during class in which we traced some business cards.. the outline, the shape of them - 4 to a page.

Then we went around the art building and drew interesting/simple compositions in the rectangles we had on the paper. We had to have about 2o rectangles. It was all about compositions and really nothing else.
Here are two of my sheets.




Enjoy!