Brain Dead [01-26-12]

[Concept, Craftsmanship, Characters are equality important ]

At the beginning of the class, our professor brings out some magazines [cmyk] featuring students artworks. A lot of them has wonderful ideas and powerful images. I felt refreshing after looking at the images. but later during the discussion of "words/phrase that gives different meaning to the image" I felt completely brain dead, I don't have much to say to each image. I think part of the reason is because the language, and another is because I don't use them constantly. I realized that is my weakness, which is using language. I am too heavily focus on the image, and ignores the words. and I am also aware that I did not include the [adjectives] in my post. I really need to start build some vocab.

[The more you know the more is limited]

"Raise Your Hand If You're Not Here" [01-24-2012]

The title does not reflect what happen in the class, but I will raise my hand if I can. [I'm not There]

[Katsuya Terada]

Japanese illustrator and cartoonist.

This guy had the greatest impact in my life as an artist. but for some reason I have stop looking at other's art for a long time. I guess writing this blog is a chance for me to bring back what's been lost from me.

here are some image that I find online.
also there is one great blog post about his exhibition "Terra's Black Marker"
Link --> http://art-eater.com/2011/05/terras-black-marker-2/ <-- I hope there is no legal issue here..

 

Comic [01-19-2012]

Today's class is about sharing our homework "My Life as a Graphic Novel : How I Made it to College". Than we have to ranked them from the best to the worse without a scoring guild. So everyone will pick from what they think is best either from quality of the drawing, how well the story is put together, or how much effort they put in. and because people are more concern from one thing to the other, it is really hard to have a ranking that everyone all agree on, so for the first 20 minute there is really no progress. later we decided to vote, by taking rounds of voting to decide the ranking. at the end I am not really happy with the outcome, since I believe most of the people is voting on how well the story is and the effort they put in, but for me all that I care is the quality of the drawing.

Powerful image [01-17-2012]

During the class period, Jimmy shared some Great Image and explain their possible meaning.

Vacuous: Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless; empty
Unruly: Disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control
Uppity: Self-important; arrogant.

Powerful image [Obama Hope]

The background color is off white, means he is not our ordinary president.the blue, red white as representation of our country. the logo, is created from the same letter "O" from the hope, the logo also  has the meaning of sunrise. lastly as Obama looking upward giving us a sense of optimistic.




New Logo [Jack in the box]

Couple years ago, Jack in the box has redesign their logo. I never felt anything special about it, until Jimmy put together these two things together.

Vacuous - Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless; empty

Unruly - Disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control

Uppity - Self-important; arrogant.

Same Blog, Same Class, Different Year

This is an Old blog, and things happens that I have to skip the last class.

Jet lag makes it perfect.

I just came back from Taiwan for my brother's wedding, last Sunday at 8PM, and next day I already have classes and work waiting for me.

I am never a morning person, I always sleep around 1 and wake up at 8 or 9

but now I have to wake up at 6ish and out the door by 7 to make it to the class.

this is when the Jet lag helps me. now I always sleep at 11 and wake up at 6. sound pretty nice for my classes.

Today's class [1/12/12]

On my notes there are Two Key points.

One is about Parking Garage in downtown LA are in need for designer to organized, because of the poorly directional signs and poor over all looking, that are scaring away their customers. new renovation is needed for the garage owner to get themselves back to business. big money is over there await for us.

Second is about Jimmy's Life: Follow your Heart

My Professor Jimmy is talking about his life, how originally he had a nice paying job in the design industry, but find himself losing the passion of art. So he quit his job and working as a teacher. which earns him not even half of his old job. but now he has much more energy and work much harder as before. Follow your heart and do the right things, step up to new challenges in life.
when can I ever do that?

Zonked: Exhausted; Tired out.
Yielding: Giving way under pressure; not hard or rigid.
Wacky: Funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way.


Today's Notes: