GRA241: Remake of the "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli

For our final assignment in GRA241, instead of doing the linocut assignment, we were tasked with taking a famous work of art and remaking it in our own personal style.

I chose the "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli. For the remake, I wanted to have the girl front and centre; I really wanted her to stand out in the piece. To me, she's the primary element that holds the piece together, everything else is secondary. I had a hard time trying to draw the human form of the woman carrying the dress; the dress she was wearing is big and loose so it covers up her form which makes it harder to draw. So I substituted for two doves carrying a white sheet of fabric. Doves symbolize peace and innocence which is another element I wanted to show in this piece. I left out the two characters on the left because I felt that they weren't as significant as "Venus"  in this piece.

Overall, I feel like this assignment was way more fun than what the linocut assignment had to offer. It is the first big illustration piece I've done in a LONG time and I certainly enjoyed creating this piece.

GRA241: Remake Assignment: The Birth of Venus

So instead of doing the Linocut project, our prof decided to give us another project instead. For this project, you have to take a famous piece of artwork and remake it with your own style. I chose 'The Birth of Venus' by Sandro Botticelli. I remade the famous piece into a cartoon. He are the concepts:

The first concept, I wanted to focus on just the girl. Instead of having the other woman with the dress ready to cover her up, I decided to replace her with two birds carrying a piece of cloth.

This one is mainly focusing on the two girls. I'm not sure if I'll end up with enough time to remake all four people plus colour it.

Rule of Thirds

This assignment is for Digital Photography (SCA266) in the Graphic Design program. Any artist out there should be familiar with the Rule of Thirds. It plays a key part in creating an appealing composition whether it's a photograph or an Illustration.

 I'm actually kind of excited to be taking a photography course again. It's giving me another opportunity to expand my creativity as well as my own photo library for any future projects.

The subject is a scale model Ferrari F1 car (Can't remember if it's 1:12 or 1:16) that I've owned for almost 10 years now. It's finally being used for something besides sitting on my book shelf looking cool.

GRA210: 4 Elements of Graphic Design/Bad Yellow Pages Ad

So it's the start of another semester at Seneca College. This semester runs some classes as a "compressed course", meaning that instead of class once a week, we have some classes that run twice a week, but for only 7 of the 14 weeks. So with compressed classes, time management is paramount.

So out first 2 assignments in GRA210 (Graphic Design 1) involved once piece demonstrating the 4 elements of effective design (Contrast, Repetiton, Alignment and  Proximity) or CRAP for short. The second one involved selecting one god awful ad from a list and improving vastly on it.

4 Elements of effective design (C.R.A.P project)

Original Bad Ad

Improved Ad

27th letter of the alphabet

Kind of interesting in-class project done in Typography. Using the existing letters of the alphabet as reference, I was tasked to design a 27th letter to the alphabet. For my design, I removed half of the space from the "O" and then added the dot from the letter "i". It looks like some kind of alien symbol you'd find in crop circles.

Merry Christmas Eve: More HYPE framework using AS3

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.com/uploads/DMA455/02_soundAnalyzer_lolitas_medicine.swf

"Army of Two" inspired soldier

This is a character that I designed based on inspiration from "Tyson" and "Elliot", the main characters in the "Army of Two" video games. Nothing to me, is more intimidating than a big, muscular guy holding and LMG and wearing a mask, totally badass. Definitely would like to do so more work with the mask; make it look more menacing.

Candice Kucsulain drawing

This is a character model of Walls of Jericho vocalist Candice Kucsulain. The bottom image is my reference image and the top one is my interpretation. I guess I can attempt the crazy amount of tattoos she has later....