Monday, December 18, 2017

artist for inspiration 5x5x5

I posted them on  my web ( 5 examples of  artists work ).

1.Akihiko Yoshida
  • He is the character artist who designed character for final fantasy.
  • In 1995 he joined this company Square Enix, Which is right now one of the most famous gaming company. [They published my favorite game "Final Fantasy"]
  • He has been cited as a "fantastic" artist by Kotaku, and his work on Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII was called "brilliant" and "refined" by IGN
  • His art are mostly popular among younger generations.
  • There's a lot of his characters has been rememberd by gamers forever.
  • On few Japanese websites, local people try to find out his drawing technique and trying to learn from him in order to get in to "Square Enix" company.
2.Yoshitaka Amano
  • His drawing style give audience a feeling of old Japanese paintings.
  • His has attend lots of meetings with other artists, at the end of the meeting he will drawing something live and signed then give to the other artist.
  • He has been reward as most talented artist.
  • He is right now still work in "Square Enix", mainly on logo design for Final Fantasy, he is still art direct in the company.
  • He also has participate in anime "speed Racer".
3.Wlop(Wang Ling)
  • Wlop(Wang Ling) is a Chinese manga artist, he usually post his manga on <Tencent Manga>, He has a lot followers from all over the world.
  • He decide to become an artist after he graduated from university, he started his career pretty late but he still gone through this difficult pass and become a really famous illustrator.
  • His manga "Gui Dao", he did this whole manga using this art style and it's very constant.
  • Every people's saying that if anyone want to get better or as good as him, must have 10 experience of life drawing.
  • In any of his drawings, the face and body of character finished completely but look closer to their clothing or background [80 percent finished] left few parts with brush stroke, but this made his drawing unique and artistic.


4.Arnold Tsang
  • He is the art director and character artist for over watch.
  • He's unique is style is like a combination of Japanese and American art.
  • These girl characters he has done are not only pretty, they're also really strong. In over watch main characters are all " handsome" girls.
  • His work included the hand-drawn artwork seen at the start of the game's cinematic trailer,and has worked on the production of the game's animated shorts.
  • "Over watch" the game has been the most popular game last year and almost everybody is satisfied by the characters designed by him. Lots of fan art are released by other artists of his characters.




5.Seita Inoue

  • He works in Nintendo( a gaming company in Japan, They has released a really famous game called--super Mario )
  • Seita Inoue is the leading artist and designner for last year's new released game on Nintendo switch --Splatoon.
  • Unlike normal Japanese animation style, his characters has his own unique drawing style, his coloring style is also really impactive.
  • Splatoon's first series is already very popular few years ago, Splatoon 2's art is more amazing than 1.
  • Characters in Splatoon 2 are made with 3D modeling tool. These characters are designed simple which is essay to make and each one of them has unique feature.


My self directed project is going to be be able to try some 2d and 3d animation.

Friday, November 3, 2017

10 logo design


self evaluation

  • What have you learned?
  • 1.learned illustrator function better as a design tool, and photoshop is better for drawing. indsign also has it's own use. Do not finish all the work in photpshop, find the one softer that's fit for doing what kind of work.
    2.The principle of design not only helps when I'm doing illustration it works in any kind of work involved in design.
    3.Few more ways to use illustrator , such as gradient tool, and the use of the tool bar on the top. Also shortcut key for the tools.
    4.Other artist's words sometimes will be the inspiration of our own work.
    5.One design could leads to lots of new creations.



  • What have you struggled with?
  • 1.Ihave struggled with using photoshop for a bit, because I want to learn how to use this tool, at the beginning of the class was my first time that I felt like start to get into this software.
    2.Since I'm late for class at the beginning of the class for a week, I've been trying hard to catch up on finish my work. I finally finished my business card and starting doing web design with other classmate.




  • What are you proud of? What are your strengths?
  • 1.I'm proud of some of the design I made, the business card that using both of my drawing and the software I'm trying really hard to learn how to use.
    2.I might have gain more creativity during the project we did.




  • What goals do you have/ what do you want to learn in Term 2?
  • 1.since I'm interested in concept art, illustration, animation and character design. I want to learn more about software.




  • What mark do you think you deserve? Explain why.
  • 1. 86 is the mark might get for this term, I was working hard to catch up on all the work we have, also I finally get to finish all of them. I don't yet have time to fix the problem I have, but for the second half of this term, I 'll be working harder to get to these problems I have fixed.




  • How could you improve?
  • 1.whatch video on Youtube these lesson's online to get more confident of using software.
    2.I would like to do a business card for the drawings I made second half of this term, It was a really fun project to do.
    3.I want to do a good job on web design, it is a really cool project. It might helps me in the future art project I have.

    business card 8


    business card 7


    business card 6


    Monday, October 16, 2017

    Business card desgin research

    Balance design
    Emphasis

                                                                              


                                                            Harmony & Unity Harmony

    interesting business cards

    ideas for card design


    Letter Re fixed




    Term 1 Assignments Check List- Renee

    • About Me
    • Abstract Font- Black on white and white on black
    • Abstract Font Grid [3 x 3 or 4 x 4]
    • Helvetica Questions
    • Logo Definition
    • 10 Logo Idea
    • Best Logo
    • Logo Reflection (New)
    • Poster Designs with Typographic Systems- make sure to identify each system
    • Best Poster Design
    • Principles of Design Business Card Ideas/Research
    • Business Card Designs using Principles of Design
    Missing Assignments in bold
    I have written comments for you, please take note on your blog.

    Renee-
    Good progress so far. Make sure to post your work as you go. I like how much you developed your personal logo although you went off topic (not sure where the T or Scream came from). You need to select your best logo and maybe even fine tune it.