Author: Susan Nava (Page 3 of 4)

Project 1, Step 1: Texture and Pattern Tracing

The Texture Image I selected to work on is the Stone Street Image I choose to describe is the Stone Street Texture. This Image gave me a negative feeling to it because of how shattered these stones looked. If I were to feel the Stones, I would feel very uncomfortable and nervous to pick up the stones or lay my finger on them. Either because they look sharp. To define it in Black and White Composition Lines, There will be organic shapes flowing around inside the Stones with a flow of smaller 0.5mm ink lines in lighter white spots the stones have. Also, for the Background, would also have a flow of lines but thicker and Darker to give a heavier contrast. But Defining with Type, The light contrast would have lower case alphabet or words in a 0.5mm ink, the stones would be a size 0.7 or 0.8mm with words to give a slightly gray tone. The Background would give a lowercase alphabet with the darkest contrast to it. This Texture was described primarily organically as the shapes, lines, and text would flow as easygoing.

The Pattern Image I selected to work on for Project 2 is the Tile 2 Pattern. Unlike the Stone Street Texture’s mood, I was feeling before, This Image gives me a positive feeling because it reminds me of the Tile Pattern at my bathtub I see when I’m taking a bath, and it also reminds me of home, so I can relax and calm myself. When defining in Lines, It would most likely be in Geometric Shapes like on the Darkest Diamond Areas with Thick Line Strokes Flowing around the Diamonds. For the gray area, There will be multiple lines flowing either up or down in a 0.1mm size to give it a shade of gray. Last but not least, the lightest area of the tiles would be given about 5 to 6 lines flowing to give the light contrast. For most of this Linework, I would be given a Repetition, but for Type, The Characters would be in Bold to define the darkest contrast, the gray area’s characters would have semibold letters inside, and for the light contrast, I would give a lowercase regular characters surrounding with a 0.5mm. 

Midterm: Colors

My Midterm Topic was Colors. I have taken so many close-up shots of how vibrant these colors are and some scenery of the sky and Prospect Park that I’ve taken before the lockdown during the pandemic. I was very satisfied with the contrast, and great lighting.

My Small Video Bio

Who am I?

My Name Is Susan Nava. I am Traditional Artist and a Digital Artist beginner as I’m learning how to draw art using Procreate on Ipad. Here I’m Showing my Sketchbook is one of my most Treasured Possession because It expresses my love and passion for Fine Arts or Art Related ever since when I was a little girl. I’m sharing some of my Figure sketches from one of the references on Pinterest. Then there’s one Pokemon Fanart I drew, and a Night Ocean I Colored with Three Copic Sketch Markers to use for Cool and Tranquility colors of a Night Ocean Breeze view as imagery. I am looking forward to studying Communication Design here at New York City College of Technology either to become an Illustrator or an Animator in the Future. I can’t wait to see what it’s like to use advanced Softwares that Graphic Designers use for their Advertising for Billboards, Magazines, Posters, or Creating their Animation on using Advanced Tools for Coloring and the ratio of the Animation. I’m Impressed on my 30-second Video, and I was pretty calm working on this mini Bio Video for a preview of my portfolio.

Thank you and Stay Safe, Everyone!

Biography

Hello, I am Susan Nava, A 25-year-old student majoring in Graphic Design at New York City College of Technology. I’m still researching whether I want to be an Illustrator or an Animator in the Future. I mostly love to draw Fanart, but I also like to learn new techniques, tools, and skills in Drawing and sketching or to try new things related to the Visual Arts and Design Field. In my Spare Time, I love to draw Traditional Art and learn how to draw Digital Art on my IPad. I also love playing video games a lot in my spare time, and I capture my gameplay footage and upload it on my Twitter. At first, I wasn’t sure what major I wanted to study when I first entered my Previous College at Kingsborough Community College. I was trying to get into the Nursing field at first, but I realized that this wasn’t for me, so I completely lost interest. But when I looked at Communication Design information, I discovered that I show more passion for Graphic Design to work on Illustrations or Animations as my future goal rather than becoming a nurse.

I started drawing when I was young when every kid loves to doodle in their spare time. Before a sketchbook, all I could ever illustrate was looseleaf paper with Crayola crayons, colored pencils, or markers. Now that I’m older, I could save money to purchase new art materials such as Bristol, Sketchpad, Marker Paper, fineliners, India ink, brushes, and alcohol-based markers to try out. I would create my character designs.

Making Animation was tricky for my pre-teenage to learn at first timer. Still, I never gave up on it because I remember having fun watching the hilarious old animations I drew on my Nintendo DSi by using Flipnote Studio, watching lots of animated shows/movies, and other animations from Animator Influencers on Youtube as an inspiration. 

Now that I’m enrolled in Communication Design at New York City College of Technology, I will look forward to learning using advanced software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Animator, or other Softwares Designers to use their techniques to work on their projects like illustration, animation, web designing, photography, etc.

Three years passed, and I was stuck on Typography, Web Design, Illustration, or Animation as my major design interests during the sophomore review. Then I realized Illustration and Animation are what I am passionate about for my future goal for my design career. I hadn’t taken animation courses yet because seats were full when I was registering in August and didn’t get a chance to take an animation course, but I would love to take them next semester in Spring 2023, and so do other illustration courses like the narrative illustration for my portfolio.

 

Introduction:

JR is a French artist who was born in Paris, France, on February 22, 1983, and started his love and Passion towards Art since the beginning of his teenage years with graffiti art. He took one of his photos of his Subway Graffiti Art as a test from one of the Cameras he founded at a Subway Station. That is where his Perception of Street Art started to change into Photography by working on one of his Projects about the Riots that broke out in Banlieue(A Suburb area in Paris) by printing up large prints of the residents in Banlieue in 2004. He owns the most extensive gallery in the world where he exhibits freely in public streets and works in both art and act of commitment, freedom, identity, and limit in both the staff, visitors, and the rest of folks out there. In 2007, the JR plan to work on the largest illegal project was placing huge portraits bypassing two cities from Palestinian and Israeli, where they have separation walls surrounding them. JR’s works become worldwide and have made it into big cities such as Cartagena, Shanghai, and Los Angeles because of how his works stood out for their culture, history, and memory for a particular location.

The Gun Chronicles:

As we enter into the Great Hall on the 1st Floor at Brooklyn Museum Field Trip. The JR Section amuses me of how JR has a strong, passionate love for both the Art and the Social Engagement where people share their valid reasons on why they either agree or disagree on a severe topic JR wanted to talk about, like the Gun Chronicles for an example. This video right here was one of JR’s Projects he commissioned by Time Magazine for its cover on November, 5th 2018, where it visualizes a spectrum of citizens discussing their own opinions about Guns in the United States as one of his serious civil topics. Here we have Shooting Victims, Shooting Victim relatives who lost their loved one from a mass shooting, Emergency Room teams that treat victims of mass shooting events, gun collectors, hunters, law enforcement officials, and gun industry lobbyists, and he discusses one by one on how the Guns affected them on both. JR invites one citizen at a time in his studio, discuss whether Gun laws should be banned or not and then have them make a pose of their arguments and takes a photo of civilians and make a collage for his preview on his main Project by printing photos out and pinning them all together. 

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