Sketchbook Redux

I need to start uploading my sketchbook work up here. I have gone through 5, and started 3 others since coming here, and I have only uploaded a few images from one watercolor book. In light of this I am uploading some work from my current sketchbook, keep an eye out for the rest of them coming soon!

 

To The Figure Once More

 It's supposed to be our drawing class's focus from now on. I hope it stays that way. We did another drawing tonight, but I will wait to finish that a little more before I post it. 

I'm rather happy with how the work form tonight turned out.

Two 2 minute poses (the sides) and a 5 minutes

Two 10 minute poses

Till next time~!

~Ben

Starting A Web...

...which will be at least 16 feet wide and hopefully at least 8 feet tall.

This is currently all I have. Hopefully it will sprawl all around the walls of my studio, and then I will have to transport it to my elements classroom, on basically the other side of the campus. The entire thing will be connected with rope and woven into various frames will be things that have been extremely important to me since coming to MICA, each on of these will be a foot print of sorts, connecting a pair of shoes that I can no longer wear. (I wore through them in multiple places and they started smelling funky, really funky.)

The focus is to eventually have this thing completely laced with rope and/or twine, each strand marking a connection that I can draw between different things.

Until next time~! 

~Ben

Media Filters take 2

So, as to a suggestion of some peers, I went back and re-worked Media Filters. Here is the new and improved version!

Yay re-working older Pieces!!!!!

peace out yo~

-Ben

Digital Life Painting Is Hard

especially on a train... it's so bumpy! aiaiaiai @__@

Anyways, I'm on my way home to NJ, which is strange, considering that I'm used to being on a cramped bus for this ride. Having table in the dining car is awesome, it has made this trip's beginning substantially better. Any who, here is what I could get done before she left. If some one else comes through I will try and paint them and upload them as well. I was trying to do this the same way I paint with Oil paints, but it didn't quite have the same stroke quality. I guess I'll learn how to do that eventually.

Roughly 40 or 50 minutes?  I'm really slow when working digitally.

Anyways, till next time!

-Ben

One Final Shave

A performance installation for my sculpture class. This was the final set up for the photos that I uploaded yesterday, along with the actual razor display.

The total installation, I had someone sit in the chair and I shaved them.

All my razors out for all too see. Made of: wood, dissolved Styrofoam, wire, air dry clay, aluminum, and the final one is a cookie.

My photos, Barbers Strop, and the sheet that I had around people's necks as a protector from falling hair.

We had a cool ass chair that looked very barber shop like, while not exactly a barber's chair, it is close.

I had a ton of fun with this performance, and I really wish that I could have taken photos of the actual show, or a video. I know that my Teacher's Assistant took a video or photos, but I don't know if he will give them to me.

Well, till next time!

-Ben

Shaving Sculpture?

So... I just had to shave my roommate for my Sculptural Forms class... and take pictures that I need to frame. Wait, isn't this sculpture? I'm confused...

Fist pose: I have the inconspicuousness razor sitting on the shelf.

Lathering up my roommate, partly open razor on the shelf.

Opening my razor, made of wire.

"Honing" my razor which is made out of clay.

Starting the shave! with a razor shaped cookie.

And actually shaving him with my real razor.

Well, it wasn't that weird right? well maybe it was... till next time!

Ben

Some Portraits

Supposed to be of myself, but I don't think they turned out right.

Myself in warm and cool colors, but i can't get the details in, and it really, really bothers me.

An up close that I did as a side study, but I made my face too long. also, my skin tone is not that light. and I have bigger lips, and a smaller nose... arggggggghhhhhhh!

In case you can't tell, I'm NOT happy with either of these, I just hope that my painting teacher accepts them. It was a lot of work.

till next time~!

-Ben

Media Filters

Egggggggsssssss

So much work, but so much fun. Haven't done an illustration like this in awhile.

enjoy~!

~Ben.

Time for Something...

(...mostly that I'm going to be trying to stop "facebooking" as much.)

Anyways, just another update for this week about how things are going here. Finished up an illustration for Elements of Visual Thinking, but I still need to color it and all that jazz. I also started a self portrait for painting, which is due in two weeks. We started on the figure in Drawing (finally) by drawing a skeleton, and I think we get a model next week w00t! (good thing I've been going to live model sessions out side of class every Friday up till now)

using my desk, something that is rarely done because I've not been drawing on sizes that will fit this, or I have been painting in my studio.

My wall, I think it needs more stuff on it. It just feels bare.

My room isn't that messy! It is also way cleaner than I am at home.

New painting: A self-portrait. I'll be in it twice, in different color palettes.

It's still pretty messy on this side.

And I need more space to walk around in, but I still get by. (P.S. Davian, I have your long-board)

And I'm going home this weekend! Mostly to see the Marching band do its last performance, and to see my old high school's fall play, which I still haven't the slightest clue as to what it is.

Well, That's it for now, till next time! 

~Ben