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An old piece from my AP art class. Inspired from the movie Tree of Life

Cinema2012

I love movies. Movies have had such an enormous influence on my life  and with  the Oscars about to air I thought it was appropriate to post this little number; a list of all movies(old or new) I saw in the year 2012 that I consider great cinematic master pieces.

• Sylvia
• The Guard
•  007:Skyfall
• The Tree of Life
• The Avengers
• Prometheus
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Everything Is Illuminated
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Fargo
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Ted
• Drive
• Paranorman
• Carnage
• House of Flying Daggers
• 2046
• Crazy Stupid Love
• The Campaign
• Dare
• Cinderella Man
• Alfie
• Rango
• The King's Speech
• Lawless
• We Have too talk about Kevin
• Menace 2 Society
• The Experiment
• Hesher
• All the King's Men
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed
• Monster
• Never Let Me Go
• Midnight in Paris
• Cyrus
• American History X
• Hanna
• Raising Arizona
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• The Majestic
• Forrest Gump
• Black Dynamite
• Quiz Show
•  Django Unchained
• The Fugitive
• Inglorious Bastards
• Driving Lessions
• Game Change
• The Good Doctor
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Frida

                             Yeah lots of Movies.
                               Hope You Enjoy!

And Heres some more pics from the secret project I'M STILL working on

Artsy Stuff

I really haven't posted much concerning my art class( to much drama to take from that teacher) in the last few months so I've decided to start posting more from the class and to start it off here're some pieces I did last semester.

Inspired by “Conspiracy of Silence” By Agnes Cecile. I wanted her crying while looking borderline broken in the rain.

Heavily inspired by a piece called “Against Odds”. I really loved the whimsical aspect of it and it's an element I wanted to have in my piece, but with more bright & colorful.

  I approached this piece with something cinematic; to get the idea across I colored the top and bottom black to give it a widescreen appearance. Heavily inspired by the idea of grace from the movie “The Tree of Life”. I wanted the hand to look graceful because the mother(Jessica Chastain better win a damn Oscar) in the movie embodies grace.

         Influenced by a photo of actress, Golshifteh Farahani(HIGHLY attractive woman). Her expression was calm and poised and yet sad; what I wanted to do was capture that same essence of beauty and sadness.   

Also this semester in Art me and my other classmate are starting to work on the section of our portfolio called a Concentration(12 pieces focused on a certain theme) and I've taken the liberty to tackle visual interpretations of the album "Exodus" by Utada Hikaru(you must know by now how much I love this woman). It's going to be a very amusing project so I'll be posting all the work in progress drawings as the project progresses(Lets hope they come out great).

Hope You Enjoy

What a week

Last week was an amazing week, I turned 18, school was extremely enjoyable(Less stress, More laughs) and I pretty much partied myself to a frenzy. But most importantly I got a BUTTload of drawings done(YAY).
  

I've recently been outrageously inspired by  this awesome artist named Phil Noto. He has such a great sense of style when it comes to this very detailed, but yet simplified realistic drawings with a vintage aesthetic.

Back on Tuesday I went to Home Goods and as always they had some fantastic paintings that were so pleasing that I had to take some sketches of them(luckily this sketch book is small enough for me to bare carrying inside).

Because in Lit class we've finally finished our summer reading essays, we got to chill out and watch this movie called "First Knight" starring Richard Gere("Pretty Woman") and Sean Connery(You should know who he is). So far this movie is pretty good, I've always been enchanted(see what I did there?) with the whole Knights of the Round tales and all the cool ass armor they wore so during the movie I did this sketch based off of King Arthur's armor.

While I was scrambling with ideas for my next assignment in art, I remembered how much I love the "Tree of Life" that I decided to use one of the scenes as a reference Also I've been trying out the whole black bar wide screen thing to give it more of a cinematic feel.

Finally after going to this football game I stayed over a friends house and I started working on this little thing.

   I say she is some kind of Shaman women because of the look of her face so I added some smoke behind her to give it the mystic ceremony thing going on. 

So that's it for me so until next time.

Hope You Enjoy

Last Minute

Hey everybody, just so I don't go into a new month with just one post for September, i'm posting some stuff from my graphic design class I did last year. The assignment was to design a poster for a movie; any movie, so I did this movie called "The Tree of Life" written and directed by Terrence Malick. At the time I never saw the actual movie only the trailer and from reading all the reviews and comments, you either loved it or hated it, absolutely no grey area, which made me want to do this movie(Didn't see it till July and It was fantastic).

After watching the trailer, the initial impression I had was visually surreal. The camera work, the quality, the score, the effects, the cast; everything about this movie just seem liked It was going to win a damn Oscar(During the time I was working on this it was Oscar season and this movie didn't win)

So my approach to this was to make it visually appealing

I'm so proud of how this came out, just looking at it I thought the visual surreal quality was prevalent, but just to be on the safe side I did another design using Jessica Chastain, whose character represents grace

Now this design wasn't very good to me(more like an old photo), but it was almost there so with a few more tweaks I produced

This was the final design set for the overall poster( everyone seemed to like this design just abit more than the 1st one). 

                                                                                                                                                                Personally I think I did a great job, and I'm proud of what was produced; so as always

Hope You Enjoy