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

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Got the BLUES

Really overwhelmed by this whole college process. So much to do and so little time; there's so much happening all at once and I need it to just slow down a little. I really need a place where I'm alone and just let my thoughts roam. God I can't wait till this is over. Sorry to dump all this on here, I just needed to write something.

One Year!

Wow I just realized that it's been a whole year since I started Highly Animated!!!! I'm really glade I started this blog because it really helps motivate me to draw frequently, and experiment. So all I hope is to get more stuff here for this year and share my journey.

                       Hope You Enjoy The Next Year

Happy Summer Dump!

Well first off let me say Hello! How was everyone's summer vacation? I had a pretty decent one, went to see some movies(Ted, Prometheus, Avengers, and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES), got so much needed rest(Oh  how I miss it) went out of town to Tennessee(that little adventure is a completely different post I'll get to) and most importantly I DREW YAY!!!! Now before you click on the "Read More" let me say sorry for the complete desertion on my part, after working so hard on projects and finals I was pretty much wiped out, so this summer was devoted to chilling out and just drawing for the sake of it. I planned on posting this last week, but last week was my first week as a SENIOR(OH YEAH!! WORD TO YA MUTHA) and that was hectic as hell so yeah......Here's a boat load of drawings I did during the summer

 So this summer I had this unbelievable crush on this actor, Emmy Rossum. Oh my God she is Beautiful, a beautiful smile, beautiful Face, beautiful voice I just had to draw her. If you have no idea who she is (like I did) watch this show called "Shameless".

These are some color pencil study drawing I did because I have such a hate for them that I need to improve on.

  

Fun fact did this while watching "Breaking Bad" marathon(I'm obsessed with it OK)

As you can see I like Power Rangers(There's not much to say..... except Samurai Sucks alot) 

I was so excited to see Prometheus that I ended up doing some alien/ Sci-Fi related stuff

Funny that I drew this on July 4, the same day I saw Prometheus, but any way a whole lot of nothing mainly a Catwomanish drawing done in ink.

I love how the woman's face came out cause I was in a moving truck when I did this listening to the "Exodus" album by Utada, the structure above was somewhere near the airport that I tried to draw, and the faceless model was done the day before my Senior photo shoot for the year book.

One of the drawings I did while I was in Tennessee (A story for another day)                                           

    

 

These where also done in Tennessee, but I used this book called "The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head" a wonderful book for different head shapes and shading. After I saw "The Dark Knight Rises"(Watch it DAMN IT) I had to draw something to get my Batman GEEKINESS out of me.





                 





                                  Hope You Enjoy!

I LOVE PROMETHEUS

Happy 4th of July, I know it's been awhile but had to share something good at the right moment. Just saw the movie Prometheus today. Scared the [F] ing sH@# out of me.

Last Day Of School

OH my goodness, I can't believe I just experienced my VERY LAST DAY as an 11th grade Junior in high school. I'm so freakin happy I don't have to worry about doing chemistry ever again in my life. It's hard to believe that the very first week of  this school year I created this little blog of mine and I'm still bloggin away.  This school year;  I must say felt like it was very challenging and yet equally gratifying when it came to my creative and artistic growth. I ventured out of my comfort zone and experimented with mediums I found comfortably fitting to my creative process and others I despise with such passion but still want to improve on. Also this year I've managed to forge some pretty interesting friendships with some crazy and talented people I'm glad to have met. My plans for this summer is to A.) Get a Job, B.) Get Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, C.) Try experimenting with Paint(oh god), D.) Do more realistic colored drawings and finally D1/2.) Go to the Rising Star Program at SCAD hopefully( if I ever find out If I got accepted). We'll I'm about to take a much needed nap so I'll post some stuff later.

                                                                     Hope You Enjoy!

Almost Over

Man I'm so freakin glad that it's almost the end of the school year YYYYYYEEEEAAAAHHHH. BUT the only thing I hate about it is all the work and tests we have to do, LAME. Plus I still need to do my community service for my club. The only TEST I'm excited for( the only one I'll ever be excited for) is my art class final, we're doing this design challenge type thing were we go up against someone in the class and do an artwork only using the medium chosen by the teacher(ours was color pencil). I have a pretty strong idea on what I want to do but I have to finish some other assignment before I work on that.
     How did everyone spend The 5TH of May, go to some party, watch some Avengers action well me, I woke up at 6:38 and went to take my SAT yeah:( . Such a horrible waste of a Saturday morning I could've been sleeping , the good part of it was I got to see some old friends and later went to Free Comic Book Day at a comic book shop( the same one I talked about back in October) close by. I must say I was pretty cool being in there what surprised me the most was the fact there were younger kids there. Well I got to get going need to finish this insane amount of school work.
                                      Hope You Enjoy