4 posts tagged “senior project”
To finalize our careers as art majors at my college, the handful of art majors rented a space downtown to display all of our work. The space is somewhat haphazard, an entire floor with various open spaces and tiny rooms with windows in which the majors distrubted and hung their art. Since my project could only be viewed in the tiny sketchbooks I rendered my drawings in, I only needed a single room with a very simple display. A few of the collages I did last minute are taped to the wall, and a tiny pedastle holds two of my sketchbooks.
The opening was this afternoon starting at 2pm, but since I've become out of the loop I didn't know until I headed over at 3:30 with my two friends Sarah and Meggie. When I got there, it felt like a real opening. There were some refreshments at the front, but the entire space was filled with students who excitedly went from room to room to look at the various art being displayed. Most of the other majors had ambitious paintings and sculptures to enjoy and I felt that my work was somewhat meek and overlooked in comparison. Thankfully, I began to notice people heading into my room, crowding around the books and looking on collectively. I got a lot of compliments, but I'm awkward about compliments, so I tried to be anti-social and sort of fluttered around the viewers.
All in all it was a fun experience. I'm very proud of the other majors, and it was nice to sort of celebrate our coming together in this final display. After we hung around for a while, Sarah, Meggie, and I went to Soul Dog for a mid afternoon treat. Organic chicken-dog with vegetarian chili and some chilled gazpacho. Yum.
yesterday morning at 10:40 am I had my final critique with the art department. a solo, one vs. five affair that lasted a clean 20 minutes. they had no band things to say about my senior project (yes!) and were captivated by these tiny collages I made in addition to my cnn drawings (swell!). that is all taken care of. one paper and one final left until freedom (so close).
the rest of the day was spent waiting in a stand-still line for 3 hours to get tickets for the various events during senior week and catching up on lost sleep from the night before. There was a heady heat outside of AC territory, and at times it felt like northern new york had suddenly become kansas.
Our school has this tradition called 'Primal Scream' that happens at midnight the night before finals start. It happens both semesters; students collect around the central quad between all of the dorms, and when midnight strikes everyone explodes in a collective, cathartic scream. If you came upon the scene with no understanding of what was going on, it would probably appear to resemble a campus-wide sacrifice. Not to mention, following all the screaming a herd of naked seniors come running around the dorms. A good handful of my friends decided last minute to participate in the nekkid bits, but I decided to keep it on the down low and just watched them run around instead.
It was a surreal night, followed by a heavy, solid, duration of sleep. I'll be done in a week. Is that scary or what?
Here is another 'morning scene' of my third character. There are a few frames missing (I havn't drawn them yet) but I wanted to post it all anyway. I kind of enjoy seeing it all stacked together on Vox. Looks like a real comic book page! Horray!
I just wanted to briefly share some of the frames from one page of my senior project for media studies. The sequence is inherently simple, but you'll probably ask "Hold on a second, uh...how does this relate to media". And then I'd say "You'll just have to wait and see!".
So yeah. Wait and see! It's a work in progress! Right now these are all being drawn by hand with a pilot precise V5, a japanese mechanical pencil, and some sharpies. Really high tech over here. I've scanned the pages in at a high resolution with the intention of working it them into flash somehow. I still need to play around with things, but enjoi regardless, plz.
