Date: October 27, 2016
Subject: Painting Styles MLA citation: Marder, Lisa. "Art Styles Explained: From Realism to Abstract." About Home. Getty ______Images, 3 July 2016. Web. 27 Oct. 2016. Assessment: Research Assessment #6 Since my last research assessment, I talked to Mr. Speice. He told me I needed to find topics I actually enjoyed to research. So I decided to look into something I am deeply curious about: the different styles of modern painting. If I want to be a painter I need to find what I enjoy and work with it; however learning an already established style makes learning more efficient and helps me find artists that also work on this style. This is not even limiting, there are hundreds of art styles to pick from, one is bound to resonate with me. While looking into these styles, I bumped into, “Art Styles Explained: From Realism to Abstract.” It only taught the basics, but it was enough to see which one I enjoy and from there I could research that specific style. The first thing that caught my eye when researching was Impressionism. I have always created quasi-realistic paintings. I just seem to be unable to reach realism. However, I do not see that as a negative quality. It is a sort of style, and it fits well into Impressionism. Impressionism is about a rough look that lets the viewer fill in what is “unsaid” in the painting. The rough look if the painting also reminds me of rough sketches I love to create. The rough, somewhat unpolished look has always been my favorite. Impressionism allows for some abstract elements that neglect detail in favor of letting the viewer determine it themselves. I find I enjoy this style a great deal and will look into it in the future. Another art style I enjoy is Painterly. I have always been in love with thick paint. It gives me the same feeling as the rough sketches, that I mentioned earlier, do. It simulates realism, yet allows for the liberty to show the paint as it spreads through the canvas. Although it does not fully resemble what I create at this point, it is what I strive to do. Working with thick paint has always been thrilling and distinct than anything else I create. It allows me to do two of my favorite things, mix colors and play around with light. Most of this is done with Oil Paint and Acrylic Paint, which take longer to dry than watercolor, meaning I can take the work at my own pace. I want to look into this art style in the future, and want to have an end goal to be able create painting I am proud of in the Painterly style. It seems I resonate incredibly well with Painterly and Impressionism. I love hard brush strokes and rough paintings. Both these types of paintings give me the liberty to paint as I wish, but also give me grounds to work from, unlike Photorealism and Abstract. They also fit into how I already work. So, because of that, for my next research assessment I will be looking into Impressionism. This lets me interview Concept Artists and continue learning more about traditional art. I want to continue narrowing down on my passion to figure out what my final project will be made from.
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Date: October 13, 2016
Subject: Digital Concept Art MLA citation: "What Is Concept Art?" Randbin. Web. 13 Oct. 2016. Assessment: Research Assessment #4 After completing my previous Research Assessment I concluded I wanted to look into something other than traditional art, which had been my focus for two consecutive assessments. At the time I was fairly unsure on what I wanted to look into, but since then I have had a couple of interviews and a relatively decent amount of time to think about my topic. This time has also led me to a conclusion: I love traditional art, and I know I can work well with it, but it is a quite dangerous and challenging career to follow. On the other hand, I know concept art intrigues me just as much and it is a much safer choice; however, it will challenge me to learn how to work with more digital mediums. I plan to pick between these fields. To do as such I need to have a fair amount of knowledge about both traditional and concept art. However, my interviews have only led me to finding many painters I can learn from, but not many concept artists. Therefore I must find a way to learn about concept art. Which is why I decided that I would research concept art for this assessment. I wanted to begin my research with the basics of concept art, but for some reason I struggled to find good articles about concept art. The one I managed to find that had the information I was looking for was “What is Concept Art.” When reading it, I realized there existed different types of concept art. It makes sense. Artist tend to have varying skills, but they tend to specialize in a specific topic. Some are better at designing characters, others environments, and some objects and vehicles. Usually these topics are what they prefer to create, which realistically would be where they spend most of their time creating. I want to find what I want to specialize in concept. I figured out, through the article, I would be interested in creating environmental and character concept art. What they had that others lacked was freedom. Creating objects and vehicles, they are grounded specialities in the sense the artist is bound by the world, the environment, and character concepts artists create. I love history and the niche of personalities, environments, and events of history. I believe that would be valuable in concept art in the sense it could help me create “realistic art.” By that I mean art that is believable to the audience for whom it is meant. An artist can create anything, but if they are creating something meant for an audience, they would want the creation to be believable to said audience. Knowing history and having lived in diverse places would help me create those believable environments and characters. The information was not only encouraging, but also motivating because the job seems to fit into something I would thoroughly enjoy. It also seems like something more stable and grounded than painting; however, admittedly I am not very experienced in digital art, which is the majority of the art created in concept art. This means I would have to cross that challenging barrier and try to learn digital art. Knowing this I plan to look further into Concept Art, by researching it as part of my research assessment, and Traditional Art, by learning from professionals during interviews. I already have plenty of painters to interviews, so I will try to find some articles detailing Concept Art. I also plan to talk to one of my teachers to see if I can find a Concept Artist one of her students used as a mentor a few years ago. As the year progresses I know I need to pick my final topic. I am having a thrilling time learning about the different types of art and their intricacies, but if I do not pick a topic soon I will be in a tough spot. How can I create a final product without knowing what the topic it is based upon even is? At the beginning of the year I was overwhelmingly anxious about what to do and how, but now I am still anxious, but also excited and motivated to pursue my passion. To do that I need to first: increase my knowledge of both traditional and concept art, then second: pick between one of them, and lastly, learn to adapt to each of their challenges I previously mentioned. Date: October 13, 2016
Subject: Digital Concept Art MLA citation: Yu, Donglu. "How to Become a Better Concept Artist." Creative Bloq., 1 July 2016. Web. 21 ______Oct. 2016. Assessment: Research Assessment #5 For this research assessment I wanted to focus more on the work concept artists do and how I could fit into that. I was more curious on how concept artists worked with other teams in a production. I managed to find an article that detailed just that. The article’s focus on how concept artists should work with a team was insightful. I tried applying certain aspects of what I can do and what should be done in concept art, and I found that I could work well in concept art. I love the pre-production phase of projects. Having been at my Church group, Rebel, we work similarly in projects for the Church. Due to that I have great experience in working with teams. I also figured out that concept art has many similar intricacies and techniques of those in traditional art. The only real challenge I saw in working on concept art would be learning to work with digital art. It would take practice, but I would definitely be willing to work on improving that skill. Concept art seems like something I would fit in well with; the more I research about it, the more inclined I am to continue learning about it. Once I began reading the article, the first thing I noticed were the similar principles of concept art and traditional art. Both focus on color, lighting, cultural/artistic influences, and techniques used to create the art. It seems concept art, in inherently just art, so it would be bound by the same rules as traditional paintings and drawings. However concept art focuses more on the thematics of the topic they are basing the art from. They focus more on history, culture, and realism. It is much less about the viewer’s interpretation and much more on how the piece helps the production team visualise their product. In that aspect concept art is similar to storyboarding. Both focus heavily on pre-production and help the production team see what the final product should look like. Both also involve direct communication between the director and artist. However, concept art seems to have communication with other people as well, the lighting, modeling, level design (in video games), and animation teams. This information is incredibly encouraging. I have had experience with storyboarding in Animation. I believe the process of designing the background, characters, and events could translate well into concept art. In animation I also worked with a teammate, admittedly only one. However, I have worked in teams with my Church group, Rebel. We design posters, advertise multimedia event. I always enjoyed working with others, bouncing off ideas is one of the most enjoyable experiences. So when it comes to teamwork, I also think the transition would be smooth. The fact that I have worked a fair amount with traditional art, its principles and techniques, would also smooth the transition. Sadly I do not have much experience with digital art, so I will focus on studying its differences from traditional art in the future. This article was thoroughly insightful and it reassure me that I can follow my passions and do well. I believe the job is more secure than traditional art, and it seems to fit well with me. I feel as though many of my traditional art skills will translate well into concept art, which would ease the transition, if I so chose to follow on concept art. For the future I will continue researching Concept art and I might try to get some interviews with concept artists as well. I do plan to look into concept art and freelance. I am getting the impression concept art can be like freelance, so I want to see if those thoughts are true. I am only getting more excited about picking my topic, and if it were concept art, then my project would definitely be something to do with learning more digital art. |