Creative Elements Reflective Review

Over the duration of this semester, I feel as though I have made definite creative and personal growth. This semester has had times in which things were very daunting, and like all things, there were aspects I enjoyed and some that I struggled with. Most importantly there were aspects of the new ways of working …

Creative Elements: Maya, Modelling something of your own.

22|12|2016 Week 13 I'm finding it really hard to progress due to not having access to Maya at home, I've also been advised not to work digitally at all (which I've personally translated to, not as long as usual) But I hate excuses! so naturally I tried Maya again!! The settings on the computers were whacky …

Week 12: Lifedrawing, Final Class of the semester!

15|12|2016 Week 12 Today was our final life drawing class of the semester, and we were allowed to work on one pose for most of the session! Which I feel I would have enjoyed had I not still been recovering from an on-going eye infection (though I shouldn't really have gone in at all so …

Creative Elements, Week 12: Maurice Noble Presentation & Reflection

13|12|2016 Week 12 Our presentation is complete! Conánn and Mike said that we all comfortably passed which is great news!! It was also great to see what people found interesting about their specific artists, the nature of the PechaKucha style presentations meant that there was no time to be bored, and everyone spoke so well!! …

Creative Elements Week 11: Maya, modelling a piece of furniture.

09|12|2016 Week 11 I managed to do a tiny modelling job for this homework, a humble attempt at modelling my Himalayan Salt Rock Lamp which looks like this: I wanted to do the three of them and make them all glow but I really need to go easy on my eyes because of the infection (rest …

Creative Elements Week 11: Noble Presentation Slides and Script

09|12|2016 Week 11 "My Philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice." - Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts (and Where to Find Them). My slides are prepared! I'm trying not to be too worried about our first formal presentation because I've always been nervous at the thought of public speaking. BUT the approach is always hakuna matata. (Yes …

Creative Elements: Week 11, keeping ever Noble.

06|12|2016 Week 11 Featured header: "What's Opera Doc?" 1957 I've basically decided and narrowed down the approach to my part of the presentation. The original idea was to focus on the early 60's intro to Warner Brothers stuff, but recalling information felt a little... insincere.. and impersonal. Plus if this blogging has proved anything it's …

Week 10: Lifedrawing, hats n’ stuff

01|12|2016 Week 10 So during this week I took really bad quality pictures of my drawings.. so please forgive these hatefully brightened photographs!! I think my proportions came out quite well this week, especially since the poses were quite tricky! I can definitely see firm improvement in my work compared to the early weeks, still …

Creative Elements Week 10: Maya, 3 bouncing balls.

30|11|2016 Week 10 So the limiting factors against me at the minute are an eye infection (I was wrong to ignore doctors instructions and strain it, and now I have to rest before something worse happens which I probably.. won't do) and I'm also concerned about the fact that I can't practice in Maya on …

Creative Elements: Week 10, Maurice Noble

30|11|2016 Week 9 So the group have been working away all week on researching our presentation on Maurice Noble. We've been communicating solely through a group chat and sending each other bits and pieces of what we're up to. Which is going really well and seems to work for the nature of this task! Now …