Week 29

Week 29

And so we are back on the horse. After spending 3 weeks away from the course, this week felt like a week of shedding rust away from my skills. Which admittedly annoyed me as I spent half the week trying to re-learn how to render. I was doing so well and just like that it was all forgotten. I guess this shows that there “aint no rest for the wicked “or in other terms I need to be consistent with my practise.

Trying to remember how t render form

On the other hand this could indicate that perhaps my analytical eye with art has grown since I gave myself a break over the holidays and maybe now I can see all my past mistakes. In any case this week mainly consisted of practising for my zombie survival presentation, photo bashing and digi painting to shed the rust and get back into the swing of things.

Singer Sergeant Study - Its eyes are too big 

This week felt a bit strange since there was no formal sessions in all 3 modules. Even in life drawing we didn’t have a model; instead we were tasked with drawing each other. To which I had found that I had not only found rust in both rendering but also rust in drawing from life. I found that my proportions were all over the place. Moreover my visual analytic skills have taken a blow as I found myself forgetting my methods as to how to construct form such as the human form.

It became increasingly clear that I need to get back in practising again or else I may fall behind.

When discussing the zombie truck project firstly this week I decided to re-unwrapp my truck to make sure that I have more texture space for the back, top and front bonnet of the truck. This was to avoid the so called Rorschach look I had managed to achieve with my uv’s the first time when modelling the car. 

New Uv's - could be packed tighter

Later on in the week I started to refine my mood board expanding my references as well as annotating theme to get a basic idea as to what I to achieve. After finally getting enough research later on in the week I started to develop some concepts based on my idea of a makeshift/DIY apocalypse truck. Moreover I started to work on my concepts hopefully this will go well in the coming week as deadline is coming up and I don’t want to be behind.

Finally this week I had present my zombie survival guide presentation to an audience. I felt quite anxious of the presentation as when I had practised prior I had found that I would go over as my plan was so intricate. However after a comment from one of my peers on getting to the pint and trusting the audience with my reasoning I simplified my presentation which helped in the day of presenting. Hopefully this came in handy on the day and I did well.

Anyway that wraps it up for this week. It’s now just the final home stretch and year 1 is done.