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October 30, 2007
sketch book entry 7-Beth Brinkley
These are the first few pages of my zine and I am not sure if I should have a similar page layout... whether it bores the eye or helps focus my points... Let me know what you think!
Sketchbook 07 - Dusty Fields
My Zine concept has changed. I was sitting in downtown Minneapolis yesterday doing my sketches for the zine. As I watched people walk by, I noticed that 90% of the people dress similar and carry the same objects. This gave me an idea.
My original idea was to create a wilderness survival zine. But, as I was creating the zine, I realized that I should create a downtown survival guide. It should be a satire, making fun of the downtown folk.
Here is a snippet of some of my sketches.
Sketchbook 7 - Karl Noelle
Here's a section of my zine...I'll be adding some pictures in the blank spaces.
Sketchbook 7 - Laura Peterson
just a sketch for my zine when i was going to do something associated with the downtown bar scene. i'm steering away from that though because it's just boring.
i've actually since gotten a better idea and have begun drawing dreams that i've had and that my roommates have told me. if i can actually get them into illustrative form i'll be happy.
October 29, 2007
3 pages from my zine
These are just a few pages from my zine, I have decided to change it to what if everyone you knew was either a fruit or a vegetable.
Myhli - Sketchbook 7
one of my zine pages...not done yet but a rough idea. I wanted to write down what the place was and how it relates to me but looking at the page i feel like there's too much text. Any suggestions?
Danielle Warzala - sketch 7 cont.
This is a horrible picture. I know we are supposed to post nice clean looking images but like I said before everything I have right now is a mess of torn out sketches. I want to put everything on a nice background that I've watercolor painted. I plan on using watercolor in all of my pages. Although I'm not sure if I want to print it in color yet. At first I was just adding watercolor so that if I did print it out in black and white there would be texture and value changes. Anyway I liked these drawings I did of people floating away with balloons. I think they will look more like they are floating when I arrange them on a blue watercolor background with the clouds.
Danielle Warzala - sketch 7
I decided to not go with the whole adding pictures and magazine collage idea. It was hard to do that with such small pages and still have the zine be illustration heavy. I know this picture doesn't give much away as far as what my illustrations are like inside the zine, but my ideas and sketches are everywhere right now.
Sketchook7 Lisa Reed
another zine sketch
Sketchbook 7 - Andrew Schleifer
I was cleaning up and organizing supplies, and I found that I only had 2 sheet of newsprint left. It wouldn't really be worth keeping 2 sheets, so I busted out the charcoal and did some fiddling. Charcoal, I have a love/hate relationship with. It's fun to work with, but I always end up wearing it and staining something. This time was no exception.
Sketchbook 7 - Buck
Working out some of the stylistic issues for my zine.
October 28, 2007
Sketchbook 7
I've been working on different aspects of bananas for my zine. here i tried to make a "cute, cartoon banana guy" - when in reality he turned out looking like a big creep. i'm not sure what this might say about me as a person, i'm a little worried. :)
October 27, 2007
Sketchbook 7 Jenny Olson
This is just some brainstorming for my zine illustrations. I am going to be doing my zine on ipod etiquette. The illustrations are suppose to be reminiscent of the ipod advertisements, with the silhouette of the human figure.
October 26, 2007
Sketchbook 7 - Jarid Johnson
These are just some sketches for a possible T-shirt design for some band friends of mine. Not really sure where we are gonna go with it, but they wanted me to sketch me and them with the speech bubble "do the 'Bou."
October 24, 2007
Jeff Zine
sorry about my last post that wasn't for this class. This is an idea of a layout for a page in my zine. sorry i couldn't get it to be posted in landscape format. I would appreciate the feedback.
October 23, 2007
Walid Raad - Walker Lecture
Walker Art Center Lecture,
Thursday, October 25, 7pm
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4016
"Join artist Walid Raad for a performative lecture on his writing and visual art, which grapples with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions and the ways that film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence. His recent work includes The Atlas Group (1989–2004), a project composed of audio, visual, and literary elements dealing with the contemporary history of Lebanon, particularly the Lebanese wars from 1975 to 1991. Raad teaches at Cooper Union in New York, and his pieces have been shown at documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, the Venice Biennale, and the Whitney Biennial, among many others. Copresented by Mizna."
Polly Becker Lecture
Friday, Oct. 26, 1pm
MCAD
Artist: Milton Glaser - Jarid Johnson
My artist/illustrator/graphic designer is Milton Glaser
http://www.miltonglaser.com/
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser.html
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/glaser_best_mov.html
http://bjmdesignworks.com/projects/pdfdocs/designerstory-mg.pdf
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/milton.php
http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1979/?id=266
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2000/11/10/27688.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser
Sketchbook 6 - Teresa
October 22, 2007
Sketchbook 6-Laura N Peterson
For my zine I am going to do a sort of events calendar by day of the week for things going on in minneapolis. by 'going on' i mean drink specials, live music, the best nights at certain places, activities, games, food, etc. all having to do with nightlife in minneapolis...probably strictly downtown but i'm going to try to include dinkytown too.
to ensure that it is not too text driven i am going to hand write everything and push the ornate-ness of certain characters (like the days of the week heading on each page) as well as include illustrations of certain bars' signs/stages/landmarks.
i don't like the tiny book that is created by the template, i'd like a little more space to work with so i'm looking into larger sizes and binding options.
sketchbook 6 - Jarid Johnson
I didn't make this graphic, it is actually from a blog site call post sectet. but I just wanted to share this site with everyone in the class, even though i am sure a lot of you guys have already heard about it. Its a place where people anonymously send in a secret of theirs to ultimately share with the world. I always enjoy checking postsecret out weekly, because it can be very thought provoking. It shows people expressing themselves, the deepest and most secret part of themselves that usually wouldn't ever come out. A lot of secrets are also done very well in use of typography, layout and graphics. And the site usually gives me inspiration in some of my work. So check it out if ya want!
Sketchbook 6 - karen de Queiroz
Just some sketches for my zine idea.
Ghost Found
This is basically a doodle I did a little while ago, this might be what the cover will look like, butg obviously not in color.
R1 Class Nurburgring
I filtered this image and screen printed it for another class.
Some little monster face sketches. Working on crazy coffee people sketches tomorrow.
Sketch 6- Chelsea Eckberg
So I am not quite sure what I want to do for my zine, but this is one of my favorite paintings I have done in the past year and I really wanted to incorporate it in my zine. I was thinking the cover...For my zine I was thinking about doing collages using pictures I have taken and drawings i've done and possibly adding poems that I like or things I have written. Not sure yet..
Danielle Warzala - sketch 6
Here is just an idea I had for the cover of my zine. I wanted to have a collage of images that I've either drawn, taken as pictures, or found in magazines on every page. I will focus more on the illustrations and integrating the lyrics effectively.
Sketchbook 6 - Dusty Fields
This is a rough of the cover for my 'zine. I am creating a wilderness survival zine with either eight or sixteen tips/instructions. If I do eight, there will be a full illustration on one page, and the instructions on the other page. If I do sixteen, there will be a smaller illustration on the same page with each instruction/tip.
I am not sure what other media I want to use. I could incorporate photos from my camping/hiking adventures.
Lisa Reed Sketchbook6
Rough sketch of idea for zine
Sketchbook 6 - Karl Noelle
For my zine, I want to illustrate some of the things you could change on your vw/audi. The antenna being one of them. Here's a sample picture of what I'm going to draw:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-1918367471896_1970_55190654
Also, I want to include some concept drawing from these brands, just to show that the designers have the same ideas that enthusiasts have:
http://www.vwsites.com/news/news_images/concept_r/concept_r_6.jpg
sketchbook 6- Jennie Carley
This is an idea I'm playing around with where the reader gets to choose a character or personality by choosing the features or outfits or pets that each page offers. I'm not quite sure if this goes well enough with the zine idea or not. I was also considering using funny words and drawing shoes that I think embody their meanings.
Sketch 6 -JonathanK
Sketchbook 6 - Myhli
In my zine I'm going to be using photos I've taken on my trips to Laos and Thailand..Using text to describe the moment the photo was taken or my thoughts at the moment. I'm leaning more towards my thoughts at the moment the photo was taken. As for illustrations every photo will have different drawings depending on the photo.
Here are two of the photos I will be using.
All photos will be in black and white.
Sketchbook 6 - Buck
Trying to get some ideas rolling for my 'emo' zine
October 21, 2007
Sketch Book 6-Jenny Olson
I am currently working out how I am going to portray what life was like before/after the onset of ipods. I am thinking that I my illustrations will similar to the style of the ipod commercials and billboards. Everything is going to be printed on colorful cardstock. The cover illustration is still being worked out. I sort of want to do a stamp/lino print. Also, I'm going to increase the size a little (using a 11x17 inch sheet rather than the legal size) and bind it using some sort of string like material.
sketch book 5- Chelsea Eckberg
October 20, 2007
Sketchbook 6 - Andrew Schleifer
Working on faces:
October 19, 2007
Sketchbook 9 - Jarid Johnson
"It's ALL above my head"
October 18, 2007
Animation
I fixed the time of the last frame so that the image is visible longer. This is done with markers and paint markers.
Todd McFarlane - Spawn
Spawn
Danielle Warzala - Sketch 5
Sketchbook 5 - Dusty Fields
Sketch Book 5 - Luke Mills
Changed the titles, and closing. added some color and some sound.
Had a bunch of trouble getting it to play smoothly once it was uploaded. Hope it works for everyone.
Jonathan Knisely
Sketchbook 5 - Andrew Schleifer
Now with audio!
Sketchbook 5 - Myhli
Sketchbook 5 - Karl Noelle
October 17, 2007
TV for Breakfast
Sketchbook 5 - Laura Peterson
Sketchbook5 Lisa Reed
For my final animation I decided to make the doll green so that the attention was on the doll at the end when it is running away from the little girl (Cari, which is my little sister's name. She would always drag her dolls around and more than one has lost an arm or a leg. She also gets distracted easily and leaves things laying around, so I portrayed that in my animation when the girl forgets about the doll when she sees the candy!!)
Sketchbook 5 (animation) - Karen D
My animation! I edited a couple of slides so you wouldn't see the faint lines behind the other pages, and I removed the opening title I had put in with WMM.
animation-Jennie Carley
ART ATTACK!
http"//www.northrupkingbuilding.com/artattack/
Check it out, I'm going with my roommate if anyone else would like to join us. If you haven't gone to an event like this, I recommend doing so. Talking to artists about their work and just chatting in general is a great time!
October 16, 2007
KIOSK (XX): Modes of Multiplication
Midway Contemporary Art
http://www.midwayart.org/
exhibition design by Mitchell Dose and Brian Jorgenson
September 8th – October 27th
Preview Reception: September 8th, 7-9PM
"KIOSK: Modes of Multiplication is a nomadic exhibition of artist books, catalogs, periodicals, video and audio projects that has been continually growing as it has traveled over the past seven years. It currently comprises approximately 6,000 titles from roughly 400 independent publishers from around the world. The project provides a rich overview of activities within the rapidly expanding field of independent publishing activities from the past ten years. Consequently, it offers a broad perspective on the various models of dissemination and distribution of artistic ways of working in printed media and an idea of the diverse strategies, motivations and programs of the participating publishers’ projects."