Core Skills : Building Images - Stencil Artist

Meek is a graffiti artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia. There was one specific stencil that Meek created that grasped my attention fully. 

The reason why I found this one more captivating then the other stencils he's done is because of the message that he is portraying to the people that see this stencil. In the stencil it shows a homeless man holding a sign as most of the less fortunate people would do to ask others for money. Although he's holding a sign and has a cup placed in front of him he doesn't want the people to give him money, in the stencil it says "Keep your coins, I want change" which to me is a way of him trying to reach out to the people saying that things are beginning to get out of hand, its time for a change. 

Another stencil that I found interesting was the one that I pasted above. The reason why I found this interesting is because of the massage that lies within the image along with the text "free you mind". In my own opinion it looks like he was trying to say that it is important to speak your mind instead of keeping things bottled up. Many people go through a lot in their lives but always hold it in and keep it to themselves which sometimes leads to self abuse or even lead to suicide. With this image I believe he was trying to reach to those who keep everything bottled up and say that it is important to free your mind before it's too late. 

I found this image alluring cause of how well the gold stands out on the stencil that Meek created. I believe that he was trying to show how he is beginning to become known for his work so he decided to create a stencil of a rapper type of guy with the gold knuckle rings, the gold chain and the gold grill to represent how successful he's becoming through his work in a way.

Core Skills : Building Images - Illustrations

The Illustrator that I found interesting on the illustration mundo website is Joshua David McKenney, he was driven to draw ever since his fingers could hold a pencil. He has a lifelong obsession with women, glamour, and fantasy.


This is one of the images that captured my eyes as I went browsing through the illustrations that he created. The reason why this image captured my eyes was because of how he basically hid the face behind the wave like patterns with the blue color to help make the image stand out.

 

This image is another one that I became interested in because of the details that he portrayed upon the illustration. although some parts of the image seems like it's faded I actually find that to be the most fascinating part of the illustration because it gives it the antique feel to it making it seem like an image from the past.

   

The last image that I noticed and found more alluring then the others is this illustration. The reason behind that would be because of how in each illustration that I've posted they seem to look like statues which gives each of them that old, antique feeling to them.

Core Skills : Building Images - Steve Lovett's Powerpoint

" Steve Lovett Powerpoint "

The person who created this image simply took a photo of the aircraft then cut around it using photoshop so that they can copy the image of the aircraft alone. After copying the aircraft they were able to paste the image on to any background that they can find to make it work. 

An example of that would be this image that I created and used for my landscape assignment. The snow is my foreground image, the city is my mid-ground image along with the wolf and the sky is my background. I used about 5 different photos to create the illusion of one. 

With this image I believe that the person who created this using photoshop just used the same photo and layered it on top. After that then they free transformed it to where the eyes are set above each other. Last they set the opacity low and erase around the areas that they wanted focused and kept the area they wanted it to look blurry and duplicated at.

With this photo the person erased the man that was in the photo with the woman but forgot to erase his hand off of her shoulder.

Core Skills: Building Images - Blog One

"Expect The Unexpected"

I chose to do a response on this piece because of how captivating the work is to me.

I believe that this art work caught my eye not only because its street art but because its a unique type of street art. Its unique because instead of covering up the wall with whatever the artist can come up with they use the wall to their advantage by making the gray wall apart of the work. Not many people follow through with that idea, most people would just use an empty wall as a way to expand their ideas to fill it up leaving no empty spaces. 

 

The image about this passage is another work that I found fascinating. The reason being is because even when you're just bored or have nothing to do your smallest sketches can become an extraordinary art work once you place everything together. I love the fact that he used post cards to draw on whenever he admired a statue where he was. 

 

The last art piece that I wanted to do a response on is this piece that was created by Richard Orjis. I found this intriguing because he shows the people that you can make art out of anything that you can get your hands on. The media that he used to create the painting in the photo is mud, not many people would think of mud as a type of media that can be used for art but the photo reassures them that art can be made from literally anything.