Time to begin again :)

     Its been a while my friends. I apologize for neglecting you, but I am back once more. This has been a busy second semester so far however, it does feel good to be back in the game. I've been kicking out some great new content for the portfolio and the student show. I've been introduced to some new dynamic techniques using Maya and Lightwave. Fractures and fluid dynamics are what I'm going to spend my free learning time on now. I expect great things. In my latest video I've done a few things when it come to composting and chroma keying using Lightwave.

     

     I'm taking some great classes this semester that are really feeding my creativity, one of which is 3D Concepts. In this course, we learn about creating art using different mediums like paper, clay, wire, metal, etc. It is a intruductary course that I don't feel that I need to be taking but I never turn down chance to absorb information. I took a few pictures in a class where we had a guest artist doing a few demos. 

     "David the Wire Guy" is a street artist that supports himself and his family of four by traveling and selling hand made jewelry. He came in and taught us some basic wire wrapping techniques, I believe its called macrame. He does really intricate work very quickly. If you click on the photo you'll be able to see a lot of the jewelry and some of the tools used in the process. Armed with pliers and wire cutters he makes awesome trinkets. The thing I found most interesting is that his art has given him the opportunity to travel the world in an almost carefree fashion. I almost envy the man but I wonder what type of sacrifices he needed to make on the way. 

    In presentation graphics, we're doing infographic posters. I talk about it in the video above and give a few examples. My professor was out of the country for the first two weeks of class so i decided to give his first assignment a go on my own time. I took a different prospective on the assignment as I soon found out on the first day of class. In my original design I decided to make a college road map of sorts, showing the path to success here at Howard University. i did a basic basic sketch and i was just about to start sketching it out in illustrator and I was given a little clarification on the actual specifications of the assignment. The places I was giving directions to had to be real physical places, local, and 5 miles from each other. I still might complete my process for my original idea but I did come up with something pretty cool for the assignment though while I was in class. I decided to go with directions to the Washington,  DC Spy Museum. I chose to go with a  "ransom note" typeface. I'll be back on Thursday with another update.

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