the reason for tracing paper

I've been doing a tiny series of works where I overlay a selected number of photos of Western Heights with tracing paper and drawing over it (I'll upload a picture of them a little later, but for now, here's an example I found on the internet).

This is inspired by a process in traditional animation where people draw frame-by-frame animation by using tracing paper. 

While I'm really interested in getting into the animation business, I've never used this sort of paper in my whole life, so by giving this a go, it's definitely a new experience for me.

mini research: cory loftis

I was just browsing through the net when I stumbled upon an artist by the name of Cory Loftis, Lead Artist for Carbine Studios. 

I absolutely adore his work, it's like if Pixar and Dreamworks got really intimate and bore a beautiful offspring together. Definitely gonna' include him in my research and also my presentation (might scrap Yan Wei out if I have to, since I can't find too much to say about her to tell the truth).


Also found a pretty interesting interview with him.

'everything you do is balloons' by boards of canada

I remember referencing this music video by Boards of Canada in my first semester project last year (also a great song by the way).

I really like the 50s kinda' aesthetic, I'm a real sucker for that. 

It also encompasses the nostalgic feel I want my artwork to emulate, since it's based on my childhood (my experience in my primary school to be precise), 'kay, maybe not as rustic, but still, I want a 'yep, this is a couple of years old' vibe. 

Just thought I'd share; reckon it's quite relevant to my project.

MINI RESEARCH: JAMIE HEWLETT

I'M TYPING THIS ENTIRE ENTRY IN CAPS BECAUSE I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THIS ARTIST UNTIL TODAY. I'M GONNA' HAVE TO RETHINK MY ENTIRE PRESENTATION NOW OH LORD. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

THIS MAN. JAMIE HEWLETT (ALONG WITH DAMON ALBARN) QUITE LITERALLY DEFINED MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD.

ugh

Shitty weather was shitty.

For the entire weekend no less; couldn't take any photos of my old primary school because of that. I'll have to go with sometime this weekday/weekend.

miniscule update

Been trying to come up with sketches of these pseudo!Monkey and Pigsy sketches for my 302 project, I'm trying to include these characters as part of a mixed media (?) series of narratives.

I'll update this blog with said sketches very shortly.

mini research: nicolas marlet

I'm really keen on presenting Nicolas Marlet for my Thursday presentation, but unfortunately there's not a lot of information about him online. Checked the library but that was pretty fruitless as well. 

Either way, he's an artist who's also been incredibly influential and I'll try and see if I can find more information about him so that I can include him in my lineup of artists to present.

update: oh, found a link to an interview with Marlet, awesome. :)

mini research: yan wei

For 302 we have to introduce 3 (or is it 5) artists to our group. Haven't really started working on what I'm actually going to say, but I've got Beijing-based artist Yan Wei in mind.

Been a huge fan of her work for a while now. Thought it'd be appropriate to include her as part of my mini presentation.