Gone with the Wind Title Sequence

This is a first attempt at After Effects. This is an animated opening title sequence for the movie Gone with the Wind.

A Ink

I designed a logo for myself a little while ago. When I was little I would always sign my artwork/cards with A inc. As I grew older I saw the interesting plan on words in using ink, as a graphic designer using ink and all. I wanted to create a basic form that I could edit and make special for certain occasions. For example, I added a holly wreath for a Christmas card I sent out, or I added a graduation cap to put on the back of my graduation announcements. 

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Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival

This was an entree for the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival cover contest. 

I took inspiration from my favorite "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" book illustrated by Jan Brett. 

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Poise

This was another part of my figure drawing class. I was working on depicting expressionism through the use of sporadic and abnormal colors. This was an interesting experiment...I used cool colors to represent shadows and warm colors to represent highlights and normal body colors. 

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Unlock What Lies Beneath

I was working on combining 2D and 3D. The hand was drawn on black paper, and the key is a 3D piece coming out of the page. The theme of this was to convey getting to know someone better, learning their secrets and unlocking their real personality. 

The reason I especially like this piece is, 1) that I really love keys, and 2) it is actually my brother's hand. Every time I look at it I can see his hand, in my family we have very distinct features on our hands. For example, we can bend our thumb back to about a 90 degree angle without touching them... yea its weird, don't judge.

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Ticked Off

This has an interesting back story, so prepare thyself... 

This piece was originally inspired by the feeling of frustration when everything is going in circles and all you want is to get out and be productive, but you are trapped under someone else’s stipulation.

I had an art teacher try to pare a junior with a senior in order to help the senior for their senior art show, which is fine... except she also expected us to produce work while we were helping the other people. In short after a very long frustrating day I came back to the art room, (mind you, I am probably one of the most sane people in there) and I grab a sheet of paper and an xacto-knife and start going at it with the knife. It developed over time into a scratch pattern, so I took a sculpting medium and created a hand that would be scrapping at the paper. After meticulously covering it with tape I grabbed concentrated watercolor and started flinging the paint at the paper. It may have also gotten all over everything else in the vicinity ... and stained a chair ... but that is besides the point. 

I throughly enjoyed myself, scared the living daylights out of my classmates and had a first time experience being one of "those crazy art students that always try to express their feelings".

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Stress Cup

The project was to create a cup that exemplified an emotion. At this point in the semester I was tired of trying to continuously come up with new and original ideas and I was stressed out about my classes. i felt the emotion I could best demonstrate was stress, since I was very familiar with the feeling. 

The cup itself represents life, the cracks- which were specifically craved into the clay, they did not just "happen"- are all of the problems that come up in life that we try to deal with. The finger prints that were sculpted / pressed in represent the remanence of someone who was trying so hard to keep their life together they were crushing, almost suffocating, themselves to try to keep it together. 

Its interesting how old art projects change in meaning as you mature as a person. I recently just started college. It all started ok. And then home life took several turns I was not expecting. I spent two months trying to stuff my emotions to get through the semester and just chose to pretend that everything was ok. No one knew me enough to know that I was acting unusual, honestly not that anyone cared. It is interesting to look back at what I thought was difficult and know what I know now. It is useless to hold onto what is cracking at the seams.

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