posted: December 19, 2009

Worth Mentioning

posted: December 17, 2009

I want to Thank Everyone that commented on my image a few days ago. The multiple insights helped improve the image to a better read, than it would have otherwise.
Thank you.

Personal Work, Worth Mentioning

posted: December 10, 2009

In the first semester at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Illustration program, we all take an intense 15 week class called "Book Seminar". The idea behind the class is that we take a story that we are all given and run with it. We can do whatever we want in the class as long as it relates somehow to the story.

As a spiller, I am going to say that the story we all had to interpret was Miroslav Penkov's, "Buying Lenin". It's a story about the connection between a bulgarian grandson and grandfather and the things they carried throughout their lives together. (loved ones dying of cancer/car crashes, the grandfather losing his country from communism to capitalism, ect) Many people took the story in different ways like a few people are doing 15-30 page comics, a girl is doing a light hearted childrens book version of some of the flash backs in the story, Will Varner is doing a series of posters based on Lenin's corpse..... We all are basically taking liberties with how we want to present the story or fragments of the story to relate to the project we are doing. They all don't need to even apply to fill into a book format either. A few folk are just making a series of images that relate to the story.
What I am doing with my project is taking Life lessions that are applied throughout the story "Buying Lenin" and creating a series of conceptual images that relate and follow suite. It was very difficult text tonbspinterpret, but I was able to get 7 out of 10 proposed life lessions approved to move into finished images.
The image above deals with the impermanence he has with his wife as later she would die of cancer. I depicted a younger version of the grandfather and grandmother, sitting beside one another (a scene from the story). The thing that has me excited more about this image than any other image I have done before is that it isn't a illustration of figures from the shoulders up.
Below here is some of things for this image for the class....


Original Sketch: I wanted to originally have grandma fade away as flower petals, but the poetry to the image was alittle to much and was advised to just made her fade out.

Finished Drawing - This is the original drawing with a light touch of levels in photoshop before the actual painting.

First Round Finish - Everyone loved it, but it comes off more like the printer ran out of toner than a transparent screenprint over printed chairs. So I had to go into the painting and add some more wood pieces to shine it up some more.

Finished  illustration.

If you want to add in your 2 cents to make the piece better, please do so. If your afraid of looking rude on the public forum by bringing me down and placing your opinion, please email me - mail@o-fishel.com
I'd love to hear what you think.
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Personal Work, Process

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