Good Work Everyone

Hi Everyone:

I just wanted to post a final note on our blog telling you all how great it was for me to work with you over the last month. You all worked hard, and grew as artists. I was very happy to get to know each of you, and wish you the best of luck as you move forward. We hope this was a good experience for you, and that you had fun and learned something new. A special thanks to our terrific TARC's, they made it all possible and kept everything running smoothly.

Best wishes,

Allan

Nicolas Cage Watches You Sleep

So, comics revision: you can now choose to do your comics in black and white, black and white and one color, or full color if you are super awesome and super ambitious. The final size for each page of the spread is still 11x14in, and remember that border!!! Since this has been scaled back quite a bit we are expecting these to be pretty ballin, ie, let's end this class on a high note and show off what you've learned in the past three weeks. I know that studio time can sometimes seem to stretch on forever, but wouldn't you rather be working in class than working later when everyone else is getting freaky and you're stuck in your room finishing your homework? JUST SAYIN'. Oh, and sketchbook assignment is "backwards."

New York, New York!

Hi Everyone:
It was a great trip to NYC yesterday, you all were awesome as well as the great shepherding from our TARC's. It was very fun to hang out with the other illustration section as well and get to know some of those students better.
So we've reached our last week of class let's make it a good one. Lots of work to get in!

Best,

Allan

FREAXXX IN NYC

ARE YOU READY FOR NYC?!?!?!?!?!

Make sure you have with you tomorrow:
- Money! Enough for museum fees, subway, lunch, dinner, and spending money at the comic book store!
- Comfy walking shoes! We're going to be walking quite a bit!
- A pillow! If you want to sleep on the bus! We're going to be watching the movie "The Fall" on the bus because it is beautiful and amazing, but you can bring your iPod and other fun bus activities as well!
- A good attitude! GET PUMPED!!!!!

I'LL SEE YOU GUYS AT 6 30 AM TOMORROW!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

Everyone Stare At Jordan and Don't Say Anything

Hey guys! Time for a new assignment! It will be due WEDNESDAY morning! It's your FINAL ASSIGNMENT! SERIOUS BUSINESS!

Your assignment is a TWO-PAGE COMIC (or equivalent amount of work for a series of narrative SEQUENTIAL IMAGES) in FULL COLOR based upon one of the songs listed below. You can choose any one of them to base your comic on. You can interpret the song in any way you choose, meaning you can base it in any time period, any fantasy world, using any characters, as long as it still FEELS like the song and you use some part of the song's lyrics to base your imagery off of. You don't have to reiterate the whole song, you can use just part of the lyrics. Each page should be 11x14" (or equivalent broken up for the sequential pieces). You may do more pages, but all the pages should be totally completed in full color and well-composed. Remember, this is a FINAL ASSIGNMENT.

Your songs include:

Seal - Kiss From a Rose
SONG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMD2TwRvuoU
LYRICS: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/seal/kissfromarose.html

Uncle Earl- Willie Taylor
SONG: http://www.rhapsody.com/uncle-earl/she-waits-for-night
LYRICS: http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/uncle-earl/willie-taylor-20769.html

Arcade Fire- Wake Up
SONG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKC5pyOKFU
LYRICS: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Wake-Up-lyrics-The-Arcade-Fire/BBD534A987817C4C48256F81000EF8FE

Flight of the Conchords- The Humans Are Dead
SONG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM
LYRICS: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/flight_of_the_conchords/the_humans_are_dead.html

THIS SONG MAY ONLY BE DONE BY CHRIS AND IT IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED:
SONG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV8N44HzfBQ
LYRICS: http://www.lyrics007.com/Brokencyde%20Lyrics/Freaxx%20Lyrics.html

This Photo is Dedicated to Abby's Vocal Chords

Hey-o!! Hope you guys had a great time working in class today! Just a few brief notes:

A) Sketchbook assignment= ECHO (echoooechoooechooo)

B) at least FOUR thumbnails due tomorrow (Tuesday) for your young adult book cover, and TWO thumbnails for the inside spot. We will look over them and approve one of each for ROUGHS due Wednesday. (FInal versions are due on Monday)

C) CRAZY CRAZY PORTRAIT EXERCISE: have your serious portrait of a ridiculous inventor ready for Wednesday. We'll look at them with the roughs that are due the same day.

D) PIZZA PARTY!! Bring a few dollars so we can buy pizza for lunch!

E) The Main Building is actually the Chamber of Secrets. If you find the basilisk that turned all the people to stone then you win pre-college.

Road Trip!

Hi Everyone:

I hope you had a splendid day today at The Museum of Natural History, The National Portrait Gallery and The National Gallery of Art. Among the many treasures noted were The Hope Diamond, Gems, Minerals, Fossils, Dinosaurs; Works by Vermeer, Hopper, Homer, DaVinci, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Bellows, Miro, Calder, Warhol, Wyeth, and the list goes on! Not to mention the absolutely remarkable illustration show of the work of Norman Rockwell. I hope you all had a chance to see and appreciate many of these works. We'll be anxious to see your finals and sketchbooks on Monday as we begin the second half of our term. Thanks to our TARC's Abby and Jacqueline for their hard work and diligence in keeping us together and moving.