Pennsylvania governor's school of EXCELLENCE! portfolio progress: -50%
i'm working from cell phone shots as references for the background of one conte piece. i feel like i alre
ady screwed it up D: this is the ref shotnow these are a series of shots (again from my phone, and surprisingly accurate colors) of my 'key chain' picture done in prismacolor pencils. BUCKET OF FUN IT IS.
first- zoom of corner
second
third - i don't understand why these are bigger files D:
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh- taken with a real camera!
i think (or at least would like to believe) that this last shot has a little too much brightness in the warm colors. but i did add a whole bunch of white to the right side. but t is far better than the cell shots just cause it makes it look rather rich.and about the work itself XD
metallic things are dreadful and sadistic. after at least an hour of only scrutinizing the rings, i've only done the bottom corner. i'm also lost as to the red-grays in the bottom-right key. does silver even truly exist as a color???
i feel that even though it resembles the original key chain, it hasn't become it yet. i've just figured out ' adding the contrasting color to darken' trick, which is minimally evident near the pinwheel, but i am downright frightened of trying it in the rest of the shadows, which in the reference shot (not shown) are nearly a cadmium red. i am also not sure how to address the background, which was kind of busy. i might use the grayish browns of the table, but i'm partial to the pinkish color that is already in the foreground, which would make it more uniform.
i'll take more zoomed shots for next entry.
all for the artses.
and now some classic literature!
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. goodness, this book is out there. i picked it up because i read about it in an afterword in my edition of 1984 which i read for school, and there are a lot of parallels. nearly identical, to be precise.
in a nutshell, the story is that of a future where humans are 'decanted' using a manufacturing system and bottles, Henry Ford has replaced God, and by process of 'conditioning' from birth an drugs, the entirety of civilization is 'happy'. sex is embraced, but actually giving birth is shunned. and tiers of society are decided from decantation as well. the story focuses on a handful of unhappy 'alphas' who are smart enough to somewhat think around their conditioning and be unhappy, question society, etc. . One who is a chump with little self esteem goes with a lady friend to an Indian reservation, and meets a young man who is white, Shakespearean, christian and born to a 'civilized' mother who had been left behind on her own vacation years ago. they bring him back to London with them and ideologies clash. in the end civilization in that modern state drive him to suicide. it is very sad.
unlike 1984, it led me to question whether i might enjoy being part of such a society. drugs, sex rock and roll, depending on which 'tier' i were to fall. but the idea of mass-production of humans is frightening. and i don't think i'd like the world much if everything were unified and peaceful. nothing would change. i would say even if you think nothing changes today, it's because things change constantly in the world so we are used to it and roll with the punches.
Brave New World also reminded me of The Giver by Lois Lowry, a book i completely despised as a child. it was the lack of a happy ending, and the choked feeling i had for days after reading it. 1984 left me with a hole in my stomach. but i'm getting hooked on dysotopian fiction, for sure. next on the list is a book called We whose author i am not certain, and maybe even picking up The Giver and its companion Gathering Blue ( also read, verdict: eh).
was John, the young man from the Indian reservation, agreeable because i could identify most with his ideology? most likely.
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