Silhouette Project

In this project we had to fine a magazine add that was able to transform into an appealing silhouette. On Adobe Illustrator we had tree final projects to make out of it. The first one was this ad in its simplest form, using all organic shapes like circles, ovals etc. The second one was the actual silhouette of the image. The third was an elaborate image using the silhouette from before.
I really liked tracing the silhouette of the image using the pen tool. The best part was the girls hair, she had this wild crazy curly hair. Her form was really cool to do, in the end I was really satisfied. Making the silhouette into organic shapes and simplifying it was the hardest part for me, I couldn't figure out what shapes would go with the body parts. I think that part turned out just o.k. the elaborate section was really cool. I copied her image in two lines descending from tallest to shortest, it reminded me of a line of show girls. I liked it allot. Overall, I thought the project was a good one, some of it was really tedious but it was good.

Conceptual class activity

This project in class was based off of the artist LeWitt. Each of us were given three pieces of bristol and a bowl of line drawings were passed around. In the order we were sitting one piece at a time we would pick out a drawing from the bowl and replicate it on our paper. Then we would (in the order we were sitting) post our drawing in columns of four on the wall. When it was complete the 24 pictures formed this abstract picture. The lines were all connected, and it looked like a grid. The point of this piece is, it is what it is. There isn't any deep meaning, what you see is what the picture is. Every time this project is done it is different. I think that also plays a key point in the message LeWitt is trying to get out.

Activities

My activity was to have two people get together, one stands in front of the other with their back towards their partner. That person standing in front will then fall back into their partners arms staying completely straight. Each time, moving farther apart from each other. Jake and Chul were partners for this activity, Chul went first. He stood in front of Jake with his back facing towards him and fell back into his arm starting at a foot distance. He said he was nervous but he kept falling back into Jake each time until Jake was on the floor waiting for Chul to fall back. They switched and Jake went. Chul told him to trust him which is the concept for this project, to be able to trust your partner. They repeated the same steps until Jake went as far as he could. The activity went exactly how I wanted it to go, for the partners to be nervous about letting their bodies fall and then relying on their partner to catch them.
The first activity I was in was Saraswati's. Four people had to write their names on a piece of paper and mix them around in a pile, each person grabbed a paper and who's ever name they got they had to act out that person for 1 minute. I had to play out Thiana. It was really tough to decide how to act her out for an entire minute with 30 seconds to prepare. It was cool because I acted out my interpretation of her, and she had to watch thinking "This is how these people see me as." Jill my roommate had to act out me, that was funny.
The second activity I was in was Sharon's, Chris was my partner. We had to make a conversation alternating our first word with the alphabet. He did A I did B...C, D..It was had at times to think of something that made somewhat sense and started with my letter. Towards the end we said a lot of one word sentences. It was really funny though, we were saying a lot of random stuff.