In Class: Pseudonym/ Project 4: Emotional CYRK Poster

For this assignment in class we drew up our Pseudonym, someone that is opposite of us that is an artist. Mine is a French clown named Taraah Mari who is always loud, always wearing bright colors and never shy. This is complete opposite of me and as an artist his work is mixture of abstract art and works more with vector art. Which in reality is what I would really like to get myself into. I colored this in markers because I hardly use them.

 

 

This is a CYRK poster done in Illustrator showing the emotion of 'Joy'. Showing this emotion I (my Pseudonym) created a slightly large boy at a circus eating and standing in the crowd, fun fun. I then created the typography 'CYRK' in his braces. And of course I showed lots of vibrant colors and tried to make it abstract as I could with vector art.

 

by Taraah Mari

 

Project 3: Totally Looks Like

The back of this chair I saw at Schlotzsky's I thought saw looked like the top of a paperclip. 

 

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These two posts in front of this dumpster on the corners looks like cigars.

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The light I saw in Schlotzsky's looked like the bottom of a green apple.

 

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This vehicle vacuum cleaner at my apts looks like R2-D2 from Star Wars.

 

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This rock in front of my apartment looks like the opening of a hippo's mouth. I've walked by this a thousand times and I never really noticed it this way.

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My door knocker/ peephole looks like a knights armor. Another object I never thought about until this project.

 

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These plants remind me of this "Mexican" candy I use to eat when I was a kid. The candy you squeeze out looks as crazy as the plant.

 

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This sewer cage top reminded me of a Belgian waffle. Yuck on left, Yum on right!

 

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Now this picture of a binder clip I thought always looked like a small purse with a long strap.

 

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Here is a picture of my hummingbird feeder that I though the bottom looked like a crossed seesaw. I noticed this as I was laying underneath it.

Project 2: New Yorker Phrase Narratives

"Please hurry Hilary, your soup is getting dirty."

Top left corner: A little girls alphabet soup, mom shouting out to her while kid is in shower. ---first one came to thought of the word "CRAP" in the soup.
One down: Drawing of Hilary Clinton manger/body guard checking in on Hilary's daughter Chelsea entering a strip club. ( Chelsea being the soup)
Bottom left corner: A chicken yelling to her little chick the phrase while Taz is mustering up dirt near the soup---got idea from seeing a fish talking in another New Yorker cartoon.
Top right corner: Hilary Clinton's chef yelling out the phrase with "ingredients" on the side labeled with things that doesn't suit her (that would "contaminate" her soup).---got idea from talking with my father in-law and politics.
One down: Switching the roles of man and women that takes place in my house hold as a kid, wife watches game, drinking and husband cooking with an apron.---got idea from past experience. =)
Bottom right corner: A couple eating at a restaurant, guy notices bugs going into soup but both not too worried about it, yuck.--- idea from couple of others put together.

Exquisite Corpse

An interesting "monster" created by myself and three other of my classmates each doing a different piece of the "monster" in our own way without knowing what the other drew.

Project 1: Shape Potential

 

The first day I looked at the shape I automatically saw a coffin and why not, its the month of Halloween. I tried to make the coffin look like a wooden coffin as well. I then decided to draw a dark and spooky cemetery in the background.

My husband gave me the idea of a sail boat and of course I instead drew a wind surfer attempting to also draw it in active water. The shape just seemed to be a better fit this way.

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I think this was the least thought out drawing in my opinion. I thought that the shape could be an odd shaped race car, I tried drawing it in motion going around the track with another race car in the background. I was thinking of flipping the shape but I think it worked out better this way.

Today was a windy and gorgeous day so I went out and bought some wind pinwheels for my patio and decided why not draw one. My drawing doesn't look exactly like the one I bought but the outside shape of it looked very close to the shape I was given.

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For this drawing I drew a humpback whale. In my first thought process I was going to add two of the shapes one on top of the other but this seemed to look more closer to a humpback whale.

My dog Bella gave me the inspiration for this drawing. Looks nothing like my dog but its still a dog and thought the shape looked like it could be ears. Tried drawing the ears as if it was bent over but then it didn't really turn out to be dog ears. Then I decided to make the eyes look sappy and cute. 

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Top drawing is of a mouse going into the whole. I was going to do a computer mouse because of course I'm always on the computer using the mouse but then I thought of doing a real mouse because its just something different.

The bottom drawing is of an old fashion straight razor along with a brush on the side. I was thinking of something sharp, either from a switch blade to either a Swiss army knife. But I thought that with this I could add more character to it.

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Top drawing of the carrot was pretty simple. I just tried to take two of the same shape and tried to overlap them and I saw a carrot.

And lastly the last drawing is a cluster of crystals. The shape is an odd shape as it is so crystals came to mind because one is not like the other and there are many different shapes in it.

In Class Shape Assignment