Self Portrait Book

For my Foundations Drawing II class I had to create a self portrait book consisting of multiple self portraits from my past and present along with statements about myself. I used colored pencils, soft pastels, graphite, Crayola crayons, and Sharpie markers to create all of the portraits.
Having the opportunity to draw multiple portraits for one project made it easier to stay motivated on the individual drawings. It was a lot of fun to put the entire book together and to see the final result!

Animation!

Stop motion animation is fun! Time consuming and a wee bit tedious, but fun none the less!
To create this video I used a style of stop motion animation Rotoscoping. I paused my original video a draw it frame by frame on paper that I laid over my computer screen. I ended up with 150 drawings that I then scanned and animated in Photoshop CS3.
This whole process took a very long time to complete, but I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Wire Sculptures

Leaping Dancer 

Bowling Brother

Whoa! Wire sculptures! I created these for my Design class at Viterbo University where I used six pieces of wire, solder, and wood for the stand  to create a 3-dimensional sculpture. There was a lot of trial and error that came before the two final pieces that you see here... and believe me, you do not want to see the early ones. Since this was the first time I had ever soldered something together, it took me awhile to get the hang of it and to make the joints strong and clean. But, once I got the hang of it, it was fun to see it all come together somewhat easily! 

Books!

From left to right: Coptic stitch, Coptic stitch (soft cover), Japanese stab stitch, Coptic stitch

From left to right: Perfect bind and Japanese stab stitch with perforated pages, 

Japanese stab stitch, Perfect bind

Spring back

This project was one of my favorites for sure! I learned many different book binding techniques including the Coptic stitch, Japanese stab stitch, Perfect bind, a combination of Perfect and Japanese, and Spring back.
The Coptic stitch was the only one that had signatures that had to be sewn together.
The Japanese stab stitch involved cutting the paper down to size, then sewing through the entire book.
The Perfect bind also used paper cut down to size, but the bind is different. It uses glue and thread instead of just thread. The Perfect bind book is similar to the bind of a paperback book or a thicker magazine.
The combination of the Perfect and Japanese binds is basically taking a perfect bound book and using the Japanese stab stitch to re-enforce it. This book also has perforated pages to make it easier to take out a page of notes if need be.
The Spring back book was by far my favorite book to make! There was some trial and error that when into the creation, but I'm very pleased with the way the final product turned out. The spring back involves sewing signatures, creating the spine, then wrapping the whole thing in leather and paper.

We Love to Laugh

My video entitled "We Love to Laugh" that I created for my Design class. The assignment was to create a video that showed a genuine act, so I decided to make mine about laughing because, well, I love to laugh! Plus, it's pretty easy to laugh when my friends and family are around.

For this project I used a Flip Camera and iMovie Maker. The song that I used is "I Love to Laugh" from Mary Poppins. 

Cloning is Possible!

Assisi Courtyard

Fine Art Center Lobby

Myrick Park

Hey! Look at all of the Emma clones!
For this project I had to take multiple pictures of myself in different positions and paste them together in Photoshop to make it seem like there were many clones of me in one picture. The hardest part was when I was taking the pictures and was having to think about not covering up an Emma that is in the background with an Emma that is in the foreground. It's more difficult than you would realize. But, once I get the hang of it, I had a lot of fun! Especially when I got to hug a tree or hide behind a bush or two.
For this project I used a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and Photoshop CS3.