Angrigami

Ninja November 19th, 2008

My attempt to transform all the anger and create something beautiful.

Ze Frank’s from52to48withlove project received both sweet and bitter reactions. In response to the growing number of angry emails, Ze made a new project—Angrigami.

A square sheet consisting of snippets from some of the emails received can be downloaded here. Cut it out, fold it into something pretty, and send a pic to ze@zefrank.com, to be included in this gallery.

If you’re curious to learn how I folded this, I’ll post an instructional pdf later.

Happy hump day,
Ninja

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Gocco Process

Ninja July 29th, 2008

This post is for Dave & Gen who have a Gocco, but have yet to use it! Hopefully, this mini Gocco tutorial from Lab Partners will get ya going. ~__^

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Ask Ninja 11: Backgrounds

Ninja July 28th, 2008

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these.

Q: Hi… I can’t think of a background at all. I’m pretty good at drawing people, but I suck so hard at backgrounds, and it turns out that backgrounds are what my teacher wants to see. So I guess I’m asking you how to actually go about and do a background for a self portrait.

A: Hi Stormie! Ah, backgrounds. Backgrounds can be quite challenging, but they are very important as they set the stage for your narrative and give your image a sense of place. Backgrounds can be either architecture, natural environment, or abstract. In the interest of not having this post run too long, I will provide tutorial links.

A few things to keep in mind as you form your background:

How does your subject inhabit this space?

What objects does your subject interact with to make this place you’ve created seem more believable?

Do your research! Make sure locations, clothing, hairstyles, architecture are accurate for the time and place of your image.

I was originally going to upload work from working illustrators, but instead, I’ve dug through my collection of student art work to give you some inspiration.

Interiors

I’ve provided three examples from different artists who have all chosen bedrooms for their settings. Even though they all have the bedroom setting in common, the lighting, tones, textures, and perspective set a different mood in each image.