Sketchbook from RS II

Sketches from RS II.

the ones that came out good..

#1 Winter

*Hate being cold

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*Dry Skin

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*appetite :9

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*Cold-> lonely

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*Hot tea when the weather outside is frightening

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#2 rip off  one of the Artist

Artist: Alice Neel

#3 Bits and pieces

:Collage

Mostly with Rapidograph pen.

Love this instrument…<3

Final project

I was quite depressed when we started this third project because it was a sign of the end of the semester. To be honest, it was my favorite class and I really did not want it to end. But oh well, I had to embrace it:’)

This project was assigned with a short paper about what I believe.  To begin with this project, I had to write about what I believed.  I struggled with having specific and unique idea of what I believed in, so I just had to come up with the simplest belief that I have believed for a long time: if you are optimist, your life will be better.  After I wrote the paper about this, I felt like I’m writing about something that seems really lame and generous.  Fortunately, Steven liked my paper and told me this belief matches with my personality very well.  with his encouragement, I had to come up with some idea of the way I could express my belief through the art work.  Steven suggested that I should make a comic book, or I should say graphic novel just like I did with my first project.  He thinks I was born to draw graphic novel, and he wanted me to make my own first book.   was very fascinated by his suggestion, and I did not mind drawing comics, so I decided to do it.

I decided to draw two different perspective from two different people,  and compare how they embrace problems or events with different solutions.  I had to design a format of the book to show two different stories, so what I did was connect two books.. it is hard to explain, so I will just start explain as go through the pictures of my comics.

This is the cover of my book, and there is a opening in the middle of the face. If you look closer into the eyes, there are different views…

this is inside cover, that would leads to two different stories..

to read this drawing, pretend there is a black line in the middle of the drawing, and read the left side of the black line form left to right, and right side of the black line from right to left, just like reading a Japanese Manga. if this make any sense.. that would be great but if you don’t follow this instruction, there is nothing better explanation than this.. ah I blame my lack of language.

so what I tried to do was putting them in same problems, of some unpleasant event and show how they deal with different point of view. I put them in to mirrored image so readers can compare them as they read the book.

for instance, here, I demonstrated a general idea of both optimist’s and pessimist’s behavior towards to a lot of work.  Pessimist would say “oh I would never finish this much work” while optimist would say “I can do this. I will do my best!.”

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sometime when I walk down the street, there are few people make my day by smiling at me when we have eye contact, and few people makes my feel bad who walk with frowned face.

in this page, they meet each other, and happy one smiles at mad one and mad one stops  and looking back at happy one and wondering why everyone has to be happy but him. and that thought makes him more miserable.  it is always that way.

the last page of the book.. pessimist one has this desire to kill the optimist one.  Steven actually mentioned that the pessimist one should kill the optimist one at the end of the book, but I was not sure about that ending.. haha but it would have been funny.

It was my first try of book binding and I had to satisfied with what I got. it looked good until we had critique but if fell apart the following day, and I did not have chance to take a photo of inside.  I will make a better one later, I should say, a stronger one.

I love this photo.. he was telling us to gather around for the story time.

we looked through the book one page at a time. he liked it. that’s all mattered to me:) I liked it too except the fact that it took me forever to make the comic into the book and was destroyed after the critique.. but it was worth it to put all my energy into this project.  It was great class, and I am going to miss it. definitely.

A HUGE Cinnamon roll

Collection&Collecting Collaboration Project.

After we went to Roger Brown’s collection museum house, we started to working on this collaboration project. We had to choose a partner to work with, and Nick and I became a partner because we both did not have a partner.. It was good experience to work with someone I did not know well, ..but I guess I did not know anyone well in our class.  We came up with some various ideas like collecting some stuff looks like a human body pieces and put them together with fake blood to make it gory, or collecting little toy cars to make huge go-cart car that you can actually ride on it. But He’s new rules that you have to find and collect stuff out side of the loop, ruined our few options, so we just decided to go somewhere and explore.

so we decided to go Belmont. I went there before  just to get cinnamon rolls. they are big as Yoda’s face (that’s what my professor described..) and very very delicious. It was early in the morning on Saturday so we treated ourselves with Cinnamon rolls before our journey begins.

It does not look great in this picture.. because I almost finished it. there is a story. we were sitting on the side of the street and had these cinnamon rolls and this one homeless guy came up to us to talk about how his life was screwed, and asked us for a dollar. that’s why I don’t carry cash anymore. homeless people in the city ask for changes or a dollar and I don’t feel like giving money to them but I feel bad when I had cash and just passing by them. So I decided to not carry it and since I did not have cash and Nick did not have either, I had to give rest of my cinnamon roll to get rid of him… very very new experience.  Anyways, the moral of the story was that the Cinnamon roll is really really good.

this is what it looks like the Ann Sather’s cinnamon roll before you have a bite. very very delicious.! good stuff.

We were digging every single dumpsters in Belmont,(because we did not want to spend so much money on buying stuff to collect.) and we found huge amount of egg cartons from this one dumpster.  We did not realized until later but this dumpster was behind that Cinnamon roll place, Ann Sather restaurant.

I went back there few more times to get more of egg cartons because we needed more.  we collected them over 100s..what we decided to do with them was painting huge cinnamon rolls on the surface of the egg cartons.  we had to make a piece that relates to the neighbor hood and all we can think of Belmont was the cinnamon rolls we had in the beginning even though we walked around a lot after that snack. our professor said, “Make it Beautiful!”

While Nick was putting them together, I gessoed some egg cartons that we were planing painting on them

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I cut the edges to make them fit well.

the outline of huge cinnamon roll.

start painting them

It was funny. I was drinking monster while I was working on painting, which I thought it was huge to drink everything,   and Nick came up to studio later with that humongous Monster in his hand. It looked cute together so I had to take a picture of them.  they are like a father and a son.

I never had this before I came to college. Even red bulls. But I realized that we need them to survive the night before the critique.  or night before the exam, or the paper due or anything.

Done. Done on time. well, not quite.

Now it’s done. I was really really proud of my self when I finished up the last touch. We would have been really mad if we could not finished it because we did not have time. but we are done..!

we had to put them together in class room for the critique and it took us little over time, but it was cool. out professor was generous enough to wait for us to hang that up on the wall.

I took horrible picture, but it looked much much better on the wall.

Critique went really well. He mentioned that this does not make fun of anything or criticizing anything. He said this could be a good public art. I wish we could sell this huge painting to Ann Sather’s Restaurant.   now it looks more like pop art too. It is very interesting how it looks different than it was on the floor, while I was working on it.

we did great job.

I could have just upload this picture and the one before this, but I really like to show how it was progressed.  It was not easy as it looks on these pictures..we started on sunday and worked on it almost every day before Thursday after noon.  Yeah, I spent all day on the 16th floor just to work on it last five days.. After this huge painting, I learned so much.  maybe not just this painting. maybe every project I have done in this school.  before, I used to think ” pshhh I Can do that” when I look at some art works that’s pretty lame or some cheesy  murals. No. it’s not that you can do easily. it takes time, and takes energy. as it gets bigger, the harder it gets. but the accomplishment you get after you done, and feeling after getting some good feed backs from people, are payless.  when it was on the wall, I was like

“SWEET!!”

good work, good work. it was fun project.: )

Artist Book

“THIS WAS A WELL EXECUTED IDEA, KYE, WEAKENED SLIGHTLY BY THE
CARTOON-LIKE INNER PAINTINGS WHICH LACKED THE FINESSE OF THE OTHER
ELEMENTS. OVERALL DESIGN - CUTAWAY VIEWS, EXTERIOR PAINTINGS,
CONSTRUCTION OF BOX - WAS WELL CONCEIVED & CRAFTED. TONE OF WORK WAS
WHIMSICAL & WITTY. INTERIOR PAINTINGS LACKED THE FORMAL COHERENCE OF
YOUR PREVIOUS COMICS WORK. STILL, AS A WHOLE A TERRIFIC PIECE WHICH
COULD BE RE-WORKED INTO AN EVEN FINER ONE.”

SLJ

Yes, I totally agree with him.. I put so much time on the box that I did not really have time to work on my contents, my interior paintings…  I should have put more time designing and painting them.. I wish I had sense of humor. Steve said my comic from last project was very funny, but I could not make this one funny.. oh well, I should try to paint- or draw my inner design to make it better piece of art.  I don’t want to waste my box for nothing. no way haha. I’m going to make it better..

at least I got decent grade for this..

oh and my theme was internal organs.. which is kind of obvious,,right? haha..

*click to see bigger image

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for now, My box is standing on my desk to hold books together. It’s perfect.. now, I put some napkins from Chipotle in to his stomach so I can use it as a tissue box. it’s funny to have naked man on my desk…

by the way other kids’ artist books were amazing…! wow what a talented school.

My own graphic novel

We had to create the piece inspired by my artist, and since my artist published Maus which is graphic novel dipicts his father’s holocaust life and the realationship between the father and the son, I decided to draw my own graphic novel.

“would not be great if also you use animal in your comic”

before my teacher told me that , I was also thinking the same thing but did not know what animal i should use for Korean.

so he suggested a Turtle.

…this comic is based on my expeience coming to U.S.A

The Whole New World

1.The Beginning

2. How to be Rude

3. Who Doesn’t?

4. American Joke

Presentation

I used some pop-ups for the requirment of two different dimentions..

I should make a whole book out of this, my life after moving to America. hopefully when I have time:)

FYP Research Studio

Pick one Artist!

in my research studio class, my teacher wanted us to pick an artist and work based on their work.

my artist was Art Spiegelman who is amazing cartoonist and published this amazing graphic novel called Maus.

I read his work when I was 13 years old and I was really fascinated by his narrative story about holocaust.

our first assignment was pick one of his work and draw three images.

first one has to be coppy of his original work,

and second one has to be abstract one based on the first one,

and third one has to be non-representative work.

so.. I picked the cover of Maus 2nd vol.

and copied it.. but not really.

I drew this more like a realistic because I did not want to just copy the cartoonic version of drawing

abstract one.

non-representative work.

one thing about this one is this piece went back to beginning and did not continued from the abstract one.

I should have made this piece more cubism and avoid drawing straight lines to make my works perfect for the assignments.. .

from FYP Research Studio