friday workshop - home assignment

Due to last nights violence at Silom, the workshop today has been cancelled. In order to grade you all for the days work, please set aside 3 hours for the following task. Please also upload your photographs (or movie files) of all 4 tasks before 12pm tonight. Good luck

Before you start, please remember that, as with all the tasks of this workshop, each assignment can be interpreted in a challenging way and in a less challenging way. We consider this choice of challenging yourself to be an important indicator of 'success', much more so than than the neatness or complete nature of the outcome. (for example the 'perfect circle' the most important part of that task was that you chose to try a challenging frame and interesting approach, or range of surfaces of materials. the same applies here.

Also please note, regarding material: please be inventive with materials, you will not be marked down for using different materials but you will be if the task is not completed. Try to use the briefs below to your advantage and upload fresh and challenging work.

Task 1:
Blind self portrait
5 minutes looking
10 minutes drawing
1 minute photographing

make a portrait of yourself, roughly A1 in size (using pencil, graphite or charcoal). In order to make this portrait, you need to look at yourself for a long time and then close your eyes and without opening your eyes, make a portrait of yourself. (do not wory about the outcome, photograph it and move on)



Task 2:
Blind self portrait animated
1 hour

make a 25 frame (25 drawings) animation using A4 paper working from 'blind portraits'. Using pencil or pen, move around your household looking at either yourself or whoever is in your home, then closing your eyes and drawing them. spend at least 3 minutes looking before you draw and at least 3 minutes to make the blind drawing (i.e work slowly when your eyes are closed). Draw each portrait on a different sheet of A4 paper, roughly in the centre of it, and using as much of the paper surface as possible.

Then 'register' these drawings as best you can (no need to be too exact), number your pages 1-25 and photograph each of them

you may then import them to editing software (using setting of 14 frames per second or still image duration of 2 frames, if possible) and upload this movie to youtube. you may also email us all 25 frames (preferably in jpeg format) and we will edit your animation together.


Task 3:
Portrait
30 minutes

Now, with your eyes open, make a large self portrait. this time using colour and, if you like, mixed media
(remember that you can interpret self portrait however you like, that you could include moods, things that are important to you etc. you do not have to draw like a camera would 'draw' but you must be true to the task and take it seriously)

photograph this portrait and upload it (make sure to send us the links or link your blog through the comments stein to chuladraws.blogspot.com)


Task 4:
Anamorphic animated portrait

Much like the bouncing ball exercise yesterday, we'd like you to make a 25 frame animation in 3d space, this time of a self portrait. we suggest you animate your head turning from side to side, but you may be free with this if you like.

make sure to use 2 planes (that is, at least ground and wall) you may use any materials and a view of the outside would be - at least one window or to be made outside in garden or balcony.

Remember all that you tried out in the workshops (perfect circles, perspective, and the like) and apply this here for the final task.

If you use materials like water or sand to draw, this will be quicker and easier to make an interesting animation.

then, follow uploading instructions for blind portraits


Thereafter,
- spend the rest of your 3 hours working on you sketchbooks. homework today is to make a portrait of your home (interpret this as you wish). sketchbooks to be photogrpahed/scanned and submitted tomorrow mid-day

and note:
- working on your own we assume that you can work in a more focused and rigorous way than in the group workshop, so we expect more from you in terms of output.
- if you have any questions you may email us but please take these tasks as a guide, and interpret them as mature design students (i.e be inventive and work with initiative). It is a drawing workshop so there is not right or wrong, really. good luck !

note on the animations:
- you may send us the 25x2 stills and we can put it together for you in Final Cut Express
- alternatively you can make your own animation using whatever software you have available and upload it to youtube or the like and provide a link to this from the chuladraws blog