Anyssa Akridge : week 11 Laser engraving 2017

Concept :

For my skateboard I was inspired by the art of Rockin Jellybean. He's a graphic designer for movie and band posters as well as merchandise like t-shirts and even skateboards. He is one of my favorite artists of all time and his sexual punk rock imagery/ 60's exploitation film imagery has always been an inspiration to me. A lot of his art is graphic and colorful as well as busy. He's a master of typography and dynamic compositions. I took inspiration from his demon girl motifs. I also took inspiration from his comic book art line style in the second image. I thought his fringe art style would fit the feel of a skateboard very well.

Techniques

I drew my image in procreate on my ipad due to the line-art textures they had that resembled old school cartoon ink. Then I transferred it over to Photoshop to change the imagery to gray scale and edit my image. Next I transferred the Photoshop file to adobe illustrator to change it into a vector using the Live trace and expand commands. I separated the white from the black vectors, and deleted the white tones. Then I transferred my image into Rhino. I colored my vector lines red to create a crisper shallow cut edge, I used the hatch command and set the hatch to black for a deep engrave, imported an image of my skateboard deck and used the place point tool as well as the create line tool trace said deck in rhino. After that I scaled both images(The art work and deck tracing) down to 29 inches by 7.5 inches (The dimensions of my deck). I colored the lines of the deck cyan, placed it on a 48x24 cyan square as well as putting my name information in cyan.

Materials

Urethane varnish.

Anyssa Akridge : Castle Fall 2017

Concept

My concept for my castle was to create a cat scratch temple. I based my design off of cat scratch posts because its supposed to be like a sacred area of enjoyment and worship for cats.. The cat model in the middle is a statue for the cats to worship.

Techniques

The modeling techniques is used for this project was the line tool, extrude closed planar curve, copy and paste, nurbs modeling, cylinder tools, box, make hole, tube tool and the torus tool. To create all the flat cat statues I first drew out the outline of the cats with the line tool then I used extrude closed planar curve.I made the cat platforms and pillars using the box, cylinder, tube and torus tools. I made all the holes by drawing out the shape using the line tool and placing it over the object I want to use make hole on. I made the nurbs cat model by first making a sphere, adding more points on the sphere, and moving the dots around to create a cat like shape. I did the same for the paws.

Materials

I wanted the castle to feel royal high class and elegant, so I used expensive materials to show that. I used a 24k brushed gold texture on the huge cats behind the temple as well as the pads on the paws and the object holding the cat model up. I used a purple jewel like material on all the cats and the paws. This is because the cats are objects of worship so they're decked out in wealthy materials to show their importance. Black marble is used on all the pillars and granite is used on the platforms. Black glass is used on the biggest cat shaped platform with a shinier car paint material platform underneath it and the huge gold cats. Then I used a ruby jewel material on the cat tubes. I tried to keep the pallet purple and gold as those colors were the colors of the rich in olden times.