Let me see you move it shake it cross the dance floor
Hey boy watch me move it shake cross the dance floor
Cross The Dance Floor by Treasure Fingers

As this is a continuation of my prior post, I won’t go into the monotony of explaining my trace, color, fade process again.
I’ll just show you.
*Last time on Star Trek: The Next Generation*

*And now.. the Conclusion…*

There is still much to be done as I continue to be dissatisfied with the the composition. To show what I’m referring to.. here’s a sample of what the pattern currently looks like…

Note the spaces. Perhaps next time I should work within comic book panels and architecturally build the pattern out so I have a template to start from.

Sooooo
Some of you may or may not have missed my presence last week.
I’ve been having ex-landlord “issues”…
If you dare click… I’ve provided a short recording (with musical accompaniment by Edd Kalehoff of Price is Right fame) of what I’ve been dealing with this past week.
Bindas Jive Talk

Like Penelope from The Brother’s Bloom

I tend to collect hobbies.
As much as I love both Amélie and Robocop,
this dive into pattern making
while somewhat fun
and highly tedious
has yet to produce anything of value for me
outside of learning something new
and the humor of it.

My main passions in life has always been the cinema.
For 15 years now I’ve been losing myself to the screen
to the drama
to the moments and movements
of visually and emotionally rich films.

Next week, along with some Photographic magic
I’m going to start a short series of pieces about the directors, the writers, and the films that have impacted my life.
Alas…
I’ll leave you with a couple of clips from La Fille Sur Le Pont
AKA The Girl on the Bridge

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Hello boyos.  I haven’t been feeling well, and I’m don’t really feel sick or anything but I’ve been overly drained pretty much every day since last Friday.  Unfortunately my poor health has totally affected my inspiration to do much of anything else this week besides go to work, sit at my desk, and fumble with the occasional Playstation 3 game.  Excuses aside, I was working on a project that I was playing around with last week.  It was the model laying on the bed.

Originally I wanted to focus on finishing the piece solely in Illustrator.  That didn’t happen if you notice the screenshot above.  That’s the Photoshop CS4 UI.  ::  Sadface ::

So what I tried to do this time around, if I wasn’t sleeping or zoning out at work was to play around with simple color schemes and super duper basic cel-shading.  Which I don’t feel turned out well at all.

Here’s a quick look at one of the directions I was taking the colors at first:

I was sort of shooting for an elegant, yet sexy mood, but the black (Which was REALLY DARK on my CRT at home) I figured didn’t really convey that properly.  I sort of liked where it was going, but I was having a hard time finding decent colors to use for highlights and shadows that would compliment each other.  (Heh, I know my color wheel rules by the way, but the black felt too stifling.)

Afterwards I tried another set of colors, and it immediately reminded me Valentines day, so I quickly scrapped it:

Instead of shooting for warmer colors, I decided to go with cooler colors instead.  Night-time in a low-lit room with a hot chick on the bed.  This was another one of the schemes I came up with and pretty much settled on for now, which I’m sure I’ll work on later:

I was thinking about changing the color of the model to a darker color, maybe a blue and trying a different set of background colors altogether.  Either that or just simply swapping around some of the colors here instead.  I’ll see where it goes, but the motivation to continue working on this is fleeting by the minute.

Ugh…I gotta get some rest.  I’m wiped.  Hopefully I’ll feel better next week.

Next week:  “inFamously living slightly larger…”

Console General, out.

Canon 55-250mm f/4 and Speedlite 430 EXII Flash

Inspired by Dr. Hyperbolus’ post and his mention of The Man Who Wasn’t There, I wanted to recreate the harsh lighting in the image he referenced.

However, seeing as how I didn’t have a tripod, didn’t have any lights, and had never really tried to light a scene before, I had a difficult time. Thus I didn’t figure it out in time, so instead I salvaged what I had… which actually look like future solo album covers.

I had some fun with textures…

Yeah so, I’ve never really done self-portraiture like this before. What I learned (in addition to the technical details) is that it brings up the question of what are you trying to capture? Is it the essence of the person, is it a mood, or is it something different altogether? The weirdest thing is just modeling for the camera with any of these intentions in mind. I’ll definitely try this again as soon as I pick up a fluorescent light or two… yep… aaaaaand maybe a tripod would help.

My ghetto setup in case anyone is interested (couch sideways with blanket | flash instruction book on top of wacom box on top of cable box on top of receiver on top of dresser).

A few months ago, I signed up to get access to Art Babble.