May 22nd, 2013 by J. O'Brien
This is about people talking during the sermon or maybe my wife commenting on the sermon, either/or. An animated gif drawing pieced together from the following church drawings, one gentleman sitting further up from me across the aisle and another gentleman sitting directly in front of me. I couldn’t see his nose so I added one from another gentleman sitting across the aisle. His glasses are his wife’s who was sitting next to him.
May 20th, 2013 by J. O'Brien
This is an illustration I did last month for a story about education and technology. The client wanted to show a teacher and a student walking into a tablet as if it was a doorway.
For some reason, I thought laptop rather than tablet, so I sent initial rough ideas showing a laptop as a doorway.
Oops! So I sent in new sketches showing a tablet as a doorway. I wanted to do the top right idea, the tablet as a doorway on a path in a park or school quad. The client agreed.
I used graphite and ink on a textured paper to create the frame of the tablet and some of the background elements.
I made a pattern of dots that I thought might be useful as additional texture, wasn’t quite sure at this point how I would use them.
I used ink to create line work for the figures and the app icons that would appear in the tablet.
Above is the background without the tablet and figures. I generally work larger than the final cropped size. This allows me to re-evaluate how I crop the final image and allows for ample bleed.
Above is the background and tablet without the app icons and figures. For the background, I used a few gouache elements I had painted for previous work.
Above is a detail of the figures. I wanted them to have similarities for visual repetition.
And here again is the final illustration.
Apr 6th, 2013 by J. O'Brien
I made this for a Red Bird Press chapbook of Sean Hill’s poetry. This one was for his poem, “Rara avis 1913,” a poem about Charles W. Scrutchin.
Apr 3rd, 2013 by J. O'Brien
Here is my work for the final lesson, editing audio as images. Open up an audio file using Gimp and draw on it, transform it, mess around with it, and then save it as a new audio file. I chose Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”
Here is the mashup album cover.
My gimped version: “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”: Blue Öyster Cult
The original version (in concert): http://youtu.be/ZdXfkkyI1nQ
Here is the image of the gimped audio file. I copied and pasted parts, scaled, darkened, blurred.
And, of course, had to make a mashup gif animation!
Apr 3rd, 2013 by J. O'Brien
Here’s my work from Lesson 4, mashups, importing two images as raw data into Audacity, editing, and then exporting them as a mashup image tiff. Also animated them, one using Gimp and one using Photoshop with a reduced palette. Enjoy!
Apr 1st, 2013 by J. O'Brien
Here’s my work from Lesson 3, data-bending using an audio editing program called Audacity.
Mar 30th, 2013 by J. O'Brien
Here is my work for Lesson 2: animated gifs using Gimp.
I usually make animated gifs using Photoshop, Gimp is a bit foreign, still adjusting to the program. I’ve added a gif of Spock I made a couple of years ago using some heavy-handed noise diffusion dithering.
Mar 29th, 2013 by J. O'Brien
I’m taking a Skillshare class this weekend, Illuminated Errors: Create Visual Glitch Art, taught by Phillip Stearns.
Mar 27th, 2013 by J. O'Brien
The word GOOD made from a grid with some offset units.
Mar 26th, 2013 by J. O'Brien
This drawing is from the Danger Man episode, “The Contessa” (1961). This is the actor John Wyse as the character Julio. I’ve embellished some details here and there, glasses, background, lettering. This is the moment in the show when Julio and Francesca (played by Hazel Court) debate whether they should trust John Drake (played by Patrick McGoohan). Danger Man was a British TV show retitled Secret Agent Man for the American market. It was the precursor to The Prisoner.
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