Art Weekly Blog

Week 1

In the first week of Art, we had a joint class with the Music students so the room was filled with many students. In the first lesson of Art we mostly practiced policy and rules for the class room while the teachers tried to remember our names. In the second lesson of Art the students in my class room (including the music students) were introduced to Phantasmagoria. First we watched a clip of phantasmagoria to gain a better understanding of what it really is. Then the whole class started to analyze the clip of phantasmagoria and made points and had evidence to back it up. We mainly talked about the visual features we could see and the type of sounds and pitches used in phantasmagoria.

Week 2

In the second week of Art, In the first lesson we were mainly put into groups of our choosing but then changed to the liking of the teachers so we could with new people and 4 art students and 3 music students. We then discussed our English stories so we can get a more creative horror side for the phantasmagoria project. The second lesson for the second week of Art, our group decided to choose a few interesting parts of stories that our group have come up with. We then combined our idea into a massive improvised story. We then talked about the story and started explaining the story itself so our whole group can understand the steps in how well organize the pictures for our phantasmagoria.

Week 3

In the third week of Art, We were given a poster to work on so we could analyze our story and think of ideas and pictures that we could come up with so we could make it for our phantasmagoria. Once we've finished analyzing our ideas we started adding more detail to our ideas or improving it. On the second lesson of the third week we started on working on our action plan to where we basically had to explain our beginning, middle and end of our story in detail so our teachers can have a greater understanding of what we are going to do for our performance.

Week 4

In the fourth week of Art, We were editing our action plan and trying to place in our finishing touches so our action plan is easy and understandable. After we have finished our action plan and had given it to our teachers, our group split into the Art and Music so the art moved and my group started to draw ideas for our images. Since my whole group wasn't there, I only worked with one more person when coming up with the ideas but I mostly just listened to my partner because she has the full description of the pictures so i decided to try and draw it to make it realistic.

Week 5

In the fifth week of Art, Since our whole group for art was there, we were able to work on designing and finishing our storyboard so the teachers can get a copy of what we are going to do in our storyboard. After we have finished working on our storyboards we started to design some our characters and have different masks for the same person but in different state. In the second lesson of of the fifth week of art, we had started our rough sketch of our characters and gaining eyes and facial features from the internet to add in our stories to make our own characters with their own different features. Most of my group have started but haven't finished on the rough sketch.

Week 6

In the sixth week of Art,  we all had our own characters that we were supposed to work on. The two best artists in my group were Arthur and I so we were assigned the groups to sketch out the characters while the other team members cut out the faces and edit it while we glue them in after wards. First I sketched the main male character which was the main character's best friend, Jimmy  and tried to copy the hairstyle to what was shown from the internet. After that I had to work on the main character herself so I had to gather many facial feature from different cartoons just so the look could be original without copying a whole look from cartoons or movies.

Week 7

In the seventh and final week of art, we finished sketching all the characters and were thinking of ways that we could edit and improve it such as adding colored transparent paper to the back of masks to make a particular part of the face be seen clearly and properly. First we started of thinking the masks and areas that should be covered with the transparent colored paper then we started thinking of how the movement could be made with the masks that we made. With our two main characters, we made it so that their jaws could be opened at will to show as if they're scared,surprised or both.