2D Design - Notan

For this class project, we had to pick a fantasy or fairy tale and depict it in Notan, "a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark next to the other in art and imagery" ([link])

I chose the classic Little Red Riding Hood

Our final had to use 6x6 white paper, cut it up, and rubber cement/glue it onto a black board. Here's the catch: we had to use ALL of the white paper. No little piece gets thrown out because that would "unbalance" the amount of white and black being used in the picture.

Also, the positive and negative spaces had to be something; aka it can't be a background. My professor said how we should think of it like cutting a rolled out dough with a cookie cutter and have that remaining dough "needs to be something, not just a thing with holes in it". Bah! I did my best on that.

Enjoy!

2D Design - Line, Texture, & Pattern

a FEW of the thumbnails for our 4th project: Line, Texture, and Pattern
can you guess which element is more dominant?
(btw, the picture is of a frog catching a screaming fly for dinner)

2D Design - Expressive Line

Heavily inspired by Briana Garcia's "wish i could be" (http://bri-chan.deviantart.com/gallery/#/doh2cn)

This class project was about Expressive lines. It's about creating a black and white composition using lines and lines only ("NO VALUE! NYAA!!") Obviously you can't just pick a random area and make it thick or thin; there needs to be thought and process... you get the point right?
We had to go through a bajillion thumbnails before settling on a final idea and then another bajillion roughs before settling on a final rough. And then FINALLY the final. Tada~ My professor is more about quantity than quality; but i'll explain about her incredibly insane (but means well) teaching style another time.

Starting Off the First Post with....

(Calvin and Hobbes - scene 13)
A long term project done for Alex Topete's Traditional Animation class.
T'was a very fun class full of great people indeed!