Brt Magazine 2 Spreads

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Sushi/Shoes/Shoeshi

Light Value

Line Drawings

Variations

Pages 1-2

Pages 4-11

Pages 12-21

Pages 22-25

Pages 26-40


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The

Hello my name is Brandon Rosas-Torres. I am a Hoosier,

meaning that I am from the state of Indiana, but I am Chicago person

at heart. I went to high school at Bishop Noll Institute in Hammond,

IN and graduated from there in 2011.

I am currently a sophomore at Saint Xavier University

and working to complete my major in computer science. I am also a

resident assistant at Regina Hall so I have had the opporunity to meet

many different people. I was never very good at art so taking this class

eas kind of uncharacteristic for me since I avoided art doing art things

,specically drawing, as if it were theplague.I am not sure why I signed up

for the class exactly. I remember thinking

to my self that I needed a ne arts credit,

and I thought it might be time to try and

conquer my insecurity when it came

to art. I also gured computer graphics

would tie in nicely with my major in

computer science.

The classs was actually not at all

what I was expecting. For some reason I

thought it would be animation not really

drawing. So that

threw me off a little bit. I am really happy I took this class

though becuase it helped me learn a lot of useful things I

would need to know in the computer eld.

First of I had always been a Windows PC user and

rarely ever used a Macintosh. Working in the computer sci-

ence eld, it is an extremely good idea to be used to using

both platforms. Second I was able to learn how to use and

navigate two new softwares; Adobe Illustrator and Adobe I n-

Design. I was even able to put on a resumes that I knew how

to use and make things using the two softwares.

Introduction

I am sure it is easy to tell from the pictures t

love being outside. The pictures on this page for exam

where taken in Saint Joseph, Michigan. The little tow

all along Lake Michigan and it was so awesome han

out on the beach. So back to the loving being outside

rst opportunity that we got to pick our own picture

picked something that had to do with the outdorrs. I

a duck to due for our variations, and mos of the objec

used for value drawings reminded me of nature in so

for example a mug I drew looked like it was made ofI think one main reason

being outside in nature si the spa

part of my life I lived in South C

and the buildings were almost st

together. As you progress throug

magazine youll notice that there

be more space on the pages so le

eyes rest and just look at t he ima

really take it all in. Hope you enj

artworks in the magazine.

The classs was actually no

all what I was expecting.


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Welcome to City SushiMay I take your order please?

This assignment came at the best time. I h

recently tried sushi in Saint Xavier Universi

diner and loved it. I started getting sushi o

almost every day. Then this a ssignment ca

along and my avorite class and avorite o

came together.

Why sushi?


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asy Sushi for on the go!or kids: Candy Sushi For adults: Tuna RollMelt 1 tbls butter in medium sauce pan.

Add 12 marshmallows and melt them down.

Remove rom heat and mix in 2 cups o rice

ispy cereal.

Spread mix over 4 ruit roll up candies evenly.

Place 2 swedish sh candies in the middle

nd roll.

Cut the rolls into sushi shapes and enjoy.

1)Cook 2 cups o rice as you would normally.

2)Mix 1 (6oz.) can tuna, 1tsp Mayo, 1tsp chilli powder, and 1tsp

wasabi.

3)Take a sheet o nori and pack a thick serving o rice on the

nori.

4)Add a line o diced carrots, cucumbers, and avacado where

you will start rolling.

5) Roll up, cut rolls in sushi ashion, chill, and enjoy.

The rst part o the assignment was in

ass. It was the rst assignment in which I had

use color to show light and shadow. Natu-

ly I used shades o blue, my avorite color,

r the image o sushi given to us in class. The

ckground o the image is my name, Brandon

sas-Torres, in shades o o black with the

rkest shades in the background and lightest

ades more towards the oreground. I wanted

have the lighter shades on top so that way

e shadows and blue shades in the sushi would

all pop.

Ater nishing the sushi and saying

shi in my head many times while making

ushi BluesI said shoeshi by mistake a

uple times. It gave me an idea to make a shoe

volving shushi, but rst I had to introduce

e shoe aspect into the color project. The most

portant part o Swimming Shoe is actually

e background. The owing lines made many

ople think o sea weed, and although that was

ot really my original intent their interpreta-

ons did help me tie in the shoe element o the

oject.Swimming shoe

Sushi Blues

Shoeshi

Finally it came time to mix sushi and shoes

together to make Shoeshi. I really enjoyed the back-

ground created by my name in Sushi Blues. So I

wanted to go back to that by adding the title o the

artwork into its background. It was hard trying to

gure out how to combine the two elements, but ater

running into a riend, and seeing her heels, back at

the dorm halls o Saint Xavier University I gured

out how to go about making Shoeshi. I actually used

another riends shoe because I liked the velvet material

it was made o. The material made the shoe look re-

ally sot, and so I rst worked on trying to convey the

smoothness o the shoe.

I decided it would be great to add the sushi as

the actual heal o the shoe. This is when eating all o

that sushi in the diner payed o. Since I was hungry

I let only one peice o round sushi to use as a model.

The top two pieces o sushi were made rom that

model.

Notice that the bottom piece o sushi has a

more rectangular shape. In trying to mold my piece

o sushi into a rectangle the, by that time the dry sea

weed wrapping, broke and rice and raw sh ell on my

work desk. So I looked online and ound an image o a

rectangular piece o sushi to use instead.

reating the fishy trio.


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The steps of making

shoeshi

1) The rst step was to make the background. I wanted

to use the title of the art work in the work. So I made

the background by writing shoeshi over and over again

going from dark to light and smaller to bigger.

2) Next I started a line drawing of the image. Starting

with horizontal lines and then moving to vertical and

diagonol lines in each direction.

3) Next I worked with the colors that I had chosen to be

the middle tones of the shoe. After I had lled that in

then I started using darker shades to ll in the shadows

on the shoe.

4) As shown in the picture, I started to work at putti

in the highlights on my drawing. I used the lightest

colors I had chosen for the project to be my highligt

5) Since I had already made up the sushi pieces w

I did the line drawing it was time to ll in the sus

Again I started with a middle tone and then added

darker areas. Like Sushi Blues I used dots to sh

the rice in the sushi.

6) Finally I put in the highlights of the sushi. Afte

I went over the whole image again and made touc

where I thought they were needed.


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Crat

First start drawing the object as a 100 line drawing. Next squint while

lookgin at the object and identiy the middle tone. Fill in the object with

that middle tone, which in this case the color that would be in the middle

o your darkest and lightest color, and then start to identiy and shade in the

darker tones. Finally look at highlights, using only the brightest shade or

very light areas on the object.

Concept

Basically its sushi. The background was a warm up to get used to using he

styls and my avorite color was blue. I started getting sushi or lunch almost

every day. Then this assignment came along and my avorite class and

avorite ood came together.

Composition

The wrapping on the tuna looks very realistic on the parts where the light

is reecting on the seaweed. The dots in the rice also make the sushi as a

whole look more realistic. The sushi and background together give it a cool

style. Almost looks like it could be gratti.


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Sitting Down or a Drink

The dishes on this table

wont hold water. The pitcher

and mugs were created as part

o an assignment or class. The

assignment was to help the

students see the dierent light

values on the objects that were

to be drawn. The pitcher and

cups on the table show how

accurately adding values o

light and dark can make your

drawings that realistic edge.

The actual background

image was ound online and

then traced using Adobe Illus-

trator. I you look into the back-

ground you can see artworks

rom a previous section in the

magazine hanging on the wall.

I guess someone likes shushi

and shoes.


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Crat

oncept

Composition

Value o Light

First start drawing the object as a

100 line drawing. Next squint while

lookgin at the object and identiy the

middle tone. Fill in the object with

that middle tone and then start to

identiy and shade in the darker tones.

Finally look at highlights, using only

the brightest shade or very light areas

on the object.

The pitcher I drew actually was

one that I use very requently to

make Kool-aid. I love the pitcher

because it looks like it is made

o rozen water.

The image has no back-

ground. It kind o oats

in space. The highlights

on the right side o the

object indicate that thelight is shining on it

rom the right side. The

strokes used to give the

light value to the object

makes it look pretty

cool.

Pitcher of Water


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More Value Drawings

Echo Cup of Joe


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Ever since I was a young child I was loved watch-

per hero cartoons with my dad. I loved the capes

of the heros would wear and so my mom would

me capes in many different styles. I had vampire

capes that resembled the cape batman would wear,

of purple so that I could be king Arthur, and nally

perman cape. Till I was about six years old I would

ound the house wearing one of my many capes

ding that I was the next great superhereo to save the

ns of East Chicago, IN.

Watching cartoons with my dad was something I

ever forget. We used to watch the uffy superheroes

ere always positive and did not have anything wrong

hem. As I got older and watched as the superheros

oped dark back stories and other problems, I thought

made them even cooler. My favorite superhereo was

ill is Batman.

I liked watching the Batman cartoons on cartoon

rk and the story of Bruce Wayne was amazing to

e had to deal with losing his parents in a hoifc way.

was amazing to me is t hat in the DC Universe Bruce

e is a billionaire and even with all his money he

to be Batman and not just enjoy his life comfortably

llionaire.

The superhero himself had all these amazing

ts to help him in his quest to rid the city of violence.

tunately I am not referring to the Adam West Batman

sed gadgets like shark repellent. When the Batman

s were made in my early childhood I r emember not

liking that Batman either. In the later 1990s the

n Batman Beyond was being shown on Cartoon

ork, and I nally liked a newer version of Batman

gh it was still a cartoon.

Finally Batman Begins came out, the rst in an

atman trilogy. The three movies made me a Bat-

total Batman fan. After seeing the movies it made

ant to take out the old capes from my childhood and

me a superhero once again.

Meet the Super HeroOf The Future.

An assignment we go tin class was to make up

our own superhero. We were to use the various shape

tools to make our hero instead of the styles used on

previous assignments. Suprisingly I did not really like

using the stylis and had actually really wanted to keep

drawing with it instead. But we were to give our heroes

light values using the gradient tool in Adobe Illustrator,

so it ts perfectly in this section.

So my love of the darkness Batman has in-

spired me to make a similar superhero. The superhero I

made is Jugdement. Like Batman he uses the shadows

like a ninja to move in the darkness of night. Of course

he would have a cape but for my drawing I really just

wanted to focuse on his mask.

When I was in high school I took a theatre class

and we used plan white masks that had a neutral expres-

sion. I remember looking at my fellow classmates wear-

ing the masks and for some reason the eyes just kind of

drew me in. The mask also seemed to slightly change to

display the emotions the actors were portaying with the

tone of their voice and their action. So when it cam time

I knew I wanted to base my superheros mask form the

masks used in my theatre hish school class.

Another reason I wanted to use the mask was

because of another superhereo that I liked. Ghost Rider

had the ability to make someone look into his eyes and

see all of their own past sins. Of course in the rst Ghost

Rider movie once thay did the person would turn to ash

and blow away in the wind, but I still thought that was a

pretty cool power.

So a kind of combination of Batman and Ghost

Rider gave me the inspiration to make Judgement. ASo

Judgement was born a cape wearing, ninja detective like

Batmane, but also able to use some of the super natural

powers of Ghost Rider. Judgement will someday protect

the people of East Chicago, IN and make it a safer place

to live.

Judgement


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Try to imagine a lifewithout timekeeping...

Man alone measures time.because of this, man alone

suffers a paralyzingfear

A fearof time running out.

~ Author unknown


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The Line Drawings

People usually work rom the

outside in when they draw. I know I did, so

when it came to doing 100 line drawings

it was a little difcult to think about. The

concept was to make the shape o what we

were drawing by using horizontal, vertical,

and diagonol lines. The one rule we had

prevented me rom doing what I would

normally do when drawing something, and

that was to make the outline o the shape

rst. So I did my best to ollow the rules.

Ater doing the rst line drawing I saw that

it wasn;t as hard as i had thought, and I

really got the hang o it. Instead o makingthe shape out o a line I made the shape by

ending the lines at dierent lengths.

I really like the way the way the

line drawing look. Besides the value draw-

ings (eatered earlier in the magazine) these

line drawings were my avorite. I love the

way the objects look made up only o line.

I makes me eel like I am looking at the

skeleton o the object.


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Birds of a Feather...Can you tell which image is the photo and which was made?


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Did you take the time?

Was the original photo thelet or right image? I you

guessed that the right image

was the original photo then

you were wrong. Actually

both images were made

using a trace method on

Adobe Illustrator. Obviously

the right image was done by

a person, and the let was

quickly done by the com-

puter sotware itsel.


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Flock Together.

Fuzz or Feathers

Swirls and Spikes


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Duck SeasonExposed


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More Varations o the Canine Variety

by Diamond Young

Bad Dog! Owner s View

Low Density


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Look at meDigital Error


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Chrome of the Future Contagious Water


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Dedicated to:

Alexis Cortez

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