During class and the days between those days were primarily more research based for the characters and the environment. The lesser known and favored characters are taking a bit more time compared to Wukong and the Monk because not much is made about them. But during those days I sketched out the zhubajie and some of Wujing. As for their environment I am having much more of a hard time but I am hoping the books that I found at an old book store will help me. I am currently working on Wukong’s environment.

Goal: by the end of October/beginning of November is to finish all of the digital painting portion of my project.

Meet with Bonnie and discussing the next step for my project.

I was not as prepared as I wanted to be for the defense but that is also because I was absent for a week when the class was going over the how the defense will be and I didn’t get the chance to have a practice round with my classmates. That responsibility is on me, but I manage to have something to show for the defense and I got a lot of good feedback. I sort of hoped for more but for the amount of work that I had I couldn’t get much since what I had was very little.

My hopes for my final review is to have all of the environments and characters completed and having them animated as well and I will be in the process or working with Bonnie to make them interactive.

I also will work on how I can make this project more personal and a true retelling of the old classic story.

My hopes is to connect the characters to the different levels of sin such as wrath, gluttony, greed, and etc by using colors and rewriting their story to connect with those themes.

I will also attempt to work more closely to my timeline and due dates I set for myself, which is still something I have a hard time following sometimes.

Attending the collab-lab was an interesting experience i enjoyed the drawing exercise the most but the rest I felt it wasn’t very necessary for what I plan to do in the future.I think it’s a good experience attending the collaborative lab because now I know what is available for me in the collab lab.

There were some art pieces in the museum that I enjoyed and some that I had a hard time relating to. Some of my favorite artists are Yun-Fei Ji and his large watercolor painting High Noon, his piece is related to what I am trying to do for my BFA but my work will be a retelling of a novel with a lot of  Chinese folklore characters.  I love how he depicts the characters, the compositions, the colors, and the lines and how much energy the piece has. There wasn’t a lot of pieces that were similar to how I would like to project my BFA but I already knew how I wanted to present my work already.

      Yun Fei Ji’s work

Lastly visiting the Gallery was also a nice experience and I’ve learned so many things from Condessa Croninger, she made the experience extremely enjoyable and I loved her high energy personality. I’ve never thought about the differences between galleries but because of Croninger, I learned so much on how to make a good impression on Art Directors and basic manners to form a business between a commercial gallery. Carrey was also extremely nice and the advice she has given was so very helpful and motivating.

While I was reading the article I had a hard time understanding the article and I felt I only grasp a small portion of what the author is trying to convey but after discussing it in class with my peers I understand it better.  And what I thoughts about digital art and the emergence of technology still holds true. I think digital media will never leave after it has made such a huge impact in the art community, and one day digital media will become the norm and it will be so integrated into the art community both traditional and commercial that no one would think just 30 years ago everything seems so foreign.  Many of my peers made a lot of good points; I thought it was cool that we are using digital media as something to achieve traditional art so that it is eternal. There’s also art pieces that is considered new media and digital that is fleeting much like traditionally media and talking about it in class made me more  aware of the art community.