journal 2 week 12/7-12/14

Figure Drawing XI by ~carissapfeiffer on deviantART


I can't decide what it is that I like about this drawing. I just do. It's not simplistic, but not complex. I don't want to say it's powerful, but it's powerful in a very subtle way. Maybe it's the shading. But the confusion I have when I look at this is what inspires me. When you like something, but you don't know why, that's when you want to look at it more. You want to figure out why it draws you to it.

sketch 1 week 12/7-12/14

Have you ever gone out to a restaurant with your family and thought, "God, I wish we could shut these kids up!"? Well wish no more! This fabulous new technology is just the ticket to give you your peace and quiet without breaking out the duct tape.

Designed to look like an old jukebox, this movie player lets your kids watch what they want for just a few cents. With over 50 choices, the selection buttons let them choose, then plays the movie on the screen below.

Yup, that's what I drew this week. :^)

journal 1 week 12/7-12/14

This is a scene from Disney's Pocahontas. While I was watching it last night I was really intrigued by the color scheme used during this song. It's all reds and purples and blues, with just a few parts of orange. But the way the colors are put together just gives the whole scene the feeling of intense anger. It's perfect for what's actually going on in the movie. So it just made me realize how important color scheme is to make the feel of the movie act according to the plot.

sketch week 11/30-11/6

I designed this a little too late to use in the project. It would be the logo. Because Cupio means "I desire" in Latin, that's what I had in mind for the logo. It started as a heart, then a person, then a leaf (for those environmentalists) and finally a rose.

journal 2 week 11/30-12/6

*warning* if you don't like shakespeare or can't understand a single word he says, then don't read this blog.

For me, Shakespeare is incredibly inspiring. I get that he stole most of his story ideas from theatre writers of the past, but he was the one who put it into perfect words. He wrote for the masses, not just the upper class. His plays are filled with sexual jokes as well as sophistication. He wrote about universal themes.

I just want one of my movies to be like this. To have an effect on the masses, even if it's not in my lifetime.

The monologue that follows is my absolute favorite. It's from Richard III (a play which I despise with all my being). Kinda contradictory right?


KING RICHARD III Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:
Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good
That I myself have done unto myself?
O, no! alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself!
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree
Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;
All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd
Came to my tent; and every one did threat
To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.

journal 1 week 11/30-12/6

the lost room by ~arbebuk on deviantART

I just can't get over this picture. It's so simple, yet so powerful. The lighting is incredible. But the emptiness of the room is what grabs me. It just brings on a kind of sadness that I can't explain. It's beautiful.