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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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Dedicated to:
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