Crit #1 Spring 2014

so I've been pretty swamped with Comics and Inking class so here's some of the stuff I've been working on in there 1st cause there's a lot lot. Been working with a nib for the 1st time and a little more with a brush. I like both

Drawing with Ink nib work

Now Brush work

 

Comics

Ok now My own personal work I got a little off track with 1 piece I'm working on because I got stuck on thumbnails and roughs for my schizophrenia work. Love was in the air for the 1st 1 and then I'm working on expressing the things seen and heard by schizos as well as the paranoid personality

 

 

 

 

What I'm about as of Now

I'm Jared E. Jennings. I'm here now in my Junior year working towards my Com Art degree. My work has been based mostly on the complexity of the human brain. Our processing power is far greater then any other species of animal on the planet. A long with that we have more motor functions allowing for more coordination. Everything that humanity has come to be in this day and age is because of how the brain works after millions of years of evolution.

Lately I've been more interested in the deflects that accrue. My family has a history of Schizophrenia and Alcholism. My focus for my current work is Schizophrenia thought being that I'm a very likely carrier. So I want to further understand how Schizophrenia works beyond my own experience. I'm trying to produce work that shows what a person suffering from Schizophrenia goes through while trying to convey how causes the deflect.

Artist that I look towards for inspiration are Dali, Durer, Jim Warren, Thomas Hart Benton, Lenora Carrington. I'm more taken in by Surrealism and Expressionism then any other art movement because to me it takes in the human imagination much more then any other art movement.

last Crit of the Sem

Really just have been working on class work. Mostly Drawing for the time being. Been working on Plotting shadows as well as reflections.

I have other ideas just haven't done sketches just yet for them. It's my own personal work.

just and idea of some of the images I'll have in future pieces

Artist Lecture thingy i attended and what not

Matthew Dercole and Angela Deiffenbach were the 2 artists that gave lectures that I've attended. Their work is interesting and tackles area's of life that most people find strange which is why i really enjoyed there work. It's out of the norm. It's great to meet other artists that take the strange approach. They found their calling and they're sticking to it even tho it's not main stream

Matthew Dercole's work were mostly 3D. He worte a whole story book and then created artwork for the pages and then actually bound the book. His pieces involing the man finding beauty in the carcus of a deer was quite interesting.

Angela Deiffenbach looked mostly towards forms i think. She showed alot of pieces that where like the genetic make up of mechince which was pretty cool. She also swallowed a small camera which took pictures of her internal body. She then made a rump out of clay and made it so she could display it on the wall placeing it so low that if you're curious enough to look into the hole you had to bend over. when you looked in ou saw a slide show of all the pictures that were taken internally of her.

3rd

just a sketch working out all the details for my signature tree. it's trunk is spiraling

This is just a sketch as well. it's 2 trees that have grown into one another into a spiraling growth as well

another sketch just trying to figure out how a collapsed human head would look like

Critque 2

This is what I'm working on in Com art. We were supposed to make a cirus scene with ourselves at the cirus performer and we were also supoosed to have an animal companion which is the armadilos in my case.

 this is just an idea i've had for awhile now which needs a lot more thought as to where the direction is going

this is a finished piece.

Remember to Forget

which has to do with multiple personality disorder

Critique #1

I normaly have a strong concept in my pieces. I feel like Surrealism is the style with no limits. I look at the world in a different light so my imagination takes over and has a lot to do with my art work.

Holding Darkness

It's ink and brush. Still needs a little more planing to fill space but the whole Concept is that everyone has the power to do both evil and good.

I haven't titled this yet but it's going to be all in acrylic paint. The concept behind this basically is pollution caused by humanity is slowly killing Gaia (Mother Earth). Gaia gave life to humanity and nurtures humanity. The Death of Gaia in turn causes the Death of all humanity

This piece is the closest to being finished. I have just a little work to do. It is untitled as well for the moment. It's a drawing and it's supposed to show multiple personality disorder. What missing is the cause. Most cases of M.P.D are caused by a sudden traumatic event which in turn the Brain to protect the exciting personality actually creates a new personality that takes on the memory of the traumatic event. It can result in not just 1 extra but many different personalities.

This is just a rose in ink and brush i did to work a little bit with the median because I haven't touched it in a few months.