Cel Shading

Ashley would like this foolisness >.>

...But this flat anime style can be fun, the use of colour is the most important thing with it, you can convey your feelings very easily.

David Hilliard's distinctive command of a cinematic narrative is at once romantic and disconsolate, oftentimes crafting bittersweet vignettes that grapple with notions of sexuality, faith, mortality and nostalgia. His subtle manipulation of perspective and depth alludes to a similar distortion in our recollected memories, wistful snapshots drawn upon to form a chronicled identity unique to the artist yet relevant to all.

 David Rathman's mottled watercolors illustrate iconic emblems of strength and struggle, luminary and the underdog. Loosely rendered scenes beckon to their pop cultural origins – films, album covers and advertisements alike – while also acting as collated excerpts from a lost Americana memoir. Mirage-like figures seem pulled from the hazy recesses of a sentimental male mind, or from the filmic cutting room floor as Rathman delineates composites of the modern idol.

Exploring Art With Money

Looking around, checking out what others have done to help me push what i can do with my piece.

Cars and Money: New Works by David Lachapelle

 The car images are supposed to make the viewer re-think their concept of luxury within the 21st Century, Which really it doesn't for me at least.

“The Crash” includes work named after taglines in automobile advertising which feature a collage of images showing crushed and destroyed cars literally recontextualises high end autos and forcing us re-think our idea of luxury.  The artist succinctly defines the perceived value that has been placed on these machines. These cars, which consume exorbitant amounts of energy, finance and desire, are pointedly responsible for a depletion of these very resources, which are presently at a breaking point.

The image above of the banknote is meant to depict the negative impact of money on our society.Conceptually its a great idea and its visually good but not much done other than a few overlays of negatives on top.

WTH

...But hey it pretty and it making my eyes hurt so why not? The colours could represent different moods maybe making the audience interact differently with whichever colour they see, highly simplified  which makes me wonder if the artist purposefully didn't want to do more with it or didn't push it anymore.

MicroPhone Square

This Piece if I'm correct was done on the computer in a 3D modeler program, Its interesting how the artist decided to leave the objects in the raw colour instead of putting in life like shades, scale obviously plays a large part in this, and it could b to show us how much some political candidates speech is worth to use or how much more than us, or it could be music and celebrity life who knows. I's like to attempt one of these sometime soon. 

Good Fun.

and another for good measure...

Patrick Gunderson's Abstract Algorithm

He tries to show us Points are dimensionless and that is, a point has no width, length, or height. We locate points relative to some arbitrary standard point, often called the "origin". I can really understand what he is trying to do through his work, it had no start nor end but I try to pick up somewhere to start and form a linear understanding through that start point to the end.