Backround reading, Neshat

Women without men.

This is the result of some background reading on the film, Women without men.
It is based on a novel of the same name by Shahrnush Parsipur.
It is directed by Shiran Neshat, a visual artist who spent years doing photography and video work before coming into film.
She says that Her work became more narrative until a film didn't seem so different from her art.

It is in a magical realism style which means it present magical elements as if they were real.
It has a lot of allegory and visual symbolism.
There is the timeless orchard where it is about a few individuals and their inner selves. 
This is juxtaposed with Tehran which has historical political conflicts of a specific time and place.

The director says the film is 40% faithful to the book. The film is more political with scenes of the 1953 protests.

Before 1953 Iran was a secular society with ideas of democracy and freedom.
Mossadegh was a left leaning leader who wanted to nationalise the oil industry he was respected by most Iranians as he was democratically elected.
The CIA and the British organised a coup that replaced him with the Shah.
this lies behind much of the hostility between Iran and the USA today. It also layed the ground work for the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The woman are not portrayed entirely as victims but with strength, dignity, bravery and the ability to move.






of strength, dignity, courage, and mobility.





















Neshat, S. (2010). Women Without Men: A Conversation with Shirin Neshat. Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/05/women-without-men-a-conversation-with-shirin-neshat.html

Comic art colouring

Digital art: the process.

Today I will show how I have done my digital art works for the theme of alternative southland.

First I draw on real paper with ink and dip pens if I make a mistake i can fix it later on the computer.

A scan of the physical drawing is shown above.

   I change the file from Bitmap to cmyk mode. Then I change the resolution to 300ppi.

This is because those settings are the publishing standard. I plan to publish these drawings in my book for the theme alternate Southland. My theme was Southland if it was a slice of life comic strip.

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ext I isolate the black lines and get rid of the white.I do this by going to the channels tab and ctrl +click on the cmyk panel.this selects all the white in my comic. 

I make a new layer.

I inverse the selection using the select tab and click on Inverse.

Then I fill it with black by clicking alt= delete.

This isolates the line work and next I delte the background layer, the original drawing.

I do all this so that I can colour on a layer below the line art layer and the black lines are automatically on top.

This is what it looks like after the above steps, just the lines and nothing else.

 Then I make a new layer at the bottom and fill it with white. 
then I erase any smudges or mistakes in the lines. I use the brush tool and my cintiq pen to join up or thicken some of the lines, as this makes colouring easier.
Above is what it looks like after the above steps.

Colouring and Actions.

First I create short cuts.

I make f2 the shortcut for selecting the line art layer.

I make f3 the short cut for selecting the colouring layer.

I make f4 the short cut for expanding my selection by 2 pixels. 

I click on select, modify, expand, 2

But I record it so I only do it once!

When I colour I click w to get the magic wand tool, then I click f2 then f4 then f3.
Which expanded the selection so that there is no white between the colour and the ink line.
Then I make sure I have the right colour and click Alt +delete to fill it.
If I want shading I click B to get the brush and select a darker shade of the same colour and paint a bit of that underneath. That gives more dimension, especially to hair.

I also use the brush and the lasso tool for bits where the lines don't join up or if I decide to do some shadows or shading.

 Shown here is what the colour looks like when the line art layer is invisible. .

And this is the final product. To show my process this is the second page of the alternative southland story. It took me 5 hours to do the digital colouring.

This is the first page, it took me 9 hours to colour it as it was my first time following this process.

I learned this method of colouring comics from the below link


reference: https://zenpencils.com/blog/cartooning/colouring/

Introduction analysis

13/03/2018
introduction analysis.
rational in introduction.
why the study needs to happens, the point how not much scholarly work has been done.

Argument. conveying social issues.
Make the structure clear.
give definitions.
Organisation. put a statement giving a rundown on what you will talk about.
should be in last sentence of introduction.
clear topic sentence.
Make sure it is readable, easy and fun to read.
entire first paragraph talking about the gap in research.
author is doing it to fill the gap.

WALL-E
They just give a rundown of the films plot, so people know what they're talking about.
It is all context no topic.
I will argue statement in 3rd paragraph of introduction.
Talks about messages behind movie.
 it is about identity formation of Wall-e. but there is so much context which shapes wall-e's identity.
Difficult to find statement.
The topic should be in first paragraph.
Not very clear, and no satisfactory rational.

Waltz Persepolis.
Analyzing. topic of interest.
 don't break it up into more than one argument.
Deffinitions of terms, Documentary genre. So we understamnd when reading what he means.







Our essay we will be saying This is a review of the high ho article by author and the title. That is our topic.  one argument strengths and weaknesses just chooses 2 or 3 reasons of criticism. Bias, hyper realism,
key terms, definitions.
The words we did in the activities.
define high art and low art. We should reference his ideas of high and low art.
Only one reference in our whole essay the benshov argument.
reference it every time you reference it.
As ours is very short.
Just give a basic review.
This is a structural exercise
due on 6th aprill.
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bva 103 week 6

Definitions.
Neurotic rear
counterparts
exemplifies
theses
concomitantly
literally
doctrine
simulacrum

satiric
schizophrenic
a- temporal
referent
signified
hysteria
la belle epoque
outmoded
anthromorphized
penultimate
Ethnic steareotypes
tar, baby licorice candys.
industrial art text
stremlined
nostelgic yearning
rigors

Alternative southland ideas

alternative Southland. Proposal.
My proposal is for the Southland of the future after a series of natural disasters ha s dramatically reduced the number of people in the area and made it much more inhospitable to the survivors.
Earthquakes have happened causing huge mountains around Invercargill, blocking off outside trade. and the temperature has dropped massively.
There is a lot of fog around the mountain and the southern lights are the only respite from the elements.
The buildings in town are shabby and inhabited by people and the strange creatures. cite fast

I decided not to go with this idea, but i considered it.

5. WHICH QUALITY DO YOU THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT IN GOOD CHILDREN’S LITERATURE?

I think a book should have respect for the intelligence of the reader. Children are smart and shouldn’t be shielded from challenging subjects or feelings. Pat morals and stories that reek of “valuable lessons” should be avoided in favour of the dark, the weird, and the emotionally complex.

drawing

Homework

homework

winter  is coming.

Mudbox

More modeling on mudbox.
began experimenting with maya.

Maya

Working with maya

pres W to transform. and move tings about
right click and press vertex to control points

G is for extruding.
press  3 to smooth.
6 allows you to see  it.

Women without men watching notes

Women without men notes.
 Munis Girl is thityy an dnot married. listens to radio instead of listening to her dad lecture her.
"ypu;; never be decent. go make dinner, if you leave the house i will break your legs.

British go home.
evicting british nationals. On  car radio
long live mosedegh.
theme of girls listening to music instead of confronting unpleasent things.
zarin, prostitute?
just lies there, unhappy.
looks at guy, he has no facial features. photo shopped?

Music, solemn, long live the shah.
forces against the natiom, saved from.
every country says that, to justify war.
same as in act of killing.

if woman cant satisfy her husband he has the right to remarry.

Vulnerable, scared, self concious in bath house.
very skinny,maked
cuts etc. scrubbing so much. crazy women.
itchy noise. till she bleeds, little boy watches her. everyone quiet.

Munis lieing dowm as if dead, looks peacefull.
guy crying, digging grave.
women wailing crying, writhing shaking, wearing black, candles.

itchy woman runs into prayer meeting. just men, they look up she rums away. walking down road.
Lieing in lake is itchy girl, reminiscent of Othena from Hamlet.
found

digs up woman still alive.
Rebirth.
drowns, dug up, rebirth.
3 women gathering in a garden and sanctuary like the garden of Eden. crossing over into the garden .
think conceptually.

Mudbox experimenting

Mudbox.
can import from mya for 3d animation.
ctrl d, goes up another level of polygons for more typology.
compatible with mya and 3ds max.
display, ctrl w turns off wire frame and grid.