Kiaera Nicole: 2015

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Line in Action Plan

Using the rotoscope clip from my last post as the essential idea for my final video, I will continue the motion of the walking feet adding layers of different images on top. The images will flash in and out of the video and portray an overall narrative of walking down an "endless road." I will be using handwritten text and other doodle-like components in a background layer and adding audio as well.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Behance profile

https://www.behance.net/copeskiaere259

I'm on Behance!!!

Skin Deep
I chose to create a self portrait that embodies the idea of beauty and its standards in today's society. There is much controversy about what true beauty is and how to attain it, and the standard of beauty is constantly changing. With images surfacing everywhere of perfectly made up unnaturally thin supermodels of one specific race, the media and commercialism influences young women to try and achieve this superficial idea of beauty while making them feel ashamed of the natural skin for which they were born with. In my portrait, I am wearing my hair in its natural state, a curly Afro for which draws its own controversy amongst the black community. Some people believe that this hairstyle is not beautiful. They think it looks messy, unkept and untamed while others like myself are prideful of it. For a while the standard of beauty, which has been defined by the media and commercialism was to have light skin, long straight hair and a thin figure. Those who didn't fall into those categories were then ashamed of not resembling this. My goal with this portrait is to empower those who don't feel comfortable in their skin and to allow them to realize their natural beauty.

Monday, March 16, 2015

"Portrait of an artist" inspiration: Catherine Prescott

My goal is to paint a convincing portrait, but making it convincing and making it accurate are not the same to me. Leonardo da Vinci called portraits “vehicle[s] for expressing emotions of the mind.” I’m always negotiating with the forms to get at interiority, and I tend to trust my own distortions. -Catherine Prescott

I am drawn to Prescott's work because she likes to work from photographs which I myself appreciate because when you are taught to draw and to paint you are told to work from life and it is then drilled into your head that it has to be that way. But I find that working from photographs prove just as effective if not more effective than working from life because though life changes, a photograph will always stay the same. Prescott's work takes on characteristics of that of Leonardo da Vinci, which I like because of the masters he is my favorite.