Works From Materials and Techniques and Environments Props and Structures

Hello everyone,

This is Chris Nance, checking in.  I start this at the suggestion of a friend or two.  So here I shall post various art projects I've taken part in and my thoughts about them and perhaps other things as well.  We'll see where it goes from here.  To get started off, let's post a bit of my past work.

 

Here's one of the earlier pieces I did in Materials and Techniques this fall.  The setting is the Kaminarimon in Asakusa, Japan.   Done in blue line, then ebony pencil. 

This is one of the later pieces I did in Materials and Techniques and depicts detectives investigating a gruesome murder scene, as a crowd watched in the background.  Astute viewers may recognize the two gentlemen on the left side of the picture.  Penciled, inked, and colored with watercolors. 

The rest of these are drawing from my Environments, Props, and Structures class, also taken in the fall of 2010. 

This is a drawing of the Gryphon Tea Room and the building surrounding it.  Blue line, then penciled. 

 This is the River Street Assignment for Environments.  In this assignment, we had to depict a couple walking down Savannah's River Street on a rainy day.  One of the people sees an odd shop and drags the other person along with them inside.  Blue line only. 

 In this assignment, we had to depict a person coming out of a building, getting in their car, driving off, and turning a corner, only to collide with something.  For my project, I decided to set the events at a lavish party in the 1920's in the style of The Great Gatsby.  Blue lined, then penciled. 

 In this assignment, we have to draw a four page comic in which a group of people are eating in an ornately decorated room.  One received a phone call and has to leave the room.  They receive some sort of news on the phone from a person surrounded by computers.  They then return to the dining room and shoot several of the other people, then leap through a large window into a car, which waits below, before driving off. 

 

 For this last assignment in environments, we had to show two men drinking in a bowling alley, watching a group of women bowl.  One then begins to tell a story that involves a flashback to a battle scene in World War II involving several varieties of planes from the era.  The man telling the story is one of the plane's gunners.  He hears a strange sound from the cockpit over his headphones and goes to investigate, where he finds something strange.  In my case, I put Marty McFly and Doc Brown from Back to the Future in control of the plane.  When the shocked gunner questions them, the Doc brushes the question off.  Marty, however, notices that a damaged German BF109 is on a collision course with them.  Luckily, the Doc initiates the time travel systems he installed in the plane, just in time for them to avoid the falling BF109 by time traveling.  The storyteller's drinking buddy gives him an odd look, while he only smiles.  

Well, that's it for now.  I'll be back soon with some more of the work I've done at school, some older, some more recent.  

Until we meet again!  

Chris