Conor Coderre's blog

Assignment was to sit somewhere, record every sound you heard for an hour, and create a picture displaying the sounds you heard and the order you heard them in.

Not shown is when my friends showed up and decided to hump stools and make mine exciting.

Assignment was to take a stencil and use it to demonstrate the use of isolation and concentration to create focal points.


I’m legit angry we’re not getting critiqued on these – they’re easily the strongest pieces I’ve done for this class…

The assignment was to first create a motif out of a shape subtracted by another shape:

(the faces on them are not required)

Then you were to draw them within a two-inch and one-inch square and photocopy them for a total of 125 pieces. (not picture)

Then you were to make a 10×10 grid and arrange those squares to make a design:

Then you were to choose the best design and create it in india ink on illustration board:

And mine was straight-up awful. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong and I was given a half hour critique where the only positive thing said was that I was pretty ballsy to turn it in. They decided that I would have had to gone back and start with a brand new motif to have a chance at a good project. It was fairly disappointing, though not unexpected.

Assignment was to create an image out of six different images. (the sky is two different images…) It’s kind of okay. I used a painting by an old friend for one of the two sky images…

Portrait of my girlfriend, done in Illustrator for our six-month anniversary. Face is really purple for some reason.

For this project we had to use construction paper and bristol board to produce four pieces:

1. a piece using only vertical and horizontal lines
2. a piece using only diagonal lines
3. a piece using only curved lines
4. a piece using at least one of each above-mentioned lines

To start the project we had to do 25 thumbnails of each piece:












(sorry about the sideways!!)
After that, I picked the best of each 25 and produced a full-sized piece out of them:




During the critique it was mentioned that my craftsmanship was very rough and while it improved my curved piece (described as “a Tim Burton Tree”), it detracted from the other three. Personally, I am very dissatisfied with my work and if I had more time I would at least completely rethink and remake the fourth piece at the very least.

First project for my computer applications class. Had to use Illustrator to design a business card for myself or a future business. Really happy with how this came out!

conceptual

• point
• line
• plane
• volume

visual

• shape
  1. geometric
  2. organic
  3. rectilinear (straight lines, etc)
  4. irregular (geometric + organic)
• size
  1. scale
  2. proportion
  3. framal reference/picture plane
• color
• texture

relational

• direction
• position
• space – filled (positive) or empty (negative)
• gravity

practical

• representation
  1. abstract (has a basis in reality)
  2. nonobjective (no basis in reality, just formal elements)
• meaning
• function – a purpose?

I can vividly remember the first time I picked up a pencil with the intent to draw. I picked up a composition notebook, said to myself, “Man, I’m gonna draw an Invader Zim character,” and promptly drew Harry Potter as a cat.

My name is Conor. I’m 17 and am attending SCAD Rising Star with the hopes of enrolling next year as a Sequential Art or Animation major. I’m from a very poor, very rural area of Florida and it is very exciting to be able to stay in such an impressive and beautiful city.