Sean-Maurice Lynch

Greetings! todays exploration is brought you by the letters “C” & “I”!  Observing others in class I’ve come to realize that the two terms can be a bit confusing  at times When it comes to designing. The class was challenged to create a focal point using the two terms; Isolation (one point that is separate or different then) and Concentration ( many elements in one spot). Below is my attempt to create the two.

My Concentration & Isolation designs

I used a bit of nature to inspire and accomplish my goal of Isolation

Here my design inspired by nature. Can you see the isolation? I decided to use color as a way to solve the problem of isolation. All the leaves are the same, expect for the color of the brown one.

For my concentration design I decided to work by hand and create shapes using paper and glue

Here's my result from the black paper. Can you see the concentration? In this design I used shapes to help solve the problem of concentration. By grouping many strips of black paper on top of each other in a "cluster" I was able to direct the viewer eye to one side.

What do you think? Did I accomplish the goal? What would you do differently? Leave comments!

Greetings!

So we had our first critique on Monday. I must say that I was cocky in thinking that just become I’m an actor, that I could take critique better than anyone else. In the Theatre World, you are critiqued 24/7 based off your talent. But in truth It was hard to hear someone not like your initial  design that you’d worked on for days. I didn’t care for the tact or lack of that peers used when critiquing, but giving constructive feedback isn’t everyones forte. Out of my four designs, the one which received the most critique was the curve lines design:

Curve lines

Critiques:

1. Calm feeling, but disproportion

2. Curves don’t match each other

3. The curves don’t present a connection to each other. There’s no relationship being presented

4. The negative space dominates the design.

5. Doesn’t satisfy the requirement of Subdividing.

As a result of the those critiques (in which I completely agreed with) Here is my re-do design of curve lines: I hope by using the white space more efficiently that this new design creates a since of connection with the curves. It’s also my hope that the subdivision is better exucuted  then before.

Re-Design Curve Lines

-SM

Greetings!

So 100 sketches! Here are my sketches of horizontal, vertical, diagonals, and curves. Lines are a funny thing…they at first appear to be just that…lines, but overtime one can start to see new things though them. I must say that I quite enjoyed working on this project and pushing myself to develop more and more….and more sketches lol.

-Greetings, Sean-Maurice here

As a performer, I’m rarely standing in one place for long periods of time. Being in a design class is requiring me to use another side of my brain that I always was aware was there….I just haven’t used it much lol. Today’s lesson involved the ‘Elements of Design’. Although I’m sure there were some in my class who were quite aware of these elements….I was not. Dance, Singing, & Actings yes….Point, Line, Plane, & Volume, not so much lol. Either way this SCAD journey is about opening doors otherwise not opened. This includes the most basic steps of design. Back to ‘standing in one place for long periods of time’; 100 sketches of lines (vertical/horizontal/diagonal/curve) were asked by Prof. Waldvoge….I did say lines right? At first my need to keep control kept me on a steady path of not wrong designs…but static designs Id say. Sometime the freedom to do something totally to your own creativity can be daunting. Either way I eventually got my footing and started “lining away”. I soon found myself not even thinking about what I was actually drawing or caring if the lines were even or equal. After over an hour of just sketching lines, class ended. On my way back to the dorms I thought I had left my lines at Anderson Hall, but I found myself instead noticing lines in everything; the street lanes, lamp post, the SCAD bus, book bags…etc. Later on this weekend I shall post some of my sketches maybe you can help me pick the top 4 to design!

HOW MANY LINES DO YOU SEE?

TILL THEN

-SM

Greetings,

It's me 'SM'

My name is Sean-Maurice Lynch (yes I know a hyphened first name) or you can call me “SM” or “Shamoe”. I am a transfer student coming from the Washington/Maryland/Virginia metro area. For the past four years, I have been blessed and lucky enough to be a working  professional actor in Washington D.C. This career path is  why I decided to major in Motion Media Design here at SCAD….Just joking, I’m majoring in Performing Arts to complete my BFA that I started at Penn State University. For me theatre is…as cliche as it sounds…, life. It’s something that I most certainly need at this point of my life. Because I’ve been working in the professional world of my craft for a spell, I’m quite looking forward to being challenged to look outside the “box” and break the mode of what I might already believe to be art. I once read “an artist is a collector of life’s moments”. This I believe to be true. I’m elated to be here at SCAD where I’m sure I will have more “moments” then one could ever imagine.

Me in the Andy Warhol musical POP! as Factory member Pope Ondine