Monday, November 2, 2009

AP Art Breadth




These are the only Breadth pictures I could find and get pictures of.

Friday, October 23, 2009

These guys are my idols!

Superhero Artist

Mark Texeira is a cartoonist who has worked primarily for Marvel comics for many years and has done art for Ghost Rider, Black Panther, Moon Knight, and many others. I like to use his style of art and themes of his art for mine because I think he has one of the most perfect comic book styles in the industry where there is a perfect blend between realistic art and comic-book style character art. It's like mixing Michael Turner and Alex Ross, and getting that perfect in between.





Thursday, October 15, 2009

Favorite Pieces

Baby Soldier
This is my favorite piece that I have done. I really like it because not only is there detail and interesting composition, but I think that the message I convey in the picture is very powerful. I've never really done a piece before which was meant to give a message or really pull out feelings and I really like this one.

This is a piece done by one of my favorite comic books artists ever, Michael Turner. I don't think this is my favorite piece done of all time, but I really like it because it is dynamic and it has two of my favorite superheroes of all time in it. These pieces are very different, what with Michael's being professionally colored and all, but they both are largely character based. However, there are mostly differences between the two pieces. My piece is mostly emotional and intense, whereas Turner's drawing is exciting and about superheroes. I can't really think of what my piece relates to in my list of 100, but I know I had both Batman and Spider-Man on my list of 100, so that piece relates to my list.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Stuart Davis


This blog is about Stuart Davis, an artist who was born on December 7, 1892.
Stuart Davis was an early American modernist painter who was known for his jazzy style. His paintings were very colorful and bold. He was born in Philadelphia. His father worked as the art editor of the Philadelphia Press while his mother worked as a painter. Davis studied painting, and art under Robert Henri, the leader of the early modern art group the Eight; he was one of the youngest painters to exhibit in the controversial Armory Show of 1913. He is most famous for his abstract still lives and landscapes. He is considered a proto-Pop artist for his use of contemporary subject matter such as cigarette packages, spark plug advertisements, and the contemporary American landscape. He died, due to his Alcoholism causing him a stroke, on June 24, 1964.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Portfolio Day


Kyle showing his stuff. On the T to Boston.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

These is Stories

I remember when I was still in like Kindergarten I saw an episode and the episode was about art. And I remember that I saw a ton of weird abstract art done by other kids, and I was like, "I wanna do that!" So I started a drawing and I called it, " Art by Kyle." It was a weird abstract creature thing with eyes all over and it was weird. But I copied it and I framed it and gave it to my favorite teacher at school. I was so proud of myself that I framed it and from then on I wanted to be an artist. (By the way, I still have it in it's original frame).
Allright, so this second story isn't from way back before I was eight. It's from the 5th grade. We had to do reports and present to the class how to do something. For me, I showed the class how to make a comic book. I remember telling the class they needed a hero and a villain and some sort of plot and a climax. I also remember actually making a comic book, "Creature Kid" and I photo-copied tons of them and gave them out to the class. And that was my first comic book that I ever made and that was when I had the feeling I wanted to be a cartoonist. (I also still have the original of that comic).

Monday, September 21, 2009

ComicKing



As an artist I am very interested in comic art and other creative outlets for art. I really enjoy taking my ideas of characters or monsters and drawing them and seeing my ideas go from my head to the page. I get most of my inspiration for my art from life, comic books, movies, or just personal flashes of ideas. Some of my favorite artists are Norman Rockwell, Michael Turner, Alex Ross, and Mark Texeira. Turner, Ross, and Tex are all comic book artists which I really like and admire. The work they do is very interesting to look at and I always look forward to seeing how they interpret the characters I know and love. In the future I would LOVE to be a comic book artist or an animator and my craziest dream is to own my very own comic company that rivals even DC and MARVEL. I would also like to be an animator for something like video games or movies.