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Artist Share-Melissa Vance

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Line Up-Melissa Vance

Portfolio Piece #2-Melissa Vance

Sea Dragon Redone

Melissa Vance- Portfolio Piece #1

Updated turnarounds/nautical character (well one of them)

I have no idea why the blue in the back is as vibrant as it is... The colours are not the same as on my computer.

updated:

Melissa Vance-Assignment 11 (Finished)

Environment (unfinished)-Melissa Vance

Disclaimer: I have never used photoshop before. I am still working on this.

Melissa Vance-Assignment #10

Mermaid Character Re-do

3/4 and side view

Back and Front view

Melissa Vance-Assignment #9

Wasn't sure if we were allowed to do mythical beasts, so there is a person on there...

Inspired by Justin Gerard. I think his work is really appealing because of the shapes he uses and the way he shows form. He has a way of using straight shapes in a way that makes them look curved. He also uses very little obvious line work in his paintings (even though he clearly knows how to use it in his drawings) and definitely manages to get his point across with his shading. I was trying to emulate him with the shapes I used for the dragon and the girl. He has a similar body type that he uses in his girls and I attempted to use that in my mermaid person. His monsters/animals also have a similar shape and he tends to re-use positions. Someone once told me that a large part of emulation was not only drawing like the artist, but looking at how they positioned their characters and backgrounds, I'm not sure if this is always true, but I wanted to make sure that I tried out his way of drawing characters. I was really inspired by his forms, I tried to shade like him a bit though really unless I had not used line (which I did when I forgot what I was doing) and just shaded the way he did I wouldn't have (and didn't really) succeeded.  

Justin Gerard, a girl on a snail

Melissa Vance-Assignment #8

Since I won't be in class I wanted to explain my character. I was looking for similar shapes (hers being a circle, hopefully that's obvious). She is supposed to be a middle aged "mom"-ish character passing out candy on halloween. The type of mom who borrows her teanage daughters clothing from the closet--even though it's too tight and probably not appropriate for her body type. She is dressed as "the bride of frankenstein". Because the actual bride of frankenstein is a very sharp/pointed character I did the outline that way to sort of show that she has that other characteristic. Her props are the candy apple, candy apple tray, candy tray, and a sort of glass goblet filled with candy.

Out of Class #8-Melissa Vance

Is this right???

Melissa Vance-Face Expressions

Melissa Vance-Out of Class Assignment #7

Melissa Vance-Assignment #6

Line Version

Shaded Version

Evil Geneticist: Genetically modified as a fetus, by the (now deceased mad scientist) Evil Dr. Morbert. He was raised by said doctor as his prodigy, being the only experiment to survive. As a result our satyrical friend truly believes himself to be the next step in human evolution, thanks again to Morberts brainwashing. The evil geneticist now wants to change all of humanity into half human/animal hybrids, believing that humanity is too limited in itself. His genius intellect has made it easy for him to surpass human genetics to the point where he is very close to his breakthrough. He then plans on releasing his modifications into the water supply where it will directly affect the human genome, changing it to a "superior" version of what it is.
He also has a lovely pet lion-cat which he modified himself. It is his only friend. He's very lonely and looking for a female companion if anyone is interested.

Melissa Vance-Out of Class Assignment #6

Box Hands

Without Boxes

Master Copies From Reference

Hands for Midterm Oct. 23rd

Melissa Vance-Assignment 5

Final Character

Note: I was trying to use illustrator which I am very unfamiliar with. It was an interesting attempt.

First Try

Research, listed under works cited

Works Cited

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Kemble, Edward Windsor. Until dinner began to come in across the yard',

slaves carry a prepared meal from a cookhouse to a plantation mansion. 1886. Engraving. Private Collection.

Prewitt, Milford C. Changing the Culinary Landscape. New York. American Visions,

1994. Print.

Barton, Keith C. Good Cooks and Washers: Slave hiring, domestic labor, and the

market in bourbon county, Kentucky. Journal of American History. 1997. Print.

Covey, Herbert C. What the Slaves Ate: Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways From the Slave Narratives. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood Press, 2009. Print.

What the slaves ate paraphrasing:

Slaves ate together, one cook special for them with 2 or 3 women to help and a man who was the actual cook. One woman was there (called “mammy”) her job was to feed all the children, the man was to feed all the workers throughout the day.

Slave cooks had high value on plantation. Showed high social status on the plantation owner. Cooks usually well treated, but under pressure and sometimes abused. Female cooks were the most valued slaves, often were within close proximity to their white owners.

Role of cook in big house usually done by older women. Viewed as “nonthreatening”.  Old people also took care of the slave children. Any mistakes (such as burning bread) were punishable by extremely violent abuse.

Changing the Culinary Landscape Paraphrasing:

Story about Hemings, the first African-American chef. Used cooking to get his freedom. Owned by Thomas Jefferson who sent him to paris for 4 years to learn to cook classic French culinary skills. Came back and worked for Jefferson until earning his freedom.

Interesting (disturbing) Fact:

While cooks in “the big house” were usually treated better than the regular slaves, making a mistake (even something as small as burning bread) was punishable. In one story, a pregnant woman who was the main house chef was taken out to the barn, stripped naked, and whipped with a spurred whip all over her body.

Out of class assignment #5-Melissa Vance