Doodles & Videos

My name is Rowena, and I'm a senior at Marshall. Growing up, I've always been drawn to all things artistic and creative. I tend to find beauty in anything and everything, especially the little things in life.

Here are a couple of doodles I drew for fun and stop-motion videos I've created for work, enjoy!

Max - Introducing Myself

Hello everyone! My name is Max Novak. I was born in Berkeley, raised in lovely Oakland California, and am currently a Freshmen here at USC. I am a Classics major as of now, but have always enjoyed design, and am considering picking up a minor within Roski.

 My interest in design stems mostly from graphic fashion design and the clothing that I would see around the city and in skate videos. Since high-school I've dabbled in clothing design, and started a brand called WORSE with some friends. Right now we're re-evaluating the brand and working on some other projects.

 Here's a photo we did with our second shirt. The font is taken from the logo of the HBO show "The Wire", and the white back only print is supposed to be vaguely reminiscent of police jackets. We hand acid-washed the shirts to give them a semi-tie-dye look.

This is the Dirty Harry tee. I themed this one around some poster art from SF's most legendary cop movie, in the form of a jersey shirt.

This is a picture I found of a hat that I did a few years ago. The california coast is stitched on the side of the W. The hat released in a variety of Bay Area colors.

Hi! It's Vedika

Hello, my name is Vedika, and I am a sophomore studying Business Administration. I am hoping to start a minor in Communication Design. I am what one would call a third culture child as I was born in Hong Kong but have also lived in New Zealand and India.

One of my favorite artists is a New Zealander called Max Gimblett. His work is may seem extremely simple from the surface however, there is a lot of thought that goes into his work. After seeing his work up close and watching videos of him making works, his whole artistic process intrigues me. His works reflect his European heritage and his Buddhist beliefs.  This mix of Western and Eastern ideals is greatly present in me as well.

Hello, My Name is Tasia

Salutations fellow humans and designers!

My name is Anastasia Dedenbach, but that's a bit of a mouthful, so feel free to call me Tasia (say it like Tah-zee-yah) or Tas/Taz. I'm a second-year fine arts major, with an emphasis in design and intermedia. I also work as a graphic designer for USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (you've probably seen my work on all of the boards) and I freelance here and there. You can check out some of the work I've done for that here. I grew up painting and drawing and have a huge passion for work done by hand. I really enjoy color theory and communicating depth without the use of black, and my favorite subject matter are friends and family. When I was 17, I had my own exhibition show at my high school, and you can see some examples of that here:

Now I like to use the computer more through digital photography or digitizing drawings. It usually looks something more like this:

I am really excited to get to know and design with all of you this semester!

Introductions for the New Semester

I am Dominic Seonghoon Kim and I am a freshman with a Fine Arts major at Roski School of Fine Arts, although I am considering changing my major to either Animation or Interactive Design. I may be somewhat of a quiet introvert, but I make my art and other works express my thoughts and opinions for me. Although I primary work with physical art such as pencil sketches and charcoal portraits, I greatly enjoy working with digital art despite just recently starting using programs such as Flash. I hope that this class of Design Fundamentals will teach me about the concepts of design and help me improve and develop as an artist.

During my first semester I made a self-portrait of myself when I just recovered from a cold. Unfortunately, I still had the cough left over from the illness, hence my somewhat disappointed facial expression in this portrait. I initially started the portrait using a wooden pencil to draw the general shape of my face and my figure before switching to charcoal sticks to add the shadings. I had thought to have myself stare at the viewer of the portrait, but upon drawing that shape I realized that I ended up looking like my father, which I did not like because I wanted myself to be recognized in the portrait instead of my father, so I decided to have the portrait me avert his eyes. I also decided to not color in the background because I was running out of charcoal sticks at that time, and upon taking a look at it I felt that it did not require a background shading.

A Bit About Me

Hey! My name is Julia and I am studying public relations at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. I am also hoping to pursue a communication design minor, which is why I am especially excited to be taking this class. I can't wait to learn more about composition and design and experiment with various mediums. For my first post, I decided to share some work by one of my favorite artists.

Vladimir Kush is a Russian surrealist painter and sculptor. After seeing his work in Las Vegas for the second time, I am even more fascinated by his great attention to detail and source of inspiration. Many of Kush's paintings appear to portray one thing but upon closer examination the viewer is exposed to various elements that all work together to create a complete piece. Often times with Kush's pieces, it is necessary to take a step back and admire the piece from afar in order to see all of the elements the painter intended to be shown.

Here are a few of my favorite pieces by Vladimir Kush:

Cleopatra-- Who Am I

Hi I am Sara. I am a Fine Art major at Roski School of Fine Arts. My emphasis is Intermedia with a greater focus in Digital Video and Photo. I am a very expressive type of worker and an extremely experimental in terms of materials and resources. Although I primarily work with Digital Art I am finding I greatly enjoy the intersection between digital and physical types of artwork.

I just recently worked on a digitized work of one of my drawings and one of my photos. I layered the two imaged to create a figure with the headdress of Cleopatra, the last Egyptian pharaoh. None of this work was intentional or thought out until i began working with images through photoshop. As I began stretching images I started to see a sort of confidence in my figure. A person who was looking directly towards her audience in a way that was feminine, yet strong and powerful. At that point I realized I wanted to make a rule derived from the mind. I wanted to make someone who could be soft, and nurturing, while also projecting a certain strength through my image.

This sort of subconsciously represents my view of gender, in that it does not exist. In my mind, there are biological differences, but letting one difference over power the other is, in my opinion, a complete social construct.