Mirror
A LESS THAN COMPREHENSIVE MIRROR TO AID IN GOVERNMENT
My first run at college was Art School – NYU to be precise. I made it through a semester before nearly losing my mind. Between the drama and the fragile egos of the other students, and the fact that the school was more of one of those “how does it make you feel?” rather than a technically minded school, I left for greener pastures. Burnt out, I didn’t touch art again until about three years later. I woke up in the dead of night over Christmas break, realized I had wandered too far from my dream of being an artist, and resolved to do some kind of crazy art project for my Final Plan of Concentration.
That’s making a very long, annoying story short. But in the end, I pulled off this piece of work from a dead stop between October 2008 and the middle of January 2009. The story’s a bit droll unless you know anything about Pre-Modern Chinese history, but I’m proud of it.
The files are pretty beastly. It runs about 42 pages, the original printing was 11″ x 8.5″ in full color, glossy cover. The hard drive with the original layout files crashed minutes after I uploaded the production PDF to the printer’s server, so all I have for you is replete with printers marks. I think they look kinda cool, actually.
Line Art: Graphite, India Ink, Speedball Crow nibs (#102, #107, and #108), Strathmore 300 series smooth bristol.
Digital watercolor and texture manipulation: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4, Wacom Intuos 3, CYMK@300DPI
Post-production and Layout: Adobe Indesign CS4