Career: Special Effects Makeup ArtistThe job I decided to research was that of a special effects makeup artist, mainly focused on special effects for film. Special effects are used to make actors look like monsters, make them appear older, or a variety of other things. They use make up and prosthetics to achieve this. Although there are technically no educations requirements to become a special effects artist, good skills and a strong portfolio are necessary. There are a few programs offered by film and arts schools. Schools that offer programs in special effects include the Cinema Makeup School or Vancouver Film School. Overall, this career is a very interesting one because of the results SFX artists create and it definitely looks like it takes a lot of skill. Even if I haven't personally tried SFX makeup, I can appreciate the realism and occasional gruesomeness they can create in films and in other things.
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I’ve completed the third base painting and I’m gonna mount it on the wall likely tomorrow. Then the real work begins, which I’ll probably spread out over a few days of accumulation and putting everything together.
I've finished the first two paintings for this project, the two smaller ones and I plan to finish the last one today. I'm planning on using neon orange, neon pink, and maybe some red to make it a bit darker. Once I do that I am going to mount the paintings to start assembling the piece.
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I watched an interview from 2019 with Robert Caldwell. (I was going to try and find a new one from this year but I didn't see any on the YouTube playlist so I chose an older one.) I don't know exactly who interviewed him, but I enjoyed the editing of the video. The video itself was recorded very professionally so it was overall nice to watch. I've never really been particularly interesting in wildlife art personally. It's nice to look at, but it's not really my style. However I appreciate the skill that goes into it and Caldwell's art was very technically impressive. The interview was interesting. I found the part about how he had been interested in art at a young age just to switch to music, but then one person make him go back to art. That teacher changed his entire future, which was really interesting not even looking from an art sense, just for how something small like that changes a person's future. It was interesting to hear how involved he was with the business side of art and how important it seemed to be. Even if I've never really thought about making profit off of art, it was still interesting to hear about. I think the comment about how economic downturns affect the arts is really important now considering the current state of the world. Even if he had no idea about what would happen at the time of recording this video, it's still interesting to think about in how the arts have been affected by the pandemic. Even though this project has a much shorter period of time to work on, one of my goals is to try and make a larger piece. I really enjoyed painting for my last project, so I've brought that back and decided to continue making relief sculpture type works for the time being. I spent a lot of time over the past week painting. I made three paintings but I plan on only using two of them for the actual project, the first one was kind of a test. I'm planning on using these two and orientating them in different ways. This was mostly just for practice, I wanted to try painting with a palette knife so this was my first attempt.
Here's some progress photos from the project I finished recently, showing a little more detail on the panel that the doll and the flowers are placed on. Even though it isn't super visible in the final product, I spent a lot of time painting this.
Hi, I am very behind on this project because I keep getting bored of it so easily. I wish I had revised my composition a little bit or something to make it not seem so daunting and big. I'm trying to finish up all the grass this weekend, which is going to be most of the work. It's taking a lot longer than expected but I hope to make a lot of progress this weekend.
The career I decided to research for this post was the job of a medical illustrator. A medical illustrator is a professional artist with education in the life sciences and a capability to work with and properly portray medical processes and concepts in an effective way, mainly for learning purposes. This job also helps the general public to be able to more easily understand a medical process and the human body without needing a lengthy explanation. A lot of medical illustrators are self-employed, taking on jobs from companies as needed. Responsibilities of this job may include making detailed diagrams and illustrations of various processes for textbooks or other published materials. It could also include illustrating the effects of illness or detailing a surgical procedure step by step. A focus on art and biology is needed to be proficient in this field. There is a certification for the career available through the Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators. The medical illustrator field is extremely small, with only around 2,000 currently practicing in the world at the moment. Most medical illustrator's receive a master's degree from an accredited 2-year graduate program in medical illustration. There are only 4 accredited programs in North America for this, with each only accepting around 20 people per year. This makes the field extremely competitive. The 4 accredited programs in North America are at Augusta University, the University of Illinois, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Toronto. I personally could not see myself going into this career, I just found it interesting because I like looking at the illustrations in science textbooks. I knew someone had to have a career in doing those illustrations, so I decided to research it. The field is extremely small, so I feel it would be very hard to get into, but I think it could be interesting to do. Information from: https://ami.org/ https://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/479/Medical-Illustrator.html#:~:text=Medical%20illustrators%20are%20artists%20who,show%20the%20effects%20of%20illness. I've mostly finished my in-class project I think. The final set up is a hanging mobile piece. I spent quite a bit of time choosing some objects that were meaningful to me as a child. The objects are more "sophisticated" in my opinion and more traditional young girl toys. I also used a lot of beads to add some color in between the objects. I ended up making a lot of progress on this, which is good. I'm overall happy with how it looks personally, but I'm not sure if it is too simple. I didn't really know what I was doing, so I played a more safe route with some of my choices for it. Maybe for the next piece when my theme is more well- established I'll branch out a bit more.
So I finally made some decent progress on this project and I put quite a bit of work into it. I started trying to do a basic sketch and did most of the basic details and layout. I'm still struggling with the perspective in the foreground so I'll have to resolve that at a later time. Since I knew what I was doing in the background, I actually started painting the background. I finished the mountains and the sky. The style I'm ending up using is not at all what I was originally going to try, but I honestly really like it. Hopefully I can keep it consistent moving forward.
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