Drawing the University Mascot Animal!

Finally, a non-photo-diary upload!!!
I've been stuck in a really bad slump (I still am), which made me really hesitant to draw anything.

Anyway, since it's the middle of college basketball season, and my school will be facing Duke soon in a big rivalry match (and yes, I have student tickets! HEEL YEAH!!), so I decided to draw my university mascot, Rameses the Ram.

Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner, so I had to take a picture with my DSLR.
but the uneven lighting gave this drawing a cool effect that were totally unintentional, when I was playing around a bit with my image editing software.

Go Heels!!

Rockumentary of Nate Wagner (+1 minute of outtakes)

This picture is for thumbnail purposes only.

For the Final Project for my Studio Art class, I was supposed to make a 3~5-minute-long video portrait of somebody interesting.

and the very 1st person that came into my mind was my friend, Nate Wagner.
He is a fellow student at UNC, and he is also a musician.
He works under various bands/projects/names such as:
-An Occasion for Balloons
   (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anoccasion  Bandcamp: http://anoccasion.bandcamp.com/ )
-Jezebel County Hospital
-Leaaves
   (Bandcamp: http://leaaves.bandcamp.com/ )
-The Night Wars

So, I decided to make a video portrait about him, which ended up becoming a Rockumentary.
and here it is!



Not really creative.
Not really perfect.
but it was really fun (and time-consuming, and hard) to make :D

and this video is actually about twice as long as the one I submitted for grading.
Honestly, 3~5 minutes was ridiculously short for this Rockumentary.


This is the first video that I actually made a custom thumbnail for,
and I think I'll continue making custom thumbnails for the future videos/projects of mine.


Anyway,
Please give some of Nate Wagner's music a try :)

Simple Parody Jacket Art for My Good Friend, Ca'st. Hood.

'Ca'st. Hood' is a close friend of me and Woo Gonghyeon.
He is really into hip-hop, and actually does recordings from November to February (when he has more time).


So right now, it's the end of November, he started doing some music
and he found this.

"Born Hater Contest"
it is a hip-hop contest hosted by 'Epik High.'

so my friend is already making some recordings, and on top of that, he is a fan of Epik High.
Therefore, he decided to give this contest a shot.


he asked me if I can make a parody jacket art of the above "Born Hater Contest" poster, so I was like,
"You can count on me, buddy!"
...and made this.

I couldn't really replicate the style as exactly as it was done on the poster, but I still did the best I could with it.
I would've saved about 1 hour only if I didn't waste my time on searching for a font that I didn't have.




and he used my parody jacket art for the first and the last parts of his music video that he'd be submitting for the contest.

I wish the best of luck to my good friend, Ca'st. Hood.


and speaking of music videos,
I'll be shooting & editing the music video of Ca'st. Hood during the Christmas Break.
It's going to be pretty tough, because I'm more familiar with rock than I am with hip-hop.
but looking at his video above, he seem to have some knowledge of editing and cinematography,
so hopefully, it might turn out to be easier than I'm expecting.

Regardless, I am going to have to start watching some hip-hop music videos, so that I can make a really nice, low budget, DIY music video for my friend 'Ca'st. Hood' during the winter break.

A brief Rise Against introduction(?) video

This is a video clip that I made for a class project back when I was in 11th grade, and it is also the very first video clip I have ever made!
I had to make a short video clip about a topic of my choice, using a "Windows Moviemaker," so I made one about my favorite rock band, Rise Against.

All of the Korean subtitles are either translations of what Tim McIlrath says in the video, or very obvious facts/characteristics of Rise Against.

Through this assignment, I had learned to really enjoy editing videos, and that Windows Moviemaker is extremely limited in many of the functions.
I mean, seriously, would you believe that this was the best I could do?
Well, anyways, if I were to ever make or edit videos again, I would probably never go anywhere near a Windows Moviemaker.

The Tree With Rotting Roots

I think this was one of the first complete drawings I've ever made with my Wacom Bamboo tablet.

Although my drawing skills may not make it seem like one, I tried to draw a tree that looks very healthy on the outside, but is rotting at the roots.

Through this drawing, I tried to illustrate the Korean music industry:
The healthy-looking, upper portion of the tree represents the mainstream K-Pop, which is easily visible/accessible to the masses, and is currently prospering.
The rocks surrounding the roots represent the general public's and the major record companies' indifference towards indie-artists, and favoritism towards mainstream K-Pop.
With the rotting roots, I wanted to convey the message that the indie-artists are dying out as a consequence of indifference and favoritism.

Thus, all together, I was trying to say that indie-artists or artists pursuing genres other than K-Pop need to receive more attention and assistance, in order for the Korean music industry (or any other myopic music industry that are overly obsessed with money-making) to become more diverse, robust and internationally renown.