winter break project

Show me someone who don't love tentacles, you can’t find that person.

I decided to give my self a little winter project, so I’m going to make octopus man. I’ve been wanting to get some clay on my hand for a while now but haven’t had the opportunity, this should be a good excuse. I think I’m going to make it about 7 to 8 inches tall, and have wildly awesome tentacles going every direction.

Perhaps I’ll have some other winter side projects come up to…

Ghost Bangers?

Stop motion?

Flash?!?

homeworks

Here’s the last homework assignment that I had to do. I never realized the importance of a silhouette until this assignment. It really does help composition when you have strong silhouettes because if that reads well, then your image will read well and make for a more dynamic pose. Foundation stuff.

snowman

you don't talk to the mutha fucking snow man like that!

working in maya...primitives...you know.

To Sydney From Adam

fight the good fight

if this video were a pie, it's be to hot to eat casue it just came out of the mental oven.

little class project we had to do, using some basic functions in photo shop and after affects.

enjoy.


office battle from Adam Ceja on Vimeo.

Im not sick, but im not well

so, i've been drawing the same thing for a couple of weeks now, which is heads and the neck relationship to the body. and you just get tired of drawing the same things over and over...

so that's where these guys came along

 

this last one is me... for some reason i think i relate to this one more than the rest. and not for physical characteristics, but more... his position, and posture.











i will never know how to format my FREAKING BLOG POST!

HELP ME SYDNEY!

quickies

here's a small taste of some of the work i've been doing in clothed figure drawing. i think i'm definitely getting better with the quick sketches.

and on another note. this man is totally my idol. he was the coolest model i've seen yet. just imagine this rugged looking older man, wearing a loosly buttoned shirt, pin stripe pants and fedora. im pretty sure this is how i'll dress when im older.

anyway, got plenty of other things to post very very soon.

this is the life i've chosen...

guns don't kill people....

but i might.

but on a happier note. special happy

birthday to mibuel.

at school

just finished this little gem.

simple compositing project. add two foreground and one background element. simple for most.
but not me so lay off!

but seriously. I'm not as afraid of photo shop anymore. which is a good warm fuzzy feeling.

Go Super Grover!

robo poo

i always forget about all my stop motion exercises asighnments type things. 

wasn't so happy with the results of this one.

story boards were funny

test shooting was funny

final product, not funny... but fun.

enjoy!

Robo poo from Adam Ceja on Vimeo.

The Stranger

i love Vimeo! it made things so easy for computer caveman like me. 

anyway, here's this short i did for class my first semester at the Academy! 

Enjoy!



The Stranger from Adam Ceja on Vimeo.

again, thank you jake and miguel. special thanks to the "stranger"

other things of the sketch nature

here's just some things form my sketch book.

and so... i've vowed to complete (at minimum) 1 sketch book a month... so far so good. these flower sacks are from septembers'. we had this assignment to draw these flower sacks to show volume of forms and stuff. i had fun with it. 

this one is from october. the never ending quest to make girls look like girls...

not so much...

still to much man...

there's a lot of red pencil that i used that didn't transfer well with the scan.

El Ruso returns

FINALLY!

im able to upload the other two! 

obviously, not as strong as the other two, at least i think so. this profile-type view is ok. im happy with it. but the last one i think i made some bad choices with the face and such. 

if i remember correctly my only REAL critique was that i put too much time into the hair. i should try and make it one shape and tone, and limit too much "noise" in the hair? even though i like what i did with the hair, i can understand where that comment was coming from. 

 

also, i should have played up the props more. or so says the instructor. but i understand that also. without those certain story telling elements it's harder to determine who this character is. so...

lesson learned. 

El Ruso

So0o0o0o0o0o0o0o,

here's the first big-ish assignment for clothed figure drawing. 

we were supposed to just create some character. no real guide lines other than creating a character. showing him/her in 4 different positions. being sure to show overlaping forms, strech and compression...blah blah blah.

and as you can see...i only have two... there are four but blogger decided not to load the last two... 

anyway, i had fun with this assignment.

my character is a former russian weapons engineer, rocket scien-tologist type of character. and now he's hiding from his government in america... fixing vacuums. i got some good laughs when i presented it. which made me happy. 

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Capsized when i turned 22

Here’s a few pictures from my Hawaii trip ’08. a lot of fun, a lot of laughs… a lot of people that just HATE life…

Anyway, I had a great time, so I decided to show some pictures that are minimally related to Hawaii.

Enjoy!


more to come.




























































this only proves that i have no idea how to format stupid pictures...

So I think this the second figure I did in class. Obviously a female figure. I was very happy with the results. Actually, so was the model. She even took a picture of it. And I know my instructor liked it also, but I think that was mostly cause of the improvement that I made from the last one. He was an awesome teacher. I think he was polish? Something like that. But he had a very, fuddy duddy attitude towards art, but he was funny as hell. I remember when he saw it his exact words were “…hm…not bad.”

Anyway.

I love clay. Clay clay clay.

why so serious?

Why so serious?

Caught the 12:10 showing of batman last night, or should I say this morning. And, all I can say is that it was everything I wanted it to be, and much more. Perfect. The acting was amazing, every character was cast beautifully. From Christian Bale, who once again nailed the part of batman, and also is the only batman to make a second movie! All the actors and actresses were incredible. But to me Maggie Gyllenhaal was the weak link. She pulled of the role, and she’s a good actress. But I almost feel like she was “overacting” which came off as “UNDERacting” if that makes sense to any one? Some of the lines were just lacking something, and other had too much. Can’t put my finger on it cause im not really ready to criticize the movie yet…ahaha.

But I will end this with a little something about Heath Ledger. Unbelievable. Amazing, incredible. An exact representation of what the joker should be, and more. His acting, was just…something every actor should strive for. He was twisted… cruel… heartless …insane …funny … crazy… truly a mad man. He WAS the joker. I was so convinced that I feel that he wouldn’t of been the same if he were still with us.

Any way, amazing film, have to watch it again, again and again. I shouldn’t say much more because my thoughts are to scattered right now. Loved it. That’s all.

3 point

I think this was my 3 point perspective project for “perspective for animation” class. What I tired to do was create some post-world-war type of make shift colony of survivors. Very vague setting…perhaps…remove the head? Eh? Jake?

Anyway, I was happy with it. After I took this picture I brought up the values just another notch, to add more contrast. I was happy with it. I feel like it’s still lacking some detail. I could of taken it a lot further and pushed it a little more, but I think that’s a pretty good summary of this past semester. No messing around this coming fall.

Portrait

I wanted to put all of these in order, but by the time I coordinate my self to do that, I’ll have other things to post. So I’ll just give ‘em up as I get ‘em.

This was our second portrait assignment towards the end of April. Which I was hoping would come out better than the first, but life doesn’t always work out that way. A good try I think. Faces in general have always been an issue for me. Also, I think I’ve been taught to ignore the face and focus on expression through the body and proportions and anatomy type junk. And I think I naturally avoid drawing faces anyway…oops.

Any way, the beautiful thing about clay is that you can pull off that rough, choppy, and messy on purpose kind of look. So things like a crooked mouth look intentional.

I love clay…

‘T Was Beauty That Shaved the Beast

GOAT: eh...dude, it's like 80 degrees out here...

SHEEP: you think i wear this by choice ass wipe!...ugh...

GOAT:...just sayin'.

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Sheep...everyone loves sheep.

pure beauty.

Photography Taboo

So, the amateur photographer in me says no! But the colors say yes!

I see flower shots as something that’s hard to mess up, but at the same time difficult to pull off. Every picture of a flower I just see as a cheesy, over used, easy, gift card, kind of a shot. It takes some degree of professionalism to take a photo of a flower and express some kind of idea of feeling, and I think it’s obvious when someone takes a photo for artistic purpose, or artistic intentions; which are very different things. Kind of like when some guy throws a rock in the ocean for whatever intentions, and Andy Goldsworthy throws a rock for artistic purpose or discovery. But maybe that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense…

Any way… confession: I took a bunch of cheesy flower shots because I mean, if they’re there, and you have your camera, you really can’t help it. Especially when a model like this one makes it even easier.

Golden Gate Park Rose Garden

Starting with this one back in February, it was the very first assignment in figure modeling class, and my first clay figure in like…4 years.

A note worthy attempt I think. I was pretty proud of it.

My critique, if I remember correctly, was about the ankles getting too thin, and other proportional problems.

C work.

more to come...SOON!