For my project, I created work inspired by MeanwhileInNowhere. In some of his series, he focuses on objects like people and cars, while in others, he explores landscapes. For my project, I drew inspiration from both of these areas to create pieces that incorporate elements of each.
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Bryce Locaylocay's work draws inspiration from MeanwhileInNowhere, showcasing square-format images reminiscent of social media posts. His portfolio is unified by a black and white aesthetic and explores a variety of subjects, including people, cars, and landscapes. A key visual strength in his work is the surrealism infused within each piece. For example, in one image, he masterfully integrates a skeleton into a figure, creating a striking composition. In another, he captures a car in motion while incorporating a dissolving effect.
ReplyDeleteBryce Locaylocay's artwork is rooted in the concept of creating striking and thought-provoking compositions. His work seamlessly blends minimalism and surrealism, characterized by dreamlike distortions and fragmented elements. Through the digital composition, Bryce skillfully conveys motion and fluidly integrates various components, resulting in cohesive and visually compelling pieces. The only pieces that stand out are his third and sixth pieces, mostly due to them having more black, which isn’t seen in the others. The black-and-white aesthetic unifies his body of work, enhancing its depth and originality. Each piece is distinct, avoiding repetition, and reflects a thoughtful evolution from his influence. Bryce’s ability to build upon his inspiration allows him to craft minimalistic yet surreal visuals that are both captivating and innovative.
The composition is challenging in knowing when to stop adding to the composition. The goal behind the composition is to create a minimalistic aesthetic which in my eyes can be a little hard to do when it comes to knowing when to stop. Bryce effectively utilizes negative space, with the white areas serving as integral elements that unify his works and enhance their minimalist appeal. His use of Photoshop is both professional and precise, showcasing advanced techniques that are well-suited to his artistic vision.The photoshop technique is appropriate and professional, with him even adding his sources with his work.
The lighting and depth techniques help display the surrealism that takes place within the composition. The use of lighting is more seen in his 3rd and 6th artworks, with the light bringing the viewers eyes to certain subjects. In other images, the depth helps add movements to artworks. The artworks are composed intentionally, with leaving most of the background as negative space, which adds to the layout of the composition.
Based on the Blog post, I would say that the PDF is professional and Bryce adds the links to the sources in the comment sections, adding credit to where the images came from.
I find Bryce Locaylocay’s portfolio to be the most impressive in concept, composition, and technique. The artist he referenced is MeanwhileInNowhere. The portfolio itself uses all grayscale compositing and minimalistic compositions focusing on people, landscapes, or other things. There is an emphasis on negative space around each surrounding object to attract the viewer's attention to the main subject. The visual factors that really impressed me were all the different textures and intricacies in each composition such as the melted chrome in the car one or the wrinkles of the hand and hairs of grass in the nest composition.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the concept does embrace digital compositing and the use of photoshop. The compositing is most apparent in the first, third, fourth, and fifth composition as they combine different visual elements. They are all cohesive in my opinion, despite each composition having a different subject, they are visually tied in together. I would say the only outlier is the third composition with the rocky landscape and light post. However, the work is creative without being repetitive as they’re all visually distinct. I think that the works build and grow from the original artist as they experiment with similar subject matters, but not in an identical way.
The compositing does appear challenging and the photoshop technique is appropriate and professional. Since each piece is quite minimal, the execution and details of the compositing and photoshop matters a lot to make it look professional. The lighting, depth of field and other photographic techniques do effectively support the concept and meaning of the work. MeanwhileInNowhere, explores fragments, abstraction, and human imagination in his works which is what Bryce has done in his works with lighting and depth of field. The negative spaces whether dark or light forces you to interpret what is or isn’t there. I do think that the works are composed intentionally, from the angles of the figures, cropping of subjects, even for portraits the viewer never sees the figure’s face. Giving off that abstract, mysterious feeling.
The book layout is not present so I’m unable to say, but based on the content of the works I would assume its professional. However, the artist did clearly cite their sources used to compose their works.
This is a series of works titled “Under the influence” by artist Bryce Locay. In the series works titled “Under the influence” by artist Bryce Locay, he uses minimal, grayscale designs to represent the inspired works from another famous artist, MeanwhileinNowhere. Through his series, Bryce replicates similar features and design styles that are similar to artist MeanwhileinNowhere would create. From this, he is able to capture the artist's distorted and dark art world, while also incorporating pieces from his own design style that implements deeper meaning towards the design series.
ReplyDeleteBased on the works through the series, I feel each concept is cohesive and experimental. The unnatural combination used throughout each of the designs, along with the how the elements of each of the works are blended create a nice cohesive feel to all of the pieces. Having each of the works seem to be all in the same background space also helps connect each piece together. Each piece seems to develop after one another, with the ending designs sort of resulting back to the beginning levels of work, giving the series a kind of roller coaster viewing.
From each work, the detail of the photoshop technique is very strong. Since each piece seems to develop after one another, being able to view the level of design technique go from minimal to detailed is a nice feeling throughout the series. Though the designs do not rely heavily on a lot of detailed photoshop technique, the artist was able to make each work stand out by using a minimal style for each piece. Working with the lighting, shadows, and textures blend well through each design, really helping enhance each piece.
Based on the artist's photoshop techniques, the works through the series are designed well with positioning and lighting. The clean and integration of elements with the consistent use of monochromatic tones, and the attention to detail in blending the components help give the viewer an emotion of surrealism and challenging questions of dreamscapes. The artist effectively utilized photoshop techniques and created visually compelling pieces.
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ReplyDeleteDeveloped with input from Marcus Wallinder, he’s a nihilistic graphic artist who experiments with AI as well as classic digital processes, making simplistic works based on Bryces last post. There are always black-and-white tones, cut-up figures and dreamy aberrations. That sort of dreamy, ghostly aesthetic he tried to recreate in his series with a mixture of futuristic, vintage and sci-fi elements, with filmic set-pieces and layering.
ReplyDeleteThe concept is digital compositing and Photoshopped for a series of unified works that reference Wallinder. With a focus on objects such as cars and landscapes, seems as he tried to combine these things into moving and connected scenes. Although influenced by Wallinder’s style, he did to some experiments with textures and cinematic techniques to make it feel new and original.
He seems to get motion and depth through grayscale and fine texture. Mixing modern, vintage, and science-fiction aesthetics made the show perfectly at once retro and futuristic. Special care with light and shadow, especially on the cars, made the scenes come to life. Photographic Technique Light, depth of field, and composition all contributed to the dreamlike vibe of the series. Lights like that of a film added to the mystical feeling, and deliberate staging of objects and scenery gave meaning to each image. Abstract and real world combinations complemented one another in interesting, philosophical sequences.
The PDF layout for the project was neat and professional, which made it clear where these works came from. The compositional arrangement organized the series into one series, and assembled the pieces as a set.
This series preserves the dreamlike, minimal vignette of Marcus Wallinder’s writing with his own spin on it. Layered textures, greyscale and cinematic imagery gave me work that was thought provokingly. The work pays homage to Wallinder’s work but is also its own surrealist-abstract experiment.