Amanda Gibson

I got in a decorative mood I suppose and made a dinky cartoon character. I was trying to make a decoration but one thing lead to another and I ended up somewhere else. I might animate it. I know it's totally lame -_-

　
For this I also had to come up with a formula to figure out how many litres and cups that each province in Canada drinks. I had to find the number of Tims in a province first (which did require additional counting) which I called A. Then I had to multiply that by the average sales revenue that one Tims makes in a year which is $202500. Then I had to multiply that by 0.5 (50% of sales come from coffee) and divide that by 1.22 (the cost of a medium coffee). Then I had to multiply by 10 (oz in a medium coffee) and that would equal the amount of coffee each province drinks annually (represented by B).
So the formula ends up looking like this:

A x 2025000 x 0.5 / 1.22 x 10 = B

and for conversion
B/160 = B in gallons
B x 28.41 = B in mL
B in mL/1000 = B in litres
I love math but it did take be a bit to get this all together.
It's awesome that Ontario alone drinks about 1,347,786,885 cups (382,906,254) of Timmy hoho coffee a year.

The coffee % of sales stat is from Lockyer, E.s. (2004, August). Tim Hortons sweet on expansion. Nations Resataurant News, 38(34), 72, 74. Retrieved from ABI?INFORM Global. (Document ID:690512841).

Financial stats are from the Tim Hortons annual report (you can find this on their site).

Stats on coffee prices are from http://ruk.ca/content/tim-hortons-cup-sizes-canada-vs-usa

We recently designed Cd covers and such. Here are some pics for now and I'll update this post later*

We had a project where we had to redesign  Eustace Tilley, so I made him into a hobo :-)
There was also this other project we did where we took a news headline (provided to us) and made spot illustrations. I really only like the one I posted below. The headline was something like "Britain turning weapons into tools for African farmers."

This was an interesting project that I did recently. We had to listen to some strangers conversations and create an image from it (somewhat metaphorical).
These are some of the roughs I did for this project. The bird tree is one of the first ideas I feel proud of :-)
This is the conversation I made this for:
-The leaves fall off and you can see all the birds.
- Where do they go in the summer?
- No, they're still there when it's summer, you need to look closer, but they're there.
 This was also the final. When I get the time I am going to make a better version of this.
This was a test I did. I used a giant rubber stamp I made and then layered the birds on top.

Here are some recent paintings I have done. I tried to get an emotional quality.

Here are just a few sketches I've done more recently. This is that weird character I made from before.
 Ever since I saw the movie Coraline I fell in love with these types of hats. There was a scene in the movie where the Coraline character wears this adorable little hat and I looked it up. They're called newsboy caps, baker boy caps, fisheman caps, cabi caps and so on. I really love the way they look so I gave my character a flat top newsboy cap. There is one hat I love in paricular and I'd love to get my hands on it. It's the Burberry baker boys hat in black (not velvet). I've searched around because when I first saw it online I started to save up for it. Sadly it was dicontinued or something because I can't find anyone selling it anymore. 0v0 If any of you out there come across it message me up :-)
With these pictures I wasn't going for totally clean and correct and such. They're just tests. That hand is really messed up though 0_0
I made a Sculpey figure of this character so I could try that anamorphic thing again. I also tried to mess around with the perspective this time too.
 I'll post some pics of the figure I made, but I'm thinking of making a seperate page for that. This is a "linear" drawing I did. I'll do this so I can get a feel for where everything is (even if I have already made a sculpture). It lets me rotate things in my head a little better.



I know there are multiple pictures here, but the weird thing is that the picture looks different depending on what way you look at it.




I need to work more on skewed perspectives and such. I'm thinking of using one of these for something, but I've been debating over a few backgrounds I've tried out.

We had to pick a song from the 60's, 70's, or 80's and do a metaphorical image. I did How Deep is Your Love by the Bee Gees.


 This is the final.

This was a fortune cookie project. We had to make a metaphorcal picture.
I did someone on vacation in an hour glass. Mine was "take some time out for yourself".
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Here is the sculpture and scene I made. I have some more pictures that I will post later on. *


These are some snazzy pictures our teacher took with his camera. I'll get some more detailed shots to put here because I don't have a ground shot, and I made little mushrooms and pine cones (despite there being no pine trees around X-D). The bark also has a texture and I made the tree out of paper and glue and all that messy stuff. Those stringy bits you see hanging out there are fiber optic doodly bits. It was hard to set that up within the leaves and everything. It didn't work the way I wanted it to (you can only really see it well in pitch black). Those tissue paper leaves were all put on individually. It was very painful because I had to cut them all out, sew some of them together, and glue on each and every last leaf. It took a day, and I stopped counting after 741 leaves...so there's probably close to 1000.

These are some shots that I took. I'll get some better shots of the cat because I spent a lot of time on him too. His fur is made of rabbit fur. I had to glue it on with care. If you ever use rabbit fur DO NOT get rid of the skin holding it together. I did and rabbit hair went flying everywhere (not fun to get in your nose). If you take the skin off you have to form the hair into strips (by brushing glue onto the ends), wait for them to dry, and layer them on. The tail was the most difficult because I had to layer white and brownish orange. I used fishing line for the whiskers.

Here are some shots of Alice. I used real human hair for her hair. Where did I get this human hair? my sister fell asleep...X-D Don't worry I asked her. I had to gather it into strips, glue the ends and then layer it on. She looked like a bald monk at one point. X-D

She is made of Sculpey and I used model paint for her face. I made a mold for her legs. They are actually not Sculpey but a sturdy foam clay. I switched to the foam clay because I was having some balance issues (she wouldn't stand on her own). It's odd but it worked better than her sculpey legs...though she still does fall over sometimes. I made a stand just to make sure she wouldn't.

Her dress Is also made of Foam clay, and I layered some tissue paper on top. I painted her dress blue, but rather than creating shadow or gradient by painting, I layered blue tissue paper on top. I liked how there were no brush strokes and it looked a little more like a piece of clothing might.