PNCA Generations - Part I
I catch folks at the height of exploring their visual skills, wigs bubbling at a rate most of us can only fathom when in school, experimenting and exceeding expectations with a magical momentum, no matter the kind of Challenge you throw at them? I think that's why some of the Challenges I've developed over the years have a bit more impact on Students, as they're so open to whatever direction opportunities come from, and that's really what all these Challenges ask of us. To be open to thinking in new ways, to give over to completely ludicrous ideas that don't have to make any sense at all.. =) I do my best to open doors, flip a few Light switches on, and knock obstacles from their paths in order for students to find their next level up, their next visual problem solved. I never require colour in these Challenges, they're all about simply Generating fun and memorable Ideas in a relatively quick sketch.
So, in gratitude and celebration of successful wig bubbling, I'll be posting a few bits of Student work that have dove straight to the deep end of the inventive pool for each Challenge! There will certainly be more to come, the years will jump around from 2011 to the present, and I hope you enjoy the results of my Challenges half as much as I have over the years!
(© All Rights reserved by the Artists named below. Contact them individually before ANY and ALL use, outside the Pacific Northwest College of Art.)
Check out Lucy Brown's work!
The first couple posts will consist of the Original Fantasy Genesis Game found in my new bookFantasy Genesis : Characters (currently online at www.ChuckLukacs.com as well) and the first Challenge I give in class, The Doubling Tree Challenge. With the Original Fantasy Genesis Game, it's all about the random and serendipitous word associations. When you see a couple words written in the corner of these sketches, those are the words the Game has supplied to create from, and then anything and everything goes!
Liliya Dru, 2010
Jillian Drillon, 2018
Check out the work of Opal Stanton
Tony Zhang, 2018
Okay, as if the Original Fantasy Genesis Game isn't difficult enough to explain, here's a bunch of repetitious heads popping out of nowhere.. Welcome to some successful work from the Doubling Tree Challenge! I made this challenge after working with one of my "Art Equations", but applying it to facial expressions. I found it helps to create new and inventive visual cues, first by sketching your content large, then incrementally smaller & smaller. It also forces you to practice abstracting and simplifying the marks you make for a particular character, while developing your sense of design and placement. Check out the whole Challenge on Page 14 of Fantasy Genesis : Characters and it'll make more sense, but for now check out all the great examples that came from class!
Check out Clive Hawken's work!
Check out Lucy Brown's work!
Check out the work of Christin Engelberth and Tayler Howard
Katie York, 2018
So, in gratitude and celebration of successful wig bubbling, I'll be posting a few bits of Student work that have dove straight to the deep end of the inventive pool for each Challenge! There will certainly be more to come, the years will jump around from 2011 to the present, and I hope you enjoy the results of my Challenges half as much as I have over the years!
(© All Rights reserved by the Artists named below. Contact them individually before ANY and ALL use, outside the Pacific Northwest College of Art.)
Check out Lucy Brown's work!The first couple posts will consist of the Original Fantasy Genesis Game found in my new bookFantasy Genesis : Characters (currently online at www.ChuckLukacs.com as well) and the first Challenge I give in class, The Doubling Tree Challenge. With the Original Fantasy Genesis Game, it's all about the random and serendipitous word associations. When you see a couple words written in the corner of these sketches, those are the words the Game has supplied to create from, and then anything and everything goes!
Liliya Dru, 2010
Jillian Drillon, 2018
Check out the work of Opal Stanton
Tony Zhang, 2018Okay, as if the Original Fantasy Genesis Game isn't difficult enough to explain, here's a bunch of repetitious heads popping out of nowhere.. Welcome to some successful work from the Doubling Tree Challenge! I made this challenge after working with one of my "Art Equations", but applying it to facial expressions. I found it helps to create new and inventive visual cues, first by sketching your content large, then incrementally smaller & smaller. It also forces you to practice abstracting and simplifying the marks you make for a particular character, while developing your sense of design and placement. Check out the whole Challenge on Page 14 of Fantasy Genesis : Characters and it'll make more sense, but for now check out all the great examples that came from class!
Check out Clive Hawken's work! 
Check out Lucy Brown's work! 
Check out the work of Christin Engelberth and Tayler Howard
Katie York, 2018
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