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Photo Narative

2012-02-11T20:07:00.003-07:00

When I was a kid I loved my action figures, (and I still do) I used to love to set them up in my moms potted flowers. I remember wondering what would it be like if they came alive!

Another connection I made was to memories of watching the old Twilight zone TV show. There was a particular episode that fascinated me, it was called, “The invaders”. This particular episode played on the old belief of LITTLE green men, Martians, is what people used to call them, now we say aliens. Anyway in this episode a space saucer lands on the roof of an apartment and actual little men come out of it. And I loved it. Little people almost alive.

My first thought was to photograph the action figure as if it were alive and pose the figure doing something like a real person would do. But then I thought it was missing something. I knew that I wanted natural lighting and I knew that my basement was nice and bright without things on the walls to distract.

So I connected my two thoughts and crafted this narrative of a boy who loves his toy and wishes it were alive. He goes to bed and while he sleeps his wish comes true but at what cost. If his toy comes alive or becomes human like, then it comes alive with human desires. The toy wants freedom and leaves. I wanted to have that sense of wonderment that I had as a child but I also enjoy the strange ending of is it a sad ending or happy; happy for the toy, sad for the boy.

Here are a few images that I liked but didn't make the cut, because of image count.

Here we go

2012-01-27T09:10:00.004-07:00

Creative process - Storytelling performance
January 2011

I learn well by watching or looking at things. I love the visual arts so I knew my performance was going to include visuals of some sort.
Power point, photographs, drawing.

The direction we recieved in class was to create a narrative, so my narrative was about where my talent came from, because many people have asked me where it came from. This questions has always disturbed me because I felt annoyed that people were not satisfied by me saying my talent came from practice. I have pondered this issue and reflected on my upbringing.

Since my father is a artist;(and some people know that about me)people often assume that he is the reason "I am talented" or so they say; if I believe it or not is another story. My main argument is that I was not born being able to draw. I could never understand how people were dissatisfied to know that I had to learn and practice which my dad never gave me sure he gave me tips here and there but most of my skill came from practice, research, and classes.
School, books, sketchbooks

So in the end I decided that in a few drawings I could express my ideas and verbally support them as I was drawing. And I feel that I was successful in executing my ideas here is the end result.

Nuff said.
-Paul Alvarez

Homework

2011-06-22T22:01:00.001-06:00

Here are a couple of pics they were done quite large in willow charcol and ink.

Read any good books lately?

2010-05-26T17:30:00.001-06:00

Check out some pics of a book I illustrated. I went for a Hanna Barbera style characters. It is a very funny book and gives great advice for parents with teenagers. You can buy it here.

Hey Gang!

2010-05-26T17:20:00.001-06:00

Here are some pictures of some of the companies and show's I have worked on.

Animation!

2008-08-27T10:42:00.001-06:00

Here's a link to my animated cartoons page. It's got samples of show's I've worked on and some of my own cartoons.

www.youtube.com/paulywogy

caricatures

2008-08-13T13:52:00.001-06:00

This summer I've been doing sketches at the park for people. These are not the actual people I saw but I put these on display for examples.

Hello!

2008-03-04T17:08:00.002-07:00

Most of these sketches I start with paper and cole erase pencil then I'll ink them with a fine point sharpie. After that I'll scan the picture and color it in Photoshop. Lately I've been roughing the sketches out right in flash then cleaning them up and coloring the in Flash.

Mascots

2007-02-05T07:05:00.000-07:00

In the past I worked designing mascots for a lot of different sports teams and companies. So here's a bunch of them. I would do the designs and then a production crew would create the costumes based on my art.

Fan art

2007-02-05T06:53:00.000-07:00

I am a huge Spider-man, Starwars, Harry Potter Fan Check out these pics!I like other stuff too you'll see!