Introducing the one and only suzannesoliman.com!

 There haven't been any posts due to summer events, but now I'm back and stronger than ever. I just revamped and renovated my website and it is now up and running. So check it out at suzannesoliman.com! It took just about a century to figure out how to use dreamweaver, but alas I now have mastered this tool. Take that technology! I purposely kept the site simple and easy to navigate. It could use a few touchups but other than that I'm happy with the outcome. I also created and designed my own logo with a dragonfly seen below.

Stay tuned this week for my Halloween posts.

Ever have wanderlust??

St. Thomas Virgin Islands- Suzanne Soliman 

   I was surfing the web and ran into this amazing website called they draw and travel. Its a website for maps that artists have illustrated of their favorite places. I of course, love traveling, so I think this is a brilliant idea. I might just do one myself based off my trips in Las Vegas and the Caribbean. In the meantime, enjoy the maps over at their site! http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/

Alien Love Triangle! Claymation!

Just wanted to share some alien clay puppets I made a while back for an claymation about a love triangle amongst aliens as they both vie for their charming boss and the situation gets pretty ugly. Introducing the characters:

 Meet Zathura, the good girl and secretary of head honcho and swoon worthy, Casanova. 

Meet Nebula: sexy, sultry, and definitely a bit of a bad girl. She's not afraid to do anything in order to get what she wants. Definitely more confident than Zathura as well as her complete opposite.  Her interests are also peaked with player Casanova.

Casanova, is currently M.I.A., but I will post him later, hopefully with the finished claymation. It was a lot of fun making these characters. I made the bodies out of styrofoam, foil, and wire as an armature and then added molding clay as well as some pearl beads for the eyes. The clothes I sewed on them from scraps I had lying around. The good thing about the clay is that I can move these guys into different positions for the claymation since it doesn't dry.

T-Shirt Design!

So I got my first freelance job designing a t-shirt for the NY Terror inline hockey team! I was super excited, quite literally jumping for joy when I got the news. As soon as the jumping stopped the sketching began and within a day or so I whipped out a few sketches for the design. They wanted a gorilla intimidating a goalie, if you haven't guessed yet the gorilla is their mascot. Here are some of the first sketches..

Upclose of gorilla face

My fave, doesn't he look like he is going to kick some butt?! Behind him would be the audience and above the NYC skyline.

Gorilla in full uniform intimidating goalie with scoreboard above.

Gorilla playing roller hockey with hockey rink and boards behind him. Gotta love that and the anger, I mean he really wants to win this one! I have no idea why I love doing images of rage so much.

   I personally was in love with the second sketch with the skyline, alas, the NY Terror Team liked the sketches, but wanted something very intimidating so I ended up doing something entirely different . The project, however, gave me a wonderful excuse to watch Mighty Joe Young again, which I really loved as a child. There are also some very lovely songs in that movie such as the windsong which I've posted here in case anyone was interested. I believe its in Swahili, very beautiful. I will be posting the final sketch and the final product on the t-shirt when it is available.

Midsummer's Night Dream Box

For my portfolio class I had made a box depicting the scene where Bottom turns into a donkey and Titania queen of the fairies falls in love with the first thing she sees, Bottom. I thought it would be a fun scene to depict and I had a lot of fun sculpting Bottom. So it went from this...

It originally had lights and was in this much smaller box with paper cuts outs. Then our chair of the illustration department, Thomas Woodruff, gave me a challenge to make it into a white on white beautiful forest, which I took.  Here was the very slow process of making the second revised work...

 So I thought I would explain the process a bit. It takes one part scavenger hunter. So I put on my hiking shoes and went to parks collecting just the right branches, mind you I got a few what the hell are you doing stares, but if you're a collage artist these are the burdens you must bear. Then I got my handy dandy saw, and cut them down to size and spray painted them, and just arranged the branches. Then over the foam core I put some clay to create some ground to make it uneven like a forest and then just decorate with various found objects and here is the final project which took forever but I think it looks pretty magical.

More jewelry!

Jewelry!

Art!!!

 

here are some of my illustrations, look for more coming soon as I launch my creative career.