I did some exercise on drawing different animals’ life stages to get more ideas,I also collect other artists’ works and images that I interested in,hope I can get inspired!
I did some exercise on drawing different animals’ life stages to get more ideas,I also collect other artists’ works and images that I interested in,hope I can get inspired!
On Monday’s session we talked about a topic -‘Hoffmann’s Doll’,the name of the topic is came from an opera. On the session,we had researched some classic art work around this topic,although they are not like the traditional ‘opera’ style,those artworks are more like modern art and add many future elements,also they are much more popular than usual portrait.To be honest ,I really like the way they create the main part in this whole image–those artists combine the human body and the cyborg part together,it’s full of science fiction style and can make audience try to imagine a lot.Back to those artworks,when I first saw them I think they are quite amazing,and this extraordinary combination is very attractive,human body is a very common element,however artists can try more ways on recreate it,such as add new elements or delete some thing.This reminds me of new method to make art works,combine different elements together may give us more options,also this kind of art reminds of an artist,beeple. Most of his artworks are surrealism style,he gets his idea from daily things,such as environment and society,also he often imagine the future world.As an art researcher,I should try to accumulate materials in daily life,and practice more,cause one famous saying is ‘Art comes from life’,at the same time it ’s also important to try bravely and to practice my new ideas, which can provide me with greater progress.
For this unit,our purpose is collaboration,we can work with anything we need.I considered about what I’m really interested in and I decided to do this work by collaborating with game,because I play many games and sometimes they are really attractive.Here is my first thinking draft .
Sooo,I started my project with thinking the relationship between the game and our real world.
1.the game world and our real world have the same physical law
2.we can have communication with others both in the two world
3.game world is a reflection of our world
Also,I came up with a question,why we think the game world is unreal?I think there are some reasons:
1.Usually in the game world,there are many things out of ordinary,such as use magic to hurt other characters or fly in the sky without any machine.
2.We control our characters with mouse and keyboard in different scenes to do many things,but we can’t experience what happened on characters.We can have feeling by touching ,smelling and hearing,however,when we are sitting in front of the computer ,we just see what happens and also we are not those characters.
Last week we had a ‘zoo trip’ in London Zoo,I visited many kinds of wild lifes and some common animals.I think this was a great chance to get closer to the nature and also it was a good way to think about the environment.I took many photos about those animals.
At the same time, in China, the situation of the new type coronary pneumonia virus is very serious,many people got killed in this disaster. Seeing these animals in the zoo made me think of the cause of the virus. Eating wild animals such as bats and pangolins are prevalent in China. However, eating these animals does not make them physically fit, and even this is a very dangerous behavior, because these animals always carry multiple viruses and parasites on their bodies.
Those wild animals are like the pandora box,once you open it, you will have no idea about what happen next.So I created two pictures,I covered the main body of these two animals with black and then I chose the most common viruses on them,I used the movement of those elements to make the viruses living.Also I used a new layer on those two pictures,looks like the animals are covered by a clear film,this symbolises the relationship between wild life and human,also it represents once our human break the film,we will be infected by those viruses and we may get hurt because of our behaviour.
Last week we got a rubber dinosaur toy,when I first time saw it, it reminded of my childhood,because many children may have little tot like this when they are young,even if they didn’t have it they may have seen it.
After we got it we followed those tasks,first we took many pictures about it.
After we observating it we answered many questions as a part of research.
Because of our imagination,we thought about the famous monster Godzilla,we thought this may be a good point to start our work.
Actually those young people like us in China,we usually watched Janpanese cartoon in our childhood.So we desided to use the Tokusatsu style to make a short movie in memory of our lost childhood.
We bought some other toy dinosaur to make this work,first to took some picture of them,then according the picture to draw black shadow of each.
Here are some screenprint of our work:
For us,this movie is a way to let us pay a tribute to our childhood,in that generation Tokusatsu cartoon were really famous and they are very classic nowadays.Also this work is my first time to try such a vintage thing,and I got a lot of fun during this process and I’ll try more new styles in the future.
My original research of this topic was about people’s emotions,and when it came to the final work,I restart thinking about what is the main topic of this work and I wanted to describe a detailed thing cause my original practice was too general ,so I focused on the word ’silence’,because it’s easy to make people image about loneliness.
When I first time did the attempt,I drew many small cute emotions,however I found it was hard to show people’s facial expressions’ details with a 3Dpen .
So I tried another way to describe feelings which was using sign language,cause sign language are easy to express a particular feeling.However there was a new problem,it was hard to make a real hand for a 3D pen new learner,although I tried many times,finally I gave up and decided to draw a 2D hand.
The first picture can be divided into two parts, the top half is a rotten hand and around it is endless darkness and many thorns,those things mean the person is suffering from pain.The lower part of it is a second hand from others,it symbolizes the help from others,and because of the help the darkness is disintegrating and melting.The second picture is like a man is tearing the darkness ,and behind the darkness we can see there is a shining sun which symbolizes hope.The main idea of this work is that I want to show people psychological problems should be paid attention to as well, because any extreme emotion may cause bad psycological problems.
The main idea of this work is that I want to show people psychological problems should be paid attention to as well, because any extreme emotion may cause bad psycological problems.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av64575924/?spm_id_from=333.788.videocard.9
In this vedio,a korean artist is using 3d pen to make a statue of a sitting woman.The process of his creating is really interesting,and the 3D pen is very attractive for me,so I decided to try it by myself.
Actually,using 3d pen is much harder then I thought,it’s very difficult to control the flow of the filament.
Many weeks ago,we had a lesson like artists talk,on that session,we learn about Katrina Russell-Adams and Mike Ballard’s art works,and how they do research.Actually,Katrina’s works are more impressed me,I was attracted by her works’ style. Her designs contain many shapes and colours ,although the shapes are bold,they are designed very carefully.
One of her projects for Theatre Peckham is very interesting,when she create those shapes,she used the outline of the builing itself,then simplified it.This method reminds me of Mondrian’s works,they also use the same way to create–deconstruct.First,they obeserve the environment and focus on some specific things,then after deep insight and introspection, they explore proportions, divisions, color combinations, and find out the origin of the items -the basic colors and dots lines surfaces.Also,they ruled out all realistic phenomena, and just use simple elements to create new elements..Works like these show me the possibilities and diversity of innovation,and makes me more interested in exploring other ways of creating,sometimes we should try to jump out of the normal rules and research things from another dimension.
After reading the text ‘Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman’,I was really impressed by a paragraph which mentioned the relationshio between us and robots.This made me think a lot,sometimes,I tried to do research on the connection between human and emotions.
Sometimes,when people try to do some facial expression,is it controled by our mind or our body itself?Human and robots are the same in some ways,they are all ‘produced’,however,robots are usually under control but human have self-awareness,however,sometimes they can’t choose things voluntarily.
I created a female charactor,from the outside,‘she’ is a robot,although ‘she’ is in the 2D world,but she still can make facial expressions,but here is the question does she want to do that or I force her to do that?