Friday, January 27, 2012

Different experiments on different objects

What I Did:

4 hours taking more pictures outside and then drawing on them
1 hour thinking up and researching 3D objects, adhesives and paint to use
1 hour researching artists
1 hour getting supplies
3 hours cutting metal teeth, painting them, and sticking them to a parking meter
2 hours coming up with ideas on how to connect my characters















What I Accomplished/ Discovered/ Encountered:

The critique that I had today and the comments and suggestions that I got were very helpful. Everyone seemed to respond to the objects that I liked the most. Those were the objects that I spent the most time on with the drawings and the details. They were the ones that were most clever and that incorporated things from the site into the face and whose personality matched the site best. I also realized after talking with people that the ones that had the mouths integrated the best were the best solutions.

I thought adhering metal pieces would be a good solution compared to drawing directly on the object, but it was the other way around. There was also comments about making a connection with my characters so that people will know that they are done by the same person and that they want to move on to the next character. Making a bunch of different characters on different structures makes my work surprising, but having a connection between them that makes the people want to see the next one brings about suspense.

I got a few ideas on how to connect my characters, such as only drawing mouths on openings, naming my characters by placing gallery tags next to them, writing hints on where to find the next character, and an idea that I had previously was to maybe create a poem or story by giving each character a word or a line in the poem or story.  

6emeia is an artist who also makes characters from things on the street. Sewers are the main things that he uses. And not only does he draw characters, but he also creates other objects from things on the street, such as a watch made from a crosswalk line. I like how resourceful he is with the surrounding structures, such as the post becoming the cigarette. And I also like the detail that he uses as well. They are not just plain circle eyes that he draws. He really makes specific characters that have a personality.







What I Think I Will Do Next:
I want to try to draw directly onto some objects so that I can contrast it with adhering something else onto the object, like I did with the teeth on the parking meter.

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