Working Out Ideas

I've been focusing on the environment for my art works because it is key to the design for my project. I was hitting a few road blocks last week, since my concept of using a dark theme has been overdone many times, and it also has quite a few cliche pitfalls that I could stumble into. After meeting with Heather, I was introduced to including art nouveau as a style for my dark environment. The following sketches were collected from various Google images so that I could get a feel for the whimsical design. As I sketched, I took some images and tried to apply the new technique on top, while a few are imaginative concepts.

After I felt comfortable with trying art nouveau, I created some clock tower thumbnails for an important prop I want to include in my imagery.

The lower left hand corner tower is based of a general line I like to use to create dragons, while the one beside it was based off of a tree.

There are 3 images I took from Google because each has something I want to include in my body of work.

 The Metra sculpture utilizes art nouveau, while having a hint of gothic. I'm interested in using this for my structures.

 This clock is perfect, being both whimsical and dark. It reminds me of the wispy black shapes I like to use in making eerie shadows and it looks great when it can have another purpose.

I thought the colors of this mansion were really beautiful and they inspired me to consider using a rich pallet for my environment.

BFA Contract Proposal

My work centers around showing characters and their interactions within scenes through illustration and digital painting. I want to create an environment and character designs as if I were on the production pipeline for an animated TV series, however, I intend to adjust the project to fit the BFA requirements. It will be a series of digital works that portray the concept of the story, where the protagonists travel throughout the images, although in some, the focus may be more about staging the environment.

My project will show the decent into darkness as the mundane world of my protagonist becomes consumed by its parallel. The purpose is to discover the unseen, while understanding that there is more than what meets the eye and show that light and dark can work together to achieve a common goal.

Aesthetically, the works shall be tied together by an animated style that I've chosen to fit the world. The dark world will have stylized tendrils and sharp edges which will be present in each piece to symbolize the bleeding of the darkness into the human world.

FINAL FORMAT

These digital paintings will be produced in Photoshop, printed and then mounted on the wall as if they were fleshed out storyboard concepts. The dark theme shall be shown spreading from left to right through the other images, while telling the story of the concept through imagery. The top left piece will show the split worlds, then, following down on the left square there will be an environmental study of the dark dimension. To the right the scene will change to a view of the natural world, except that in the shadows the darkness emerges. The protagonist will be shown walking through the various images, but then he stops in the middle fourth frame as he befriends a creature from the other world. The two characters will then be shown on the far right image cooperating in either a battle to beat the shadows back or integrating into the darkness world as it mirrors the natural environment of a common high school.

Top Left-  40 x 18
Bottom Left and Right- 18 x 22
Middle- 22 x 44
Right- 42 x 44



MATERIALS

- Scanner
- Funds for Printing
- Digital Camera

CALENDAR

Sept. 11-18 Research styles
Sept. 18 Complete protagonist(s) concept and rough concept of environments
Sept. 23 Finalize Environment shots
Oct. 2 Complete -Top Left
Oct. 9 Complete -Bottom Left and Right
Oct. 7, 9 MIDTERM FORMAL DEFENSE
Oct. 30 Complete -Middle
Nov. 20 Complete -Far Right
Nov. 28-Dec. 13 Adjustments, printing and framing
Dec. 9, 11 FINAL FORMAL DEFENSE
Dec. 17 COMPLETED