Almost There

Apr 29, 2020
2 min read

This week I spent time revising and working on my paper as well as coming up with another character turn around and also continuing to work on the Gargoyle piece I did.

The challenge was to do a male character, and a challenge it was indeed. This semester I have become so confident with creating female characters without references for the poses. I know the proportions, shapes, etc. With drawing a male it was like starting all over again. I needed to use references and pose guides, although I still switched them up. Something I was surprised to see was a lot of them were super macho and muscular, and I just wanted a fit but smaller dude. A lot of girl references are really skinny and it was always so easy to add more weight to them to be more realistic. I could not for the life of me bring a big muscle guy down into a smaller one. I got Tom to pose for me which helped, also he pointed out that guys don't stand "pigeon toed" which I didn't even know was a thing. It feels so natural for me to stand with my feet pointing slightly towards each other but was super uncomfortable for him. Who knew? I am going to finish this up for next week in full color.

Here is the progress I got done on the Gargoyle drawing I was working on.

Before and after pics.

This week I also put together a presentation on Redefining Public Spaces with digital art. It was a really good topic. I never really thought about how much more public space artworks changed with technology but they became so much more interactive. A project I found that I really liked was Voice Tunnel by Rafael Lozano in 2013. It was a large scale interactive installation at Park Ave tunnel in NYC that used 300 spotlights, 150 loudspeakers arranged through the tunnel, and intercom for recordings in the center, holds 75 recordings. People walked into the tunnel and heard echoes and all these stories/recordings other visitors were leaving and could leave their own. In the videos I saw of it it seemed to spark so much joy, which I feel makes pieces like this so special.

It made me think a lot about my piece, in which, it will make people feel bad. It has me hung up a bit on the idea. I know my message is important, but it's sad. Everytime I see a piece like this I always think that I would like to inspire and create feelings of joy for people through my art. That idea feels most sucsessful and right to me.