Tuesday, December 4, 2012

3D to 2D

It's amazing what comes to you at 2am. I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my 2D to 3D and I knew I wanted to do something with my mask but wasn't sure what. But then at 2am I put two and two together. I had merged the plague with something beautiful in my mask, but isn't that what girls live through everyday? The idea that we are plagued by society to become this inhuman form of beauty? That's when I decided that not only did my mask represent myself, but it also represented the "Plague" that women go through every day when they wake up. Each morning they try to become this inhuman ideal of "beauty" that society has photoshoped us into thinking is real.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Masked Identity Drawings


Paper Stacking Drawings


"It's About Time" Drawings


Memento Drawings

Metamorphosis Drawings

Bed
Chest
Bug

Expressive Forms Drawings

Chaos
Old
Dangerous

Masked Identity Design Discussion

There is a pretty, girly side to me. But there is also a dark side to me - a fascination with all things creepy. That is where this idea spawned from.
I wanted to create a mask reminiscent of those worn during Plague times by Poveglia Island doctors. When Plague victims were brought to the island this was the last image they would see - a creepy bird mask hovering over them, waiting for them to die. This part suits my fascination with the dead and creepy.
I also wanted to make tiny pieces so I went with ones that reminded me of a chandelier. This would be my girly side because when I think of being girly and dressed up and beautiful, I also think of chandeliers.

Masked Identity In-Progress


Saturday, November 3, 2012

Paper Stacking Design Discussion


Making the banana was the hardest thing for me. I'm really not happy with it at all. I unfortunately did not have the time to sand it down in order to show the planes that the fruit had. The cutting of the circles and gluing them all together took a million times longer than anticipated and I just got so incredibly frustrated with it. It was making my quite anxious and was not an enjoyable experience for me -- unlike creating my own piece. Doing that was so relaxing and I loved creating it. Sadly, this is what I turned in for my fruit recreation.









While creating my own piece I was going off of several images I had found on the internet. I had no idea how I could possibly combine them or how they even fit together but I was able to accomplish it and I am extremely proud of this piece. The spiraling and topsy-turvyness of this piece came from two images. The first of a spiral staircase and the second of a building that looked like it could fall at any point in time. (All of the images I'm discussing can be found in my post "Paper Stacking Inspiration")
The protruding features came from an image of a tree as well as of a brick wall. I loved the texture of the wall and wanted to find a way to incorperate it and I think that I was able to accomplish that as well.
The hole in the center as well as the shape was inspired by a wall paper
stacking. The color came from me trying to see if the paper would first soak up blue ink and then procede to soak up yellow ink and in the process some of the ink turn green. It worked to a certain extent but not quite as well as I wanted so I just stuck with painting with those three color inks.


Paper Stacking In Progress

Soaking up some ink.

Adding on some "bricks"
Gluing on slice after slice.
Vibrant color.
Starting

This is what took FOREVER.
Circles
Getting there...
Finished....sadly.