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We had drawn a short time about 4 mins per picture. It seems like blind drawing, which means to draw without looking paper, is quite popular in UAL. I tried to believe that it really benefits me a lot.
Initially we just drew those buildings surrounding LCC, focusing on the light and dark sides of each building and catching an overall feeling. Next we started to squint our eyes, and ignore those details of building consciously. Furthermore we tried blind drawing with squinting eyes still. To be honest, it was not as easy as I thought before, even I felt a little bit tired in only 1 hour. (Thus I drew something else to relax.)
The intuitive feeling is very complex. All the walls, windows and floors just came in your eyes and made you confused with what they surely are. But if we just recognize them as blocks with different brightness, we can get a 2D perspective to the scene in front of us.
I actually drew the same building many time and in different ways, although it was just for fun. By the way absolutely a good method to have a joyful mood it is that smear with charcoals, it made me recall my child days lol.
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It is my drawing practice that focuses colors. It based on a photo I saved on Twitter. I quite like that colors and composition.
For testing the new brushes I download in Photoshop, I drew that picture. The feature of these brushes is that they can emulate some real effect digitally, which includes Chinese ink and general watercolor. It made me pretty excited to draw with it. But sadly I did not be able to show their advantages and style. Finally my practice just looks like impasto and lack of that translucent feeling.
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Elizabeth said maybe we can have a feeling of “busy” in our background. I tested some samples in Photoshop. My understanding of “busy” is quite unclear, like getting something in my ear, but I can not take it out.
The looking of internet accord with my view of “busy” the most. A huge number of information and people’s opinions are just like rain falling on us, like rock smashing on us. Thus the first draft I used meaningless texts to fill the part of sky of the original photo, and made it to be in a muddle.
Additionally I thought of the snowflakes in TV screen. Although we can rarely see this situation of TV but I still remember the feeling. Snowflakes always be with noises which usually continue for a long time. I often be in a fret when it happens.
So I made the second draft. I think it was pretty cool, and just looks like Glitch Art which is popular currently.
audio editing by Alina Hou
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At the beginning I intend to introduce my ‘cute’ sorrow. I prefer giving a cute looking to a comparatively not good thing. Because it can keep the overall presenting of the work, make it not so happy to be off the beam, or not so sad to make audience uncomfortable. For everyone, for the audience, for me, it is a little bit strange. Thus if you are looking at a cute but weird thing just standing in elevator dully and waiting for you, then you feel like you can just stand near by it but all you want is ignoring it, that is the feeling I want.
My expect subject in my BA course next year is game art including concept art and character design, so personifying something had really interested me. By the way I need to consider about the balance between
artistry and plot. On the second page, I just wrote my monologue. Hand-writing is one of my favourite element, because I do not have to find a satisfactory font in those boring and ugly types in typography library. I can change my hand-writing style to match whatever theme I got.
Follow-up, I collected all the words related to my sorrow. I have reasons for each of them.
Fireworks: There is a young tradition in Japan, that couples always go to the summer festival to see fireworks together. Influenced by Japanese ACG culture, this tradition had been known by a large number of teenager in Asia, everyone loving ACG culture is dreaming about seeing fireworks. I used have somebody I like to go with, but one day we left each other and went to different place to chase our dreams.
Her: same as before.
Drawing: I like drawing, I enjoy drawing as my relaxing. But gradually drawing makes me feel myself inferior. Because I found that I have no talent on it. I got worse color sensation than other drawers, I got weaker apprehension than other drawers. I do enjoy drawing and will not abandon it, I hate myself so much at the same time.
Singing: I like singing too, and the reason is just like drawing.
Weak: I have been weak since a kid. So my classmates in primary school had been bullying me. My parents send me to learn Taekwondo and Chinese Kungfu, but I can not still fight against the others in combat practice. I think I am unable to protect people I love.
At the end, I made the same form as the beginning. Sorrow will leave, but will not die. It will follow us into our grave.