this week we had to communicate something that cant be done with words and immediately my inner schoolgirl jumped at the whole 'i cant tell him that i love him, so i'll send him a letter thing' but then almost as an afterthought Wendy said; NO LOVE STORIES!!! :( its too boring and predictable or something
so trying to connect the project back to the original idea i decided to go for I'm not in love with you, i'm obsessed with you and its creepy and you should be scared. and i started my book along these lines... but really after my first week spent in the abyss i wanted to do something more cheerful, so i made a very cartoony brainstorm of all the worst and clichéd ideas i could, just trying to choose one and do it in a really creative and unpredictable way...
i decided on; 'I'm a fish and i want to get out of my bowl'
i started by thin king of the ways that the average fish would actually be able to communicate at all with its owner, i thought of Morse code bubbles, writing on a dirty tank but then eventually realised that the fish itself wouldn't realistically be able to do any of these things. what a fish can do however is imagine...
as sappy as that sounds...
anyway so the work i settled on was an illustration of a fish imagining itself outside of its bowl... so i drew it in my sketchbook and added some colour and thought; its finished! damn what am i gonna do for the rest of the week!
anyway so i just started making all of the animals that the fish imagines himself as, out of paper. i actually hadn't done anything like that before and everyone thought i was really good at it so i just ran with it and got some really positive crit for it on Friday
ART BLOCK: UNBLOCKED!!
cant wait for 3d spacial (once i get better :( )
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