The piece i have chosen to write about was one of my own and the process of how I arrived at its completion. In the beginning it was nothing like its end, different in medium, form, and thought. I started with a sculpture of a monster like head, rat like in features, a sort of mole man to describe it vaguely. From the point of bringing in a chosen object you were to study it, contour and fully rendered drawings. After which you had to derive an abundance of thumbnails/ sketches to somewhat deviate from the original piece. Trying to find something to trigger an idea or design. This was the creative process we were being instructed to use at the time.
My end results were not meeting the expectations as all my thumbnails did not stray to far from the actual sculptures design. So instead i looked at it as what it was and not what it looked like because the teacher asked me what it meant, and i had no answer. So i went with the idea that it was a head, or to farther focus my train of thought it was a face. Then i asked myself what a face was, what its used for, its purpose. And what i came to as a final design was something i could make to demonstrate what a face was, and its symbolic purpose.
I designed a steam-punk inspired sculpture of an almost silhouette like human face, but the mediums used where such that it was not human looking, but robotic, metal, gears, and bolts. I designed it to have its three-dimensional effect by using a layering method one over all piece of sheet steel as the back with a functional and interaction friendly gear/cog system made from both plastic and metal pieces from a busted printer and clock, this rested on the first plate making the second layer. The third layer was risen by using spacers made from a brake line from an automotive store (a thin piece of pipe essentially). These spacers made the simplistic cut outs of the “face” seem to be floating above or around the gear system, looking as if you could see the inside of the head, or rather the mind at work. The cuts outs had no facial features besides the over all contour shape making it as simple as i could. And the pieces were held in place by and small nuts and screws. The concept was that we are trained to recognize faces from birth, its how we tell people and creatures apart, but that without one, the human species was no better then a biological machine, nothing setting people apart. This idea probably coming partly from that i believe more and more the world is brainwashing certain ideas into peoples heads about various subjects so i wanted the becoming a robot feel, secondly i really like the steam-punk genre and its aesthetic style. Modern technological designs with a victorian, brass, gears, and steam powered limitations of what they had in the era to work with. So it just looks awesome!
When it comes to making “art” I don't usually think about it in the way that the teacher wanted the assignment done in. I draw something mostly cause i think it looks cool and thats it, no hidden meaning or deep emotional story behind it. I found it hard at first to try and think of meaning behind what i was creating and found that i still did not have one until i was well along my way to finishing the piece. Mostly due to the fact that the way i go about doing my drawings is that they are just ideas, mainly just focused on the aesthetic impact of the illustration. This is the style of thinking that is required in the field i am trying to become a part of (concept art for the entertainment industry) i personally consider it art as well as some others but at its core its just putting ideas to paper etc. In my opinion graphic designs without a customer are the same as art. So what if i didn't turn into some crazy person to make it, and maybe i have a style that is not too unique or new, but i still think its art. This being a big topic in a few classes i thought i would tie in a few of my opinions to rant a little bit, as well as take up some of the word count required for this piece of writing :P. But where it was relevant to this piece i figured why not. I mean does coming up with the design before i gave it a meaning really say if its art or design, il leave it to others to make up there own mind, but to me its all one and the same.
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