9/1/16

Idea 1: Skeleton

During a 3D class in my junior year I had to make a character out of newspaper and paper tape.  I ended up making a skeleton character that had the effect of looking chubby, but still having the ribcage and pelvis represented.  I am interested in making more characters inspired it, but in a more durable material.  I want to experiment with other materials like Sculpy to see what works the best.  The final product I am hoping to have from this is a family of skeletons of all different shapes/sizes and maybe even some pet versions along with them.  If I have time at the end I would like to try taking staged photographs of them participating in daily life, but I don’t have any experience in photography, so I’m not sure how it will turn out.

 skeleton_front skeleton_side (front and side views of paper tape skeleton)

Idea 2: Painted Portraits of Ugly Faces

In a technical painting class during my sophomore year we were required to paint portraits as our final projects.  I didn’t want to just go with a traditional, straight-faced portrait so I had my brother make ridiculous faces and went with that.  It was way more fun to paint and the end result was more interesting than my previous paintings.  I think it would really enjoy doing a series of these portraits and taking photos of people’s best “ugly” faces for references.  It would be a new, interesting spin on portraiture.

Linden (portrait of brother)

Idea 3: Folktale Crossovers

I have always been interested in folktales, particularly Japanese folktales.  I think it would be interesting to do crossovers in scenes from similar stories found in both American and Japanese folklore.  For example, if I find a story similar to Little Red Riding Hood in Japanese folklore I could illustrate the scene of Riding Hood talking to her “grandmother” (wolf), but swap out the wolf with the antagonist from the Japanese folktale.  I am researching Japanese folklore for my Lang major’s senior capstone project, so I will be getting familiar with Japanese stories anyways, but I don’t feel as confident about this idea as I do about the other two.