2D Final Project: EGO – Madness and Scuzabel

Final

Supportive Family + Chaotic Imagination = Me

[Supportive Family]

I choose the most significant family member in my life to represent my primary support and opted for bolder, stronger colours to indicate both the personality of the person and the qualities of the support given to me.

[Chaotic Imagination]

I opted to use an orderly background crowded out by one of my most significant original characters and a language created for one of my original stories to show the makeup of my creative mind. The words translate to ‘Weirdness and randomness’

[Me]

Just me. A serious exterior actually made up of brighter, more playful colours.

Exploration – Indecisiveness = Better Me

[Exploration]

A butterfly with bright pretty colours is the last thing I would have ever drawn otherwise due to long standing practices, established preferred styles and admitted bias, and so the idea of Exploration is best represented by giving a chance to what I would usually never do.

[Indecisiveness]

A genuine case of indecisiveness. I destroyed an earlier attempt at [Me] due to indecisiveness, so I cut it out and combined it with older personal works I have yet to complete due to a lack of decisiveness and inability to be satisfied with my own work.

[Better Me]

Churning out a whirlwind of ideas, characters, stories and ultimately, my own comics, with ease.

Focus x Exposure = Ideal Me

[Focus]

The symbol is an old one, almost 10 years, that I created and always perceived to represent ‘consciousness’. Hence, conscious focus was appropriately represented by it, together with glue drops one would not notice unless focused on the panel.

[Exposure]

Encountering people and places of different natures (represented by the four quadrants that ultimately all consist of strangers and the unknown) and taking something back from each encounter. I put myself wearing the colours of the quadrants and standing among the crowd in complete comfort to show the fruits of exposure.

[Ideal Me]

The hieroglyphics translate to ‘The genius of creative utterance’. There are a lot of divine and god-like interpretations and implications to that, but then this IS supposed to be the ‘Ideal’, even if unrealistic, me.

Experience + Originality = Me In 5 Years

[Experience]

Standing upon a telescope with a telescope to represent building on past knowledge from experience with more knowledge from experience in order to reach new heights.

[Originality]

A compilation of my original characters as well as unused drawings and designs. The composition is fractured as something original should not be instantly recognized.

[Me In 5 Years]

A representation of what my mind will be like in 5 years rather than where I will physically be. I want my mind to be so fired up and on the ball I used brain neurons with lightning encased in a clock to show my overcharged thoughts and ideas are allied with time rather than being obstructed by it. The lightning breaches beyond the clock, being too active to contain.

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