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Project 2: POV (Initial Research and Sketches)

Hello!

 

I had a few ideas about what do choose as my object, and I eventually settled on the idea of happiness.

The idea of happiness varies a lot depending on each individual and I initially thought it would be interesting to tackle it.

For example, happiness to a beauty queen would be eternal beauty and youth whereas happiness to a businessman would be status and money.

However, for the purpose of maintaining a unified theme/look, I decided to scrape the idea because I felt the ideas would be too diverse and look too different.

So instead, I decided to look at the idea of happiness from different objects:

  1. Happiness from the point of view of a cloud is peeing.
  2. Happiness from the point of view of a ghost is companionship.
  3. Happiness from the point of view of a feet is freedom.
  4. Happiness from the point of view of  boobs is freeing the nipple.
  5. Happiness from the point of view of armpit hair is being untamed.
  6. Happiness from the point of view of a introvert is being left alone.
  7. Happiness from the point of view of a star is recognition.
    1. Happiness from the point of view of a artist is recognition.
  8. Happiness from the point of view of a dirty dish is being washed.
  9. Happiness from the point of view of a cat is doing whatever it wants.
  10. Happiness from the point of view of a comb is smooth hair.
  11. Happiness from the point of view of a vain-pot is looking ideal.
  12. Happiness from the point of view of a former beauty queen is eternal youth.
  13. Happiness from the point of view of a weirdo is being ok with being weird.
  14. Happiness from the point of view of a goth is being full black.
  15. Happiness from the point of view of a bimbo is being full pink.
  16. Happiness from the point of view of a lover is being with their partner 24/7.
  17. Happiness from the point of view of a fashionista is being in trend.
  18. Happiness from the point of view of a ADM student is graduating.

Inspirations:

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Mrzyk & Moriceau:

 


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Ultraaviolets:

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Nimura Daisuke:

His works are really weird and funny but I love it HAHAHA

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This is so wonderfully weird and I love it!

 


 

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Some of my sketches:

 

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As someone who can’t draw well, I wanted to challenge myself this time round to see if I could cope with using a more illustrative style. It’s something I’ve always liked but never really attempted (simple vector art on AI is the furthest I usually go) so hopefully all goes well and I don’t kill myself halfway through?

  1. Hey I think you forgot to tag this post as I couldn’t see it on the main class page haha. Oh anyway great research and initial sketches! I think your theme has a lot of potential, but I’m stuck between having a unified theme and one where they all look different. The latter can be used if you’re trying to convey your initial idea that happiness varies and thus the 6 panels don’t all have to look the same, as then your concept would be to show the subjectivity of happiness.

    Also I really like Nimura Daisuke’s style where they don’t really make people smile at first glance, but after awhile it really communicates that the people/cats in the picture are just being happy. If you look through your idea list there are 2 groups: people/human characters and objects/body parts so maybe you could chose only 1 (I think objects/body parts are better as people since antiquity have also wondered what it was like to be a plate etc)

    Oh last comment I’ve always heard that the best feeling ever is taking off a bra after a long day and just letting the boobs hang free so idk maybe that is a better choice than freeing the nipple? I wouldn’t know how either feels but just some feedback off the top of my head. Looking forward to seeing your idea develop! 🙂

    • Thanks for letting me know! I totally forgot about the tag haha. I’m a bit stuck on the theme too because I don’t know what would be the best way to represent these ideas stylistically. I’m not very good at illustrations but I’m not inclined towards using collage art for this project so I’m kinda leaning towards your suggestion of using different different styles for each panel!

      I was thinking about boobs hanging free too but I didn’t want to end up copying Nimura Daisuke’s picture subconsciously so I decided to go with free the nipple since there was that whole #freethenipple tag going on.

      But thanks for your comments! It helped me see my own ideas from a different perspective and I’ve got some new ideas now! 🙂