3 Themes.
City, Stones & it’s People.
CITY. The first theme I had in mind was regarding actual cities. Once the theme city was mentioned, I immediately though of Ben Tolman. An artist that does super intricate drawings about cities, buildings and the like. So my first theme would be to draw out a whole intricate cityscape where people's day to day life are depicted and drawn. The most literal meaning of a city. But the details would be super intricate and detailed.
STONE. The second theme I had in mind was stone, The actually material that is used to make cities. I enjoy the concept that everything always starts from stone and then goes back into stone at the end of the day. Cities are made and constructed with stone, and at end, cities turn back and are deconstructed back into stone. I referenced an artist Marie-Florentine Geoffroy, she draws motifs and icons of stones and floating minerals. So my second theme would be to draw a few icons and motifs of floating minerals, and play around with them to form a pattern,
IT'S PEOPLE. For this last theme, i referenced artist Hisashi Okawa, an illustrator with a unique style of drawing people. I aim to focus on the people within a city. I play with the idea that people make a city, and everyone seems to be the same or at least similar and no one really stands out. But when you zoom in, you notice that every single one has their own individualistic traits, thoughts and ideas. I want to portray this idea through a form of system art. where by I ask people a simple question, for instance: "What's the first object that comes to your mind?" Following that, I would draw the person in a similar shape to portray how each one of us are similar, but i plan to show the uniqueness of each individual by drawing the object that they mentioned. i will repeat this process till i have as many little people as i can possibly draw. i will also document this in a Instagram account @pobjects for a personal documentation.
