Foundation Drawing Final Project – 屠龙传 Dragon Slayer

Tone 8 – 10% of drawing.                                                                                                          Tone 5 – 30% of drawing.                                                                                                                    Tone 3 – 60%of drawing.

Medium – Charcoal, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B and 6B pencil

Charcoal paper Dimension – 50cm x 80cm

A2 paper – 42cm x 59.4cm

My Final project is a trilogy of my own Chinese style comics called “屠龙传 Dragon Slayer”. My inspiration derives from classic Hong Kong comics “老夫子 Old Master Q” which bought me into having the interest to draw. I have decided to draw a short comic that is very common in the old Hong Kong magazines that my Uncle collect from the 1980s. Being a fan of the comics due to it’s fantansy and mythology beliefs and the actions filled theme. I have decided to create my own style.

These are the processes as I explored on the different body anatomy and structure of the warriors, on their postures and actions.

   

Under the advice of Mr Woon Lam, he mentioned that I should copied images from the comics – “风云” Fung Wan, a Hong Kong Wuxia man hwa comics that revolves with the theme of action, mythology and fantasy since I am going to portray a warrior who is also a swordsman hence his posture, composure and way of holding a sword is very important.

Next, the animal, horse. A swordsman is incomplete in a chinese comic without his companion, which is the horse. Similarly, these are the sketches of the horse’s anatomy, postures and relationship with human that I drew and also copied from the comics to understand how it can work in my comics.

Next, the mythological creature, dragon.

Perspectives and format of the drawing to show how the dragon descend down from the sky. Originally I have wanted to show the dragon to be at the front and the horseman with his back but I have decided to change the perspective to show the dragon as it creates more dynamic to show how the dragon actually descend down from the sky to meet the horseman on the ground. The dragon is travelling down to have a combat with the horseman who is reaching up towards the sky for the dragon. It tells a story of how both parties are actually going into the familiar terrains and combat boundary of their opponents. It will be interesting to see how reaching out of their comfort zones will create a different perspectives.

Practice with charcoal drawing.

Rough sketches to depict the direction that I want to portray, dragon looking down at the horseman with the horse standing on it’s hind legs getting ready to combat.

Me trying to use different tonal shading to depict the different scenario to show the mood, the images from top left corner to bottom left corner in a clock wise rotating direction. (Dark, Sun set, Cloudy with sun from the back of the horseman and Cloudy with sun from the back of the dragon)

the images from top left corner to bottom left corner in a clock wise rotating direction. (Raining, Cloudy with sun rays shining down from the opening of the cloud, Night time with full moon from the back of the horseman and Cloudy with sun ray shining at an angle onto the horseman and dragon)

Testing with the different perspectives and designs of the mountains. A tone study of the pencil shading is also done to reflect how much strength must i apply.

Final composition of how I would like to draw my drawing.

Final two sketches experimenting with the strokes of the pencil,  the stroke for the picture is done with the edge of the tip with the movement similar to shading, the texture is more smooth and less sharp.

The stroke for thispicture is done with the tip of the pencil, it is harder and sharper.

UNTITLED FINAL

  1. A detailed description of your Artist Statement.

Choices, something that mankind have never been able to fully comprehend. An action to choose the best from a list of possibilities with opportunity costs, we have never been able to manipulate our choices. We were taught from young that we always have to make the right choices to succeed in life but were we ever told why should we not made the wrong choices? Growing up, we were all too keen to not make the wrong choices as we carefully anticipated only the right choices, this teaching instilled from young have caused many detriments to our life as our hands were held along in school by the educators to ensure we made the right choices but once we enters the society, there are no helping hands anymore and faced with many possibilities, we fumbled and became too scared to explore the different possibilities from our choices. Considered yourself being place in a situation where you made a wrong choice in the start and you are forced to make the best choices against the situation to achieve your goal, how will you do it if the choices present in front of you have are all right?

  1. The energy dynamics of your work and why do you think so?

High intensity. My work is a  narration to depict myself rushing under time tension and the pressure where I have to make choices. It depict mostly chaotic scenes with shaky camera views as it portrays how our visions are as we have to concentrate on the surroundings while we run.

  1. The Who, What, Where, Why, When, and How of your work.
  • Who is the intended audience for this interaction?

The intended audience are people from all ages who see my video

  • What do you want them to do/experience?

I want them to have a flashback to the moments where they are late and let them understand how does the scene actually felt like from their first person perspective and also more importantly, how the choices they made may actually determine the final outcome of the event

  • Where will the interaction take place?

The interaction will take place at any location with the video being shown and in this case, it will be in the classroom environment

  • Why should people participate in this interaction? (Safety and Trust)

This is an exact depiction of how the audience will react when they have to rush due to being late, it does jeopardize safety and trust of the audiences as it does not require any physical interaction. It will be interesting and exciting to let them be in my shoes as they will realised how everything looks and feels like when they have to rush

  • When will the interaction take place?

The interaction will take place when the scene starts on me jumping out of the bed as audiences can relate to the action when they were jolted by the rude awakening fact that they are late and they have to rush to the next location before it is too late

  • How will participants interact?

They will interact when I have to make my choices under time pressure, here when they see me slow down trying to make my decision but with the time ticking, they will feel tense and want to choose the best decision for me as they sits in their chair

  1. What is the category of interactivity used in your work? Why?

Cognitive and Contextual interactivity. Based on my video description, it is me deciding to make the choice to snooze after waking up early but I overslept and the whole situation turns chaotic as I have to rush towards the classroom before it is too late while I have to make the best choices against the situations to arrive in class on time only to find out it is a public holiday.

Here I am engaging the audiences’ minds with the sense of sight and sound. The first person view portrays a vivid and surreal experience as compared to third person as they can feel that they are actually in my spot rushing.

Lastly, sound, with the use of high intensity music, it builds up the tension and tempo of the video which the audiences’ mind will feel the intensity which will bring their attention to find out what is the final outcome only to be met with a plot twist that I have rushes for nothing as it is holiday.