Proposal for Final Art Project

The final art project I plan on doing is a webcomic. I plan on doing this project as opposed to others, because I believe that this project will utilize the art skill I already have. I plan on using mixed media along with photographs, animation and possibly even a soundtrack.

For the content of this project, I plan on illustrating a storyline that has a philosophical and political meaning. My intent is to get the viewers to think about the content as well as imagery. To do this, I will use placement of color, composition and appropriate script for this piece. I also plan on posting updates of the webcomics until the final part of the project is complete in its own separate blog along with this one.

Second Life Real- Life Self Portraits

These are self portraits that I've created using two different types of media. I used the portrait on the right to create the effects for the Second Life character.

Life as HUD

For this project I chose one of my favorite hobbies which is playing videogames. I thought it would be more interesting to create an HUD of a person playing a videogame. I found this project to be pretty easy. I chose to darken the background to make the television brighter and I used bright colors for the icons to convey feminity in a very masculine hobby. I think if I can do anything differently, I would turn the lights off before taking the picture to enhance the effect. I think I would also use more than just shapes to create the icon.

Three Phases of Man Animation

Here is the link to the animation version of the photo montage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfhFMgtQjVA

Hopefully this link works. If it does not, then I'll have to embed the animation directly onto the website.

There were a few changes I made to the montage before the animation process. I chose to add more images and still keep in mind the original montage. I did this to make the ideas for the animation much smoother. I also chose to use a fading method to illustrate different times in the history (prehistory) of mankind.

Triptych: "Three Phases of Man"

The triptych collage is called "Three Phases of Man". In this project I wanted to show humanity in different states. In the left side of the collage I chose to use volcanoes, sinking buildings and broken statues as the end of humanity. The primates and early humans represent humanity returining to nature. On the right side of the collage shows early man in a more cultured setting.The old architectures shows mankind in the beginning stages. The center triptych shows mankind in its present state, living in advanced technological civilizations. The television set represents mass communication and mastery of technology. I chose to use an ocean setting instead of a plain background because I feel that an ocean setting tells a story. The faded image in the background comes from a movie called "Jarhead". I chose this image because it best captures the intensity of war and best represents the fall of mankind.

Putting together the images to tell a story is the challenging part of this project. It would have been easier if I gathered all the pictures before putting them together in a collage. If I could do anything different for this project, I would sketch out my ideas before putting them together in one cohesive art piece. I would also use brighter colors and more "pop" type images to fit in with the theme of this project. I believe that I could also use more different images in variety. I take this first project as a learning experience and hope to gain from it.