See the back of my actual piece for the full title. Weebly thinks it takes up too much space. Artist Statement: Anyway, the title really is a pretty accurate description of what the piece looks like at least in my opinion. The one thing I didn't include with the title is the white background but I don't think that was too necessary. The main idea of this piece is "take someone else's copyrighted possession and turn it into something that's mine." I think I accomplished this pretty well. I would guess that most people would find this character to be original. Maybe I should have given Nigel green hair or something... I created the art using scissors and oil pastels. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed using oil pastels. The art tool seemed like I would only make something that looked like a second graders lazily put together crayon picture but instead I made something that I'm quite proud of. Blending the colors together was a technique that I used a lot and I think with oil pastels they can really bring out some flair with the piece. The technique is also really simple to use. Instead of lots of trial and error like I had with soft pastels, I could blend colors easily and still achieve the gradient I wanted. There wasn't really a specific goal for my piece. Most of the parts at the beginning of the creation process were made on a whim. The head was made first, then the pencil, then the body, etc. and as the I kept making parts I became more and more careful as to proportions. I wasn't really trying to convey emotions either. Is confusion an emotion? I wanted my piece to look strange but still look somewhat grounded in reality hence the attention to proportions later in the development cycle. Overall the final piece is very different than when I was planning, at least at first. The first versions of the piece (in my head) included cats, 80's clothing and a bunch of other stuff until I realized that I wanted to make something look more three dimensional and thus made the final version. If there was one thing I would do different would be to actually plan a background. At first, I wanted to make the background out of that roller technique where you take a piece of plastic, sketch into it and use a roller to bring out the design onto the canvas. Without planning however, this background never reached my art piece. I think I will definitely use this oil pastel technique again. Maybe I could actually plan for animation using this technique. We'll just have to wait and see... Check my previous blog posts for my development process. I plan on becoming more in-depth with this process for upcoming projects.
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