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A Curious Case of Mimics; Artist Statement.
Just like last year in the VAM program, I once more made a very large independent project and am now making an artist statement. This year's art piece was just as great of an opportunity and was dare say more fun, than last year's project. This year I only went for five pieces of art, all made digitally, but also included short documentary-like blurbs on the work. In the rest of this statement, I will go more in-depth on this work so that you, as readers, may understand the work better.
I wanted to work on a very strange concept of combining monsters and machines, but making them blend in some sort of hidden way. I also thought it would be very fun to add in a story to go along with my art if only to make it flow better and stand out a bit more. I wanted the whole theme of the art pieces to have some sort of hidden or strange military-type file vibe and found that my own gritty and “crunchy” art style worked very well to replicate this sense of theme. I chase digital for the piece as not only do I think I am better at it, but it looks much more appealing to what I was going to and overall is a much smoother and flexible sort of art to do. I don't think doing this with paint physically could've ended up as good nor even given the right theme as they have digitally. With the main idea and theme being as strange as weird living monster machines hiding in plain sight, it seemed fitting to go digitally and try and create uncanny-looking photos.
Overall I can say with confidence that most things worked very well in this piece. The backgrounds came along nicely, and though the mimic machines themselves had a freakish amount of detail and hard pieces that had to be painted, I eventually did get the hang of it. Drawing machines is very different then the normal organic pieces I draw, and even then trying to blend the robot and animal parts was such a good learning experience that I am very pleased I went with the idea. The overall end result and amount of detail put in also make me proud, as well as the sense of realistic lighting and environments I believe I put into the pieces. Though most things worked well, I'd say the main things that drag me down was just motivation. The severe burnout and discernment I Started to feel in the middle of the project hit hard enough that I was getting very close to worrying about deadlines and If I could possibly make them. It managed to get me down enough that I was worried or even considering bonding with such a project. However, readers, the story does not end sad, as in the end this only proved to be a minor setback and I continued right on and finished.
On the more technical “design principles” of the project I'd say they were connected through the obvious unity of similar text boxes and shapes, but even more than that. Due to the nature of this project, all my pieces relied greatly on inorganic and organic shapes, often mixing the two design principles to create the odd mishmash that can be seen in this project. The overall same style of shading and similar “dirty” colour palettes were also meant to be similar and intentionally chosen. Even the text had its own design elements, with each box heavily relying on things such as symmetry to make the text look neat and aligned, a contrast to the textured and chaotic art that it overlapped.
All in all this project was amazing. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do something like this and though such a strange idea certainly had its very highs and very lows; it all turned out great. I am eager to share more opportunities with you as readers and offer even more art created in the VAM program.
Just like last year in the VAM program, I once more made a very large independent project and am now making an artist statement. This year's art piece was just as great of an opportunity and was dare say more fun, than last year's project. This year I only went for five pieces of art, all made digitally, but also included short documentary-like blurbs on the work. In the rest of this statement, I will go more in-depth on this work so that you, as readers, may understand the work better.
I wanted to work on a very strange concept of combining monsters and machines, but making them blend in some sort of hidden way. I also thought it would be very fun to add in a story to go along with my art if only to make it flow better and stand out a bit more. I wanted the whole theme of the art pieces to have some sort of hidden or strange military-type file vibe and found that my own gritty and “crunchy” art style worked very well to replicate this sense of theme. I chase digital for the piece as not only do I think I am better at it, but it looks much more appealing to what I was going to and overall is a much smoother and flexible sort of art to do. I don't think doing this with paint physically could've ended up as good nor even given the right theme as they have digitally. With the main idea and theme being as strange as weird living monster machines hiding in plain sight, it seemed fitting to go digitally and try and create uncanny-looking photos.
Overall I can say with confidence that most things worked very well in this piece. The backgrounds came along nicely, and though the mimic machines themselves had a freakish amount of detail and hard pieces that had to be painted, I eventually did get the hang of it. Drawing machines is very different then the normal organic pieces I draw, and even then trying to blend the robot and animal parts was such a good learning experience that I am very pleased I went with the idea. The overall end result and amount of detail put in also make me proud, as well as the sense of realistic lighting and environments I believe I put into the pieces. Though most things worked well, I'd say the main things that drag me down was just motivation. The severe burnout and discernment I Started to feel in the middle of the project hit hard enough that I was getting very close to worrying about deadlines and If I could possibly make them. It managed to get me down enough that I was worried or even considering bonding with such a project. However, readers, the story does not end sad, as in the end this only proved to be a minor setback and I continued right on and finished.
On the more technical “design principles” of the project I'd say they were connected through the obvious unity of similar text boxes and shapes, but even more than that. Due to the nature of this project, all my pieces relied greatly on inorganic and organic shapes, often mixing the two design principles to create the odd mishmash that can be seen in this project. The overall same style of shading and similar “dirty” colour palettes were also meant to be similar and intentionally chosen. Even the text had its own design elements, with each box heavily relying on things such as symmetry to make the text look neat and aligned, a contrast to the textured and chaotic art that it overlapped.
All in all this project was amazing. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do something like this and though such a strange idea certainly had its very highs and very lows; it all turned out great. I am eager to share more opportunities with you as readers and offer even more art created in the VAM program.