Final Major Project
Fictional Worlds – Everything At Once
Sorry for the delay in this being posted, but hey, it’s finally here! Enjoy.
My project is about how we create our own fictional worlds, and how we can create objects, people, and even space out of the most minimal idea. The piece I have created is to illustrate my own worlds and everything that happens within them; as we can’t see everything that’s happening in our world, I decided to illustrate everything that happens in mine, so you can see everything at once.
This project began with the plan of using mark-making and drawing to music, this idea came from the Visual Communication project in the exploration stage of the year. I began to listen to music from the game ‘Minecraft’ and started to draw random shapes and designs, which slowly turned into a landscape. ‘Minecraft’ is a computer game, where the landscape is made from cubes and pixels and you can change, build and create your own world. I then explored the idea of fictional worlds and to create more detailed and meticulous drawings, evolving them to what they are now.
For a while, my drawings developed on their own, I would place them on my wall to give influence to the next and that created a chain of drawings which then started to illustrate different dimensions of my fictional world. I researched Paul Noble’s work and gained some influence from his ‘Nobson Newtown’, an illustrated world of his own creation. I was also inspired by Sarah Sze’s work and how she collects and groups her work and creates her own world in her installations.
Once I finished drawing, I decided to collect my work and develop the piece further. I went back to ‘Minecraft’ and decided to use its architecture; I then created cubes out of my drawings and using my influence from Sarah Sze, I invented some ways to group my work and how it was to be displayed. With ‘Minecraft’ being a constructive game, I decided to use it as a basis for the presentation of this piece. The outcome is a world of my own which is driven by imagination and creativity. A world where everything is happening but nothing built in the same way, where you can continue to change, manipulate and play with the architecture to make your minimal ideas expand.
Drawing has been a massive part of this project, but drawing is a minimal part of my life; I’ve realised that I have my own style of drawing and I now understand its importance. I will be continuing to draw in the future, now that I understand its ability, and mine.
Final Major Project
Here is an update on my Final Major Project.
My project is about creating fictional worlds, using mark-making to create landscapes and planets. During the project, I have been listening to music from the video game ‘Minecraft’, and from that I’ve been drawing out the music, creating organic shapes and designs. ‘Minecraft’ is the main force behind the formation of this project, but it also backed up with the Visual Communications project, where I drew to music and created my own window into space. I chose to use mark-making from the beginning of this project, but I had no idea that it would lead to creating multiple drawings.
I have recently came to a point in which I need to focus on a different pushing force and create something from these drawings, so I have took more inspiration from ‘Minecraft’ and have created boxes which have my drawings printed onto the faces. I’m trying to bring the ‘Minecraft’ world into reality, and using my drawings to create a new style of landscape in the ‘Minecraft’ style. I also have the idea of using animation, and collage to enhance the drawings.
I’m still in the process of making work and planning an exhibit, so there will be more of this project but for now, enjoy.
Final Major Project
For my Final Major Project (FMP), I have decided to do ‘Fictional Worlds’. I’m still not 100% on what the main idea is or how to fully describe it, but what I’m doing is listening to ‘Minecraft’ music and then translating that music into drawing. I started this project looking at mark-making, and the translation between other forms of art (e.g. music, sculpture, paintings.) to marks (drawing). I started to look at Sol LeWitt, and how his methods use precise rules. I then started to look at my previous project Visual Communications, and how I translated that music into drawing; from this, I then started to go straight into drawing the ‘Minecraft’ music.
From then to now, I don’t really know how to explain the project, so I will update you all when I am further on with my work.
Below are a few images of my drawings and a link that will take you to YouTube; the video will contain the music I am listening to. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obgSqOyM8Q0
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