For my Doodle4Google, I chose to do reptiles in space! While researching about animals doing space travel, I learned that animals like geckos survived better and were more adapted towards the climate. I originally had a leopard gecko in the final draft, which was the second O in Google. Russia’s sending monkey’s into space, but I hope they consider reptiles as well!
In Order: Green Tree Python, Green Iguana, Savannah Monitor, and Tortoise. The entirety of 2nd period has been entered in the Doodle4Google nation-wide contest. The theme was future innovatitions in technology, transportation, and renewable energy. Mind maps were required to be able to narrow down the best ideas to the best we could! Mine took a bit of thought.... I thought about how robots like Rover were racing around on Mars, collecting rocks, and how we could make it better, but I really didn't think it was unique. Robots are a thing of the future, and that one's a given. One of my most favouritetest things in the world are chickens! I love chickens so much!! And I thought I would take inspiration from Google Doodler Lydia Nichols and her cow burps doodle. There were articles on how people have made the egg whites full of medicine for those with a rare disease. But, I thought.... something more. Something that had to do with space travel. I also thought about how ocean fish population is declining rapidly due to overfishing. Then, when looking through more examples, I saw Melissa Crowton and her doodle of travelling animals. Then I thought.... space... travel... animals? Animals travelling to Mars! I was able to put all of my ideas together and wanted to doodle and research about space-travelling lizards!
This has been one of my most Expressive pieces all semester emotionally. This was a gift for my significant other, based off of the giant elephant statue that's been passed dowm 2 generations so far. I built up from that, since it would work as both a birthday and holiday gift! My plan was to make two little elephant banks out of clay together. posing with elephant 1 At this point I was able to reflect my process of creating the elephant since the banks themselves were designed to me relatively simple, just pinchpot and balls of clay rolled out into different forms. finished piece of elephant one I finished elephant 1, stressing because I thought I wouldn't have enough time to finish the second. But plot twist, I engaged and persisted to do my blog post to finish them on blog post day!
Our prompt/assignment this time was to do styrogami. For this, I pretty much improvised. I had less time than usual to do it. However, I was slightly inspired by Jules Vitali's art. First, I started out with two smaller cups to make the neck and head. I was pretty much hotgluing everything. For this, I was Developing Craft. I was phazing through unknowingly how dense, stable, and reactive the styrofoam cups were. They were incredibly thin, and I needed how to figure out how to work around it. Adding legs to the creature What a mess!!! I took very few pictures, but I Solved Problems. How was I going to make it self standing? Will these legs work? I thought more and more about how I was going to be able to make it stand. And I did. I had made a long tail for my project, then painted it using my old tempera paints that I had mixed up for an unfinished project. For this I Envisioned, thinking about what goes where and how the seams were going to be covered up. I also had to think about the pedastal, too. I imagined what colors were going to be put onto it. The gluewash (Glue diluted with water) and the paper towels, too. Defining Fun Theory in my own wordsTaking various human natures like curiosity, the need to complete things, a necessity to be captivated, etc. and applying them to different tasks of everyday life to make them more interesting and motivating. What could be made into Fun Theory?Walking the dog can sometimes be a bit of a mundane task when I'm low on energy, or just in general sometimes. I thought about around 3 years ago when me and my dog Willow went to an event for a shelter. We went around looking for abandoned dog bowls scattered all around the lake and pretended it was a treasure hunt. (Not an actual photo from the lake) Willow loves squirrels too much. Whenever she sees one, she starts crying with excitement, and always wants to run up their tree. I thought about her relation to squirrels and looking for various things, so I decided once a day, to test our short memories and try to find things I adjusted, like some unsalted peanuts for the squirrels or pinecones, and we'll see if they touched them. Willow would let me know with a vigourous sniffing session of the pinecone and nuts.
On a first note, I'd like to say that I'm so glad that I know now who made the piece of paintings with just karate chops- I had seen the video many times throughout my life, but I never knew the story behind it. I feel finding artists with disabilities (like me) is something that I need to always be able to acess and see in my life. I was inspired to do something with my own mental illnesses and disabilities that was probably out of the box, like my drowsiness from anemia. I'm slowly developing a purposefully sloppy style- because I might as well fall asleep while working.
His story was amazing, and I did relate to his struggles. The way he created art and still does now is, like I said, very inspiring still. I made a gory vampire bat for Mrs. Schumann's pumpkin painting contest. I entered for scariest, and tried to make it look that way!
Then, I painted on the eyes and the wide mouth that would be impossible for even a flying fox to own. I also added a better outline for the scars with messy lines of crimson red. I added on ears as well, that looked kind of goofy. I put on a nose that would pop out, representing bat's weird noses With this I OBSERVED, thinking about gross things that would usually be on a.... rotting corpse. In this case, I thought of a few referenced and looked them up so I could be able to blend in and balance between weird and creepy.
Next, I added the wood chips from the pumpkin's stem onto the scars with a hot glue gun.
LightTracer2 Lightbox I used
About the animations
This was a Wow!/Practice piece. The goal was to have 3-4 different animation styles of different kinds of animals. However, I was only able to complete about 3, and they were:
I had created drawings of them with oil pastels and given them personalities.
Coyote (Friendly neighbor) Flint (Rich spoiled poodle) and Gloria (Angry hairy screaming armadillo)
Flint's cycle
By far the most successful, 'cause it was pretty much finished!! I didn't have any time to add in his color/beautiful ear highlights, and I finished it using Paint Tool Sai and a Wacom Drawing Tablet (Intuos Blue)
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While creating this short and choppy cycle, I faced a bit of challenge, so I Engaged & Persisted, not giving up on the cycle, removing and adding frames. My hand cramped a little while using the lightbox and paper. I couldn't flip through them with my motor skills, but I still was able to finish it as best I could.
Gloria's "Cycle"
Her cycle is not really considered a "cycle" 'cause she stops and that's the end of it. She doesn't keep going, she sits there after being dropped out of who knows what.
This one was the longest, but the one I really loved the best. I exercised my squash and stretch. I Reflected by thinking about how other people made kinds of animations like these. I know I would be able to explain the process about how these went from an armadillo to a bouncing ball.
Coyote's "Cycle"
Again, not that much of a cycle, since it really just stops and restarts. This one was a bit rushed, as I didn't have that much time. But I was able to Develop Craft by thinking about the techniques I would need to use like having keyframes/inbetweens and using the lightbox to my advantage.
Doodle of Elmo the falconry bird, who was discarded due to time limitations.
Overall,
I think that these came out decently, and I'm looking forward to being able to do more kinds of animation sometime in the future!
.In the beginning of the creative process, I engaged and persisted. Building the the body was a challenge, as I really hadn't done any kind of clay work in years. I wanted to smash it and recreate it, but I kept going. I kept laying clay one ontop of the other, but worried that it wouldn't stay together. (Spoiler alert: it did.) In the middle of the process, I envisioned quite a bit. I came to a point where I stopped having my mind-map hold my hand. I started to imagine and to pause for a moment to do so. I would think and think about what is supposed to go where and using past experiences of how it'll work. (I have a bunch of fuzzies in my hair) In the final process, the end, I was making sure that Ibhokisi was very expressive.
I tried to show a bit of my personality. Seemingly ok on the outside- but very, very, rugged on the inside and pretty lost. I also wanted to show my heritage. I'm Zulu, so Ibhokisi is an antelope found in South Africa- and a Secret mask from Zulu tribes. |
Artist BioHello! I'm Kaya (Kai-yuh) and I've been drawing off and on for about 7 years! These are my products from my VMCCA Art studio 1 class! Archives
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