Art and Technology (JC)

This project was a slow and prodding trudge. I started on it a little late so but I figured I'd finish within a day or so. But no! It took more than 2 days and I ended up pressed for time and trying to complete it during work. Finding materials was somewhat difficult, and required resourcing for different items at Michael's. At first I planned on using small plastic, reflective things. But they were too difficult to work with, so I went with puff-balls. Also, initially I wanted to have gyarados drawn in full. As in, his entire body. But then I realized the mouth took up around half the panel, so that ambition passed quickly. Still, I'm happy about how it turned out. He's very fuzzy for a water dragon, but I think that's fine. The puff-balls worked well as an atomic entity. He also knows Hydro Pump and Bite so beware. Here it is halfway done. I've already got a good grid-set aligned by having drawn out the first part of the ear and mouth. The rest of t...

Gotta have the Frank's hot sauce. Friendship begins. I got this idea by talking to a school counselor in the Wellness Center. I was drawing spirals on the whiteboard next to me when my brain was too fried to think (I study in the wellness, sometimes). It was just a way to flush myself and relieve some stress. But she came in to get water and saw the spirals and said that when she was seven, at her grandmother's house, she would imagine a spiral in her head. And she would trace around the spiral, headed towards the center, but never reaching the center. She would get distracted or would have to talk to someone or do something. But she felt that if she reached the center, there would be some answer that would reveal herself, to herself. The spiral, she said, became a kind of motif for her throughout her life. She would tell people about it and talk about it. But one day, her friend saw a spiral in the sand, and pointed it out to her. And at the center of the...