Another main character present in this story is the turtle (sea turtle in technicality due to the setting being in an ocean, but most characterisations do follow more of a land turtle’s), who function as the communicator between the sea king and the rabbit due to it being the only animal to ‘travel through both the water and the land. I wanted to put more focus on the sea turtle elements to my character, so I have simplified the shape of a sea turtle into two shapes: the teardrop shape which comprises the head and the limbs, and the ‘muffin’ shape which composed the body or the shell. Photo of a sea turtle by NFWF Then, as I have with the rabbit character, I analysed turtle characters from famous media. I have suspected that sea turtles would not be a common character since ocean-focused cartoons are very specific and rare, and my search had shown as such. Land turtles were more common to be used, with the rare exception of the sea turtle Crush from the movie ‘...
In this discussion, our tutor introduced us to the themes that we would have to work on which are Purple Haze, Earthly Delights, and Expressionism. He then further went onto how these themes were used in different contexts and subject areas. Earthly Delights is a theme that I feel most attracted to, especially due to the events that are currently happening with nature and environment. When I first heard of this theme, I already had ideas coming since I have seen several news that could affect the Earth and have watched media (animations, posters) which uses this theme. I immediately related this theme to a series of posters or ‘emblems’ which talks about what we are doing to nature and what nature can do to us. Purple Haze, while interesting as a topic, was not as attractive because I could not relate too much with it. Not only do I have little experience on when this theme was quite dominant (1960s era with psychedelics, hippies, drugs, so on), I feel like I wou...
Like how we were given three themes to work off of in Art Portfolio One, we were again given three themes to develop our ideas. I feel like they are quite similar to the general ‘idea’ of the themes from last term, where it is composed of one abstract theme which is up for interpretation, one art movement or painting style and the last theme being of nature or Earthly themed. The three themes that were given to us were: Spiders from Mars, Renaissance and Oceanic. Oceanic theme was the first and most attractive theme that had caught my eye; ocean or water-related themes were quite common in Korea, so I had thought that I would be able to integrate parts of my culture into this theme. My initial thought process involved integrating ocean-based mythology into this project, which later developed into integrating oceanic children’s tale (one that I have thought of was ‘별주부전‘ [Byeol-Ju-Bu-Jeon], a story of a oceanic turtle and a rabbit). I had also taken a more direct approach to...
good work - please follow your plan and ensure you complete your work each week
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