#13
The last few months have seen a series of technical errors for me. Not exactly ideal seeing as my work depends heavily on technology working in order to actually make my work. But, as is the way with life, my graphics tablet broke and I was unable to produce any digital work for a while, which, as you can imagine, led to a downward spiral of panic on my part. Then, just as I managed to get a new tablet and start working properly again, my printer/scanner broke, leading to (you guessed it) more panic!
Problems have now been resolved, thanks to some begging to the parents, thank goodness, but it has meant that I have fallen behind on things again (ARGH!)
Right! Onto my work:
I have finished my few pieces of work centring on the nixie faeries, though admittedly the painting I did out of my sketchbook isn’t how I would have like it to turn out – the composition isn’t ideal and I haven’t gotten the foreshortening quite right, but we’re too close to the deadline now for me to have time to fix it unless I get the rest of my work done first.
This piece has caused me particular agro as I was advised not to draw figures for this project anymore, however, I like drawing figures and don’t really want to stop – especially since a large amount of what I am looking at within folklore and fairy tales centres heavily on people and creatures that very much look human. Granted ‘pretty’ isn’t ideal for nightmare images, but the whole point of nixie beauty is deception.
What I also got from this talk with my tutor was to experiment with how my work is going to be displayed more – whether digital screens or projection would be better. I’ve since looked into it and using screens would be impossible without incurring massive costs – I really can’t afford it – and I have tried projecting some of my work and while I think that the impact is good, because they have been stretched so big, some of the finer details are lost. Personally I still think that printouts work better but mounting them on white instead of black might prove to be a better option (but I haven’t tried it yet because of the aforementioned printer problems).
I’m starting to have problems trusting technology.
Something I have decided on, though, is to display my sketchbook paintings in a book alongside my digital work, along with the text from the stories that accompany them.
