Assignment 3 - the process

Since we already choose our theme for our awesome poster. Here's the process of what we did :)

First , we sketched before we start draw out on our mounting board. We showed ms lisa our sketches and also told our story about the character to her. After that, we meet up on saturday and started doing our work.

Carmen and i came the earliest to E3.15 where we decided to do our work. While waiting for others, Carmen and i started our discussion. This is the 2 sketches that we choose. We don't want to draw out all the details for our character. So, we either draw the side view or the back of the character. Let people know that how mysterious is this character was.

After finish drawing on the mounting board, we start discuss what color should we put on. Here's the color that we test before painting on the board. We do it for 7 hours and finally we are done painting. However, we don't really like it because we draw the character just like a girl. We tried to do something to make the character looks more like a guy. We keep on thinking and we still don't have the idea how to improve our poster. In the end, we meet up another day to continue to do our poster. The next meeting is last week, Thursday. Finally, we know how to improve our character by painting more muscle for his hand  and also his shoulder. We keep on adding some colors and new ideas for our poster. We used steampunk for our poster too. Actually before we adding more ideas in our poster, the gears is a moon at the first place but we think it's too simple and not attractive. So, we add gears on it. Here's the steampunk explanation: 

STEAMPUNK    

             Steampunk is a subgenre of specutive fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate hiftory setting. It could be described by the slogan" What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction , fantasy or horror themes.THe main types of steampunk are medieval, Victorian, Western, industrial/modern. Medieval steampunk is a speculative fiction set during the Middle Ages. Victorian steampunk is a modern Science Fiction work (post-1930s) that is set in the early parts of the industrial revolution, whereas Western steampunk is a science fiction set in the American Old West. Industrial/Modern steampunk is meant by a science fiction taking place in the late industrial age, early modern age.

          Steampunk design emphasizes a balance between the form and function. Like the Arts and Crafts Movement, this blurs the line between tool and decoration. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modified by enthusiasts into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style. Example objects include computer keyboards and electric guitars. The goal of such redesigns is to employ appropriate materials (such as polished brass, iron, wood, and leather) with design elements and craftsmanship consistent with the Victorian era, rejecting the aesthetic of industrial design.

        The examples for steampunk movie are Wild Wild West ,Final Fantasy 7, Van Helsing, The Time Machine, Hellboy and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Besides, many of the visualizations of steampunk have their origins with, among others, Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, including the design of the story 's submarine the Nautilus, its interiors , and the crew's underwater gear; and George Pals' 1960 film, The Time Machine, with the design of the time machine itself. This theme is also carried over to Disney's theme parks in the design of The Mysterious Island section of Tokyo DisneySea theme park.

       The artist group Kinetic Steam Works brought a working steam engine to the Burning Man festival in 2006 and 2007. The group's founding member, Sean Orlando, created a Steampunk Tree House (in association with a group of people who would later form the Five Ton Crane Arts Group) that has been displayed at a number of festivals.The Steampunk Tree House is now permanently installed at the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware.

        In May–June 2008, multimedia artist and sculptor Paul St George exhibited outdoor interactive video installations linking London and Brooklyn, New York, in a Victorian era-styled telectroscope.Utilizing this device, New York promoter Evelyn Kriete organized a transatlantic wave between steampunk enthusiasts from both cities, briefly prior to White Mischief's Around the World in 80 Days steampunk-themed event.

 Lastly, here's our final result for our poster. We add on some words before the day of presentation.