Wednesday, April 13, 2011

World of Fanart: Interarts Media Project

I've narrowed my focus from knowing that I'll be using Adobe Photoshop to create digital paintings, to using the term to create five digital paintings of "fanart".

Fanart, or fan art, is: "artwork that is based on a character, costume, item, or story that was created by someone other than the artist. The term, while it can apply to art done by fans of characters from books, is usually used to refer to art derived from visual media such as comics, movies or video games. In addition to traditional paintings and drawings, fan artists may also create web banners, avatars, or web-based animations, as well as photo collages, posters, and artistic representation of movie/show/book quotes".

These paintings will be developed based upon the favorite characters of five different people. Accompanying these paintings will be a research paper exploring the world of fanart, and the idea that people use fanart as a projection of their identity. My main purpose of this project is to paint favorite characters for five different people, and explore how these characters serve as projections of identity for them. 

As far as esthetics, the formats for all five paintings will be the same, all will end up looking something like this:



Where the "default picture" is will actually be a photograph of the person. I will keep this basic format, but will "jazz" it up with photoshop, maybe using a more graphic or comic book style to emphasize the world of fanart.

Also, I'm still toying with the idea that each painting will have a different artistic "style", as I don't want to limit myself, and I think the varying styles can reflect the varying ideas of identity.


Here are the five people and their corresponding three characters (of which I will choose one final character):



ANDREA

·      PENDERGAST, Relic Chronicles

·      TEMPERANCE BRENNAN, Bones

·      DR. DOOFENSHMIRTZ, Phineas & Ferb

SIMON

·      JOHN GALT, Atlas Shrugged

·      WILLY WONKA, Willy Wonka

·      MAD HATTER, Alice in Wonderland

BRENDA

·      SOOKIE STACKHOUSE, True Blood

·      HARRY POTTER, Harry Potter

·      ELIZABETH, Pride and Prejudice

CAROLYN

·      WOLVERINE, X-men

·      BATMAN, Batman

·      WILLY, Death of a Salesman

ALAINA

·      THE BRIDE, Kill Bill

·      ANY CHARACTER, Lord of the Rings

·      HARRY POTTER, Harry Potter


For the next post, I will share some preproduction/concept art and sketches!

4 comments:

Lawrence said...

Thats really neat. Fan art can be a lot of fun. Is there a reason that you chose fan art? Is there a reason you chose those five people? Is there a selection process that you have in mind for picking which of their three choices you will use?

Anonymous said...

I agree with Lawrence; this seems like a really fun project. I am excited to see the paintings you produce. It is also cool that gender might be toyed with in your project i.e. Harry Potter as Brenda.As for the debate on style, maybe you can change the style of each painting slightly depending on the character traits of each person.

Mari Ayala said...

At first I did not understand what your project was about. I think it is awesome, and I finally understand how you actually do digital drawings with the drawing pad. I really like how you chose to relate your five drawings with each other based on characters five people chose. Also, I was just wondering if you will be mixing the characters physical traits with the person who chose it. It could be interesting, but then again I like how you decided to go about all these in different ways.

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