Very quick sketches of what I've been thinking about doing for this semester.
In keeping with my theme of drawing machines and their inner workings I wanted to introduce some looser drawing to my approach. The pen tool feels very stiff and can only produce so many results even after working it over with filters and whatever else techniques. The direction I want to take with this semester is a bit more surreal and fantastic and the bleak and crisp format of last semester won't accomplish this goal as well.
I would like to do most of the base work through drawing by hand and scanning it into photoshop, only to do some more creative digital painting instead of fill in the space coloring book style of last semester. This is something I've always wanted to try but never really had a reason to up until now. I have done digital painting in free work but have never used a physical stylus and tablet before.
Taking inspiration from the works of Matei Apostolescu, complicated and cluttered yet extravagant, I would like to focus on a possible short story of a man and machine and what becomes of them. It would be a setting of a future where man is on the edge of dying out and technology is prevailing. A new race of robotics is emerging where man and machine become one, animatrons/androids/cyborgs or whatnot. In keeping with the theme of last semester, I'd like to show the intricacies of how these robots and new animatrons may function by giving detailed, yet gritty and unrefiened representations of a their surreal nature.
Matei Apostolescu works
