Along with showing the design process of robots, one of the things I want to try and accomplish with this series is to show them with seemingly exaggerated technical prowess. To us this may seem like an impossible feat in any machine today, but it could possibly happen at some point. We have no idea what kind of advancements the future holds for us in the next century. We could have never have imagined what we have as our most modern conveniences today a century ago, let alone longer than that, so who knows what lays ahead. But I enjoy the dramatic, hopeful exaggeration because I want it to seem crazy at the time. Commoners would have thought Da Vinci to be crazy for trying to build flying machines during his time, and the case isn't too much different now.

Scans of a couple of the drawings I've done for my base images. For whatever reason with the mode changing between grayscale and RGB 8b, they don't save color and levels properly, so they are a bit light

I still need to work a bunch out on this, but I'm getting closer to what I want

I've started to scan my drawn portions of my work and begin adding digital layers. For my pieces I would like to give a presence of blueprinting and rough drafts in order to relate to the process of improvement and development. At this point, I may decide to exclude architecture all together altogether and just design robots and animatrons of different eras or concepts. What I think would be a cool thing to do at this point is keep a base image and develop it different every time I start a piece, sort of like a template. This way I could give the impression of expansion and tweaking over time as my ideas change. My robot may change angles, proportions, size, and general physical composure over its development process. 

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With more practice in drawing my robotic models for my work, I've developed better ideas on what I want to accomplish for the semester. I'd like to explore my own desire to create from scratch and improve on my drawing skills while incorporating all my work to digital scans. The development process will be important because I want to give off the idea of creation and drafting, much like the collected works of Da Vinci. He gives a sense of tinkering with the ideas from his head and showing sketches of incomplete but well thought out ideas. I want to relate my work to his since my creations are well thought out for concepted figures, however, they're probably impossible to create at this time, much like many of Da Vinci's inventions.

This weekend I took a trip to the Gallery in the Vault of Wooster for my second art related experience. It was actually a pretty neat time because Vault was a gallery and a thrift store. The store was mostly filled with works and crafts pieces by local artists. There were a large selection of pottery pieces available at moderate prices, and the store was having a special on Christmas themed art. They definitely had more art than I was expecting to see, but I was also hoping for a larger gallery in general as it was very cramped inside. I also found out that they did custom framing for any works among a few other art services. It was a nice cozy place that I had no idea existed, but I'll have to stop by again sometime, especially since there were a great amount of cool stores and restaurants on their main street.