Today we had a pretty nice critique that led me to really voice what I'd like to show in my body this semester. I would like to give off the impression that I am creating a journal or a collection of concept robots and inventions of the future, yet set in a rougher, more old fashioned period. The subjects should look rustic or pre modern in terms of current technology but set the scene for a similar age, even though the technology is far more advanced for the time period. For instance, this would be similar to looking at blueprints and concept sketches from 150 years ago but of technology that is not even available to us today. I will show my creations doing things we wouldn't think possible in terms of today's possibilities. I also want to bring a sense of fantasy to the viewer by placing the robots in crazy situations or surrounding them with unfamiliar or antique objects. I'd like to have the viewer think they were examining the lost pages of some unknown inventor from centuries ago, or that they were stumbling upon the musings of an engineer. The sense of fantasy is important to me because the things I will be presenting will be so odd and so unachievable by today's standards, yet shown in an exaggerated form.

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.