assignment one

so we had to do one of em My name is... and I like... exercises. I did my first drafts in private and quite thankfully i did. I showed them to Jean and she quite nearly tripped over herself laughing at them. (I think the well-hung sphinx like thingy just killed her)

see exhibit A:

From 2208

and if you thought that was bad. here are my very first sketches.

From 2208

i'm not even going to bother giving a running commentary for this one. i could fell a tree just by showing it this picture; but hey, it's funny as hell and it deserves a place on the blog.

In any case, I asked her(jean) for a little advice and I think she hit it on the nail: I'm going to need to start drawing. Hopefully by the end of the sem I'll at least be drawing ugly pictures and not funny pictures.

So back to the project, I had a lot of problems:

1. Generating Ideas
2. Getting Generated Ideas on paper

I tried to overcome that by changing the "what I like" portion. That didn't seem to work as well. I was trying to think up simpler things to "like", but it just made the entire thing flipping complicated. So right now i'm trying to figure out, one of two ways to work:

1. Design with the end in mind?
2. Stick with the problem and wiggle your way out with a design.

More on episode two, revenge of the sith.