After a couple of days of playing around on Photoshop, I managed to make these two images for my background:
Karissa Sardinha
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Inspiration/Concept
The hexagonal pattern in this picture gave me a few ideas for the background.
My concept for this assignment is about simulations, recreating worlds through technology. I wanted a figure in the middle, to almost be floating in space. I originally wanted a figure in the fetal position, but playing around after a couple of hours gave me the idea to possibly super impose three figures in different poses (kind of like so):
Original Idea Scraped
One thing you may not know about me is that I am very, very bad at Photoshop (and computer based things in general). Unfortunately I ended up deleting my original work, and opted for a different route.
Concept/Ideas for 1st Print
I really wanted to capture the cheesy Sci Fi Era, because Sci Fi has a reputation for having bad special effects, but that is always the charm of it (to me anyway). I was also stuck on the idea of using bubble wrap……
Printmaking Research/Source Material/Themes
In my Printmaking class I originally had wanted to play around with soil layers, and the passage of time. This quickly got scraped as I decided to go in a more personal direction and tackle the subject of Science Fiction. In my previous printmaking class I had done a couple intaglio prints based off of superheroes (Specifically Aquaman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
Looking around the internet I managed to find a couple of artists whose works sparked some interest in me.
One by the name of Angie Hoffmeister (Who by coincidence has a tumblr: http://angieiver.tumblr.com/), A freelance illustrator artists from Germany. She has a series of double images, this one “untitled” is one of her many interesting pieces; and the turning point in solidifying my Sci Fi theme:
Another big inspiration for me, going with this theme, has been old 60’s television shows: Think Lost In Space, and Star Trek (TOS).
The Star Trek posters created by Juan Ortiz has also heavily influenced my theme.
These are a sample of his works, they have all been complied into a book called “The Art of Juan Ortiz: Star Trek”