Currently, I am (amongst other things) working towards my graduation this fall from Florida State University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. Part of this entails me exhibiting within the Museum of Fine Arts on Campus.
Here is my working progress, so far:
Idea
My idea was to tell an oversize narrative about an astronaut who travels to another planet, dispatches a robot emissary to judge the indigenous lifeforms, ultimately orders the robot to execute the life to make way for conquest, the robot refuses, and the astronaut destroys the robot via remote destruct sequence. I don’t consider myself overly religious, but recognize this tale is revisionist christianity. I am not proselytizing, or preaching, nor do I have a truly deep message here, this is more about presenting comics in an artistic format, using simplified and iconic characters to tell a simple and straightforward tale which audiences can immediately feel familiar with and also ambiguous enough to be left to interpretations. I feel so often that the pretentiousness of the art world can be intimidating to blue-collar stiffs, and something like this could help to eschew that idea.
I Want to incorporate multimedia techniques and materials throughout. Printmaking, painting, sculpture, collage etc.
Here is the original draft pages of the story drawn for Robert Fichter’s Comic Books and Graphic Novels class. Not the final story as it plays out.
Character development sheets I expanded after initial story draft. Featured is the “Naut”, his robot “P.I.P.”, the “eaters”, and the “herders”. The primaries within the story.
Sculpture of the “Eater”, bipedal-alien-bovine species which feature throughout story.
Test Paintings on drywall, (NO, it’s not my final working surface, it was free, and available, probably move towards luon for majority). Fire was achieved by stamp printing. Want to experiment with the reductive surface of the drywall to build depth, same could be done with wood, I’ll give, but am still experimenting.
And finally, sketches of how I might like the final work to display.
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