#movement project

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Movement Project - Artist Research, Q Hayashida

Q Hayashida is a Japanese manga creator known for her works such as Dorohedoro and Dai Dark.

In one of her rare interviews, Hayashida reveals that she is a mixed media artist who uses whatever media she ‘feels like in the moment.’

The chaotic, sketchy, raw and colourful look to her art works harmoniously as she depicts her gory and dark but funny stories.

I love her usage of gouache, watercolour, ink and pen, majority of the time mixing these media together in the same piece creating a layered texture reminiscent of grime, reflecting the apocalyptic settings often found in Hayashida’s manga. Matching her colours, line weight and compositions to fit each scene and its tone is highly impressive and a source of inspiration for myself since I first read her work Dorohedoro many months ago.

Her character design is also equally interesting. Dorohedoro’s cast including the protagonist, Kaiman, a man with a lizard head searching for the sorcerer who cursed him, mypersonal favourite being Jonson, a giant realistic cockroach and plenty others, diverse, well-written and designed human characters. I can’t forget the monsters, each with unique personalities highlighted by their designs, brilliantly adding to the horror aspect of her works.

Lastly, my favourite technique Q Hayashida uses to instil discomfort, is her use of repetition and massive spaces, infinite crowds of monsters showing the viewer how powerlessness feels and drawing giant empty settings, such as a department store where the protagonists are stuck in devoid of all life, which perfectly matched the unease the characters she wrote were feeling.

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movement - research

starting on Monday the 13th we were sent to the library to pick out 4 books in relation to our chosen electives. Ideally to blend together those mediums a bit.

I chose James Hall on The Self-Portrait for painting.

Poetry in (e)motion: The illustrated words of Scroobius Pip. sorta for animation because Paul had shown us some comic book related formats and styles for animation.

Vertigo of Color; Matisse + Derain and the origins of fauvism. Also for painting as it's a painting style I enjoy and I think it would be cool to mimic some elements of this style in general and in an animation.

A Smile In the Mind.

For graphic design. "witty thinking in graphic design". as I found using humour in last semesters project to be quite effective. I find it interesting to find out how to effectively create clever design that's humorous.

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Live figure drawing/painting

I attended the life painting workshop today. We were limited to a palette of one hue in three different values. This helped me be able to focus on the values i needed to portray the subject.

We were instructed to focus on the values of the wall behind the subject, the floor beneath the subject and the subject separately. This allowed me to be able to focus on how those things looked as an object within themselves despite their context.

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Movement

I’ve done some brainstorming with charcoal.i feel that trying my ideas out visuals helps me see what I’m interested in and what I’ll enjoy doing. If I enjoy something I’ll be more inclined to really delve into it.

I have enjoyed the idea of the cat and the female body’s… playing with charcoal is smear the charcoal removing the definition to create this look of movement which I really enjoyed.

Although the pictures of the female body I’ve shared are me.. I don’t feel comfortable showing the primary source just yet.

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MOVEMENT- animation

Storyboards for the 10 sec animation. The general story is of a cat who ends up in the desert one way or another, who gets spotted and chased down by a hawk. I'm taking inspiration from Roadrunner and Trigun mostly with the desert landscape and chase scene, with the faces being inspired by Adventure Time. My main goal is to tell a story through movement and action with no dialogue, which I think I did well.

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Movement Project: Sculpture

Here is a video of me unpacking the bag.

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Week 7: Movement Project

The different places of fabric are painted and finally stitched together. It looks a bit like a dress, but it doesn't have a back, if I'd had more time that's what I would have done.

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Movement - Primary Research

As my theme for the movement project involves me looking at how nature overtakes infrastructure over time, I have taken a handful of pictures, as well as used some old ones I have taken before of nature overtaking buildings around Dublin, Limerick, and Kilkenny.

I will be using this research as a reference for my painting elective and will continue to keep these in mind as I continue this project.

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Mono print

Mono print is, doing a drawing on paper as a template.

Have different coloured glass plates painted with watered pigment painted on.

Place your paper onto glass plate and draw over it .

This is for the drawing to pick up the colour from underneath.

You can do a few different drawings and pigment colours.

Place on your fresh clay and rub on with a plastic kidney.

Voila. Images and colours on clay.

This isa great technique for fine detail.

Paper resist is when you make a stencil into newsprint.

Place onto your clay.

Paint into the open area of stencil, working from centre to edge.

Leave it to dry and remove paper.

Beautiful process.

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Movement Project- Painting

(14/2/24)

Painting of a tin of sardines, done with gouache on card board cut-offs I got from a local frame shop. Afterwards, I cut the painting out with a scalpel and posed it on a cutting board with a knife.

While painting I thought about how being caught, killed and shoved into small tin with the rest of your family, would probably be quite the horror story for sardines… but also the movement of the circle of life, spending your whole life eating smaller fish and plankton just to one day be consumed by a human, who picked you and the rest of your fish buddies up in the local supermarket.

Well thank god I’m no sardine.

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Emily Carroll's graphic novel "A Guest in the House"

Paul Gardiner kindly lent me his copy of this novel to read.

I read it cover to cover in the library taking notes on my favourite pages.

It's really visually stunning with superb use of colour and composition.

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Movement Project Sketchbook Video

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I then created a series of bigger versions of these studies while standing further away and using a longer instrument to create my pieces. This made the pieces be further abstracted and let me focus on the shape as a whole.

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MOVEMENT - Linoprint

For a "final" piece for lino I had printed orange ink onto wallpaper, and I had the idea to add my other prints to that and then glue the piece together, to mimic a Greek vase.

The wallpaper was slightly textured, so the prints are unclear, however I think it gives it an ancient feel, like despite the images being modern the vessel is still several years old. Like a commentary on how these feelings and stories portrayed on my prints have been around for centuries.

Then I glued the pieces together to form a round shape, like a vase.

This process was very experimental, I didn't know what it would look like in the end or if it would even work, but I'm glad I went out of my comfort zone bas I think it turned out quite well.

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Movement Project: Sculpture

Now that the house is made, I painted the bag with white acrylic paint and then some of the other areas green. I want the bag to look like the one in my animation so the white areas will soon be orange.

I will also be adding LED lights into the bag to make it more aesthetically pleasing

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Week 6: Movement Project

These are the fashion drawings I made on Tuesday, which I drew by looking at the collages I made Monday, and keeping in mind the colours that remind a bit of my travels (pinks and oranges because of the sunrise in Venice mostly)