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Art Portfolio: Project development in the real world

 Today, we discussed the importance of presenting art in the real world. In previous post, I determined the aims of my project. As I reckon, I moved points about the universality of the target audience. Therefore I will try to stick with the expanded audience by the design of my drawings.

By writing this, I have a vision of two colourful pieces per page with indicated text. Everything will be tailored to grab attention. 

Therefore, I started sketching a sample of the strip. As you can see in the picture below I also sketched the visualisation of the page (page example). However, I think I will modify the number of ''blocks''. I would need to of them to insert lyrics. That gives two illustrations and two lyrics blocks.

In order to sketch a sample of the illustrated strip, I needed to listen to music. I chose the song Good morning. For me, it has a clear state of the ordinary worker's routine. And it tells a story of starting the day, about going to work, meeting a wife... In hence to explain background of the story ''It describes the boredom and unsatisfaction of being a normal person, living a normal life. Strangely, this actually foreshadows Lennon’s “househusband” period of the mid-70’s.''(Genius.com, 1967). However, he also recalled the corn flakes cereal commercial from 1965. Nevertheless, to not get confused, I started sketching the beginning of the song. It starts with shouting; Good morning! a few times in a row. What I indicated in the left corner in exaggerated form. To make it easier for visualisation, I paste a lyric:

Good morning, good morning

Good morning, good morning

Good morning ah

Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in

Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been

Nothing to do it's up to you

I've got nothing to say but it's OK

Good morning, good morning (...)

Going to work don't want to go feeling low down 

Heading for home you start to roam then you're in town (..)

I ended the verse on this stage because that was mostly the part of my illustration.
From the words which I heard, it mostly get into me the ''calling the wife'', which I placed in the centre. By finishing the strip with positive ''going to work''.

I am very sorry for bad light. Today is really cloudy.

Thanks to this task, I already know how to transit the action from the lyric, which I will surely develop on my project. I am only worried about the colouring, I meant to use watercolours. I care about this because in previous set project I wanted to paint by hand. Therefore, I assuming that the next post will be regarding watercolours.

References:

Genius.com (1967) The Beatles – Good Morning Good Morning. [Online] genius.com. Available from : https://genius.com/The-beatles-good-morning-good-morning-lyrics [Accessed 26/04/21].

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan28 April 2021 at 20:52

    Good - looking forward to seeing how this develops.

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