I have not straightened why I chose to illustrate the lyrics. As you may have noticed, I know quite a lot about music from the last century and always dreamed about the connection with visual art. Especially in this case, when the album is laid out as a story. Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity I intend to make something familiar using illustration. You see, songs have a lyric - a story. And I want to share with those, by giving my version. In fact, Primitivism is related to the 60s pop culture and the insights I will publish gradually.
The album that I chose is unique in terms of the tracklist. Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band has no gaps between tracks. Therefore they made an album that sounds like one continuous song. ''Highly debated it is considered as a one of the first concept album'' (The HollyHobs, 2020). Some of the songs had been established according to the newspapers headers/stories.
The reasons why I chose this relation to the theme I partly exemplified in previous posts. Because, firstly of feeling a strong relation to those years and secondly, it remembrance special moments of my life and virtually raise my spirit.
I made some visualisations of the songs which I heard. For me, the initial skill for an artist is to shape the imagination. By various tasks for instance. Even more challenging effects on the development of this skill. Moreover, illustrators need to be different inspirations in order to develop skills. In this case, I am going to collect initial knowledge to be sure of the important basis of the theme. The research, which I have started, is mainly developed by my recent ideas about this project. Eventually, however
That was a rolling start with an idea of illustrating lyrics. I took a few approaches.
The first I made during listening to Bowie's ''Lady Stardust''. I was interested in the lyric, therefore after double-check, I decided to visualize it. I just draw the titled person with starry haze.
References:
The HollyHobs (2020) Ten Interesting Facts About The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. [Online] www.youtube.com. Available from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69JW0ceR0wg [Accessed 17/04/21].
You said in your email that you were struggling to find direction in your project - this illustration sketch shows to me that you have developed already a really nice approach to the visual language for this project. You are combining the ideas you have well - we can discuss how you present your work and the next steps you take in this project during our tutorial, but i think a comic book as a visual representation of concepts taken from Sgt Peppers would make a really nice project. This illustration is excellent, it shows understanding of your source, without being too derivative. Well done.
ReplyDeleteFinally, have a look at Grayson Perry's tapestry works as a way of telling a big story in one image. We looked at some of his work last term in Contextual Studies.