Thursday 29 September 2011

Initial Thumbnails

Looking at the orthopedic implications of being fused with an animal with a skeleton made entirely of cartilage - as the bones converted to cartilage, any sort of structural stability would go out the window.

Looking at combining human and shark skulls - both a shark's jaws are disconnected from the skull, allowing them to push them outwards and giving them a wider bite. In the 2/4 body sketch in the corner I incorporatede the 'lateral line', an organ of sorts on sharks that is very sensitive to vibrations in the water. Not much use on land, but neither are cartiliginous bones.

Just a quick sketch of a shark skeleton to get a feel for it. Apologies for the ink on the next page showing through, not much I can do about that.

And some Photoshop doodles. I'm struggling with silhouettes as it's not something I've tried before. Also more skeletal studies, and I learnt that sharks have their brains in front of their eyes. With a human-sized brain this has the potential to be very awkward indeed, so I migrated the brain forward to see how it looks. I'm not certain, but I'll hang onto the idea for now to see if it goes anywhere.

I also deliberately kept my glasses on all the facial sketches - I want to show that yes, even as my entire bodyt collapses I am still me, and small props like those help with that.

2 comments:

  1. I like the visual consequence of the 'brain behind the eyes' idea - it means absolutely that your headshape would alter to interesting effect - and while the quality of the photo is pretty shoddy (fire the photographer!), I think the drawing of your hybrid self on the floor propped up on your arms on the middle page has potential - just remember in future to number your thumbnails for ease of referencing in feedback.

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  2. Hiya Meg :]

    I'm Jolanta, the third year student who's now gonna try and be useful to you however possible, and following your creative diary :] I have already seen how enthusiastic you are on the introduction week, so.
    if any questions...headakesmver your project - come by to me, or write a post with @ Jolanta / @J.J. and we shall see how I can help :]

    I'm so looking forward to all of it! (:]

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