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Basically I'm doing my HSC Major Artwork, which is like my major artwork for my final year of grade school and I'm half way through the year (year began on September) and have produced like nothing at all (at least what I plan to submit).
Just to give a bit of background, I explored humorous and comical works, knowing fully that it was just an exploration experience and not my final work. While doing a test work, I got bored and put an 8-bit Mario in my work and my teacher laughed and said it was the best part of the work. I explored 8-bit works and stumbled upon the gallery, "i am 8-bit". Basically, I decided try working with super old video games like tetris, pong, space invaders, the like. I found works that really fit my style, yet I can't think of ANY ideas that fit that style. (http://michelgagne.blogspot.com/2009/07/8-bit-legacy.html link if you want to have a looksies). I tried to make a similar work with tetris pieces and try change it up a bit and make it my own. In short, it epically sucks balls, and I feel my teacher agrees. (If you REALLY want me to, I can post it for you Scratch that. Posted!!).
In short, I want to go in the direction of works BASED on 8-bit video games (i.e. not necessarily 8-bit style, but remind us heavily of these 8-bit games in a comical and fun way).
I draw exclusively, and don't really paint, sculpt or any of those things, really, I just draw. My style is very controlled, and my teacher feels that while that does have its merits, its really holding me back. Most of the works that score well in art are those that are huge and use more expressive techniques. Marking wise, the work is marked 50% resolution and 50% on concept.
Please, if any of you have any serious help you can give me, that would be HUGE. Serious ideas please and no cliche ideas too.
Here is a small scale test for that tetris work I mentioned (Its backwards because YouCam's ghey):
Just to give a bit of background, I explored humorous and comical works, knowing fully that it was just an exploration experience and not my final work. While doing a test work, I got bored and put an 8-bit Mario in my work and my teacher laughed and said it was the best part of the work. I explored 8-bit works and stumbled upon the gallery, "i am 8-bit". Basically, I decided try working with super old video games like tetris, pong, space invaders, the like. I found works that really fit my style, yet I can't think of ANY ideas that fit that style. (http://michelgagne.blogspot.com/2009/07/8-bit-legacy.html link if you want to have a looksies). I tried to make a similar work with tetris pieces and try change it up a bit and make it my own. In short, it epically sucks balls, and I feel my teacher agrees. (
In short, I want to go in the direction of works BASED on 8-bit video games (i.e. not necessarily 8-bit style, but remind us heavily of these 8-bit games in a comical and fun way).
I draw exclusively, and don't really paint, sculpt or any of those things, really, I just draw. My style is very controlled, and my teacher feels that while that does have its merits, its really holding me back. Most of the works that score well in art are those that are huge and use more expressive techniques. Marking wise, the work is marked 50% resolution and 50% on concept.
Please, if any of you have any serious help you can give me, that would be HUGE. Serious ideas please and no cliche ideas too.
Here is a small scale test for that tetris work I mentioned (Its backwards because YouCam's ghey):