it was my final project for fundementals of drawing. i used the lyrics from the song tentai kansoku from bump of chicken (my all time favorite band)-"2:00am, at the railroad crossing, carrying a telescope on my shoulders,The radio tied to my belt tells me it shouldn't rain today" -"Two minutes later, you arrive, carrying way too much stuff on your backNow let's go star watching, and start searching for comets"-"The best we could have done was even just try not to be sucked in by the darkness that enveloped usOn that day, where I had considered holding your hand.."-"I pick up the telescope again, wanting to see you once more "-"At two a.m., I race to the railway crossing just like before "-"Shall we start our astronomical observation? Even if you don't come two minutes laterWe'll both be chasing that comet called "now""
mmmmm... maybe il just paste what i said to tijana....i wanted to go with a cinderella theme, and b4 i colored it it reminded me alot of you... but after coloring it, taking a picture and adjusting things in photoshop i lost a lot of detail >.> plus i think the anime style took away a lot too. i want to try painting it cause i cant really do anime with paint. i think it will look better too, and turn out a bit more artistic. so i guess think of those as the rough copy :pits bassed off a song i heard called "lonely in gorgeous".it talks about a girl (who is made out to be similar to cinderella). she is all dressed up, but because she tries to follow him out she ends up breaking her glass slipper and ripping her dress. because of it, she thinks badly of herself and not worthy of him (she uses the words "you must be disgusted with me". i took that very strongly). anyways, it talks about how her prince walks off and forgets about her completely because he only loves himself. and even though hes so self obsorbed she still wants him to love her. it also mentions that she would have followed him all the way if her shoe hadnt broke. i felt bad for her >.>i think this happens to a lot of girls (its happened to me). iv always thought of you as a really good looking women, so i wanted to use you as my modle for this (although a lot of you was lost >.>).so ya. it represents someone who is very pretty, and a good person... but even though shes all that, she waits for someone who isnt worth her time. and because of that, she doubts herself and thinks shes not good enough.
In the past few years on t.v we have developed a sense of humor for human garborator like Homer Simpson and Peter Griffen. These people make seem to make it their goal to eat as much as possible and be as lazy as possible all for the laughs. Because of this, I think we accepted that it’s okay to be like that. To eat ridiculous amounts of bad food, get as little exercise as possible, and use as little energy as possible. It’s disgusting. If people 15-20 years ago had seen this, it would be frowned upon and people wouldn’t even find it funny. We’re constantly seeing shows with these kinds of people in them, and now its becoming okay. People even start to act more like them on purpose just to be funny like Homer’s character. I agree that it is somewhat funny, but somewhat disappointing at the same time. The taste of humor in North America has come to a point where it influences (on some people) that it’s okay to not care about your health and eat your life away. At least it will be funny for people to watch. I think it has more of an effect on the people who are already obese. It’s like giving them something to look forward to since some of them don’t really want to work hard to be healthy. I know this is a sensitive subject because there are people that can’t control their weight, and can’t really do anything about it. But in my opinion, the people who truly cant control their weight know that it’s a problem and don’t go showing off how much they can eat at once. They are concerned for their health, and self-conscious. I know its good to be yourself and not care what people think of you. Expressing your true self is one thing, but expressing it t the point where it harms you is another. I have a group of friends where two of them are obese. Recently just to show off how fat they were, they had a race to see who could get over a wall first. Everyone just sat and watched while laughing their asses off. A few even filmed it. Needless to say neither of them could make it up a wall that an average person could climb up with out any help. Another time we were at a restaurant and had quite a bit of leftovers. Everyone ended up giving their leftovers to the obese friend so he could show off how much he could eat. Then they were talking about how one of them ate 4 lbs of bacon +more; Everyone laughed. Another friend even challenged him to see who could eat more another time. I think because of all the humor in our culture relating to obesity, makes it one of the very many reasons why so many children, young adults and adults are becoming obese. Originally, I had planed for this to relate to how people become so addicted to bad food that they need it and don’t even realize that their living off of it. Somewhat like how zombies need people and that’s all they care about. But because I made some changes to it it became more about obesity in our culture. Although I still somewhat like my original idea, I think this piece turned out much stronger by taking it away from the zombie theme One thing that I think caused me to change my idea was the fact that he is sitting in the chair. Zombies don’t usually sit, their in constant motion almost; so it wouldn’t really make sense if a zombie was sitting. I was also having some problems communicating that it was an adult, and not a baby. I thought by adding hair and body hair that it would give it more age. But it didn’t really work out and it was hard to remove the hair after it didn’t work. I think this had some effect on the quality of the work. The chair defiantly looks better with fabric, rather then being done in sculpey, I’m glad I made that change. However, I still think it could be done better when I develop more skills with sowing. With this piece I’m trying to point out that it’s disgusting to eat your life away. But at the same time, I’m trying to show some humor in it. Just like how they show homer in the Simpsons; eating as much as he can. I guess rather then focusing more on being funny, I lean towards more of the disgusting end of the spectrum. I chose to focus on this part of the reasons why people are becoming obese because I feel like nobody has noticed it and its not getting enough attention.
