At the mention of cards last week, this method of creation stewed in my head. In a final product these cards would be transparent aside from the artwork which will be black line illustrations (possibly screen printed). This will allow potentially infinite layering without loss of line quality. The material that the cards would be made (ex. acetate, cellulose, etc.) of may also allow from dry or wet erase coloring in order to further customize the created beast.
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maybe involve lists, of card categories:
ReplyDeletemobility (wings, rockets, feet, peristaltic motion, teletransportation)
body types (mammalian, insect, dinosaur, microbial, robotic)
sensory (visual and other regions of the energy spectrum, touch, telepathic, magnetic)
etc etc
the point being: the tool as a tool, as an aide to making/conceiving (making and conceiving are, I suppose, different stages in the process)
just some quick idle thoughts...
look forward to seeing/discussing these tomorrow!
wondering, further, if this "tool" might be ultimately be speculative — very speculative — and come with "a book" (or something) showing extreme examples of the sorts of creatures/beasts that might be imagined with its aid.
ReplyDeletewhy not hybrid beasts, cyber/robatic/meat/even plant...
some seeds travel pretty well (and far)...
so, there could be a bestiary at the end, whose beasts owe in part to the tool you're imagining.
so, how about sticking a helicopter's wings on top of an animal?
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not even sure that as a designer, you should be defaulting to drawing so early in the process.
ReplyDeleteit may be photographic, or some other mode of representation, even symbolic, iconic, etc.
this may be a difference (of degree, not absolute) between design and illustration mentality: the designer may be neutral about what representational mode is best, until other issues are worked out; whereas an illustrator may go with her/his/their best skill and, indeed, be selected for that very reason.
Personally, I find myself between Illustration and Design a lot, but I would much rather pursue Design professionally than Illustration.
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ReplyDeletethere's room for both in your life of course!
but for this exercise — where the current focus is on the tool, not the final manifestation of beasts as illustrations to your text — maybe abstraction is more appropriate.
it's an interesting issue, we can take it up tomorrow!