Month: May 2019

ideation pt. 2

Art, portfolio, school

Hey!

This is part two of my ideation assignment!

After around 4.5 gruelling hours of drawing, sketching, shading and crying, I finally finished my building.

You can see how Nier: Automata heavily influenced this artwork. HAHAHA I love that game to death. Thank you, Yoko Taro and Square Enix!

A short writeup/backstory of this piece:

In the future, after the corruption of government and advancement of technology has reached its peak, a group of rebels created their own group to try to escape the manipulation and control of the government. They made their own mini-village, residing in a tree structure / tree house. They became a part of nature, going back to how humanity and life used to be. Life seems to be comfortable and they are able to lead a happy and free life.

However, after some time, due to old age, the crown of tree starts to chip off layers, which is very unusual and unnatural. The crown revealed a rusty metallic surface in a shape of a chimney. The real truth is that the whole time the rebels were still living under the government’s control and they have been spying on them for years through the hollow passages within the ‘tree’, observing their every moves and controlling them unconsciously. 

The rebels then learned that no matter where they go, they will never be able to escape from the authorities, and that they will never be free.

nier : automata by Yoko Taro and Square Enix

Yeah, kinda came up with it on the spot though. But I tried to relate it to the story of Nier: Automata (the second Act). -no spoilers!-

I hope you like my ideation piece and I will see you guys again! Bye~

Nier : Automata by Yoko Taro and Square Enix

ideation pt. 1

Art, portfolio, school

Hey!

So it’s my second blog post because well, I need to write something here, right?

My drawing module had an assignment issued to us quite recently. Our task is to choose three stacked objects and then transform it into either a building, robot or some sort of vehicle. I was never one to design or draw buildings, robots or vehicles so I was like, “THIS IS THE DEATH OF ME!”

But assignments are assignments and there are graded, so I gotta do it.

The objects I chose were stacked like this:

My head went, “There goes my 3.5 GPA.”

The first thing we had to do is to draw the outline of the stacked objects. Which resulted in this!

Simple start. Though this was actually the second attempt cos the first time I did it, the teacher said it was too big. Whoops???

Now how do I ideate? That’s the question. There were a lot of things I wanted to do, such as Mo Dao Zu Shi-inspired or Final Fantasy-inspired buildings/ structures. But I am pretty new to this whole thing so I gathered some inspiration from specifically one of my all-time favourite, Nier: Automata. I was flipping through the World Guide book and saw an art of the Machine Village and immediately I had the whole thing planned out.

And I am currently still working on it. I pretty much finished the whole piece already but I want to refine it a bit more before showing it to you. I’m very excited because it’s my first time doing stuff like this so it’s a mix of excitement and self-loathe. Check back in soon to see the finished work!!!

see ya~