So, Estrella - sounds like a rather attractive tourist destination to me! I'll pack my suitcases :)
I like the 'everydayness' of your city - and I like too the idea of The Constellation as a key focus. That said, it does seem as if you've got rather stuck with all right-angles and square shapes again - the silhouette technique is really good for just 'getting to it' - but when I look at Miro's paintings, and when I think about his work, I don't see the squares with their hard corners, I see flocks of shapes and rounded jovial elements - like lots of shapes chattering together. There's more fun and a bit of chaos and softness too. I think you've to embrace these qualities. When I saw you begin your silhouettes I did think you'd get to this stage too, but it looks like you might got yourself in a corner.
You've drawn some churches/temples there for the constellation, but did Miro help you with those? It doesn't look like it... What kind of temple would Miro envision as the absolute embodiment of his city... do you think it's likely at all that it would be... brown/grey... and do you think it would be as traditional (symmetrical!) as these when there's no sign of that in his signature style?
How's this for some further inspiration - something to stop you thinking in right-angles when you think about fantastical buildings...
...and check out 'blobitecture' for more bold, non-rectangular examples of everything that a building can be! I suggest you go back to Miro's work and create an 'alphabet' of his most used shapes and symbols and use the silhouette process again to combine and bring together that alphabet of shapes to work up some more Miro-esque thumbnails.
OGR 01/11/2017
ReplyDeleteHey Emily,
So, Estrella - sounds like a rather attractive tourist destination to me! I'll pack my suitcases :)
I like the 'everydayness' of your city - and I like too the idea of The Constellation as a key focus. That said, it does seem as if you've got rather stuck with all right-angles and square shapes again - the silhouette technique is really good for just 'getting to it' - but when I look at Miro's paintings, and when I think about his work, I don't see the squares with their hard corners, I see flocks of shapes and rounded jovial elements - like lots of shapes chattering together. There's more fun and a bit of chaos and softness too. I think you've to embrace these qualities. When I saw you begin your silhouettes I did think you'd get to this stage too, but it looks like you might got yourself in a corner.
You've drawn some churches/temples there for the constellation, but did Miro help you with those? It doesn't look like it... What kind of temple would Miro envision as the absolute embodiment of his city... do you think it's likely at all that it would be... brown/grey... and do you think it would be as traditional (symmetrical!) as these when there's no sign of that in his signature style?
How's this for some further inspiration - something to stop you thinking in right-angles when you think about fantastical buildings...
https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55ec/632c/e58e/ce4e/9e00/0006/newsletter/Mons2.jpg?1441555240
https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55ec/62bf/e58e/ce4e/9e00/0002/large_jpg/Jeanphony.jpg?1441555131
https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/08/taylor-cullity-leathlean-pod-playground-canberra2-1.jpg
http://monstrum.dk/wp-content/uploads/MONSTRUM-Playground-Futuroscope3-1000x667.jpg
https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/09/mvrdv-building-block-vertical-village-537x377.jpg
https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/549a/1cad/e58e/ce50/c800/0162/large_jpg/Wanda_Movie_Park_Stufish__image_7.jpg?1419386016
http://www.illumni.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MON090_002.jpg
...and check out 'blobitecture' for more bold, non-rectangular examples of everything that a building can be! I suggest you go back to Miro's work and create an 'alphabet' of his most used shapes and symbols and use the silhouette process again to combine and bring together that alphabet of shapes to work up some more Miro-esque thumbnails.