Most of my time outside of class is spent at my studio desk in the wee hours of the morning working on projects. Lots of students, like myself, spend countless hours outside of class just working on studio design projects. I felt that it would be important to portray the process of collection/trash buildup that occurs every quarter as a studio progresses and students get more and more tired.
I wanted to try to attempt a cartoon version of drawing that I have never had the opportunity to do before. I got the idea from my initial cartoon making exercise in the super power micro project.
These images show a cartooned version of myself at my desk, working on projects at all hours of the night. The trash buildup is exponentially increasing in every image as I and other students get more exhausted as the quarter goes on and care less and less to pick things up. Coffee cups are strewn about the floor in an attempt to demonstrate how tired I am. The images on the little computer screen are actually images of projects I have worked on throughout my collegiate career. They appear chronologically, tracing my development through school in a weird representation. While making these images I had the opportunity to reflect on all my experiences in those wee hours of the morning as well as poke fun at myself more living in and participating in this messy, insane environment. The situation is slightly exaggerated but I felt it necessary to demonstrate the idea I was trying to get across.
I enjoyed trying to make a cartoon out of everything that normally exists around me in studio, giving it a more lighthearted appearance than it actually appears. The only "real" things are the images of my projects, but again these were also fabricated so in a way they are cartoons as well. Looking back on this now, I wish I had made one more image of myself working on this project. Due to my final reviews for studio, I was stuck making most of this project in the late night hours when I could find the time.
