Great Googly Goblins

"Heightened awareness of visual and sensory environment" This may be one of my favorite submissions for any of my ideas journals that I have done over the last few years. It is not only because of the way the drawing looks or that I think anything relating to the whole goblin, elf, wizard scene is awesome, but how this drawing came to be. I had just finished a previous picture in my sketch book, and when all of the inking was finished, I found out that the page after had little black dots all over the page! At first I was annoyed that these dots would get in my way and ruin whatever picture I wanted to draw in its environment, but then I started to connect these dots together. What happened was that I ended up with the outline of the goblin head and helmet, so I continued to work on it until it is what you see now. It was astounding to me that just a few dots on the page in its own environment could spark the idea for the vision of a goblin warrior to draw and now I try to look for these little guide points whenever I draw a new image. Who could have thought that connecting the dots could create something so unique and different from everything else that I drew.

Dream Factory

"Appreciate the value of expressing in visual form one’s personal experience" Now with this particular drawing, the personal experience that I am referring to is not of mine, but a friend I know. However, even the experience is not his own either, but the experience of him in a dream. It was random, confusing but entertaining and the picture that you see to the side is of an image that came to my head as he told me about his dream. It was of some sort of factory that he came across and ninjas were shooting batons at him, and a bear that could inhale these projectile batons with tornado breath. Explaining it like this though, probably just confused you more and it was very difficult to construct the image that I had while I was given pointers from my friend on how the dream world looked. It really was a whole new experience to draw from these outside ideas, but it also helped me to work on planning my steps in drawing on a higher level of development.

Art Kart

"Understand ideas and human values in art" Ahhh Mario Kart, one of the many racing games out there that I actually think is enjoyable. Is it the gameplay? The Music? Or the characters to play as? I think that it is the visual style and art direction personally. When you look at the simple image of a go kart, you can't help but feel a need to go fast and fly like the wind. It is that image that triggers something in the minds of humans, and becomes relatable to in their own aspect of life. You could then think up your own ideas and decide where the image will go next, and this was the direction in which this drawing was going for. It is not just a picture of a Mario go kart, but a picture of endless possibilities and ideas for anyone.