At current Im still working away on my brief for the Emperors New Clothes. I know exactly what I aim to make and what needs to be done but this past week has been a nightmare in figuring out one vital element to the project.
Ive researched fantastic drawing artists such as Daniel Zeller who has been an inspiration to me for some time. Ive also been checking out Marco Maggi, Frances Richardson and Mark Lombardi.
Their work which Ive been researching has been great for figuring out pattern making and in this study Ive realised that patterns dont have to conform to the idea of repeating an image over and over again, I can create a rule to draw by and follow a set system. In the work of Frances Richardson he constructs images by following a pattern of only using + and - symbols, Marco Maggi in some of the works creates patterns which are similar to chemistry's works with Carbons isotopes and hexagonal structure amongst other fine detailed work. Whilst Mark Lombardi studied statistics and conspiracy theories to construct large mind mapped pattern drawings.
But anyways, For the past week Ive been bashing my brain over this project with what I should be drawing. What is my subject matter, I know Im making the pattern which would have adorned the fabric the conmen made for the emperor but I had no idea what the content of the fabric was to be.
It wasnt untill I was outside having a smoke on the sunny spell last Thursday it hit me. I was staring at the smoke with it swirling about in the air and the bright clouds drifting by, changing shape and staying big and bulky to thin and whispy. Looking back at the dozens of versions of the story the Conmen when dressing the Emperor describe the fabric as being light as a feather, air, clouds or cobwebs obviously for the Emperor to not suspect he were wearing nothing at all. But I began to think these are the things I can draw. Im still relating towards the story and tying it all together, in my views, pretty dam nicely...
Photographs will be uploaded as soon as my camera battery is charged.
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