Fatigue
20" by 20"
Digital Drawing, completed January 2022
This piece was inspired by the episode Fatigue, of the podcast The Magnus Archives. The episode follows a recitation of a woman struggling with insomnia as their work allows chosen sleep schedules, as the episode continues we watch the character fall deeper into insanity in an interesting way, giving the story an unreliable narrator. I related to this episode as I have also struggled with reverse sleep cycles and the lack of sleep delusions. With the art of the piece, I found inspiration from Salvador Dali in his abstract art style.
Inspiration and Reasoning
Planning
As I knew I would was this project to take place within the room of the narrator within the episode, I planned how I could correlate that narrative to the artworks inspiration and my own personal experience with insomnia. Planning outlines of this project consisted of jotted lists of every visual object mentioned throughout the podcast episode and how any of those could be realistically placed within a cramped apartment bedroom.
Process
I tested out different tools for the different effects, including the minimal lighting, see-through curtains, shadows, and blankets. I used my knowledge with previous experiments and projects of digital artworks to help me with this one. This projects used a lot more shading and gaussian blurring than usual so it was important to practice with that tool and usage. Starting the project by outline the basic idea of the room described in the podcast, slowly adding small items mentioned throughout the episode along with my own incorporation of my idea of insomnia and the effects of it. The project was supposed to be a realistic setting of a small apartment room. I attempted to ensure the face on the advertisement billboard looked unrealistic and flat to contrast against its more realistic boundaries with less shading in comparison. I continued this illustration by adding base colors and shading them out with extremely blurred dark shades of blue and purple. The billboard text was duplicated and shaded for exaggerated font, with the light coming off the billboard added on by adding bright yellow and white on top of the bright area and shading outward as to mimic real light coming through a window into a dark room.
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Reflection & comparison
ACT questions
1) Clearly explain and describe how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
2) What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
3) What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
4) What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
5) What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
2) What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
3) What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
4) What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
5) What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
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