Tuesday, September 24, 2013

What's in a Dream?

What's In A Dream?



This is an image that I composited for class.  The assignment had a mere two requirements.  First of all we had to create a "dreamscape" that told a narrative and second, it had to be made using ONLY scanned in images.  

Some people don't really have dreams all that much but I am not one of those people.  I get dreams quite often.  Most of my dreams involve some sort of adventure.  As a case in point, I had a dream just this morning that had me in a sword fight with some chubby kid on a bright street somewhere and somehow I got his sword and won the battle.  But I digress.  I decided that since the assignment required us to use scanned images it would make more sense to see what I could find and then put the images together that I found.  Our art department here at Bradley University, like many other art departments I'm sure, has many old copies of National Geographic that are free for the cutting up or scanning.  On a couple different days I collected issues from before the 90's and searched through issues until I found an image that made me feel adventurous and reminded me of my dreams at the same time.  It wasn't too selective, just visually interesting to me.  Once I had around twenty images I had to narrow it down to a few that would work together and then put them together.  I ended up with the images below:




I liked the two little people on all of that ice because it looked like a place that would be interesting to walk around in, to climb upon. The volcano was mainly because I like blue but the fire got my attention and seemed intense, like what might occur in my dream.  The man on the end is from Yemen in real life (thirty years ago he was still alive anyway) but I chose him because he looked dangerous and interesting.

After playing around a bit I ended up with this image:


Showing it in class the teacher and fellow students thought I should perhaps add a few more little people and make my snow cave a little more like a snow cave.  The volcano also seemed to be just texture rather than a volcano.  Thankfully someone else in the class had this image:


                                                                  so I could add more little guys without much trouble.


It was an interesting assignment although I generally don't like being stuck using the scanner only.  It was a good way to stretch a little in being creative.

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