For my finished artwork, I went with a conceptual narrative task Title: SnowCrash Theme: corroded Size: 11”x17” Time: 2 weeks Industry: Computer game/multimedia production Audience: young adults/adults (it started as the thumbnail of brain dissolving into Sumerian text under the influence of a computer virus transmitted to it via VR glasses) But as I was working on the thumbnail further - I realized that the idea would read way better if it was a human hypnotized by VR glasses and scratching Sumerian letters on “the 4th wall” - the glass separating the character from the viewer. [She is scratching S.O.S. Signal in Sumerian letters - linguistically it makes no sense, but I thought it was a nice touch - looking at 1s and 0s on screen and “printing out” a cry for help] So I made a few more thumbnails and approached a photo model with them - we made a themed photo set!) with some experiments with light and idea in general !) I actually loved the whole process even though I was quite shy while at it and thanks a lot for describing it in lectures in a way - that it became an unavoidable step😂 After photoset, I’ve made an accurate-sized pencil drawing and began to develop the environment - I wanted it to be a tiny-tiny flat (inspired by an overnight train) so it would be more of a storage for human.. while life happens in metaverse + I still wanted to have a bit of real nature outside of the window, so it would show that reality is actually just there, you just need to go out of the door [guess I’m just a bit pissed that my life actually looks like 24/7 behind the screen, I promised myself to go on a hike or something after that project 🤣] So I went on a side-ideation-quest to develop the place + make a full-size digital drawing of it. In the flat, you can see some things that are important to the novel, and a few objects that I just felt, like should be in a cyberpunk flat Also, I decided to mess with perspective in order to fit more things into the drawing) and wanted everything to kinda radiate from the character. Originally I was planing to make an oil painting, but while I was at it, digital graphic style just felt right for the project - and so here we are!) I will go print it out anyway so it will haunt my studio 😂 p.s. I absolutely loved this process from thumbnails to finished artwork, thanks a lot for it! It was also interesting to witness how the idea evolved and changed over time Maybe I will move on to make this project into a series of drawings/paintings because over the days spent thinking about sci-fi and cyberpunk, I just felt so much inspiration and passion for art, and had so many ideas of what to draw that I basically fell in love with the whole concept and odd dystopian philosophy behind it!) Wish a great day and peace of mind to anyone who is reading that project report and just to go and create, bring something beautiful into this world!😍

Moby Dick, Chapter 90: Heads or Tails Summary: Some whalers had "after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore". The warden of the Duke pulls out a book of the law and explains that it's now property of the crown. They scratch their heads and call into question a nonsensical law that takes from them the earnings of their work. " Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of that land, the King, as Honorary Grand Harpooneer, must have the head, and the Queen be respectfully presented with the tail. ... "But why should the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers!" " Mixed media on board.

Ended up zooming out some on the original Idea. It wasn't reading as the church sitting on a river of oil. Spent more time painting digitally. Probably got carried away with brushes and adding effects to try and make it feel dirty.

Started with a ink under painting; Procreate tweaks and color layers…many hours of contemplation for the sweet spot.