The Guileless Dewdrop StreamIn-Progress PhotosReferencesReflectionI drew inspiration for this piece from an online game that I used to play frequently in elementary school. The game, Pixie Hollow, was a MMORPG surrounding the environment and characters of Disney Fairies. You could "create your own fairy and fly!", as the website used to state, before the game shut down in late 2013. Ever since then, I reminisced on the fun times I got to creatively design my fairy's house and her clothing, and when I got to play my favorite mini game: Bubble Bounce. Over the years, I've daydreamed about playing the game again, or even being immersed in the world as a fairy, so I felt it was right to include this memory and desire in my portfolio. This piece will symbolize not only the obvious explanation of how I daydreamed about the game, but also the experience of missing the simple, positive aspects of early childhood, where perhaps you are in a place like "pixie hollow" and live in a peaceful mindset, with no fear of the real world that you will soon have to face as an adult; childhood, like this game, is not the reality that you are expected to live in as an adult, where you must use your fear to drive responsibility.
Since this piece is digital, the illustrations are based solely on incorporating photographs of different landscapes and objects that I have taken on my camera, into a photoshop-like app on my iPhone, to superimpose all of the objects into one final image. I began this process by using a photo that I took at a lake near my house, and superimposing another image of water that I took to make the water look closer than it is. Next, I changed the color of a photo I had taken of yellow flowers to blue, and superimposed these into the foreground, along with a photo of grass that I had taken up-close. I then added a photo of an interesting tree trunk with moss and a hole to the background (the photo of the lake with the superimposed water). Next, I added a photo of an interesting, thick, twisted tree root that I had taken to give an interesting composition to the area of land beyond the water and flowers in the foreground. At this point, I noticed that the background land structure with the twisted tree root and "moss house" with the hole as the entrance, greatly resembled the bottom of the tree that it depicted in my 6th piece. I had an epiphany; I could correlate this piece metaphorically and illustratively to my 6th piece by making the concept of this 5th piece a closer-up look of the area where fairies live, while the 6th piece will include elements that are of the correct scale from a human's perspective. For my final touches of this piece, I pulled another photo including a tree trunk and moss, to make sure that the land area that had the moss house and twisted root matched with the bottom of the tree for my 6th piece. I also decided to add a few bubbles to hint to the mini game "Bubble Bounce" that I used to play in Pixie Hollow. I did this by blowing bubbles near my garage outside and photographing such bubbles. Next, I chose one of the photos I took of the bubbles and superimposed it into my digital piece. I then superimposed a pink flower that I traced out of a photo that I took of a cluster of pink flowers. I placed a copy of this pink flower inside both of the bubbles that I placed in my piece, to show the concept of the small objects on land that seem useful to fairies, are used to aid fairies in their magical talents and tasks. After completing this piece, if I could do anything differently, perhaps I would illustrate a few fairies. I didn't end up adding fairies though, because I was afraid that I would not be able to illustrate them on my iPhone's small screen, to the level of detail and sophistication of the reference images that are in this piece. I though that if I could not illustrate the fairies well enough, the feeling of this piece would be ruined, so I left the piece how it is, using the bubbles and up-close perspective of the flowers and tree trunk to allude to the idea that fairies would inhabit this place.
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AuthorHi there, I'm Ashley and I love all mediums in which I can express my fascinations and emotions. Whether it be painting, music production, apparel production, 3-D modeling, drawing, or writing, I just adore creativity's endless possibilities. I am currently taking Apparel Production II Honors and AP 3-D Art while I work with music production and 3-D modeling outside of class. ArchivesCategories |