The Big Idea:
Imagine for a second if you can... A complete Dystopia. An environment in which everything is complete and utter uncomfortable chaos at all times. The opposite of utopia. Sheer havoc. Undeveloped clutter. Involuntary violent destruction. Really, everyone will have a different version of Dystopia, much as they will of Utopia. This is my own interpretation.
The Dystopian Society Project came to me in a dream. I started the dream in a utopia and in wonderment of my surroundings in a parallel dimension. Then things shifted poles and became utter lawlessness, fear, terror - Dystopia.
I would like to see your version of Dystopia. I think a lot of art is made from both poles: happiness/joy and sadness/pain. Many people spend time making compositions that reflect their inner thoughts and I'd love to see people's pineal gland come out with this one.
The size of this composition is completely interpretative and at your will. Pick anything you wish to do, in what ever medium you choose. Convey your perception/feeling/interpretation of the word Dystopia. When you're done post a link to your work in the comment line below so everyone that comes across this site will be able to check it out; or email me and I will check it out and add it to this blog so you get more exposure.
My Composition:
I chose Krylon spray-paint and Sharpie marker for this composition. First I spray painted yellow all around the edges of the canvas. Followed by orange, then red. I did have to let this dry for a few hours before touching it with the Sharpies, otherwise I would have ruined the sharpies as well as drug the paint around essentially scratching the painting.
After the paint dried I went to town with a purple sharpie and some dubstep. A LOT of dubstep. Ok, probably an OBSCENE amount of dubstep. Follow me? I personally believe that music has a large pull on our creative process and dubstep is kind of all over the place so it felt appropriate for my Dystopia.
The ultra-fine Sharpies barely showed up on the canvas which bummed me out a little, but I went with it and it still turned out amazingly. The thicker markers worked a lot better but I still went through the tips of 3 fine point, and 2 ultra-fine point markers over the entirety of the project. This is why I have as many markers as I do...
Toward the end I start looking for little details that need to exist in the finished drawing, such as little shadows, extra curves, a series of lines that goes opposite the lines already drawn, a thick line here, a thicker line there, and eventually some faces started popping out at me so I accented them.
Finally the bubbles...You'll notice a theme in much of my drawings over the past two years, I use contour (line) as my main detail, but every drawing has bubbles in it. I couldn't tell you why, it just happens...
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