If I use Formica, I might need to build a support frame for it but first I wanted to test gluing a piece of cardstock to see its holding power and it is on there! I'm very excited to have an idea I am considering more now.
Looking at the work I made this week, I feel like I did not make a lot. Though I spent ten or so hours cutting, assembling and gluing the pieces, it just looks like so much less! I did, however, get rid of two people who just did not make the cut. I did not like the size of them, their gestures or their expressions. It kills me when I have to do this because a person can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour to make (give or take, depending on the detail), but I've set high standards for myself and want to be able to stand behind every individual element on the map.
Here are the people:
Utilization of time:
Collaging: 10 hours
Fingerle trip: 45 minutes
eBay hunting for more papers: 45 minutes
Scanning and Photoshopping: 1.5 hours
Working on presentation (I don't know if this is necessary to include): 2 hours
Some questions I've been having, specifically in regards to my people, are listed below. I would really appreciate it if whomever comments on my blog this week could answer them.
1. Should I be exaggerating certain people more?
2. Is it okay to have characters that are more proportionally realistic juxtaposed with those that are not?
3. Are there any stand-out figures that you are not responding to or just flat-out don't like? Why?
4. Should I be making more people that are seen from behind?
5. For the people I am creating that are not based off of specific individuals, how can I make them more "Berlin"? That is, what can I do to associate them with this city as opposed to any other city. How do we know these people aren't from Dallas or London? Can this be achieved with clothes? Materials I use to make the clothes
Thanks in advance for your input!
1. Should I be exaggerating certain people more? ........NO, they look very exaggerated as it is, not offensively, but eccentrically.
ReplyDelete2. Is it okay to have characters that are more proportionally realistic juxtaposed with those that are not?........ IF in doing so, you are making a point about those who not proportioned, don't you think?
3. Are there any stand-out figures that you are not responding to or just flat-out don't like? Why?...... THE baby carriage, the profiled woman with the eyebrows and the one with the back turned seated figure. Only because they are not "exaggerated/eccentric/busy/celebratory as the others are in part or in whole.
4. Should I be making more people that are seen from behind?....... DESPITE the above comment, I really like the idea of you having people turned away and in thought, unperturbed or excited about their environment. It has a great touch. See Brueghel's "Fall of Icarus" and read the accompanying poem by W.H. Auden. It talks about a turned away figure and I think you'll get my point.
5. For the people I am creating that are not based off of specific individuals, how can I make them more "Berlin"?....... IF this were in Munich/Bavaria, that would be easy. I think throwing in sausage, steins, perhaps "German" clothing (you could add some Bavarian outfits) would be okay, but because Berlin is so much more cosmopolitan that's difficult. I honestly think the buildings speak for a "German-ness". That is, what can I do to associate them with this city as opposed to any other city. How do we know these people aren't from Dallas or London? Can this be achieved with clothes? Materials I use to make the clothes
SEE what I wrote above. I don't think you can with respect to the city of Berlin unless you adopt the obvious southern Germany clothing.