{"id":8188,"date":"2018-03-22T21:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:46:31","slug":"space-oddity-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8188","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tools for Artists: Space Oddity \u2014 Princess Leia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Space Oddity by Izzy Singer<\/p>\n

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sketchbook drawing1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sketchbook drawing 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If I thought harder on the project, did some research, or found some good art depicting space I probably could have found a song to animate an exploding star too…or something. I didn’t do that. I went back to my basic interests. Though exclusive, and perhaps lost on some who do not know the Star Wars franchise I justified making this piece of art by making it for myself. And I did. I had fun, I got to listen to a track that brings up a flood of emotions and visualize an abstract to pay homage to a character (and the lady who played her–you can’t really have one without the other, as Ms. Fisher put it herself: “I am Princess Leia and Princess Leia is me. It’s like a M\u00f6bius\u00a0striptease.”).<\/p>\n

Okay, I’ll stop now. On to the project.<\/p>\n

When made the first sketches I imagined something with far less structure. My initial idea included the use of colors–royal blues and purples for the most part. I was going to play with the size and opacity of the shapes against a black background whilst the colors within turned different shades in a cycle. Then adding lasers once the horns in the track swell to gather our attention. I knew I wanted a silhouette from the beginning and wanted it to capture movement.<\/p>\n

Once I was introduced to “Kaleida” however, my “simple color” ideas all got sucked into the nearest black hole. I began to bank on the 2-Dimensional movement by making it as flat as possible so the Kaleida effect would keep our attention. I used a pattern I found online by Eloise Renouf:<\/p>\n

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“Curves” by Eloise Renouf. 2014. Link: https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/203134847\/curves-blue-giclee-print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I played with the color with the “Color Offset” effect. Initially, I chose the pattern to play with the possibilities of Kaleida, however, once I got hold of the beautiful gold, blue, white and turquoise version I decided to keep it. I felt that gold and bright blues were more accurate to the character anyhow. Sorry purple.<\/p>\n

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My Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It would also help with the yellow echo and lines later but I’ll get back to that. A too-realistic silhouette would have hurt the project alongside the Kaleida. It would\u00a0be too adverse, maybe a little too creepy. I do not know if I avoided creepiness, but if the silhouette stands still without any implication of motion I thought it would help to avoid making that part of the piece distracting. Or,\u00a0less<\/em> distracting. A figure that did not look as though she were about to walk around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Space Oddity by Izzy Singer If I thought harder on the project, did some research, or found some good art depicting space I probably could have found a song to animate an exploding star too…or something. I didn’t do that….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":8189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[362,363,364],"class_list":["post-8188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-tools-for-artists","tag-space-oddity","tag-fractals","tag-kaleidoscope","wpcat-263-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8188"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14052,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions\/14052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}