First Project

My first idea for this project was more optimistic – I wanted for there to be greener and for it to not be as dreary. I settled on having a building be the source of “evil” in the world, and was going to have more of green, grassy areas. I wrote down my thoughts in my notebook, and tried to show my original idea. As I worked, I started pulling a lot of inspiration from the song Land of Confusion by Genesis and the song The Vengeful One by Disturbed. Land of Confusion is about how the world we live in is not good, and it is up to us to fix it, but due to the state of the world it might be too broken to fix. The message I wanted to convey is that working for most corporations is not necessarily good, as most of them only look to try and increase profit at the cost of the world around them. I also wanted to show how corporations mostly rule the world, and they contributed a lot to make the world the way it is. I wanted to also show how some people have dreams of what they want, but will not be able to achieve them. I chose mostly gray, black, and red because the world if it continues will mostly look that way. In industrial centers across the world most of those places are very dirty because of air pollution and unless something is changed about that it will happen to other places. I chose not to include a larger green scene due to my inability to really find a way to draw it the way I wanted too, and if I had more time and more skill, I would have drawn a larger, more nature type scene as I love nature.

I drew this image to try and get out some of the frustrations I have with some of the ways that people run the world that we live in with little care for those under them. They try and do things to only further themselves and their own ambitions and do not do much to really alleviate certain known future events that need to be focused upon by the world. My AHA moment was when I realized that I could try and turn the building into the outline of a nuclear bomb blast. They are very dangerous and if still around, have the possibility of destroying the world. I like the artwork. I feel that if I were better at drawing I could do better, but I am satisfied. I would add more detail if I were able. My roommate Angelo thought that it was very interesting. I would change the design of the cloud I drew to make it look more like a bomb cloud.