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Putting together the comics today I had a whole day in front of the xerox machine trying to figure on how to print my comics. My ideal number was about 60 prints but I made only 20 so far, I decided to use newspaper paper to give more of a comic feeling to it but it had some problems like it’s easy for the paper to get all wrinkled in the machine and had to keep doing some tests just to make sure each page was placed properly. Most of the things I learned in the end was on how to fix the machine when it stopped working and how to press the right buttons. Also tried to make the covers but it was lots of work doing so many of them and wasn’t able to finish on time. Guess it was another megalomaniac plan

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today I tried to work on the final touches of my work, I had a whole list of details That needed to be worked on, in wich are included:
- finalizing 2 pages of comics
-design of the cover of the 2 comic books
- adding some final drawings with ink and the bubble speech for the monotipia story
- look more about how to claim copyright of my stories so people won’t steal it
-plan on how to advertize my work
- decide some plans about how to print the work
- do some posters (only if I happen to have time)

All this planning is good to keep track of what I need to do the most and not lose myself in new ideas, most things regarding content and design of the comics I was able to do, making it possible to actually produce it. But the things wich include distributing or selling the work need to be worked on.

The cover of the work I decided to add some pretty japanese washi paper with some traditional prints on it, and make lots of diferent combinations of possible covers. The washi paper make it perfect for selling because it is catchy on the looks, the papers most of them have a nature design wich has some connection with rabbits on natural habitat and also being so colorful as they are, they make the black and white drawings stand out a lot. Also thinking about appealing to the public I thought about making lots of possible outcomes of covers. observing my own tendency to being atracted to owning lots of the same product even if I don’t need it just because I can’t decide on wich I like the best I thought it could be good marketing, also thinking about how people like when they have the possibility to own special editions of everything.

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Today I managed my day by using the morning to finish doing yesterday’s work on monotipia, all that was left was the rabbits color and all the black lines, the effect went as planned, still kinda wish the colors were less vibrant but that doesn’t seemed to be a possibility in the end with the kind of paint I was using in this process. I still don’t know how to solve this problem, but I think learning about japanese printing would be a good start in finding a way to solve this

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Tried to ink my comics, no sucess, why?
Couldn’t do it (sick)
Decided to make monotipia (because dind’t need as much precision as inking comics/ also the molds were already done)

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Start tests with monotipia
Didn’t work cuz too much ink
Idea to add color
Needed planning

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Work sketchbook projects
Came up with printing ideas

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Photoshop lessons

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Today I designed 30 ideas 1 per minute, this whole process was really interesting because all the pressure that you have to think fast can generate some really interesting and different thoughts. Some things you might not ever have imagened together some raw ideas about your creative process. And when you are developing tem later you might see them in a whole new way, better then trying to come up with something perfect from the start.

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Today there was this visit to dado where we saw a discussion about galleries not being open to new ideas or new kinds of art because they are not having as much suport as they need these days, it is amazing to learn a little bit about this world, the whole ideia of selling paintings and doing some exhibition is something that never actually leave my mind as something I want to do at least once in my life and find it pretty hard to know what should I do to be able to make it.

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Lessons on how to improve my padlet

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Protest!! In order for my protest to gain any recognition I dressed myself accordingly to the 50s theme, organized my work as those booths 50s woman would sell muffins to raise some money for a cause, so everything was on table decorated with some nice tablecloth and pretty flowerssome of the protest posters were behind the table some were on the table itself, as hand ins. but as everything was planned in such a beautyful way to atract atention the whole purpose of the protest was starting to get lost beneath all it, so to add some touch to it I also made some sweets with some of them being “not always so great” like mixed with pepper or ginger and also made a new poster with the phrase “but still looking pretty as if to mean that as long as it looks ok it’s fine in a cynical way since it’s a bet that everyone will get that no it isn’t. The whole atracting atention was a sucess, lots of reviews on my work, about 13, one of the most critiqued works of the class, if not the most of all. The work itself gave me lots of atention but as I started to deliver candy while holding my protest poster it gained much more atention, people wanted the sweets very badly and some of them being “poisoned” —as some people called it — caused a big interest on people, most of the reviews found the chocolate really great to help you feel what I’m trying to tell even if some of them were kinda revolted as well in a certain way, the colors being blue were also a great topic of compliments, because it dodn’t have a heavy look and with the help of typography people felt that caught atention from far away and as pleasing in way that made you want to see what it was about. All the props made a good interaction as to make people feel pleased, only the theme itself of the work caused a little confusion, like some people would question different things about it. in a certain way it was great in my intentions of making people relate to it in diferent ways, I even got an opnion about it being the children not being grateful enough to the parents wich was something that I cared a lot. Some people might confuse abusive behavior from the parents as they just being annoying wich it doesn’t help when you are trying to gain recognition about abusive behaviour, some people might relate really heavy stories about abusing parents with they’re own parents being responsible in a way that you don’t like. But there are some of them that couldn’t quite get the still looking pretty part or even wish that the theme were more spoken about openly since it is important, in the end I agree totaly that I should have worked better in making it more evident. The theme ended up being so open about what it was that in the end it doesn’t talk about really anything in my opinion, and and the protest itself doesn’t do really anything, it become more like a space that make people feel compreehend in the way they want to see, which is good, but not enough about what I want to say and about myself.

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With my new protest near it’s dead line and my need for producing things in a hurry I had to decide on the whim about what should I do, I went ahead with my no always so great theme and the family thing making posters with the imagem of an adult screaming to a crying child, to keep the 50s look I decided I should use blue colors ( like a blue clear sky) and a redish pink ( while pink being a color that seems innofensive the red tones can make it more agressive) and While experimenting I decided to mix the blue and pink, to make it look more messy and bizarre in each new poster I made. After that I thought the family part wasn’t quite clear enough. Like it could mean it the scenes were just about people fighting, not precisely related to family so I thought about adding to every poster “made by family tradition”, that because I made the conection that what bealieve are good things for family like respecting your parents making it difficult to spot some abusive behaviors from the parents

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After so much work on the poster I decided to make a whole new protest about something completely new, it was an idea that was on my mind since the first day but it wasn’t quite developed yet, I didn’t have a phrase to use at all. Since the first protest was about everybody not being together at all and actually as things are now in the world they are turning on each other and to represent that trying to use a phrase about saltimbancos that means everybody together we are strong and can overcome big problems in a cynical way with strong images to show the opposite was actually making it look like all those wrong things I was protesting against were actually in the right, I saw no way to solve my problem while maintining some elements I wanted. In the end this new project was something I cared a lot and I decid to change everything in the last minute, I made whole new work about “not always so great” something that incorporates everything in life speacially in family, making it subtle the family part, while using a 50s design to make the resemblance of perfect family and adding somethings that didn’t look quite right

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Making the poster using only the phrase and without the help of images is making it really hard to make clear enough the idea of the protest creating typos wasn’t so hard, the agressiveness was enough, I used a research on punk style posters to create all possible typos. Still the typos alone can’t make the look clear enough(why?)

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Deciding wich protest you want to make based on single pre selected words wasn’t something easy, I guess I chose the words based on my prior ideas more than working, so my map of ideas wasn’t ideal, not really hard to do but because it was all directed to some point.( ehy not ideal?)

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on this process the whole plan I did the day before wasn’t used at all, all my ideas were changing about what I wanted the whole day, At first I only knew for sure I needed to build a ring to make the Letter Q. I de ided to use sponge as the structure of the ring and wasn’t sure what I would use to cover it, The whole process was a costant changes in the ideas. In the end I cane back to the idea of using metal things since that’s where the letter first came and making some dolls on it, a whole story about people having things they are trying to communicate

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The whole creative process of planning a 3D letter was quite difficult, I really do have a block when it comes to letters, a really draining process. All my plans were quite miserable and without any intentions or feeling behind it besides making it look good, I absolutely believe it would have been better if I had tried looking from different perspectives or tried doing more research about it during this process. The part about creating the whole alphabet was better in a certain way, made a better progress about it, but still need to work on the time I need to create those things since if it was a job I wouldn’t have made it in time, I already had this whole idea abouthow I wanted to make it look bolder and more agressive and I think in the end the results were enough pleasing, not wonderful as I expect it to be, still gone a long way to achieve my intentions.

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This whole process of printing had the idea of giving a chaotic appearance to the letter, something I thought it would make the letter I created stand out, still it turned out to look more messy than anything, looking at my colleagues working made me realize that there were some techniques they were using wich I wasn’t able to achieve, like in blending the collors or making them look more solid in the paper, theirs looked more like a poster while mine had more of a poor look. It makes me realize that I have some kind of chaotic style but still need to experimente a lot and repeat the process a lot more to get better in it, just train myself a lot more

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Crating a new letter was a great chalenge for me since I’m not used and it isn’t my favourite thing, still I tried doing my best to make things work by looking at the lines on the photo, I wanted  it to be as round as it could and maybe a little thicker than what I did.

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Final presentation of the project:
The crit were in general good, the idea was well accepted and was even stated to pass some emotions from it, also the interactive part being something atractive of people wanting to take part on those feelings. The display had controversial feelings to it, some thought that by being so big it made up for the messages being so small and ot helped to pass on the feelingf of messages in a bottle, also that the fact that they were hanging made it easier to read them, but others thought that the messy look of the paintings made it hard to spot the messages. Some additional thought was that the blue poster was hard to read because of its position and the bottles on the ground weren’t as well displayed like they could. My general thoughts about the crits are that I probably would disregard all the sugested changes and actually make work on new ideas from it, there is mothing on the work I consider excluding, only things I consider including to make the work better. There should be more kinds of midia besides the messages to the collection, like photos of messages being carried away, maybe more posters with drawings telling stories from people sending those messages and posters telling personal stories related to the work and thoughts about the general feeling. About the display I wound maybe add some pillows to make people feel like they are in their personal oasis  and cantake their time sharing letters and reading from others, make it more durable than some minutes, display it on a space people will actually pass by a lot more and have more chamces with interacting with it, display the new posters on the walls in a way that make you feel like you are in a space in another dimension from the outside world and have more bottles around it to make you feel like you are in a sea of lost messages.

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The interview with charles watson was quite charming, most of his theories about developing a creative thinking weren’t all that new to me, they were quite similar to my way of thinking, still it’s motivating to listen to something you might lose track over time, some things like about aleays trying new ways of doing things, experiment with things you are not used to, those are things you might forget by trying to make everything perfect and in a responsible way ( still be responsible, but never forget those silly artist things of looking at your work in different lights and stuff like that)

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rDrypoint printing :
It seemed like a fun way of printing, really useful for doing lots of decorations from what I’ve learned in my research, still need to test that as soon as possible, I just know it will be useful in lots of ideas, have some fine connection to the works I mostly do

Monotype:
It looks like a really dirty sketch, it gives a coll noisy effect to the drawings because the freedom it has, still want to try out drawing freely on paper to see how it will look the print

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project organized to fit in the classroom, in simpler and smaller way, a single poster using the image of a bottle to display the messages
-the presentation I did before was way too much big and the important aspects of the work were kinda hidden in all that mess, so I decided to go for a more simple and to de point project
- with a smaller presentation the work was more aproachable to be seen, but ot lost some of the qualities it had before like the immersive feeling it hade that tou were part of it too, the interactive part that it was you being able to right something as well and the hability to handle the messages so you could read what it meant even if it were in another language

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Project made on the outside, displayed hanging through the fence with some bottles and messages in front of a bench
- the work itself is difficult to see from far away, so by being in front of a bench that people usually sit it has a chance of being noticed and you can take your time reading the display while resting or eating your lunch and the bottles around it suggest that the work have something to do with sending your messages far away
- being displayed like that makes it more reacheable by different kinds of people leaving some room to imagination, it’s a simple but fun way to observe the work, still in that way the workbecomes more vulnerable to being destroyed, it would be needed some measures to make it more touch friendly and weather resistent

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The while project need to make you feel like you are immersed on it, and have a sense of water without making you feel like you are inside a little mermaid themed project so the way the painting was made gives you the needed sens of water drooping from the walls.
-big project, maybe not the kind you should do alone
- still letting the ideas grow big enough that time to do all that will be a problem
There were more tasks I wish I had done , still the painting till now was managed alright and finished in time.
Maybe next time it will be better to do something less grand that it’s so hard to manage by yourself and it’s so time consuming and do a bigger range of different works instead, maybe wait to do the big thing when you are more prepared to the task

ReTHINK (after class experience)
-Always take some time with your project after you’ve made ANY progress (important)

After spending the whole day with my project it made me clear my head about some important things that I shouldn’t miss about it

What I feel when I look at it at the moment:
-it actually make me feel I’m looking at a 5 year old party decoration
- the instaltion that should bring my work foward  actually steals the show
- the actual collection lookes more like decorations
- still have no precise feelings about the theme when I look at it

Where do I intend to go with this?
- the collection should be the most eyecatching of all in this messy area
- add more content other than decorations

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classes today make it more obvious that work made in a short amount of time is something I need to work more about being able to do something interesting and atractive fast enough.
- improve doing simple works of art that have an eye catching design without losing the point of the work

Things that can improve my collection
- find a way to acentuate the messages collected (maybe using plastic and hanging them showering from the roof)
- find ways to use bottles to help me create the right atmosphere
- right a description about the work leaving some room to people think a little bit about what they are seeing
- maybe add other kinds of media that have the same theme ( like photos, collages and music )
- create an interactive space to show the collection to make the audience feel like they are immersed on the project