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This cheery sun really caught my attention, it was such a dark terrifying drawing, with guns and really bloody eyes, so strong, and this little sun alone was able to give me comfort, I could look at him and not feel the unhappiness of the rest of the drawing

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This little ghost has such funny eyes 😂 it is awesome, he is just like: “oh, look! An explosion....” it is just so out of the reality surrounding him it’s actually inspiring, he just observes, he’s is not freaking out or anything, he is just observing

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This little guy is not happy about what he is seeing, like an old folk on their porch just observing the stupid little kids running and making noises on the street in front of his house.

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The enf of the world.         Day 01 - Reflection

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The enf of the world.         Day 01 - Reflection

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I've never felt so motivated about doing research. I stayed up until 2am doing it. I was amazed at the facts I would find. The beginning of the research though, was horrible. The only name I knew on the list was Ziraldo. So I started searching about the artists except Ziraldo, I would not do about him. because i already know him, and so does the rest of my colleagues, i want to know about more artist, not the same ones over and over again. besides i really don't like his drawings. and just one really caught my attention. Odilon Moraes. his way of drawing was so deep in such shallow forms. after discovering him I felt really sad, which demotivates me, because I still needed another one obligatory artist to research. I ended up with Veridiana S. Hours later, when it was night time, I started the research itself, once I was not so demotivated. I started with the one I liked the most, Odilon. And because of that when I started researching Veridiana it felt like a really bummer. Guess with research is the same as food, I should save the best for last.
Because of the artists recommended I felt really inspired by children's book and searched Eva Furnari, my most beloved children's book writer and illustrator! how I loved doing her research and just walking over my child steps. my childish feelings and memories, my favorite books and stories from her, and how playful it was to see the images as a kid over and over again. that good feeling took me to another greater research. and i researched the golden ticket [in my opition] in my whole Research Task: The Gruffalo.
the best children book so far. the gruffalo is smart and has amazing illustrations that had always caught my attention.
i felt as the illustrators recommended where not good for the whole proposal: the end of the world. most of them are Jabuti prizes winners.
today it got me really confused in the moment when i had to put together in a drawing the inspiration from the research. i could only think of kids. but not the miserable sad ones, the happy ones that read the gruffalo or nós.
when we are illustrating we have to !really! have in mind our target audience, it's the key to a successful work. the public have to understand it. then comes the most dificult part, realating your drawing styles and ideas to the public, and mixing it all together. your goal is to make the perfect cake mixture, so when you baked it and give it to the people they will enjoy it.
todaýs exercise was extremely pleasant. i loved it. not having to deal with all the first steps of a drawing (which are the most difficult parts for me) and only having to deal with DETAILS was like a dream come true. just perfect. i really wish i can do some future work with someone like this. hope i find that person.
in the end the only illustrations i did today were the ones on the exercise, i still need a more concrete idea on what is the "ënd" i will be aiming. i really loved them. my current hybrid style. the mixture between the doodley and the realistic drawing, I still cannot combine them in the same "part" of the drawing. when i started the illustration on the beginning of the exercise i doodled it, a cute woman based on Gabi. and on the end i loved how there were people that combined a more realistic trace to my doodle girl. i'm gonna start doing that! pretty sure it's gonna make me more pleased with my results.

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It has been really hard to bring up the narrative to my drawings, specially because I'm still not sure on how to do it. stories have never been my strong point, I've actually always struggled with narratives, my essays on high school were always mediocre. I never got a low grade, but it was rare for me to gain a A, and I believe i've never got a A+, not in high school at least.
I always go around and around
in a story and never get anywhere besides a confusing beginning. My creativity really sucks at this point. So I'm still not sure what I'm going for here....
Today I followed the initial plans, and started drawing some tombstone with statues, sketches actually, based on really really gorgeous statues that I found in Google. The sketches looked beautiful, it would be a pleasant result, but there is something bothering me, it sounds really weak, and boring....
For the scale transformation, I think I handle it. I haven't bought a A2 paper yet, but I've seen it, and it is a lot smaller then I imagined it would be. since I intend to do the basic lines and then work the drawing out with watercolours it will be realistically easy, watercolour is really nice to work with, and don't require precision at all, so just from a nice sketch I can achieve a really good drawing.
I intend to really do some test illustrations on my sketch book tomorrow at home.
My partner from FAD1 is called Beatriz. I believe she was paired for me by someone who really knows me! we have too much in common, we love a lot of similar things.
She is doing a really cute project, with cute drawings. She wants to do too much in little time though, but I she is like this for ever, so I'm pretty sure she can cope with it really well. She is doing the basics: binded books, some t-shirts, eco bags, and original drawings. The prices are still a bit off for some of them, but it is something that can easily be changed.
Im not really sure if there is really anything I can do... so a offered my help if she needs it, basically with manual stuff, like printing the drawings and so on....

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Independent study

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With the idea I got from my mom yesterday I started my research. I read the first 2 chapters of Revelation, and remembered that when I was reading Ezekiel we had the visions of the cherubim, all four of them. At jw.org I started linking the references. It is an amazing site, the most accessible way of studying the bible in my opinion. There are tools that makes it really easy to relate passages on one book to another. So I jumped back from Revelation to Ezekiel. Ezekiel is one of my favourite books, after Luke. In the first 3 chapters we read of the visions he sees by the river Quibar, the 4 cherubim and Jehovah; 4-24: Jehova's judgment against Jerusalem and her people; 25-32: surrounding nations receive their judgment throughout Ezekiel's visions; 40-48: vision of the temple for Jehovah's high standards for true worship.
While reading the verses about the cherubim appearances there are little letters related to some of the verses, those letters take us to a correlation of that verse with another passage of the bible. By that I discovered that Ezekiel sees 4 wings, as for John and Isaías, they see 6 wings, so I went for 6.
Now a have a story to my drawings.
I have the impression that my images are telling history, a passage of the bible, but it's not easy to get it right away, most of us do not know a cherubim appearance, we always imagine a little fatty angel, not the 4 headed creature that it actually is.
I started something different, drawing a creature with a description that does not match with no other animal known to live on the Earth. So I look at some references from people that tried to draw them, just as I am doing, I based myself a little bit on them, but i changed positions and colours of the wings.
First I drew some sketches of the animals of each face: Eagle, Bull and Lion. Then I proceeded to drawing what came to my mind of that mixture of animals.
This idea that my mom had of reading the end of the world according to the Bible was amazing, I am really liking the possibilities that this new idea brings.
At home I almost finished the first Cherubim. Since my watercolours are really bad I used my acrylics with water instead. The result came really nice! My dad thought it is Wonderfull.

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Today I brought my cherubim, and finished it during AM time. Just some details were missing, I finished the outer wings with a more yellowish tone to them than whitish. With that each pair got a different colour to them, brown, white and light yellow. I got Vera's watercolours and painted their feet, her watercolours are really amazing, and since I really enjoyed the result of yesterday's test of the pallet for the cherubim with hers material, I asked if I could use again. I did the wings with acrylics, because they have more density and I wanted the last layers to "pop". I did the man's face with watercolour, and finished the eagle's face with watercolours as well. At the end I tried the Cooper on the feet, just lightly, but I intend to get it stronger. And I still need to do the golden eyes and final coloration on the creature.
Im really satisfied with this final result, If I do not change my mind, I will use it on the final outcome.
Since I todays professor was Roger, whose ideas are incredible, I asked him what kind of background we liked better, the background with a story or just the plain background. We got to agree that I should to a background with a colour related to each cherubim plague and do a little detail beneath them representing it more clearly.
I did the backgrounds with a really washed watercolour, and turned the paper around so it could drip in some nice effect. By the way, I bought the A2 papers today, and I'm using it to do the background.
Since I used a lot of water it's taking too long to dry, and once I'm home I will try to work a little bit more on them, and maybe start the second cherubim.