Axolotyls and Bicycles

24Apr09

My latest completed project was one many artists in school have to do- the transformation. Basically you choose one object (we had to have something organic and something mechanical) to slowly transform in a sequence of images from one to the other- we had to have 7 or 8 frames. To be honest, I wasn’t very excited about the project at all but once I chose my objects and did some sketches, it got a lot better. I chose things that I had a personal connection to (for motivation duh…no one ever wants to draw something meaningless to them, at the very least you gotta be intrested/intregued)- an axolotyl and an old fashioned bike:

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I chose the axolotyl because my friend worked in a lab with them during the summer and they’re basically the oddest creatures ever, like strait out of someone’s imagination. The only mechanical thing that I felt interested enough in doing was a bike and when I came across an image of an old fashioned one I thought it would be wierd enough to pair well with the axolotyl.

Here are some preliminary sketches:

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