ART project ideas help
Hey guys, I need your help with ideas again. For those who helped last time, Thankyou for the suggestions, it ended up pretty successful!
Anyways, this time I have to do a project that critiques our society in the style of Banksy (note I'm Canadian, so please nothing about Trump lol, UNLESS you can justify me into doing something about him). So this time, it doesn't require much skill, rather it's more based on the idea/ use of colours .
Here are some, I guess, rules.
1. The image is mostly monochromatic (I.e., black, white and maybe one or two shades of grey). And then 1 colour (to create emphasis... so like a red balloon... or pink eyes... something that's important to the message). That's basically it .
-It can be funny, serious, sad or w/e. It can also have text.
Uh here's my idea, which isn't refined at all: I wanted to do an image about student stress and having to deal with more than just schoolwork (family, work, personal issues, etc). Though, I don't quite know where I'm going with this idea yet lol.
However, just to give an example... here's something I thought of on the spot: A guy holding his head/ trying to do homework: behind him is a load of other things, such as stacks of textbooks from other classes and/ or parents arguing in the background. To create emphasis, I might make his face blue/ droppy eyes (lack of sleep), or a red forehead or something to show the stress he's in, OR I'll include a clock, colour it blue... and have it be 3AM or something. Near the side/middle I might include text that says: "Is there enough time?", or "This will only take an hour" (so in this sense, that might also show how people learn differently, etc.)
You can either help me refine my idea (perhaps think of a better text for me to write; something more clever? ), or throw some ideas of your own . Anything would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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@firebolt: Oh lol yeah, I actually went over the text with red crayon. Also, I added a bit more background stuff and for the very back, I darkened it and made so it looked like some dark-black-pollution substance is dripping into the ocean from the buildings. Thanks .
So this is the semi-finished piece, right before I handed it in, I fixed the mountain a tiny bit to make it more mountain like, a tiny bit more detail, and a bit of cropping .
http://postimg.org/image/r4ss7snlf/
@trumanb: Very minimalistic I like. Imo I'd change the font or make it a bit more complex tho as it looks like someone just took a pencil and wrote over a piece of art instead of it flowing together with the piece.
@helpingly Thanks!
@trumanb: That looks amazing! Good work!
@firebolt Woops, didn't go on Basil for awhile . Unfortunately I handed in my other project and won't be getting it back until awhile. Anyways, I changed my idea for this project twice lool, originally I was going to do stress (as mentioned above), then I wanted to do popular culture, and now I'm doing something about climate change/ global warming (Inspirations: Leonardo Dicaprio lol)... I actually hate how I change my idea all the time LOL. Anyways, I'm almost done this one. It didn't take much time and was pretty simple (luckily... since I keep changing my idea and it's due tmr). I'm still, possibly, thinking about adding other stuff/ cropping. The text will be red ... lol I hope the quote was funny... I thought it up on the spot ahaha... I was trying to Google quotes, but man, they are so critical and lame o__o.
http://postimg.org/image/fxfy45kg9/
post your last piece! I want to see
@helpingly
@salad
Thanks for the suggestions guys! Glad you liked my idea . I think it will actually work out like you guys said, depending on how well I execute the image. .
@nolen Interesting! Hilarious XD. However, that might be a bit too crowded, and I wanted mine to be fairly simple . Thanks for the suggestion though!!
How Canadians perceive a US person looking like with the US person's thought cloud showing Canadian bacon, moose, south park Canadians, polar bear, beavers, justin bieber, free healthcare, maple syrup, etc. Don't see it as art
I'm not that great into art either, but personally, I think having text really throws away the meaning. Besides that, your ideas are great.
I was summoned by your cry for help.
Unfortunately, I'm not very artistic/creative, so I won't be able to offer many ideas. However, I am able to refine! I really like your idea, but I think that you should omit the words. I'm not extremely familiar with Bansky's work, but as far as I know, his work never has any words to it. I think you should omit the words and leave more interpretation up to the viewer. The beauty of Bansky comes from the abstractness after all.