So yeah, normality?

Normality is totally not what happened, but it's my fault. I forgot some stuff was happening this week and I've been totally thrown off by it. However I've had an idea for some drawings that I want to do so I'm pulling out tons of research material on the Art Deco movement and how it's used nowadays. It's for a character redesign project I want to work on (purely for myself so everything will go up here) and I'm looking forward to sharing it.

One of my main inspirations for this was Aaron Diaz, author and artist of Dresden Codak (found here) and his redesign of Batman. Dresden Codak already implements a lot of art deco design in it's architecture and fashion, especially in it's latest story arc, and it's making it a real joy to read.

I must admit in high school I disliked art deco as a design. I prefered gothic architecture and for art I was still finding my feet with surrealism and impressionism. And none of them I indepthly studied. It's something I regret of high school. I was there for so long with people that just wanted to teach me, but I didn't want to be taught. I wanted to learn, but learning something and being taught are different things to me. So now I try to teach myself.

The other thing I'm using as inspiration is the Bioshock games. Mostly a playthrough of Bioshock 2 done by a guy on youtube called Rythian (see his videos here!) He has a tendency to pick gorgeous looking games with great and indepth storylines that are actually pretty fun to play, and the best bit is, he plays them for the story. So there's no talking over any really cool plot points. It's something I really appreciate. And it's good research because a gaming environment cab give a style more depth than it can on paper, so it's a good way to get a feel for the style without visiting tons of art deco style buildings (I believe there's only one where I live. GG)

When I get the redesigns started I'll share the process here. In the meantime we're all still waiting to hear what's happening with the Gishwhes stuff, and I'm hoping to do some engraving tomorrow, if I don't get distracted that is.
Thanks for reading!