Project #4 Exquisite Corpse

Description

Surreal Figure

Partners: Chenwei Zhu and Zhehui Chen

Design Process

After receiving the drawing and the backgrounds from the partners of this assignment, I started to select a portion of those figures. The upper portion is from mine which is an architectural figure by Renzo Piano. Architects use human figures to describe the quality and the quantity of their sketches. This is one of my favorite human figures by Renzo Piano that represent the ideology of his work. The middle part of the sketch is a body of a cat that Chenwei Zhu created based on the image of Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventure in Wonderland. She did costume design for this character when she was an undergraduate student and she was impressed by its mysterious and creepy grin and its gradual disappearance that leaves the eyes and mouth in the air. And the bottom part that Zhehui Chen sent it to me is from one of Kaws’s sculpture, an American artist and designer, that his artwork familiar like the dead people in old western comic (when people dead their eyes gonna change to two XX).

Reflection

By doing this assignment, I have learned how I can have an organized reusable code that is used to perform a single related action. Drawing the middle part of my sketch which was the body of a cat was challenging. Where it made me have a better understanding of where I can use the function that is modular and reusable. Because I needed to draw multiple similar rectangular shapes that were different in location and sizes. So I think it became beneficial to define the function, parameters and the values (arguments) that allowed me to get passed and keep track of my code.