Imaginary Digital Towns
From Art Geek:
Imaginary Digital Towns
Tuesday, March 31 2009 UTCLong time no post, due to work obligations which have been substantial of late. But have started once again to steal bits and chunks of time and energy for drawing, painting, and what seems to be the beginnings of yet another return to my obsession with SketchUp, with an eye to using that software
to lay out intricate scenarios for painted works. Examples follow.
The idea in these is to start to develop content in a purely abstract
sense, devoid of the seductions of texture and mark-making… content
as mathematical graphs… a kind of
conceptual geometry, to be iterated upon and refined prior to
rendering, in the same way that digital animation is developed, with
the difference that the final rendering would be done by hand with all the
sensuality of actual paint.
The thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to introduce the wildness
of the figure into my thinking on these… how to introduce character, conflict,
territoriality, or sex, or hunger, or personality. With few exceptions,
computer-drawn figures look pathetically lousy. I need a sort of
placeholder, a SketchUp scaffold to hang the associations which will
develop into hand-drawn figures during the intermediate drawing
stages.
“Research in this area is ongoing.” Oh… and D=2.