All cultures show that human experience seems to have a need of having an organised principle to our world. Something which we can understand and make sense of how we came into being.
First there has to be a creative force that appears, then everything else follows on. By taking opposing sides such as Heaven and Earth, day and night, male and female, good and evil etc.. all myths and stories fall into one category or another.
The various categories are as follows.
- Creation from Chaos
- Earth Diver
- Emergence
- Ex Nihilo (out of nothing)
- World Parent
- One brother killed by the other
Having so many stories to choose from i decided to look at a number of factors:
Is it too complicated are there too many factors to the story?
too many, too much
Is it going to be visually interesting?
Compositions and storyboarding to work this out
Are the characters believable?
what do they add to story?
I have only considered stories that were cohesive and relatively uncomplicated as myths go. The first choice was the Maori creation myth which comes under the World Parent category. This threw up an interesting set of visuals and a possibly muted colour palette.
Other choices considered were Pan Ku the Chinese myth of creation, which i feel came under the creation from Chaos category. Producing a slightly shorter version of creation than the Maoris but equally interesting.
The third myth chosen was.. either going to be Japanese or African.
More research to do to choose this last one.
I looked at various other artists such as Sarah Yoon and her pullout book Go to the moon.
I also spent time looking at Oskar Fischenger's Optical Poem (1938) and his other art work.
These images remind me something of a planetary formation happening.
I also like the style of Sandra Dieckman
Absolutely beautiful, i think this collage type painted imagery is something similar to my previous work on Emus last year.
I have also looked at Luke Pearsons comic storyboarding on his Hilda books for influence in page compostions.
More research to do to choose this last one.
I looked at various other artists such as Sarah Yoon and her pullout book Go to the moon.
I also spent time looking at Oskar Fischenger's Optical Poem (1938) and his other art work.
These images remind me something of a planetary formation happening.
I also like the style of Sandra Dieckman
Absolutely beautiful, i think this collage type painted imagery is something similar to my previous work on Emus last year.
I have also looked at Luke Pearsons comic storyboarding on his Hilda books for influence in page compostions.
