For this project, we are to compose a design based on our prompts from our previous assignments and respond to the questions in regard to our work.
- Of the drawings you created, in which did you consciously address race or ethnicity?
None, in the previous assignment there is no intentional use of race.
- When you did address it, why and how did you address it?
At no point.
- If you did not why not, and how might you address it if you were given another chance?
I hadn’t realized that was an option , but if I could then I would consider that as an alternate style or narrative to use when illustrating.
- Which drawings were the most stereotypical, and why do you think so?
In assignment 2, it’d have to be the illustration involving the ant and the smaller bee. Just because those were two different kinds of insects.
- How might you make them less stereotypical if you were given another chance?
By creating a diverse party based on the prompts provided.
For my prompt “Chicken[s] in the big city”, I took it at face value by illustrating a giant chicken in oil pastel within a lesser detailed city. For ironic purposes, there could have been much more to expand on, but for the sake of capturing a chicken in such a setting I gave this chicken power. As it’s illustrated you will see it throwing tornadoes, but for continuity reasons, there will be no lightning or crackling storm. Instead the chickens massive body creates a gravitational pull and makes it the center of this piece.
The title of this piece, meaning deliberate and unprovoked is meant to convey the chickens unprovoked violence against people who may have lived in this city.