Senior Thesis Process Book 1

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A MINI BOOK PROJECT.

By Noe Paparella

Let’s start from the beginning.

Emotional State: Motivated / Anxious Mental Health: Stable

Week 1

Words of advice

Greetings, I hope you all had a relaxing, creatively refreshing summer!

As your thesis faculty, we’re looking forward to working with you this semester. Illustration Thesis is a coherent body of work that acknowledges the broad diversity of illustration practice today. You will develop your thesis project over the course of your senior year, working closely with your thesis faculty. Thesis is an opportunity to make the work you want to make, to create a full, personally satisfying body of work. The creative possibilities are wide open. The field of illustration is remarkably broad, especially now. Illustration allows you to develop a personal visual language that is applicable and communicable across a wide range of uses, purposes, applications and forms.

It is a requirement that the finished work exist in a form we encounter in the world and that could exist in either a digital or analog medium. This is a moment to get excited about the full range of thesis possibilities.

Immerse yourself in sketching, reading and research, and let your thoughts run as freely as possible. We will then work closely with you to help you choose and refine your idea during the semester.

Your ideas may change over the course of working on them. That’s to be expected but you each will have a sense of the direction of your work in the course of the next couple of weeks.

We look forward to working together with you during thesis year and to seeing you next Tuesday!

Yours, Steven

THINGS Digital Art

Whimsicality Humor

Black & White

THAT

Illustrations Pen drawings

Graphic Elements Alex Pardee Hayao Miyazaki Roger Hargreaves

INTEREST Branding Products Marketing

New York Multi Culture Traveling

Design Typography

Character Design Caricature

Animation Motion graphics

People Rumors Gossip

Book Design Comic Book

Narrative Story

Monsters Secrets Taboo

ME

Photography Larry Clark

Anomaly Odity Line art

Text Poetry

I HAVE QUESTIONS What am I going to do for thesis?

Shut up.

INSPIRATION

NO

What past work inspires me most?

Character design.

INTERESTS What am I passionate about?

People.

IDEA

OBSERVATION What do I have?

WHAT Monsters. Too many of them.

IDEAS What are some ideas I have?

I AM Creating a series of characters.

RESOURCES What am I looking for?

Interesting people with stories worth FASCINATION telling.

What people interest you?

DOING The tenants in my building.

What is this?

What do I do now?

Sigh Nervous breakdown.

I don’t know what I’m doing.

I don’t have a project. I feel fustrated.

Fuck

Emotional State: Fustrated / Overwhelmed Mental Health: Somewhat Stable

Week 2

Black Figures

Human Features

Half Human / Half Object

Masks

Half Human / Half Animal

Monsters

Animals & Objects

Others

Emotional State: Discouraged / Sluggish Mental Health: Teetering on insanity

Week 3

NEED

RIGHT NOW I JUST CAN’T FIGURE IT OUT. It seems like no matter how hard I try, how intensely I think about it, I just can’t seem to draw anything.

And I begin to question myself – What if it’s me?

What if I can’t do this?

What if I just stay stuck?

Understanding what I want to draw seems an uphill struggle.

IT’S HARD.

Why?

Because my mind is dead and my hand frozen.

If I keep on talking to myself, overthinking, planning My main problem everything out, is my own mind. engaging my inner critic I will Thinking and keep firing up my drawing don’t left brain. mix.

When I think I engage my logical. I am dominated by the left side of my brain, leaving me with an empty sketchbook and a brand new pen.

MAYBE I JUST THINK TOO MUCH.

MAYBE I NEED A DRINK.

TO DRAW

I need to temporarily hold off my judgment and try not to second guess what I think the drawing should look like, rather than what the drawing actually looks like.

MORE

It is sad that my internal voice hinders my progress.

I am my own opponent.

New Doodles

Emotional State: Stressed / Despaired Mental Health: Delirious

Week 4

WE ALL HAVE ONE OF THESE STORIES — POSSIBLY MORE THAN ONE. I’VE HAD MY FAIR SHARE OF ODD ROOMMATES AND SKETCHY LIVING SITUATIONS, BUT THE PEOPLE IN THIS BUILDING ARE LIKE NO OTHER. AND I AM GOING TO TELL THEIR STORY.

UNNAMED 1

UNNAMED 2 _Dramatic bitch _Dumped a few days before her wedding _Had already bought the dress

_Unemployed coke-head living off his parents’ money _Engaged to another tenant in the building _Broke off the engagement a few days before the wedding

UNNAMED 3 _Old lady _One of the richest tenants in the building _Gives least amount of money for holiday bonuses

UNNAMED 5

UNNAMED 4 _First time doing her own laundry was in 2014 _Freaked out thinking that the laundry machine ate her closed due to the spinning motion

UNNAMED 8 _Blonde roomate duo _Rude bitches _Only say hello to me when I am with guys

_Handsome dad _Used to be reffered as ‘the Italian Stalion’ _Settled with an uglo and now has a kid

UNNAMED 7 _Gay _Total peacock _Dresses like a 20 year old hypebeast _Has been trying to convert the doorman with two kids and wife into being gay for years

UNNAMED 6 _Oldest and wisest doorman _Building’s drug dealer _Brings his own weed to Jamaica

UNNAMED 9 _Works for Nasa _Invented his own mathematical formula _Has been found sleeping at Union Square

ME _Youngest tennant _Hair way too long _Known as ‘skinny slice’

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES _Long hair _Short in height _Skinny body _Big eyes

Me

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES _Bald head _Thug clothes _Very in your face homosexuality _Smily

Unnamed 7

To be continued.

W St