Project #4 Exquisite Corpse

Description

An unusual mermaid with a fish head, a minion's body, and human legs.

Design Process

My partners: Mang Kipgen, Shivanjali Verma, Yiwen Zhang

The drawings I selected are the fish by Mang representing a school teacher (the first picture), Yiwen’s minion (the second picture), and my own anthropomorphic flowers representing different moods and personalities (the third picture). The resulting sketch is composed of a fish head, a minion’s body, and the legs from my flowers (the last picture). I didn’t realize until I put them together that the combination of the three generates an unusual mermaid figure. The mermaids that we normally conceive have human faces and fish tails, while in this case, it’s the other way around. This was an interesting surprise for me. The background I incorporated represnts water in reference to the mermaid.

The process of this sketch was the most complicated for me so far. I haven’t really encountered a lot of organic shapes in the previous assignments, so I’m not really familiar with the bezier or vertex function. This was my first opportunity to work extensively with the vertex and bezierVertex function. It was challenging as first because I was having trouble visualizing the coordinates. It took me a while to figure out a way to make the process easier. I used the text function to make the coordinates of mouseX and mouseY visible. This saved me a lot of troubles because I was able to just hover my cursor over the desire position to find out the approximate coordinates to sketch.

Reflection

This assignment was really intriguing because it was a combination of ideas and sketches from different people. It was extremely fun to see different narratives unfold while playing around with different ways of assembling. I also learned a lot in terms of coding with this projects. I was able to practice and finally figure out easier ways to work with the vertex and Bezier function which I’ve deliberately avoid in the past. Moreover, I learned to use the User-defined functions, and arguments and parameters. It was a good opportunity to practice the idea of modularity which makes my codes a lot more condensed and clear.