Exploratory Practices

Initial three themes (Draft)

My partner and I began brainstorming for this brief by using the first word that sprang to mind as the theme. We then attempted to swiftly develop a character using the brief’s specified categories. :

• Gender
• Race/species
• Personality
• Powers
• Architype
• Alignment
• Unique elements

However, because choosing the theme was so random and thoughtless, I didn’t feel like any of these suggestions inspired me. In order to have more options for my characters’ story, I wanted to better explore a theme and, more importantly, the briefs’ themes. After my moodboard and mind map research, I did find that I was leaning towards the third theme because, even though I had written the least about it, I felt like I had more freedom to take the story in any direction while I was doing my research.

National British Museum visit – Research

I went to the British museum to get some Primary Research on Greek sculptures and porcelain vases to help my inspiration for my character design. I was inspired by how detailed the sculptures was at the museum and how despite it being centuries old there weren’t cracks on the sculptures. But I was intrigued to see a lot of headless sculptures which did make me feel uncomfortable to look at cuz of how uncanny the sculptures look without heads. It almost made them look non human.

I then looked at the wide selection of porcelain vases, I really liked the variety of designs which were displayed at the museum. I got to see the backgrounds of some vases which may have affected the patterning of the vase e.g. middle eastern vases which contrasted more east Asian influenced vases which had more animal, complex designs on the vase. It got me thinking about whether patterns in my character can add to the narrative or will it be simply just design choices?

Sculptures

Porcelain Vase Collection