Yah Joe Meek. Joe Meek was kind of a legendary person in experimental electric/pop music. He didn't do rock but pop music. He died too soon and haven't showed everyone else what he has got. "The genius always dies soon." the old chinese sayings are right. He had a tough life, gone over amazing success and then depression then went low and low and then "BOOM" to the bottom.
Even til now, I don't feel confident about the project, I can't tell which part is good enough to show or to work with. I don't find a particular exciting bit. I felt quite disappointed of myself cause nothing exciting came out. I thought of big stuffs, big ceramic scupltures. I didn't like it at the end.
P.S. I can't deal with stop-frame now. Not sure about the storyboard. I don't like the idea of creating a story from him for him. Sounds totally fake.
Okay so i didn't realize i can't do big drawings. I thought of making big oil pastel drawings. I love oil pastels and it looks vibrant in big scale. It was quite hard to manage in small scale (the details particularly!) In my first drawing, Meek was sweet and happy, working in his studio, with rosy cheeks and bright eyes.
Yah I wanted to talk about the workshop. As mentioned, my original plan was to make 3D objects. I was to make Joe Meek's doll. Its height is about held a human ( toe to hip) and/or a box of miniatures /stuffs related to Joe Meek's life. It's like a treasure box or a living habitat.
I got these plans then I wen to the object workshop. Michelle was there. We were asked to work with paper tubes and make something out. I didn't feel comfortable working in this way.
We talked about my plans and my focus in Joe Meek's depression and inspiration. She didn't like it. You have to shoe the whole broad view of his life. plus don't include too much despair but success. Make the happy ones.
SIGH
I am only attracted to the despair in his life to be honest.
A SHOCK
A BIG SHOCK
so i was very demotivated after the workshop. I knew it sounds like an excuse but it really wasn't. I felt lost.
I realised I was very weak to defeat and disappointment. Not a good thing.
After that, I started to draw Joe Meek and his inspirations. Tutorials was great. I need guidelines and suggestions.
Dreams and Joe Meek's inspirations for his songs. These are the only thing that I am interested in. Dreams : communication with Buddy Holly
Inspirations: space , telstar, satellite, the there world.
I like the drawings. But some looks very different from some others so it doesn't quite form an obvious flow/connection. I would not want a STORY (beginning, climax, end etc). The book shouldn't be a obvious ongoing storyline. There shouldn't be a story. Story is only one part of the life from one particular person\s perspective. There should be some connections between drawings while being quite loose.
so I made more drawings to fit into the main one I like. I turned to charcoal + oil pastels + crayons drawings. They look like sketches. They got more mood than the better finished pieces.
sounds difficult but it wasn't. I tried to make the book double sided. The pagination was quite complicated.
First trial : I thought i have to include the blank page for my hardback binding but no wasn't needed. Plus i used RGB instead of CMYK. Plus my 3mm bleed missing. So I have to this all over again.
Second trial: seems nice. There's some difference between RGB and CMYK. The colours went pale but more neon. The level and curve options gone. the images are less dramatic. i like it this way, more depressing.
I am printing in LCC. So many people on the queue. I am number 95 and it's now 78 i guess.
HOPE I CAN MAKE IT WITHIN TODAY PRAY
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