Sustained Investigation #3

The main idea that guided my final sustained investigation was trying to stretch my original inquiry question "what could the future relationship between man and machine look like" to something that didn't just apply to a human and a robot interacting like in the last two. In this piece that relationship being that of a person in a world with high tec advancement, being able to have sci-fi-inspired prosthetic arms, cybernetic eye, and glowing tattoos. The two main inspiration for this piece was cyberpunk fashion and an original character that I created a while back who lives in a cyberpunk-type world, her name is Alia after the character in Dune which is my second favorite .sincefiction series. I used the two to imagine  a futuristic rendition of the high fashion magazine Vogue. I was trying to figure out what a model In the future would be wearing. 

For this project, I used the digital program Procreate. My original sketch was done on paper when I have first inspired to create a cover of Vogue, using images on my Pinterest for general inspiration for the clothing. When I started the final piece I imported a Vogue magazine to crop the canvas to the exact size I needed and to follow the general layout of the text, most importantly the title. After that, Im going to be entirely honest, I finished the entire piece in one sitting. Not from lack of effort,  I put 5 hours into this piece, I put on a youtube video essay and just kept working until I was done. I didn't even notice how much time when by because I enjoyed making it. 

I did not have much of a plane going into this piece, over the core of this entire project I have had many different ideas on what to do for my sustained investigations. From creating a short gif of a person on a hoverboard to a robot controlling a human to achieve world domination I found there was I surprising variety in what I could creat. When it came down to it, a few days before it due, I suddenly had the thought, what about a futuringc magazine cover? From that point on I created the  inishal sketch using cyberpunk clothing as inspiration. Then I found a good reference photo for the posse, and just went with it to complete the piece. The only really experimented with was the color palet but even that came easy after a couple  of tries. Overall I think I enjoyed this piece the most because of how spontaneous yet planed it was.

Refrence photoes for cover and original sketch