Artist Research:
An artist I am inspired by for this piece is Emikkzo. I don't do digital art very often, only for graphics and when I want to draw fanart and other stylized content. I have never really done a full digital drawing with rendering and such, so I wanted to experiment that. The artist with the outcome I want to achieve the most with this piece is Emikkzo, because I love how obvious the mark and texture making is. The textures are so clear in their pieces as well as the color choices that are so intentional with the piece. There is such a variety of colors and a type of roughness in the pieces that marry together in harmony.

Materials Exploration:
This time I'm going digital as I feel that I need a break from traditional art with how much layering and time it requires. Something I am really excited about is the variety of brushes and how you can use them. For digital work, I have mainly used soft fade brushes to blend but hard brushes in order to create harsh lines and texture making, and that's something I really want to do with this project. Traditional work often muddies different colors, however with digital, you can control it by adding more layers. For this work, I intend to use a variety of brushes to create different types of intensities within the piece.

Ideation:
I feel that my SI has deviated greatly from my original idea of having multiple different causes that lead to loss of identity, and now it is more of me of just exploring the different aspects of the loss of identity through the worlds I place myself in. For this piece, I decided to experiment with the idea of control through a wind up doll representing me. I am being winded up in a room with different doll parts of me. The idea of me only functioning when people turn the wind up function represents how I often feel like I am doing things just because others want me to. The different doll parts represent the constant swapping out I do for other people in order to please them and how the person controlling me can swap it out as much as they please. I don't think I will put a person in this piece other than myself in order to leave the control as ambiguous and up to viewer interpretation. For the clothes, I was thinking of vintage very feminine dresses and wondered if I should play around with the idea of enforced femininity as I have been forced all my life to be a normal girl.

Technical development:
Technical development in digital art is different from traditional. Traditional requires you to understand the techniques you employ when using whatever brush or medium you use. However for digital, you need to understand how you will use the variety of brushes you are given and what mood and texture they will bring out. Layering is also much easier and won't muddy the colors. I intend to use a lot of blending with some soft brushes as well as with some hard brushes to create textures and marks. I want to be able to have the different textures come together and be very cohesive.