Essay: An artist in focus.

In this essay I will be analysing the work of H.R Giger. I have applied the knowledge gained from researching this artist into many pieces of my work. I have used the surreal atmosphere for a surrealism art activity which is located on my blog. I have used this knowledge in my work as I like working with surrealism and it is easy to create art work than some other artists that I have looked at. I have also chosen this artist as I have looked at him before and quite like the work that he has produced over the years.

H.R Giger was born in 1940 in Chur in Switzerland. When Giger was young the blackest places would interest him, he even wore black clothes when he was allowed to dress himself. He played in dark areas, one of those areas was under a table of a windowless room.  Giger found the circus the most interesting in his youth, he would go to almost every performance using the endless varieties of secret entrances in order to watch without having to pay. Giger went to a Catholic kindergarten which, there was a lot of praying and if you did something naughty you were shown a picture of Christ's face streaming with blood, this is what caused Giger to like the sight of flowing blood which caused him to create a sculpture of a head that was bleeding. Giger spent 6 junior-school years at a 'model school', Giger had a teacher who taught him to model, draw and set build. Giger changed subjects every year to avoid repeating a class but was failed a math test, Giger was unable to afford to repeat a year and was off to Lausanne where he received his first English lesson. (HR GIGER ARh+, 1991)

Giger was sent to Grisons architect as a trainee at the age of 18 for lack of good grades. He was prompted by his love of drawing. In the event of bad times in the future he was guaranteed a safe profession of construction draughtsman. He had created a ‘Ghost Train’ which was a one-way ride which started at the entrance of Storchengasse 17 and was led via a double hairpin bend to a swing door. Giger and a group of his friends had created skeletons, corpses and monsters to go in the corridor and had stolen low-voltage battery lamps from bicycles in order to give the corridor an eerie feeling. After three years at elementary school Giger looked at books by Karl May and Edgar Wallace, he then moved on to thrillers such as “The Waxworks” and “The Phantom of the Opera” in which he struck that his ghost train was ‘rather primitive’. He then converted a room to a black room and refurbished it for a place for jazz sessions. (HR GIGER ARh+, 1991)

Giger’s first publication was in 1959, the “Atomkinder” (Nuclear Children) which he used to sketch in the margins of plans were published in underground magazines such as ‘Clou’ and ‘Hotcha’ and in the Chur Canton school magazine.In 1966 Giger produced pictures that originated from his dreams. His parent’s house had a stairwell that had a secret window, Giger would imagine gigantic and bottomless shafts in pale yellow light. Giger’s neighbour told him that there were two subterranean passages in Chur, since it was closed up by a locked door it inspired Giger to draw sinister images of a monstrous labyrinth where danger awaited. (HR GIGER ARh+, 1991)

In the summers of 1966 – 69, Giger produced sculptures in addition to his ink drawings. His sculptures were “Bettler” (Beggar), “Lebenerhalten” (Preserve life) and his first E.T for F.M. Murer’s film “Swiss-made”. In an age where the classic words of the Surrealists – “As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella” – could become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb. There was also a surge of interest in biomechanoids. (HR GIGER ARh+, 1991)

In 1968 people saw Giger’s publication of his “Biomechanoids” screen-print portfolio, Giger understood these as a harmonious fusion of technology, mechanics and creature. In 1963 Giger developed a 3-section design of his drawing, “Atomfreak”.Giger’s work has evolved over the years, from starting with ink drawings and sculptures to airbrush work of biomechanoids to furniture sculpture. Giger also made the Xenomorph from the “Alien” movie, he painted almost 30 pictures in 3 months. (ARh+, 1991)

 

Giger’s work was set in dark and eerie places with biomechanoids or mysterious creatures that only he could create. He would “reach back into our biological memories”, one of his pieces of work was inspired by a German refuse collection in action. Giger took pictures of this and created different versions of this passage, he was using psychedelic painting in an attempt for every possible reality.

There was more than one Passage that he made, each one was different in order to show different versions of this photo that he took, one of them looks like an eye as there are lines coming from the middle which looks a little like small

veins. The top right of the image on the right looks like the eye.

Another looks like the refuse is melting and the liquid is running down into the passage, this is on the left, bottom right of the page.

There is also one that Giger created which looks like a woman’s private part entrance in place of where the refuse collector normally is, two others also look like objects being pushed into the passage, these look like the male private part. (HR GIGER ARh+, 1991)

These are all the different passages that Giger created.

Each of these were painted with acrylic onto cardboard / wood.

These images are from the HR GIGER ARh+ book.

Giger’s work was created using an airbrush, Giger believes that you have only truly mastered the airbrush when the technique is no longer visible in the picture. Although he then decided to abandon large airbrush works and moved to pastels, markers or ink. Giger had mostly worked on paper or wood surfaces using acrylics or inks, whichever he deemed best to use. (Wikipedia, n.d.) (HR GIGER ARh+, 1991)

In the ARh+ book,  in the foreword, Giger is described at the official portrait photographer for the Golden Age for Biology and that his work disturbs us because of its enormous evolutionary time-span and how it shows us clearly where we came from and where we are going. (ARh+, 1981)

Giger’s work evolved over the years, between each media, or between his biomechanoid paintings. These are the most memorable from his alien work, as it was in the move, which made people look at his acrylic, ink and airbrush work. He also created furniture designs, the Harkonnen Capo Chair was for a movie of the novel Dune which was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky but was directed by David Lynch years later. Giger has also had two Giger Bars built in his native Switzerland in Gruyères and Chur, these were built under his close supervision and reflects his orininal concepts for them accurately. (Wikipedia, n.d.)

When Giger first began his work, he did not attract many people but after some time his work became well known and brought people’s attention to him and his creations. His Alien received a lot of good feedback as it was shown in the movie ‘Alien’ and became well known. Giger’s work on the Alien movie won him an academy award and brought his artwork to the attention of those who didn’t know about him already. (H.R. Giger’s Alien: A Brief History Of The Man And the Monster, 2012) Many people loved Giger’s work and bought his creations as it inspired them, they also paid tribute to him when he parted which shows that many people’s views on Giger’s work were good.

 Giger passed away in 2014, 12^th May after sustaining injuries in a fall. When Ridley Scott heard about this news he said: "I am very saddened to hear of Giger's passing. I think back on how committed and passionate he was, and then consequently, all the security we built up around his 'lock up' studios at Shepperton. I was the only one allowed the honour of going in, and I absolutely enjoyed every hour I spent with him there. He was a real artist and great eccentric, a true original, but above all, he was a really nice man. He will be missed." (Sci-fi surrealist HR Giger, creator of Alien visions, dies in fall, 2014)

H.R Giger has left a legacy with us when he passed away. His acrylic, ink and airbrush art work, his sculptures and his Alien creation. Giger took his work to that dark and biomechaniod place which would have inspired a younger and newer range of artists. His work has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Under a licensing deal Ibanez guitars released an H.R. Giger signature series which, this is another legacy for Giger. (Wikipedia, n.d.)

He has challenged how we think of Surrealism, instead of something to do with a lighter side of the subconscious or dreams, he has taken a darker way which has given Surrealism a modern edge. I myself am inspired by Giger’s work as I have used some of his art to influence my own work, the dark eerie settings and biomechanoid world. His legacy will be lived through his work for a very long time and influence many others along the years, his biomechanoid world is very interesting and hard to not have an impact. His Xenomorph creation has lived on in the movie ‘Alien’ and even though it has been slightly adapted to a modern look, it is still from Giger’s work and whenever they see this alien they know what it was created by no one else but Giger.

This is the piece of art work that I will be analysing by H.R Giger.

This piece of art work shows the two pentagrams on each side, one the right way on the left with a white creature hanging onto it while the reverse on the right hand side has a dark creature hanging onto it. The background looks to be covered in pipes and iron bars on the sides with a naked woman figure in the white sections that are just about visible. There are also two snakes, one wrapped around each pentagram. In the middle is a demon looking person as the body looks human of some sort while the face looks to be of a three horned bull / creature. There are two entwining snakes in front of the creature. Above this creature is a naked female with arms and legs outstretched on what looks to be a half hidden pentagram.

There are many formal elements used in this image, the main ones are line, pattern, texture, shape and tone. There are lines almost everywhere which separates between each part of the art and strengthened certain parts of this image, the texture adds to this as it makes the background look more 3-d with the pipes round shape as well as the human like figures, it also emphasises a dirty and mechanical look. There is a pattern to this image, although it’s not entirely clear, both sides are somewhat symmetrical, both sides have a pentagram with a creature of light or darkness clinging onto it. So, if you were to slice the image straight through the middle, most of it would be the same, with a few differences. This image lacks colour but makes up for it in tones, the colour-less image emphasises Giger’s dark, eerie and mysterious work, the creatures have heavily toned blacks and greys which grabs your eye almost instantly as you look closer to see what these tones are trying to create, while the lighter tones catch your glimpse while you scan over, they also make you look twice to properly take in this image.

Although this art work doesn’t show a human person exact, the interpretation of creature and human mixture give it a better portrayal. The closest you get to a human being is the half concealed naked woman in the background.

Trying to interpret this piece of work can be very difficult as there can be more than one interpretation. But what I see is a creature in the middle between two sides, the light side and the darker side, while the female being outstretched is unable to decide which one. The creature like man with the snakes seems to be in the middle, as if the one who is the gate to each side. However it also looks like there is no easy option to decide, as if both the light and dark will always be there.

This is one of my favourite pieces of art work from Giger, I have also created a few pieces of work that was inspired from this exact work. I think that it is a very successful piece of work and has shown Giger’s work in numerous ways. I quite like the creature in the middle and each pentagram’s side. The dark and eerie background emphasis this effect. I myself wouldn’t change anything about this at it would ruin something as beautiful as this.

References

ARh+. (1981). In HR GIGER ARh+ (p. 4). Hollywood.

ARh+. (1991). In Taschen, HR GIGER ARh+ (pp. 48, 57).

H.R. Giger’s Alien: A Brief History Of The Man And the Monster. (2012, May 31). Retrieved from What Culture: http://whatculture.com/film/h-r-gigers-alien-a-brief-history-of-the-man-and-the-monster.php

HR GIGER ARh+. (1991). In Taschen, HR GIGER ARh+ (p. 46). Gaby Falk, Cologne.

HR GIGER ARh+. (1991). In HR GIGER ARh+ (pp. 16, 34).

HR GIGER ARh+. (1991). In HR GIGER ARh+ (pp. 8, 10).

HR GIGER ARh+. (1991). In HR GIGER ARh+ (p. 14).

HR GIGER ARh+. (1991). In HR GIGER ARh+ (p. 70).

HR GIGER ARh+. (1991). In HR GIGER ARh+ (p. 44).

Sci-fi surrealist HR Giger, creator of Alien visions, dies in fall. (2014, May Tuesday). Retrieved from theguardian: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/13/hr-giger-dies-alien-artist

Wikipedia. (n.d.). Retrieved from H. R. Giger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger

 

Different art paths: Anime and Manga

Art can even be extended to things like anime and manga. Manga which can be literally read as 'whimsical drawings' are comics that was created in Japan or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language. Anime which is a shortened form of 'animation' are Japanese animated cartoon videos.

Design with an art movement

We were told to choose an art movement that we liked and to choose a piece of art from that movement. I chose Surrealism and chose this picture, I then gathered some information about the piece and who it was by. This chosen image was then placed onto a T-shirt design. This is the outcome.

First hand research

I have been to a portrait museum in London where I have gotten pictures of art work that I liked. Out of all that I took, these two were my favourite ( and they were one of the few that weren't blurry ) These were from the portrait gallery. I had also been to the national gallery museum but nothing caught my attention.



This was the first picture that I took. The woman in this picture is also a actress for the movie, Harry Potter, she plays as Bellatrix. When I saw it I was expecting a darker picture, something to go with her actor character but was surprised to see an autumn setting. ( The little plaque under the picture said this was an autumn evening ) The picture looks quite old, as in set in old times, due to the pale oranges, yellows and pinks. The lack of outline on the house behind shows that it is not as important as the woman who is in the middle, the darker lines indicate that she is the main attraction for this painting. Although this painting has that olden look / feel to it, her face looks to be more modern, as if you were looking at a person in modern time, in an olden setting. This is why this painting was one of my favourites out of all the others, also because she was my favourite character from the Harry Potter movies.




This was the second picture that I took, this was in the same room as the first picture, but on the opposite wall. What got my attention was the gold crown on the mans head and how that stood out from the dark background. Although he isn't wearing bright colours, you are grabbed to the attention as his forward posture almost looks as if he is watching you closely. The background wasn't that easy to see what was going on as it had many dark greens and blues that any buildings or objects were masked. It did however look like a very old building behind, with a cobble looking road. I don't remember exactly as it never got my attention as much as the man with the crown. I was also more intrigued on his clothing, it looks to be a soldier uniform, like a general. Even though this painting is quite dark and eerie, I do think that this is a beautiful painting as you aren't bored of looking at it due to its darkness, but it brings you in to look closer to decipher. ( I didn't look at the plaque for this painting so I am unable to say what is actually going on )

Decalcomania technique work

During lesson we used paint on plastic boards to try and create the decalcomania technique. By placing different paints on the board and mixing them to create different colours I then placed pieces of paper for a few seconds and peeled it off causing different patterns. I will work into some of these patterns.

 

This is one of the scans. The way the paint stuck to the paper has caused a snake like pattern to appear. I decided to open it up in Photoshop and draw an outline of the shape which I will then work over. This is the outline without the picture. You can clearly see the snake's head and mouth shape.












This is the snake completed as an abstract piece. I decided to stick to the purple colours and colour each empty space and painted space. The very light purple is where the white spaces where and the darker shades of purple are from the paint colour. This took me around 3 hours to do as it required me to paint each section, go over the gaps and fix any mistakes, to then fade it a little and go over areas that required detail.

Art Movement: Surrealism artists

Here are some surrealism artists, I have chosen these 3 images to look at.

Salvador Dali 'Sleep'

I quite like this painting by Salvador. The face is being help up by wooden crutches, it also looks as if its just balanced right and any movement will cause it to fall and wake the face up. The background is quite barren apart from a temple looking building on the far right. This gives a hint that this is drawn in the dream, that it is not real.

Giorgio de Chirico 'Melancholia'

Max Ernst 'Europe after the Rain II' Decalcomania technique

This is a Decalcomania technique. Paint is placed on a board of some sort with some water, you mix the paint and water around and place a piece of paper down then peel it off. It leaves a paint mark that you are able to work into with paint brushes or pens / pencils. This was created using this technique. I quite like the look of this and it does look like the buildings have been eroded away after the rain, part of the buildings are slumped or not there to show the damage. I have also tried this technique with my own work.

Different art paths: Tattoos

There are different ways to express art, for example. Tattoos. This kind of art is permanent as it is inked into your skin (unless you get it removed) which can express your personality or thoughts. In a way they express you in images like words couldn't. Some people get small ones that dot around their body, some go over the top and are covered from head to toe. But either way, its their way of expressing themselves and it is a very creative way. People can design their own ones and get artists to tattoo it for them, to be unique, or they can choose ones from collections that they find that speaks to them as such.

 These are a selection of tattoos from Google. I quite like these tattoos as they have been inked out precisely and has left a magnificent piece of art work on the person. Even if it wasn't meant to show someone's personality, it still looks pretty good.




















Some tattoo designs can be drawn on paper and taken to the artists, or you can use pictures for the tattoo.

Tattoos have meanings, for example, a tear drop by someone's eye can mean a lengthy prison sentence, but more than likely it means that the wearer has committed murder. Another is having 3 dots on the hands or around the eyes, it means 'mi vida loca' or 'my crazy life', it's not associated with any particular gang but the gang lifestyle itself.

Playing cards, or suits of the deck in general will usually indicate an inmate who likes to gamble, it can also represent a person who generally views life as a gamble. The tattoo is very popular in Russian prisons, where each deck has its own meaning;
Spade: represents a thief.
Clubs: Symbolize a criminal in general.
Diamonds: are reserved for stoolpigeons and informants - if the cards have this deck, then it was likely applied with force.
Hearts: Implies that someone is looking for a romantic partner in the prison, which may also be forcibly applied.


There are 5 types of tattoos, traumatic tattoos, also called 'natural tattoos' that results from an injury, especially asphalt from roads or pencil lead; amateur tattoos; professional tattoos, both from traditional methods and modern tattoo machines, cosmetic tattoos which is also known as 'permanent makeup' and medical tattoos.

Many tattoos can serve as rites of passage, marks of status or rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations of bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, protection and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts. The symbolism and the impact of these tattoos vary in different places and cultures.

The tattoos show how a person feels about a relative or about an unrelated person. These days people choose to have tattoos for artistic, cosmetic, sentimental/memorial, religious and magical reasons, as well as to symbolize their belonging to a particular group, such as criminal gangs or a particular ethnic group or law-abiding subculture.


Tattooing wasn't recent, it has been practiced for many centuries is many different cultures spread throughout the world. For example, the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did the Austroasians.

Surrealism excersises

This is a drawing of a zombie in a suit. During lesson we were asked to draw something from a dream or a nightmare, one of my recent dreams was of me being in a zombie apocalypse and decided that I would draw a zombie as I am no good at drawing any detail so it is quite sketchy. I decided to give lots of marks as if the skin had cracks and parts were mauled off. For example the arm with no shoulder, part of the brain showing and no ears. This was drawn with only charcoal there are no pencil marks underneath, drawn straight from charcoal which means that any mistakes will be part of the drawing. Since the lines were quite light I decided to go over them while pressing hard on the charcoal which made the outlines darker and thicker. This meant that the lighter marks wasn't going to blend into one mess.

The right shoulder of the zombie looks bigger on purpose due to I didn't want it to look plain and boring facing forward. So I decided to have it leaning forward on one side slightly, as if swinging its arms back and forward when it takes a step forward. 

 

 

These are pieces of work that I did in class. We had to take out 3 words at random from a bag of other words and create images from those three words. These are what I created from each combination, I even wrote what the words were so that others knew what I was trying to make.

Some are quite silly and some are plain and simple as there may have not been more than one or two combinations.

Some are quite surreal if you look at each one individually, they are something that you wouldn't think to draw randomly, they were created with a mixture of words.

Art Movement: Dadaism

Dadaism

 

Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916 which spread to Berlin shortly thereafter, but the height of the New York Dada happened the year before in 1915. The roots of Dada lay in pre-war avant-garde, the movement was caused by a reaction to World War One, Nationalism and Rationalism.

 

The key artists in the movement are: Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hanna Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Ducham, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Richter and Max Ernst, among others.

 

Dada had influences and the main ones were Abstraction and Expressionism and to a lesser extent, Futurism. Dada was created and intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewers, typically shock or outrage. Using an early form of shock art, the Dadaists pushed mild obscenities, scatological humour (Toilet humour, or scatological humour, is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, urination and flatulence, and to a lesser extent vomiting and other body functions.), visual puns and everyday objects which were renamed as "art" into the public eye.

 


Different art paths: My work

I have created different art works, although they aren't as amazing as artists I've researched, they are a good standard to match my skill of work. But that can all change over the years as I practice more and learn new things.



This is one of my paper drawings, normally I am unable to draw things like this on demand, I have a strange way of drawing something once and unable to re create it, I tend to use this to my advantage. I love drawing things like dragons, the scales and the wings, the horns and the spikes. Its like drawing a dangerous and mystical freedom.



These two are the first of my digital drawings. The 'Zyalsas' was a creation of my DeviantArt name, I thought that before I make any art, I'd have to create my name, right? This was before I got my Huion tablet, so these two were created with a mouse. The wings in the title were partly traced as I haven't covered how to draw wings just yet. This wolf below was random, I was messing about in a new software and created the moon, and I thought, a wolf might look good with this. It took me awhile but I'm proud it is the first of my many digital paintings to come, but all in due time.




I have also decided to draw a sword with my Huion tablet. I decided to give it a blue shimmer to look like lightning was coming off of the blade, the markings on the top of the blade were random and I thought it'd make the blade look more cooler with it on.

Art Movement: Impressionism

Impressionism

 

Impressionism is one of the movements I will be looking at. Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that began with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.

 I quite like impressionism art works as the artists don't sit around in their houses or desks trying to create art but instead they go out and capture what  is happening around them, events or memories that can't be captured with a camera. It makes the work even more beautiful. For example the piece on the left of a dog shaking the water off captures the movement of the dog and how the water would look like in slow motion, the drops flying out in every direction while the dog's skin and fur move around. This art piece is called 'Shakin' off the blues by Iris Scott'

 

 

'The cliffs at Etretat by Claude Monet' shows the beauty of the cliff and sea landscape combines, instead of re creating this effect on any paper, the artist has gone out and seen something like this and captured it, the oil work on the canvas gives the cliffs, sky and sea a rougher and natural look.

'Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh' This is one of my favourite pieces of art work from Van Gogh, the loose brush strokes gives off a one motion feel to his work, as if it wasn't just paint in his work. The way the sky, stars and moon work together in the sky is recreated in a different way but still looks stunning. The village below doesn't capture the eye at first glance but brings the viewer in once they've looked at the starry night. (This is Post Impressionism) 

'Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande-Jatte by Georges Seurat' This is also a art work I like from the Impressionism genre. I had learnt about this art work when I was in primary school and couldn't believe that this was created with tiny dots of paint. This kind of skill created something amazing, this artist was able to be outside in the environment and create this art work which then inspired other artists, although they could never reach this unique skill, they went on to create works of art. I like this art work because the way the artist has captured the shade and where the sun is, it shows that this wasn't recreated in an office type of environment.

Art Movement: Futurism

Futurism

 

Futurism lasted from 1909 - 1944.

Futurism is a revolutionary Italian movement that celebrated modernity, the vision was outlines in a series of manifestos that had attacked the long tradition of Italian art in favour of a new avant-garde.

They had glorified industrialization, technology and transport along with speed, noise and the energy of urban life.
Futurism celebrated the advanced technology and urban modernity, committed to the new the members wished to destroy the older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of modern life.

These are some Futurism art pieces that I quite like, the first one is a mixture of warm colours with a few cold colours near the bottom. Although you cant make sense of what is happening entirely, it still has a sense of mystery of what the main purpose of those figures are or what made the artist create this. It is created by Carlo Carrà, 'Funeral of the Anarchist Galli' 1910-11.

 

This painting was made by, Umberto Boccioni. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, printmaker and writer and as one of the principal figures of Futurism he had helped shaped the movement's revolutionary aesthetic as a theorist and an artist. His art was concerned with dynamism of form and with a breakdown of solid mass in his sculpture he continued to influence artists long after his death.









This painting is called 'Elasticity by Umberto Boccioni 1912'. This has a lot more warm colours than the other two which makes the painting seem more happy. The reds, oranges and yellows take up most of the centre of the painting, while some blues and greens take the outer edges. Although you cannot see what the painting is trying to mean it is still something beautiful to look at. By the top right corner it looks like ship sails, although I'm not sure what its meant to represent, it does fit with the rest of the work.

Different art paths: Minecraft

 

There isn't a set path for art. There are many different versions of each art category and many more versions of those categories, it all depends on the artist and what they see. There is a lot of gaming artists, those who create things in the games or create interpretations of those games.
For example, Minecraft, this is a sandbox game which thousands of people play all over the world, you can create art in the game or art of the game. Art in the game is called 'Pixel art' because the game is made up of cubes, it is almost like a pixel on a screen. These are some examples of my favorite pixel art works. (Images are from google)

From small creations:

 To larger and more complicated:










Even to 3-D:

These are works of art called 'Fan art' viewers of streamers or normal players create art work of events that occurred in game:

These are fan arts of the map 'Mianite' in which , Captainsparklez, Omgitsfirefoxx, SynHD and iijeriichoii play in with other people. They stream everyday and play on this world which has a story line in which they are part of and as they go along, they uncover new things. The viewers create art work like this for them.

 This kind of work got me inspired to draw digitally rather than on paper, even though I preferred working with pencil to paper as it felt that I had to be more precise with my work. Most digital art goes into detail with shading and shape of the people but having something simple and cartoony can still have a great affect on people as it can give a more humorous side to the art or the event being captured.



Sometimes people also create animations of Minecraft. For example, if something funny happens in an episode or stream, some people create short animations of that event for others to watch and laugh at. I do not own these videos, I just enjoy watching it as it is brilliantly made and very funny hence why I am sharing it here.