Project #4 Exquistie Corpse --- NEONCAT

Parters: Joshua Davision & Sheethal

Project Description

This sketch is a wild emthustistic cat with humanbody. The clothes with bright color on her is inspired by the style of Harley Quinn who is a character in the DC series. One of the sketches I got from my parter is Harley Quinn as circus clown, and the other is a cat with robot body my parter created for a game for kids education. Thus, after combining them, I decided to create a new character for kids which is a cute cat but with a little characteristics from Harley Quinn that kids might like.

Design Process

To start my project, I drew this new character first on a piece of paper, as the picture shown. I planned out the parts that are needed to write as a function in steps, which are 1. function drawEar, 2. function drawEye, 3. function drawMouth, 4. function drawBeard, 5. function drawNeckdecor, 6. function drawClothes, and 7. function drawFoot. Moving into the P5 editor, as usual I typed down the steps in edit window. I wrote each functions in order, but right after each I would follow to edit the draw function, so that I can see whether the function is working or not. Although I made myself to define and use function as much as impossible, some parts of the sketch is acturally much easier to drew with just the draw function. Lastly, after figuring out the look of my character, I wanted to add exciting pattern on her clothes and add some animation to it. Thus I used second() as the factor of variables to make the pattern and color of her clothes and her eyes vary as second goes.

Reflection

I feel that I am better practiced for this assignment compared to the pervious ones. I can draw things much quicker than I could, but I still a little struggled with drawing curve this time. I am wondering there is a simpler way to do curves for complicated outline or pattern since the characters I received from my parters are more complicated than the simple shapes I did for pervious works. The other thing I was thinking is when should I define a function when it might been able to draw out easier with just draw function. I think the answer to this question is unseen till I have more own creative practices with p5.