Week 6:Impossible Fiction, One Instrument

Craft: The drawing was made on an iPAD app called Procreate. I used a variety of tools to illustrate my fictional character, mainly a chalk pencil mark which provided the furry texture I desired. The music was made using Garage Band.
Concept: The concept of this project was to create a piece of art and music using a specific set of rules. For the drawing, the rules were to not draw people, make a total of 5 drawings or make a drawing within the theme "Impossible Fiction". I chose the later theme, making a creature that is built of a rabbit, ram, and leopard. The musical piece required that we use only one instrument or use recordings/narration. I chose to make my piece of music with one instrument: the piano.
Composition: For the drawing, I thought mainly about how much of each animal had to be represented in a way that the viewer could identify each animal. I wanted the rabbit to be the most visible so that's why it is the head of the creature. The ram is most noted for its horns so I decided to replace the rabbit's ears with the horn. Since I didn't want to make the body primarily a ram's body, I decided to give it a snow leopard's body based on the color scheme I had started to establish of grays, black, and white. I used a separate layer to make a background that I thought gave a sort of mystical presence in the vibrant colors and light effects. Concerning the music, I only  used one instrument within the app's piano category, Those instruments were the arcade synth and the grid bass which gave an 8-bit video game quality. I wanted to play around with different melodies that could act as a drum's baseline although I couldn't use drums and differing melodies with low pitches and high pitches. I focused a lot on contrasting sounds although they were made by the same instrument.