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Rocn n Roll-2 rough sketches

I was under the impression this needs to be totally abstract.

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Rock n Roll Research

rock and roll

Musical style that arose in the U.S. in the mid-1950s and became the dominant form of popular music in the world. Though rock has used a wide variety of instruments, its basic elements are one or several vocalists, heavily amplified electric guitars (including bass, rhythm, and lead), and drums. It began as a simple style, relying on heavy, dance-oriented rhythms, uncomplicated melodies and harmonies, and lyrics sympathetic to its teenage audience’s concerns—young love, the stresses of adolescence, and automobiles. Its roots lay principally in rhythm and blues (R&B) and country music. Both R&B and country existed outside the mainstream of popular music in the early 1950s, when the Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed (1921–65) and others began programming R&B, which until then had been played only to black audiences. Freed’s success gave currency to the term rock and roll. The highly rhythmic, sensual music of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets, and particularly Elvis Presley in 1955–56 struck a responsive chord in the newly affluent postwar teenagers. In the 1960s several influences combined to lift rock out of what had already declined into a bland and mechanical format. In England, where rock’s development had been slow, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were found to have retained the freshness of its very early years and achieved enormous success in the U.S., where a new generation had grown up unaware of the musical influences of the new stars. At the same time, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, the Byrds, and others were blending the traditional ballads and verse forms of folk music with rock, and musicians began to explore social and political themes. Performers such as the Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison of the Doors, and Frank Zappa of the Mothers of Invention combined imaginative lyrics with instrumental virtuosity, typically featuring lengthy solo improvisation. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix won large followings with their exotic elaborations on R&B. The 1970s saw the rise of singer-songwriters such as Paul Simon, Neil Young, Elton John, David Bowie, and Bruce Springsteen, and rock assimilated other forms to produce jazz-rock, heavy metal, and punk rock. In the 1980s the disco-influenced rock of Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Prince was balanced by the post-punk “new wave” music of performers such as Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads (led by David Byrne), and the Eurythmics—all of whom illustrated their songs with music videos. By the 1990s rock music had incorporated grunge, rap, techno, and other forms.

Bobby’s Dream

Bobby is a young innocent pig that has been raised in a barn and has never seen outside its fence and walls. The first panel will be a long shot with Bobby sleeping in the barn to show where the story is taking place and how peacefully content Bobby is in the barn.  The second panel will be a close up of Bobby sleeping in the barn done in the synthetic cubism way to portray that he is in a deep comfortable dream state.  The Third panel will show Bobby’s floating dream body happily leaving him to a new world beyond the barn and this will be done in the pop art style to show the excitement and otherworldly dream state he will be in.  So then the fourth panel shows Bobby walking out of the barn and the fifth will show Bobby way beyond the fence and in the big open field where he has never been before.  He is now feeling very nervous and hesitant, especially because the sun light is going away.  Then the nightmare part really sets in and Bobby gets caught in a lightening and thunderstorm way far away from his home.  The seventh panel will show how truly scared Bobby is and how vibrant the storm is behind him by doing this panel in the expressive line style.  The storm starts to slow a little and Bobby stays low with his eyes closed waiting for the storm to pass.  When it finally does he notices that the ground is a new different substance and he’s not sure what to think of it.  So he pokes at it and looks at it while being very confused.  So the tenth panel shows Bobby’s point of view looking at the mud in the black and white style.  I chose black and white for this panel to portray how foreign this “new substance” is to Bobby.  So Bobby notices a worm playing in the new substance under him and stares at it.  He saw how much fun the worm was having in the mud so he decided himself to roll around in the mud.  He is now feeling happier then ever and liberated having ventured outside of the barn and discovering a new substance that is so wonderful.  Then the thirteenth panel reveals that Bobby is still in the barn and he is now rolling in the hay that was all around him while still expressing pure bliss.  The thirteenth panel will be done in metallic art nouveau style to show the glittering and flowing euphoria he is now in after going in to his dream and escaping the storm nightmare and discovering mud.

Bobby’s Story Extension Revised

Dream/Nightmare Theme

 

Bobby is a young innocent pig that has been raised in a barn and has never seen outside its fence and walls. The first panel will be a long shot with Bobby sleeping in the barn to show where the story is taking place and how peacefully content Bobby is in the barn.  The second panel will be a close up of Bobby sleeping in the barn done in the synthetic cubism way to portray that he is in a deep comfortable dream state.  The Third panel will show Bobby’s floating dream body happily leaving him to a new world beyond the barn and this will be done in the pop art style to show the excitement and otherworldly dream state he will be in.  So then the fourth panel shows Bobby walking out of the barn and the fifth will show Bobby way beyond the fence and in the big open field where he has never been before.  He is now feeling very nervous and hesitant, especially because the sun light is going away.  Then the nightmare part really sets in and Bobby gets caught in a lightening and thunderstorm way far away from his home.  The seventh panel will show how truly scared Bobby is and how vibrant the storm is behind him by doing this panel in the expressive line style.  The storm starts to slow a little and Bobby stays low with his eyes closed waiting for the storm to pass.  When it finally does he notices that the ground is a new different substance and he’s not sure what to think of it.  So he pokes at it and looks at it while being very confused.  So the tenth panel shows Bobby’s point of view looking at the mud in the black and white style.  I chose black and white for this panel to portray how foreign this “new substance” is to Bobby.  So Bobby notices a worm playing in the new substance under him and stares at it.  He saw how much fun the worm was having in the mud so he decided himself to roll around in the mud.  He is now feeling happier then ever and liberated having ventures outside of the barn and discovering a new substance that is so wonderful.  Then the thirteenth panel reveals that Bobby is still in the barn and he is now rolling in the hay that was all around him while still expressing pure bliss.  The thirteenth panel will be done in metallic art nouveau style to show the glittering euphoria he is now in after going in to his dream and escaping the storm nightmare and discovering mud. 

 

When is the final due?

Should I do the five panels in watercolor and ink to continue the same look as the original eight panels?

The sketches will get more depth to the panels that need depth once I add color to them.

Thanks,

Jackie

 

Sketches for Extension of Bobby’s Story

The first panel will be a synthetic cubist type of technique of Bobby sleeping.  I thought synthetic would work well here because it can be dreamy looking.  The third panel will be in the Pop Art technique of Bobby’s dream figure leaving his body in fluorescent colors to show the excitement of what will happen in his dream.  In the middle of the storm the 7^th panel will show an expressionistic line technique of Bobby frightened.  After the storm when Bobby sticks his hoof in the mud he will stare at it, as shown in panel 10, and it will appear black and white because it is so foreign to him.  After Bobby rolls around in the “mud” it will show in the last panel how Bobby is actually rolling in the hay where his dream started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a number of examples that I would most likely resemble in my 5 added panels.