Exquisite Corpse: Edward Langwhitt

Description

What we see here is the corpse of a horse headed, furry chested, small legged adventurer named Edward Langwhitt. They were known for their incredible strength, caring nature, and always being the life of the party. Edward would seem to appear out of no where and you never knew what they were going to do next. It was said one time they punched through a boulder to scare one of their friends on the other side as prank. Edward's home was in the mountains of the Adirondack, where they lived a simple life hunting and farming what they needed, feeding birds from the back porch every evening, and hosting friends on the weekends. They will be sorely missed, but the spirit of the adventurous party animal that was Edward Langwhitt will live on forever in our hearts. RIP 2020-2020

Design Process

First my parnters, Eddie Chen, Jasmin Liang, and I exchanged thirds of our drawings using a random number generator to determine who got which parts. Here are the three drawings from our group:

Then I combined all of mine into one reference image, and copied that into pseudo code to get my basic script layout organized. I create a function for each third of the sketch, and used additional functions to draw repetive identical shapes in my drawing.

Reflection

Horse head back story from Eddie Chen: He is one of my roommate in Arizona, when I studied in Arizona State University. We usually do such silly things at home but we felt happy and relaxed at that time. I wanna draw it down because the photo in my phone always reminds me the happy moment with them. Little man legs back story from Jasmin Liang: He's my old neighbour in Chicago who are always feeding birds or watching birds in his backyard. Cat body back story from me: he is a prior reincarnation of my cat Zero when he was some sort of primal predator, lurking in jungles and climbing mountains. I love watching him lurk around like a little cougar, stalking stuffed animals and us sometimes! This project took a lot of time to manually figure out all of the vertices for my custom shapes, hoping I can figure out a way to speed up that part of the process in the future! This also meant that I didn't give myself enough time to stylize or go beyond just literally translating the combined images to code. I think that I would like to combine then images in a more cohessive way as well to really help bring the Edward to life!