Old sketches and current state of work

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Its Crunch time!

Indeed my friends and fellow readers, it's crunch time. The project is officially due next week and it needs to get done no matter what. Depression, anxiety, stress, life's problems can all go to wherever they're supposed to go because they can no longer stay here. This needs to get done. So what does that mean for you? Well, ironically, it means I have stuff to show you about my project.

Right now I've uploaded a series of sketches for the images that are going to be used in the video. Here's an example of one of the sketches (page 4)



As I found through my research, each level of a Tibetan stupa represents a series of practices that help you reach enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma or Shichika Sanjushichidohon). These are the sketches for these practices. On this page I have the images that represent the cattaro iddhipada, which are desire to act, effort, mind and investigation.

I also uploaded three of the finished images:



This is actually the third cattaro iddhipada: Thought.

Finally! The skteches are here

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Warning! Warning!! - - - Perspective and proportion sadly died when I met them. So the sketches are just that: sketches.

Well I finally uploaded the sketches for the three stupa models that I plan to make. The first sketch is that of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, India. This is one of the oldest Stupas built and when compared to the other structures one can see that the main parts of the building are still present in one form or another. In fact if you go to my Flickr site, I put notes on three images to show which are the main parts of each structure.



This is a sketch of a dagoba or stupa from Sri Lanka. Some of the elements, such as the fence, from the Indian stupa may be missing in the Sri lankan structure but the overall look is still quite similar. For example the Dome is still a very prominent part of the stupa.



This one is a sketch of a typical chorten or Tibetan stupa. With these structures two of the most noticeable changes visually is that the dome is much smaller and the spire is much more prominent .