Trump

I chose this image of Donald Trump because its an EXCELLENT drawing. The facial expression is so trump. He's a great candidate for caricaturing because he has a very distinct look that just begs to be exaggerated (I appreciate a good caricature-able face) and all his meme's are known for using his recognizable facial expressions like this one or some of the goofy faces he makes when he disagrees with something

The image (by Jason Seiler)  was taken from a magazine article titled "Fire the Rich: a radical fix for the economy that greed destroyed", so I'm assuming he's the rich who's being "fired"

works by Tom Tykwer

For this assignment I chose to watch some of the works by Tom Tykwer.

The reason I chose him was he directed the movie "cloud atlas" which has been on my list of "must sees" for awhile! Besides Cloud atlas, I also watched his shorts "True" and "Epilog" 
(on a less related note, I also finished watching "eXistenZ" and holy cow that ending was weird but I kinda liked it)
Cloud Atlas was PHENOMINAL. So much so that when the movie was over we all just kinda sat in silence and contemplated what 
was real life and what was just the movie. So much so that I also listened to the book the night we finished the movie.
The idea that one life can carry over and be influential to the next life was extremely interesting. 
the fact that in a few cases the love interest
was also reincarnated into the life was neat as well and made for a kind of a flowing, strange love story.

this style was carried over into "true" and "epilog" as well. Both were flowing stories about love and a couple.
In true the couple separate after a long montage of their relationship slowly deteriorating. This is the same for 
"epilog, except for the the relationship in this one deteriorates in minutes and ends in death. 
Tom Tykwer is very good for showing a lot of things happening in a very short amount of time.

for example in true, he shows this couple's entire, multiple year relationship using a bunch of cut shots and some narration but the audience really feels that a lot of time has passed. This happens as well in cloud atlas. The main characters are all technically the same person, over hundreds of thousands of years. but it's filmed in a way that we can real each life individually as the story is being told, without sacrificing any time. 

My voice as an artist

Well this is kind of a hard question. 
I think it might be almost easier if I got my concept teacher to write this for me. I guess I’m a sucker for oddball love stories. Quirky, different kinds of love stories with weird twists and I always appreciate when something I’m not expecting to happen happens. This comes through in my works. Such as my current concept project: its about the grim reaper falling in love with a high school Goth girl, my last concept project was about a skateboarding bagel trying to find love and when he fails at trying to impress a girly doughnut he accidently splits apart and falls in love with his “other half”. 
I also often write about birds (wings, flying) and dreams. Birds are something I’m passionate about, and I’ve always dreamed of flying. Dreams and visions have always fascinated me and I love monsters, aliens, and urban legends. The character I’m working on right now in 3d is basically “mothman” the urban legend. The character I’m working on in DFA is a winged camper. I’m highly influenced by the outdoors and nature and camping.  My voice is a combination of all my favorite things and my style is definitely quirky with lots of  sarcastic strong independent female characters, and outdoor settings