ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEOS PROJECT
The ARTPOP era by LADY GAGA was a very intense artistic period in my life. I was very inspired by the album ARTPOP and her fashion visuals, I used to draw and paint a lot of images related to Gaga, in many different techniques. "APPLAUSE" was the very first single to come out from the album, when I watched the video for the first time I fell in love with the concept and the ideas behind the video and decided to draw one of the first scenes as one of my studies (the one above this text), to carry on with the design I decided to add the ribbon with the first line of the song. After I did that, it occured to me that I could maybe draw the other characters she played on the video and in each ribbon I would add the lyrics, and after that, put them in a sequence as video (my experience in video edit is very experimental since I self-taught how to use the program). It took me a period of time to draw all the characters and wanted them to have that natural hand draw sketch. I scanned them, and started all the editing. The beat of the song allowed me to sync the audio with the elements in the video, creating this "marriage" between visuals and audio, so I kept learning while I was creating it, and I named this project as "Illustrated Lyric Video". In my mind I tought it would be cool if she saw it, so it motivated me to create it.Its art inspired by art, it was very natural how it started and it was really fun to edit as video. After I posted on my account at LittleMonsters.com I got really positive feedback from the other "little monsters" and the reaction motivated me to create other videos from the album, like AURA, VENUS, DO WHAT YOU WANT and ARTPOP (Little Monsters Collab). In this page I show you all these videos I created and galleries with the illustrations used in each video. Paul Blair a.k.a. DJ White Shadow, one of the producers of the album ARTPOP got in touch with me after he watched the APPLAUSE Illustrated Lyric Video to let me know how much he liked it. I was very honored by it. Thanks Paul for allowing me to have them here. Please notice these videos are fan made, NOT OFFICIAL or that I got money for them. It is not my intention to violate any intellectual property from any of the people involved in this video of APPLAUSE, these are just drawings study applied as video from a fan very inspired by his idol. I have created the idea and term of "ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEO", but I don´t profit from the videos in this page. I really hope Lady Gaga gets to see them and let me know what she thinks of these.
APPLAUSE ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEO
AURA ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEO
VENUS ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEO
DO WHAT YOU WANT ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEO
ARTPOP WANT ILLUSTRATED LYRIC VIDEO
For this video, I selected another 8 little monsters and invited them to be part of this one. I asked them to send me one or two illustrations of Lady Gaga inspired by the song "ARTPOP", and bring us together in one video. Thanks so much for being part of it: Jethro Ian, Daniel Fernandez, Davy Oldenburg, Alfredo Vaudagna, Iggy Proof, Helen Green, Maddalena Carrai and Alfonso Herrero, Its an honor to colab with such great artists, you guys did a great job! I was responsable for some of the illustrations on the video, editing and adding the typography in each illustration to match the overall design.