The main goal of this project is to encourage children to draw and be creative, because it helps them express themselves and their psychological state. But since I’m Syrian, I wanted to focus on begging children in our streets, specially after the phenomenon of begging increased during war-time, children that don’t have anything to express the way they feel. Secondly, to turn these children's drawings into animated art, showing that their creations are special and deserve recognition.
I was inspired by Monster Project.
I found group of children in Damascus, I started by reading a short story where the characters doesn't have any specified shapes and asked them to draw the characters of the story without strict instructions or qualities.
I got a bunch of beautiful drawings.
I got a bunch of beautiful drawings.
Since each child has his own imagination, I asked my artistic friends to contribute with one drawing each, each one of them has different and unique style exactly like children's imaginations.
Artists:
Alma Mujtahed - Mohammed Shaarani - Michel Salloum - Anas Tmraz - Sedki AlImam
Ryan Altounji - Ruba Khalaf.
Therefore, I also added a BALL as main character, as a reference for children unexpected attitude and imaginative behavior towards their enviroment.
