A Bad Attempt at Fan Art

When given the choice between writing and researching about my personal favourite Batman topic or recreate some memes out of perfectly edible dry pasta, the macaroni arts wins hands down.

That Dank Meme

                             

The first masterpiece that I decided to recreate was the “Goddamn Batman” meme. Is it considered a meme? Or because its from a comic panel, it’s it just a quote then? But then again, what defines a meme? Oh, sorry, back to the Bats.

I chose this meme not only because we talked about it in class, but also because going into it I thought it was going to be easy to recreate. And boy wonder was I wrong. Looking back, I should have painted the backdrop before gluing in noodles on because that would have been the sensible and logical thing to do. But who has time for that?! I only had the room to horribly glue on the words “He’s the Goddamn Batman” and even then you can’t really even read it properly. The paint job it kind of (more like really) sad, so I think generally, this fan art turned our really poorly.

Kind of like that. 

I think I really picked this meme because today, everyone knows who Batman is because he is so engrained into our popular culture. Recently there has been a serge of newly edited comics, replacing the ex-text with something humorous. But for this particular comic/art, it seems to be the original text. So I think it’s kind of making fun of the ridiculousness of Batman, but at the same time loving everything that he is.

The Surfing Bowtie

The second fanart that I made, I think is probably the best one and my favourite. I attempted to make a noodle version of Adam West as Batman whilst surfing, but that didn’t work out. So eventually, I settled on just the surfboard. But instead of adding the bat symbol, I used a bow tie noodle. I think that it adds to the overall weirdness that is my creation. This piece was also easier to make because I had more of an understanding of generally how to make macaroni art gracefully.

 

I decided on the surf board because looking back and leaning more about Batman’s history, I now see Adam West’s Batman as this ultimate version of Batman that every recent movie, TV show, or portrayal tries to live up to. So this is my paying homage to the work of Adam West.

Childhood Noodle Redemption

As a kid, I never watched the animated Batman series. I wasn’t allowed to watch that many cartoons and Batman was on the list of “moms-no-go’s.” So to make up for that, I attempted to recreate the bat signal used in the animated series. I personally don’t think it’s identical, but that’s what the power of imagination is for kids!!

This piece was by far the easiest to make. By the time I made it, I knew what to do and how to do it effectively. Besides waiting for the paint backdrop to dry, gluing everything on maybe took 20 minutes, in comparison to the hour that it took to spell of “Goddamn Batman.”

Overall, this was a really fun project. I was able to be creative in a silly way that helped channel my organic chemistry stress onto something expressive and productive.