Month: January 2016

Phone Diary

Rather than my phone talking about its life, this is a project of me visually narrating my phone’s life in a second person perspective.

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I browse through twitter to look into the activities in my friends’ lives. It’s the place where

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Using the whatsapp chat to converse with my friends, despite the fact that we are not geographically close.

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Going to Youtube to listen to music.

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Catch up on news, which is very important because I hardly watch the television.

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Relying on my phone to wake me up, as it is one of the few things that could wake me up since I sleep very deeply.

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I use my phone to check on arbitrary things. I would be able to stock up in my ‘general knowledge’.

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JKNews has been my go to stop for my entertainment where there would be commentators discussing about an article one episode at a time. Seeing as how they are comedians, they inject comedy into it but they are also very logical as a group. Another point would be the articles where there are many which narrates about ridiculous situations of highly emotional people that pushed them to make very dumb decisions.

Typography Sketch/Ideas

With the concept of make-belief aspirations, I tried playing with the idea of an osteologist, thus the bones.

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I went on google to find what were some of the typography that included bones. These are some of which that were interesting but were not to my liking. I wanted to have a crisp and clean image, one that is not too illustrative.

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I found one however, it still isn’t as what I would like as I figured the bones were still far too chunky, especially with the addition of the scapula. Thus, I decided to use the ‘regular’ ones instead because of it’s clean shape.

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So far, I’ve been using rather conventional methods to go about the drawing; charcoal, pen, white paper, chalk and acrylic has been used. I have yet to decide on what to use. I would want try to add lemon juice to emulate the idea of an x-rayed piece but it strays from the concept of an osteologist. Furthermore, using lemon juice wouldn’t give off the rough texture that I want. For now, I’m gravitating towards chalk and acrylic. Perhaps using both will allow a balance in soft and rough texture.

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Also, I also tried going about including my names in the skulls of animals. I have always deemed skulls of a living being one of the more fascinating parts since they are most of the time, different and unique.

The one to the left, the typography is included in the shadows. The one to the right, it is included in the nasal cavity. The latter probably wouldn’t be used since the typography isn’t as attention grabbing as the skull in itself.

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Playing around with the composition and I have yet to settle with any of them.