Reflection :
I really enjoyed this project thoroughly. I got to express myself in a more exciting way, considering how I do not have much knowledge when it comes to colours. Even though I really like them but somehow they do not agree with me. I have like a lot of trouble with colour harmonies before this assignment. I do not understand which of the colour would actually compliment each other. After going through the many presentation and also the research of the different harmonies, I find that I am finally able to take a step forward.
I realised that when I usually do my own sketches, I would have just left them as it is instead of trying to complete them and add final to them. I think it was the fear of not wanting to spoil them that is keeping me from doing so. But I feel like I really need to practice more since it is an essential thing to learn and have for an animator when it comes to doing mood board especially. It controls the ambiance that you want the audience to feel.
This assignment also has helped me learnt quite a few things about myself. I honestly feel like this whole module really shapes me into a different person as a whole. The way I can perceive things and portray them in many different ways really give me more understanding of how there is a lot of techniques and mediums to expressing something. All we need is a little curiosity and fun!
I was going through inspiration for my drawing assignment when I came across a few painting that have really nice colour palette. I thought that maybe instead of trying to think of the palette myself I could take it off from painting or photos since I am just barely starting on colours. Putting them together myself would actually be difficult. I also picked the from online colour palette and somewhat tweak from there.
For the colours of the equations i will explain why I specifically picked that colour tone for it.
I feel that I do not really have a distinct art style even after being in animation course for three years. Even though my friend told me that I have a style of my own, I genuinely feel like they are not something that I have turn into mine yet. Perhaps I would say I have not grasps it right yet? Since they vary and changes from time to time.
I generally like arts that incooperates the element of cuteness and scariness together. I feel that it adds to the quirkiness of it. It gives them a more cartoonish type of feeling. One of the examples would be Michael Bisparulz. I really love his art style a lot. The playful feeling he has is being expressed through his art.
I really like the pastel tone he has for his art considering how I am a fan of pastel tone. But I feel like that colours do not represent me as a person since they are so pretty and cute. I do not think of myself as such a sweet and cute person?
Hmmmmm…. Speaking of this one of my friend once told me that when she first saw me, I portrayed the colour of red. Also, the fact that I am a cheerful person but somehow the me on the inside is actually someone who is a deep thinker and feel for people a lot. I was honestly quite shock to hear that considering how have always thought of myself to be quite expressionless. Since I only know how to show happiness and sadness. The rest of my emotions tends to get all jumbled up.
I feel like the style that I actually want to show and use is the me on the outside. The me that I want people to see but the colours that I like and would use is perhaps what I am actually feeling on the inside.
Also, I remembered once that my poly lecturer told me that your art represents and show what you are as a person. You might be doing a design unconsciously but in actual fact it can show what you are actually thinking at that moment and also how we ourselves as a person is.
Somehow I seem to have gone off track, back to artist references! I tend to remember things through colours, perhaps that could be why I am suddenly having so many memory flashbacks. Another style that I really am fond of is the “texture” feeling. The way some artists render their drawings gives the sketchy yet graphic feeling.
Mark Hearld
Gabriel Schemoul
As for the colours I feel that I should probably reference them try to pick them out from photos. I could probably pick different colours for each of the different panels and how I want them to feel, which might in turn lead to the combination of both colours for the outcome of the equations.
Supposedly, we have to do three different equations and another one which could be similar to either one of the three equation. Like for assignment one, I am trying to think of a feature or a thing that I like where once when my classmates or the people I know sees it, they will immediately think that oh yes! that is indeed Alicia.
So I thought of listing out a few things that represents me:
I guess this are the few things that I thought that represent me or is me. Maybe I would come out something else along the way about me, but I guess all this are good enough. I think I would most probably list out more in the journal.
Equations :
I guess that would be mainly what I would be trying to execute for this assignment. I have yet to pick the colour that really represent me but I would say it would be either red or yellow. I guess this would be a short post just to set the idea of what I would like to represent myself with.
After seeing the example of what I could actually do for this assignment, I thought that perhaps I would either go back to doing something similar to the first assignment or I would draw it out. After assignment two, I was dying to draw something. So when I knew that I could do that I was really excited yet relieved for some reason? Perhaps it was the thought of doing something that I was actually comfortable and familiar with or something that I have interest in unlike assignment two.
Now to thinking about the medium and style, I am not really sure of which medium to go for, whether it is traditional or digital. I am not really confident with using traditional medium but I guess I really should not limit myself considering how 2D is about trying and testing things out. I thought that if I were to by any chance do my work digitally, I should try out out in traditional medium first. Even if I were to do my final work in traditional work, I should try out all the medium. I might actually find something that would be interesting instead of sticking to something that I know for sure work, like what I did for assignment one.
I thought of finding some artist to start off the try-out. I want to find something that screams me. The style could be from something that I like in my daily life, like graphic t-shirts for examples. So I thought of trying out trying out textile designs, which have always intrigue me. I really like repetitive patterns, somehow they calm me down, especially those found on clothes.
I thought of having a specific item appear in all the panel to represent me perhaps? Since I am someone who really like flowers even though I may not seem like it. They are the wonder of nature! I also thought of giving my panels are more illustrated feel, giving it a more edgy look to them.
Some of the textile which I find interesting on Pinterest and perhaps something that I could use as inspirations.
There is already a lot of different type of style from the few examples that I found, from repetition of the same item to having a mixture of the same object/subject in different positions. That was something that I did not thought of but I found interesting. Probably an idea that I will use for the panels.
Honestly speaking when I first read the assignment brief for this particular assignment, I was really excited. I am a person who really likes colours, even though I would say that I am not quite good with them. We have to pick a colour or a few to represent ourselves. But the funny thing is that the colour or rather shade that I like is black, which is not something that I guess I should avoid for this assignment?
So I thought that perhaps finding the meaning of the different harmonies would help me decide on which colour to pick for this assignment.
Examples :
Gustav Wentzel
Karen Margulis
2. Analogous harmony: colours located adjacent to each other on a colour wheel. Generally with one being the dominant colour, which tends to be a primary or secondary colour, and a tertiary.
Examples :
3. Analogous harmony warm and cool : Blue, Purple, Green (Cool) Red, Yellow, Orange (Warm)
However the inclusion of too many colours in the art piece using this harmony may ruin the harmony.
Examples:
Cool colour : Teagan White
Warm colour : Melelel
4. Complementary hues : Colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel
Examples:
Eugene Wang
5. Split complimentary : It uses the two colors adjacent to its complement
Examples :
Elizabeth Martinez
After looking through the the different colour harmonies, I would say that I was mainly intrigued by the split commentary hues and the analogous harmony. I feel like I would be able to play and try out the colours more. I guess I would need to see the medium or even the style that I picked for this assignment to decide which harmonies I would actually pick together with the colours.
Reflection
Throughout this whole assignment, I thought that it would be something that I would enjoy considering how I am not actually that good in photoshop, Also, how much the fact that I do not like to edit photos considering the pain that I went through in poly. However, to my surprised I actually enjoyed it as much as I did for assignment one. The fact that we did silkscreen was like a whole new experience to me and really such a fun time. I have heard so much about it and attended museum talks and walk through of their silkscreen printing for the artist behind the scenes and all but I never got to try it. For the fact that we are allowed to even try out silkscreen with our own design is really something amazing.
About the photoshop experience, I never thought that I actually enjoyed it thoroughly. The different things that I actually learnt from all the self exploratory. All in all, I would say that I really am learning a lot from 2D lesson but not only that I am really enjoying myself. Being able to express myself to through imagery and all.