So as a continuation from my research, as I decided to come up with ideas for animal related point of view concepts, I bounced around several different ideas. The initial idea I had was toying with the habitat of animals, such as the ocean. My example sentences were:

 

Ocean to octopus is home

Ocean to cat is danger

Ocean to pelican is feeding ground

Ocean to sand is a gentle caress

Ocean to polar bear is a giant block of ice

Ocean to jellyfish is a void they can’t see

Ocean to dog is playground

Ocean to baby turtles is destination

Ocean to migratory birds is another 100km to go

 

After realising how hard it was to come up with 18 topic sentences for this topic, I changed my point of view and tried going with how animals see themselves and came up with a few sketches.

 

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After consulting Ina with these sketches, she prompted me to think of the idea of making every image consistent, and sticking with the theme of having just one distinct part of the animal shown. For example:

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Showing just the antlers of a stag

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The tail of the dog

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Or the beak of the toucan and the fins of a shark.

 

After finalising my idea, I started working on hand drawn samples (which admittedly looked horrible) before deciding to spend my recess week trying my luck at digital drawing again.

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Using the outlines of the previous sketches I drew, I managed to make a sample of the stag’s antlers.

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I quite liked the simple and minimalistic look of it, as well as the slight 3D effect the burn and dodge gave it so I tried it out a few times. (Some worked out and some didn’t ^^”, below is a documentation of some of the FAILED pieces)

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Something went wrong with the wrinkles of the trunk O_O

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The giraffe’s spots ended up looking too lumpy and some issues with lighting

FAILED PIECE 3

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That shell…

And because it would be terrible to end my process journal with examples of terrible artwork, here are some test pieces that Succeeded

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After the Typographic Portrait project, I decided to continue with the theme of animals for this project and decided to look from the perspective of how different animals see themselves. I decided to try a new style of drawing this time, and took inspiration from a new digital art series about Cats as Snacks.

 

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Art Snacks by Marija Tiurina

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Art Snacks by Marija Tiurina

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Art Snacks by Marija Tiurina

 

I like the slightly glossy feel of the illustrations, and I also like how each image is simply placed on a single-coloured background with a slight vignette.

 

I also decided to play with the idea of suggestion, and showing only parts of the animal instead of the full one to tie in with the suggestion of that being the point of view of the animal, and also so the audience can try to guess what the image actually is.

My final work is presented as stickers on green, red and grey construction paper to further highlight the theme of colour-deficiency (:

 

Here are the 4 final pieces I have chosen!

 

HELLO MY NAME IS

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AND I AM COLOURBLIND

HELLO MY NAME IS

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AND I AM COLOURBLIND

HELLO MY NAME IS

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AND I AM COLOURBLIND

HELLO MY NAME IS

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AND I AM COLOURBLIND

IDEATION:

After my research, I sketched out various types of animals into my name using the different animal related occupations as a guideline and came up with a few samples I could use.

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However, after sketching out the animals into random occupations, I felt that it was lacking a bit of personal branding, and seemed like a very straight forward concept.

CONCEPTUALISATION:

Upon reading the writeup on rhetorical figures, I decided to do a play on irony, using the animals, as well as the fact that I am colourblind, which I think is something you don’t often find in an Arts school. I utilised two groups of animals in my four compositions – animals that had poor colour vision, and animals that had colour vision that far superseded that of humans, and reversed their colours.

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Household pets such as cats, dogs, and rabbits are known to be extremely colour deficient

 

example sketch 2

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Birds are known to have extra sensitive perception of colour (to the point of differentiating the ultra-violet) — specifically birds that hunt in the water, and birds that pollinate flowers.

 

example sketch 3

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While mammals are generally known to have good colour vision, elephants have the same level of colour vision as colour blind humans, and are the exception to the rule. Snakes have limited vision, and sense their prey using temperature. Seals, among all marine creatures have the worst colour vision, despite having to dive into the water to hunt for fish.

 

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Amongst marine mammals, the orca is known to have the best colour vision. The mantis shrimp and the firefly squid are also known to have the best colour vision in comparison to the rest of the breeds of shellfish and cephalopods.

 

EXECUTION:

Upon consultation with Ina, she suggested I turn my sketches into digital vectors using Illustrator and provided me with some tutorials to watch. Using Illustrator and Photoshop I attempted (keyword being attempted) to create illustrations that could be turned into stickers to paste on my postcards.

 

example 1

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Lines have been cleaned up using image trace on Illustrator, and animals have been coloured brightly and saturated exaggeratedly to make up for the colours they can’t see in real life.

 

example 2

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Birds have been desaturated and filled in with only black and yellow tones, which is the colour that most colour deficient people and animals see. Sponge effect was added to give the dull colours more depth.

 

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Elephant and Seal are given greenish highlights and shadows while the Snake is coloured red as a play on their red-green colourblindness.

 

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Monochrome colour scheme was used, and plastic effect was added to give the rubbery feel of the marine creatures.

 

ADDITIONAL EXPLORATION:

I was just playing around with some material in class to see what I would create, and maybe use some of them as background images for the post cards.

 

Paint printing using bubble wrap (with digitally manipulated colours)

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Charcoal dusting on glue tape strips

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Texture of hair (for hygiene purposes, this is a pile of my own hair)

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Pastel dust on white glue on black pastel paper

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Something I enjoy a lot is playing with imagery, and using things that I like to express myself. A common theme that can often be found in my artwork is animals, and I decided to play around with how animals could be used in typography.

Some sources of animal typography I found online include:

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‘Bird Alphabet Chart’ by Andrea Kalfas

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‘Animal Type’ by Ana Melo

One thing I noticed about these examples, was the consistent styling of the animals in the alphabet, and that each artist had their own unique style. Hence, I searched for an artist whose style I wanted to emulate in my type.

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Image from Liz Climo’s Tumblr Page

What I liked about Liz Climo’s comics was the way the animals were simply drawn, but were effective in attracting the audience. Hopefully my letters will be able to adopt a similar style! (: