Foundation 2D 1 – G9

18/11/201731/01/2018

2D Project 3: Ego in different settings (Final)

Process parts 1-3 can be found here:

2D Project 3: Ego in different settings (Process Pt.1 & 2)

2D Project 3: Ego in different settings (Process Pt.3)

Presentation

Equation 1

When a timid person is alone, he tends to be more expressive.

Square colour harmony

In this colour harmony, there are two sets of complementary colours, each set has a dominant and subdominant colour.

– yellow & blue, yellow dominant

– green & red, green dominant

I used an overall muted colour scheme to depict a typical boring classroom environment. The shadows make the light more contrasting and prominent, also, the direction of light and where the other characters are looking draws your attention to the character in focus.

Split complementary colour harmony

A warm and vibrant orangey composition to depict a relaxing afternoon bath, with a bit of blue and green to complement it and to give it a strong visual contrast between warm and cool colours. Again, the ray of light from the window draws attention to the character, also, the darker foreground elements to give a sense of depth.

Analogous colour harmony

For analogous there would typically be a dominant, subdominant and a third colour to be used as an accent.

In this case, blue violet is the dominant, violet and pink are the subdominant and the red along with the whites are the accents. There is an overall harmonious blend of colours, depicting a night time concert.

The lack of details in the background make it seem very foggy which gives a sense of depth that the location is very large. Due to the strong spotlight, the main character and the surrounding audience is given a rim light so that the mid and foreground elements interact with each other.

Equation 2

Because I own the Lamborghini of electric unicycles. endangering lives since 2017.

Split complementary colour harmony

The amount of blue and orange/yellow is slightly equal so there isn’t really a dominant colour, the warm and cool colours are balanced out.

This is a late afternoon setting as you can tell from the orange light cast on the ground and the long shadows of the trees. The rim light on the trees make them stand out more. The trees nearer are darker and those further are lighter.

Triadic colour harmony

Triadic colours of red, blue and yellow. For this colour harmony, there is typically a dominant and two other colours for the accents. In this case, blue is the dominant.

I tried to keep this one simple, no details besides the rim light which shows the form of some of the elements such as the guy’s body and the details of the bridge. Clouds used to draw your eye to the guy and to balance the composition, on the left is giant cloud + less trees, on the right, small cloud + more trees.

Split complementary colour harmony

I initially wanted to go for a muted colour scheme of like a typical race track scene of grey roads and a few coloured cars, but in the end i referenced the Cars movie from Pixar and went for a desert sunset theme instead. The dominant colours are orange and yellow, with blue as the cast shadows.

Also, a dutch tilt to make it more dynamic since it’s a moving race car, lines on the ground also act as perspective lines to give it a sense of perspective.

Equation 3

Drawing and daydreaming in lectures, mostly Art History, nothing against you Prof. Walsh.

Analogous colour harmony

Colours give it a very sleepy and dream like state kind of environment, as well as the lack of strong contrasting colours which makes it sort of muted which adds to the sleepy feel.

Character in focus is of a slightly brighter colour as compared to the rest, who are tinted with pinkish red to make them blend in with the environment and less prominent.

Since there are so many people, one way to make this one guy stand out is to make him brighter and another way was to use the rule of thirds to place him in an area of focus.

Analogous colour harmony

I wanted to go for a late afternoon time of day and hence chose a colour scheme of red-orange, orange, and yellow-orange the floor is made completely white to show there’s a very strong sunlight casting down, which allowed me to draw in contrasting cast shadows.

Split complementary colour harmony

I wanted to go for a very joyous, adventurous and majestic feel to this illustration, I took inspiration from DreamWork’s How to Train Your Dragon, where a bunch of dragons are flying above the clouds with what is called ‘god light’ shining down to give it that majestic feel. Rim lights are added to the clouds to give the volume.

Initially, it looked very plain and boring and i wanted to scrap it, but after adding lights everywhere it became one of my favourites out of the twelve.

Equation 4

I don’t pull all-nighters, it’s just for the sake of this equation :p

Complementary colour harmony

The turquoise window with the rain outside gives a very cozy feeling in the otherwise dull coloured room. There are two elements of focus, one is the window on the left and the other one is the main light source on the right, the two balances each other out.

There are rim lights on the elements in the darkness, again, to make them interact with the lights. The blurred foreground element gives depth to the image.

Split complementary harmony

A strong cone of light to draw your attention to the area. Characters in the foreground have rim light to show that there is interaction between foreground and mid ground.

Split complementary harmony

I went for a colour scheme which portrayed a relaxing sunny white sandy beach and cool turquoise water. I used a diagonal composition as since the guy is laying down, I didn’t want him to be parallel with the sides. I filled in the empty spaces of the beach with bushes and details of small rocks and seashells and Cody the Crab™.

Research and references

My greatest inspiration was from Pascal Campion’s illustrations, whose illustrations always tell a story and are visually engaging.

I also referenced a few colour schemes from colour keys and scripts of animated films. I find these very inspiring as the artist is able to use lighting and colours in such small thumbnail illustrations to tell a story.

Colour scripts – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Printing

When I test printed, the colours turned out quite yellowish. I had to apply a colour balance to all my illustrations to cancel it out. I eventually went for the top right adjustments.

Conclusion

A challenge i faced was working with square compositions and not the usual 16:9, it was quite challenging to get a good composition from such a small working space, but I think I made it work by keeping most of the elements in focus off centre and using the rule of thirds, along with the lighting.

I also tend to colour pick a lot from existing illustrations, the colours work but I have to tweak or remove some colours so that they fit into one of the colour harmonies taught to us. I find that colour picking is a very good way of approaching illustrating especially when you are not good with colours because you can see the colours the artist used and you can visualise how they would work with your own drawing.

This project has been very fun as I have never done so many illustrations before in one project, it has definitely improved my sense of colour usage and visualisation.

Find cody in all 12 illustrations c:

11/11/201713/11/2017

2D Project 3: Ego in different settings (Process Pt.3)

EQUATION 3

composition 7

A warm analogous colour scheme to replicate a dream-like state of boredom.

The character in focus is of a brighter colour as compared to the other characters.

composition 8

A warm analogous colour scheme that portrays a late-afternoon time of day. It gives a peaceful and relaxing vibe which signifies the end of a day’s work.

composition 9

An orange and red colour scheme that signifies joy and adventure, the overlay of white lights gives a majestic feel to the composition. Complimenting these colours are a few touches of blue.

EQUATION 4

composition 10

I really liked the use of the turquoise in the otherwise dull brownish illustration as seen from the reference image. The fog effect on the window makes it seem as though it is glowing. Rim lights were added to the elements in the darker areas to make them stand out just a little. A blurred foreground element is added to give a sense of depth in a ‘flat’ image.

composition 11

Split complementary of maroon red, pale orange, and a hint of blue. Foreground characters are in the shadows but with rim lights so that they interact with the light in front if them.

composition 12

Warm red and oranges and white sand to portray a sunny beach setting, along with a cool turquoise water at the shoreline to complete the beach-y vibe.

05/11/201706/11/2017

2D Project 3: Ego in different settings (Process Pt.1 & 2)

Process Part 1

Artist/ Colour references

Composition 1

During consultation, Joy suggested that the foreground could be slightly more red so that the greens in the foreground will not take too much attention away from the prominent green chalkboard.

Colour scheme and reference image (muted colours found online)

Square – Two sets of complementary colours

Yellow (Dominant) & Blue
Green (Dominant) & Red

I went for a muted colour scheme to depict a typical ‘boring’ classroom environment. The main character is standing in the light which is shining down onto him, also, the foreground is darker to further draw attention away onto the main character.

COMPOSITION 2

A warm and vibrant colour that reflects a sense of happiness, with a hint of blues and greens to compliment it, which breaks it from the otherwise monochromatic colour scheme, making it more visually engaging. Darker foreground elements create a sense of depth, and the main character is in the light.

COMPOSITION 3

Joy had suggested to add a light stand with light ‘pouring down’ on the stage so that it is similar to the shower head ‘pouring down’ the water. Similarly, the cone of light in the first composition also seem to be ‘pouring down’ onto the main character.

An cool analogous colour scheme of blue-violet-magenta and a little red creates relaxing composition of colours which is easy to look at. It also gives sort of a hypnotic vibe, where everyone in a concert is simultaneously singing along and moving simultaneously to the rhythm and beat of the music. A more detailed foreground and a blurry background gives a sense of depth and vastness of the location.

Process Part 2

Composition 4

Joy had suggested to make the green leaves more yellow-olive, and the red hat slightly violet, but eventually I made the hat lean towards orange and made the sky less green and more blue to fit into a split complementary colour harmony.

An orange-yellow colour scheme to signify a peaceful afternoon setting, with a complimentary blue to add a cool hue to the warm colours.

Composition 5

A triadic colour scheme for a balanced use of colours. The strong yellow rim light and high contrasting shadows gives a strong late-afternoon lighting, as if riding back home after a day’s work.

Composition 6

Colour scheme and image reference (From Pixar’s Cars 3)

I had initially wanted to go for a muted greyish colour scheme with reds and greens to represent a race track environment with coloured race cars. But I thought of the outdoor environments from Pixar’s Cars and used that instead. A warm orange with complimentary colours for shadows and a tint of it in the sky, for a peaceful sunset-desert environment.

21/10/201721/10/2017

2D Project 2: Forrest Gump (Final Project & Research)

Below are the links to Process Part 1 and Part 2:

2D Project 2: Forrest Gump (Process Pt. 1)

2D Project 2: Forrest Gump (Process Pt. 2)

Final 4 designs

Presentation

Research

For this project, I looked towards surrealism as it is a style in art that feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions.

I also aimed to use anthropomorphism for this project as it is an easy way to make things look more interesting and visually engaging.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/565131453210619329/

https://www.pinterest.com/jowilson/art-anthropomorphism/?lp=true

The first artist I researched on was Eugenia Loli, courtesy of Joy, I like how she merges different elements of different ‘styles’ but is still able to make them work and come together as a whole.

http://www.galerieproject.com/eugenia-loli-collages/

References

Joy had initially given me the idea of replacing the power plant chimneys with cigarettes, which I thought was pretty cool, I went on to research on anti-smoking posters and other similar posters, they subvert the meaning of the object in focus and lets the viewer think about the meaning of the object in its new ‘environment’.

http://beforeitsnews.com/fine-art/2012/10/35-creative-anti-smoking-ads-2448176.html

http://webneel.com/30-brilliant-anti-smoking-advertisements-your-inspiration-best-print-ads-and-posters

18/10/201718/10/2017

2D Project 2: Forrest Gump (Process Pt. 2)

The following two weeks were spent improving the first two designs, making the tote bag, and working on two new quotes.

In this post, I’ll be covering:

Comments for first two designs from 1st group consultation.
Practising silkscreening & Tote bag creation
Ideation for 3rd and 4th designs, comments from 2nd group consultation.

Comments for first two designs

“Mankind was born on Earth … it was never meant to die here.” – Interstellar (2014)

For this design, it was mentioned that the soldiers needed to have more contrast to make them pop out more, the field of garbage on the other hand had to have lesser contrast as they were too distracting. The direction of the smoke also had to be flipped to better direct the viewer’s eye.

“T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed. He wants to hunt.” – Jurassic Park (1993)

For this design, it is a little unclear that the girl being pushed away is lusting for the man, one suggestion is to replace her with a ‘world’ of women or a plate of women, the latter with reference to food from ‘be fed’. The size of the rose could be bigger so that the audience can focus on the rose and move their attention down southeast.

Practising silkscreening & Tote bag creation

After practising, we went on to print our final designs during recess week.

Final Product

Didn’t turn out as great as I envisioned (looks a little dark) but I was happy with it, the reduced details of the field of trash worked well; the trash bags look like trash bags, I was afraid it would look like blobs of ink.

Ideation and comments of 3rd and 4th designs

The week before the deadline, I worked on my final two designs.

“If you are good at something never do it for free” – The Dark Knight (2008)

For this quote, I referenced the story of the Golden Goose, instead of giving its golden eggs for free to the little boy in the story (I think there was a little boy), I made the goose demand payment for it, in this case, to a man. I deviated from ‘money’ for this quote and used fish instead as the form of payment. I used a chef instead of a business man as it fitted the theme better.

“You are no longer black, or brown, or yellow, or red! You are now green! You are light green! Or dark green!”- Jarhead (2005)

As the quote is talking about soldiers and their camouflage, I went on to use the classic example of camouflaging, chameleons. Comments from the consultation were that the chameleon could stand out more, the plants are interrupting the silhouette, one suggestion is that the chameleon could be holding up the plants. As the snake is not the main focal point, it can be smaller.

27/09/201728/09/2017

2D Project 2: Forrest Gump (Process Pt. 1)

For this project, we were tasked to pick four movie quotes and create visual narratives that expresses each quote.

The following are the initial quotes I have chosen:

“Mankind was born on Earth … it was never meant to die here.” – Interstellar (2014)
“T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed. He wants to hunt.” – Jurassic Park (1993)
“They like to get the landmarks.” – Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
“Good lord, what is it about women with little hats?” – The Imitation Game (2014)

“Mankind was born on Earth … it was never meant to die here.” – Interstellar (2014)

I wanted to go for a somewhat apocalyptic scene, showing dangerous scenarios such as a nuclear power plant explosion and war planes dropping bombs, the crop field was inspired from the movie, which was set in a farm where the crops were infected with blight, threatening mankind’s survival. The planet represents the supposed future home of mankind.

The first draft was too plain and too ‘on the nose’.

I did a few more drafts, with the addition of the silhouette of a man, his ‘praying pose’ representing the impending death of mankind and him seeking redemption.

The starry night sky implies that mankind will one day move to another planet.

Using the silhouette as the canvas.

Joy had suggested to change some of the objects to interpretations instead, for example, a burning cigarette could represent the chimneys of power plants, both contributing to air pollution. The following are interpretations I have included:

Chimneys of the power plant replaced by cigarettes, both contribute to air pollution.
War planes dropping trash bags, similar to bombs, both destroy the land in their own way.
Soldiers wielding axes, which kill trees like how guns kill people.

However, I had to work on the composition as there was no focal point, and the triangle formed in the middle seemed very awkward.

An improvement on the composition, however, I felt that I could add something more to the sky.

When I added the clouds, it seemed that they could merge with the smoke coming out from the chimneys!

With the ‘ clouds’ added, I tweaked the composition, applying the rule of thirds (which I wondered why I didn’t use in the first place).

Below is the final composition for this quote.

Halftone applied, this will be the image I will be using for my tote bag.

Final image with halftone for silk screening

“T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed. He wants to hunt.” – Jurassic Park (1993)

For my first draft, I applied anthropomorphism to T-Rex, he is rejecting the food in front of him, implying that he doesn’t want to be fed and wants to hunt for his own food. Joy mentioned it was too straightforward, and I should try not to use any of the elements in the quote, for example, I could change T-Rex to something else.

For my second draft, I was inspired by the saying of “Enjoying the thrill of the chase”, which Joy gave me for an example. I have depicted a man (T-rex), wooing (wants to hunt) a girl, but the girl is rejecting him (but he is likes when they play hard to get, i.e he doesn’t want to be fed).

For the third draft, I felt that the “he doesn’t want to be fed” part was not clear enough, hence, I made him pushing another woman away who appears to be pleading for his approval, i.e. he doesn’t want free ‘meals’ coming his way.

“They like to get the landmarks.” – Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Just like in the movie and what this quote represents, I portrayed aliens destroying some of the world’s iconic landmarks.

Another way of interpreting this quote will be showing tourists ‘targeting’ landmarks for selfies.

However, I might be scrapping this quote as I am not too pleased with the results.

“Good lord, what is it about women with little hats?” – The Imitation Game (2014)

Honestly, I was focusing on the first two quotes and just put together something for the third and fourth quotes. I will be working on another two quotes in the following weeks, but first, let me take a sel-

23/09/2017

2D Group Presentation: Golden Ratio, Symmetry, Balance, Emphasis, Unity

06/09/201710/09/2017

2D Project 1 : My Line in Emo (Final Project)

METHOD

Created by dragging a scrunched up ball of newsprint dipped in monoprint ink across the surface.

LOVE

Definition

A great interest and pleasure in something or someone.

Rationale

The lack of negative space gives a sense of darkness, with small specks of light whirling around like candlelights and also to give the scene a sense of movement. I wanted to make this an intimate environment with two ‘lovers’ in a dimly lit space. It also looks like an aerial shot where the camera pulls out up into the sky during a kissing scene.

METHOD

Created by painting with a paintbrush. I did not use too much ink at once as I wanted more control so as to be able to leave tiny areas unpainted. The more narrow area around the two central elements area painted using the end of the paintbrush.

PROCESS

Process Parts 1 and 2 can be viewed in the links below:

2D Project 1: My Line is Emo (Process Pt.1)

2D Project 1: My Line is Emo (Process Pt.2)

01/09/201710/09/2017

2D Project 1: My Line is Emo (Process Pt.2)

Process – Part 2

Before the start of this week’s class, I did several different prints during my spare time. They turned out quite well and I saw potential in some of them for my final submission.

Exploring different methods of using satay sticks

During the consultation with Joy in class, she suggested that I try using different inks, such as Chinese ink, to replicate those prints that I have made previously which I saw potential in. She also suggested making the prints much bigger so that I have more freedom to choose which parts looked better.

After upsizing a few, I actually found that the previous smaller versions of the prints looked better, it was probably because the patterns looked too huge when placed in the viewfinder I created, which was the size our final ‘strips’ were supposed to be. It didn’t work out, but at least I tried it.

Below are four prints that I found ‘successful’ in displaying some of the emotions.

Joy – More towards cheerfulness and joviality, this print looks like little sprites playfully whizzing through the air.

Anger – Swords swooshing through the air with the blood of those killed trailing along…

Fear – A sense of uneasiness, this looks like a cave where stalagmites and stalactites are closing in on you, the minimal negative space makes it look claustrophobic.

Sadness – Melancholy, this print immediately reminded me of ‘The Starry Night’ by Vincent van Gogh. More specifically, I once heard Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in a video online with this painting as the backdrop. You can listen to it here hahaha – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVfPt8jgWOY

There is still ink in my fingernails.

30/08/201710/09/2017

2D Project 1: My Line is Emo (Process Pt.1)

Process – Part 1

For this session, we were introduced to mono printing, and it was my first experience with making prints using the print machine,

It did not go quite as planned,

Shortly after, I proceeded with making marks using objects instead,

At the end of the class, I managed to produce a few patterns,

Creating the prints by hand was a much easier method and I had more control over how the prints came out.

As I forgot to take home my prints, I replicated what I did in class back at home, and had them added into my visual journal. I initially tried making the prints on regular A4 paper but found it to be too white and contrasting, I eventually went for tinted watercolour paper and it turned out much better.

Various prints with the objects used placed next to them

Below are a few notes i jotted down to aid in my next experimentation with making more prints.