Month: October 2017

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2D | forest gump final

The following are my final designs for the four quotes!

Quote 1:  You shouldn’t have killed my mom and squished my Walkman! – Guardians of the Galaxy 2 

With reference to the previous conceptual ideas I had, I settled on this final design! Instead of having musical notes in halftone style, I made them fully one coloured, and distorted them!

Quote 2:  I want your eyes man, I want those things you see through.  – Get Out

For the final design, I used the eye element, to have a perception of viewing. In the view, there is a blind man, which signifies the blind guy that spoke the quote. Also, I added hands to the eyeball, showing the “want” element. For the background, I used a grid, to symbolize the “jail” effect, as the main protagonist was cooped up in the house during the movie, unable to escape. Also, the grid also symbolizes the 4 characters that were keeping him hostage – his girlfriend, his girlfriend’s brother, mum, and dad.

Quote 3:  Science is nothing but a piece of trash infront of a profound dream. – Paprika

For the final design, i added a mixture of weird elements to signify “profound dream”. To represent science, I used test tube babies. Test tube babies symbolizes the advancement in science and technology.  Thus, I placed the test tube babies in a trashbin.

Quote 4:  Don’t worry! You’ve got daddy here. He’s got credit cards and cash. – Spirited Away

For this final design, I used the binary background to represent credit cards, and paper ingots for cash. I placed the paper ingots in a way to represent “don’t worry, dad’s got it all covered”, by showing how the pig nose (dad) is surrounded with money.

And tadaa! These are my four final artworks!

Next up, Silkscreen Printing!

We first printed the design we want to print on our tote bag onto a transparency, and then taped it to the silkscreen panels.

Next, we had the workstudy, Clara, to help us with this!

After some time, it was time to silkscreen! I first tried it out on newsprint, to gauge the amount of ink that I need to apply on the silkscreen board so that the print will come out just right.

This is how it looks like on newsprint!
After a few more tries, I printed it out on my tote bag!
And tada, ready for submission!

 

Instructor’s Feedback
Too much clutter in Quote 3.

Peer Review
Quote 2’s background looks like Op Art
Quote 3 seems too cluttered, but it does show the profound dream
Quote 4, couldn’t really tell the Pig’s Nose.

Reflection
One major mistake I did for this project, was not listing down where I got the movie quotes from, resulting in classmates not understanding the artwork and the quote (example Spirited Away) 

I feel that I did a really bad job for this project, especially with the way I play with images and construction. I’m not one of photo collage especially, as I prefer drawing it out myself – as I get more control over it.
Searching for photos is also a crazy tough job. It’s difficult finding an image you like and it’s of the angle you need it to be.
So, I felt that throughout the process, I just kinda gave up on this project.
But, I will try to produce better work for the next project!

Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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2D | forest gump spirits flew away

The fourth quote, “Don’t worry! You’ve got daddy here. He’s got credit cards and cash.” is from Spirited Away, a movie we all know about.
The quote was spoken by Chihiro’s father when the first arrived, and were grabbing food.

I made an initial design with exact representation of the quote. I used a man in his mid-fourties to represent daddy, with cash and credit cards at the back. This was just a design to inspire me.

 The second design was made out of fun hahaha. I made a face out of the elements I used, a moustache, a credit card chip and a ingot made out of incense paper. 

For the third design, I used a pig’s nose with a moustache to represent Chihiro’s father, as he turned into a pig after eating the food. I placed the paper ingots on the edges of the canvas, to show the background. The background, is the representation of credit cards. Credit cards, when swiped, goes through an electrical system, which forms these kind of binary system.

Next, I used the same elements, but removed the binary background, and added a hand holding a few credit cards. At the background, i used a tower of paper ingots. But the arrangement of all the elements doesn’t seem to really go well.

I changed the hand of credit cards into a plate of credit cards, to represent the “food” he was eating. But the background didn’t seem fitting and they elements felt like they were separate entities.

I decided to use credit cards surrounding the pig’s nose, to signify that Chihiro’s dad got it covered, showing them being protected by money/credit cards.

Stay tuned to my final post!

Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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2D | forest gump meets science

The third quote I worked on – “Science is nothing but a piece of trash infront of a profound dream” came from the anime movie, Paprika.

The anime talked about a psychotherapy treatment – a dream therapy, which a doctor uses dreams to counsel her patients. However, the device got stolen and used for personal uses. During the movie, the chairman of the lab mentioned the above quote.

The first design, I used a mixture of science elements – binary, light bulbs, cells, flasks, and placed them in a trash bin. Next, I used a bunch of weird elements for the background to represent the profound dreams. I put a cloud background behind all the elements to represent dreamy, since it was a dream.

The second design, I added a chinese doll. But, I felt that the use of science elements was too representative and the chinese doll is too normal looking.

I came up with a final design after this.
Stay tuned to my final post for it!

Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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2D | forest gump gets out

The second quote I worked on was from Get Out, “I want your eyes man, I want those things you see through.”

Just a basic introduction of the movie, the main character is a black guy, who had a white girlfriend. He went to her family’s house over the weekend and realised that the family’s slaves were all black. Turns out, the girlfriend set a trap which he landed in – she wanted to sell his body to rich white people, a project her family has been working on.

During his weekend there, he met a blind artist, whom took an interest in him. He said the above mentioned quote and bid for his body during the auction.

To start off, I put together a few elements.

I used an eye to represent the ‘eye’ which was mentioned in the quote. I added visually impaired canes around the eye – to represent the character who said the quote, whom was blind.
However, I felt that this does not express the meaning of the quote very well, and hence decided to add in more elements.

I came up with a second design, adding in more elements. Instead of having the canes around the whole eye, I put it only halfway, and adding abstract versions of eyes in the background. I replaced the eye with a view of the ‘outside world’, to represent the view the character sees daily.
I felt that this relates more to the quote but there was too much going on.
After hearing feedbacks, many felt the same way that there was too much, and no main focus. Thus I decided to cut down the elements.

Stay tuned to my final post!

Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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2D | forest gump artist references

For my various quote designs, I referred to some artists and their past works, and incorporating their styles into mine.

The first artist that influences my work is Salvador Dali.
A surrealist artist, I’m sure he is well-known to many.

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Getting influence from his work, The Persistence of Memory, I incorporated his surrealist style into my Quote 1 Design, through the squishing of musical notes.
In this artwork, he melts the clocks, with them not being in its original form. I used that technique to the musical notes, deforming them to suit the quote.

Another artist that influenced my artwork is Patrick Caulfied’s work
Black and White Flower Piece, 1963

This black and white artwork, focuses on the main object in the middle, a vase of flower, with a grid background of black base with white lines. Despite having a grid background, it still primarily focuses on the vase. Instead of pulling the focal point away, I feel that it brings more focus to the main object.
I decided to incorporate this art style into my Quote 2, to bring out the focal point of the main object.

And that’s it for my artist reference!
Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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