2D Zine Process & Final

Overall I enjoyed the process in the beginning but I really regret changing the concept so late in the game just because I felt like doing something different. This project actually taught me more about myself that once I’ve settled on something I should just go through with it unless I really feel the burning desire to change it and not just change it like that. I would have liked to end 2D on a better note. But It’s alright. I’m glad how everything turned out aesthetically and I really enjoyed 2D for the past 2 semesters. Thank you so much Joy. You’re such an amazing tutor and I’ve really learnt a lot from you 🙂

2d Project 2 Final

Identitty

I chose the subject matter of breasts as I felt like the topic of breasts is very It’s mostly a taboo topic and usually it’s also a very personal topic but I wanted to explore the various points of view towards breasts.

FIRST PERSON POV

Breasts in the point of view of a Male-Female Transgender is One Step To Completion.

For this work I used the puzzle pieces to create the idea of ‘missing pieces’. The puzzle pieces were arranged to outline the flesh and mimic the body shape of women (Curves) and to have a masculine image underneath the puzzle pieces where the breasts would be and to have the outline of the breasts. This was both physical and metaphorical in sense that it is a physical transition but also an internal transition and I felt that the idea of using the puzzle pieces allowed the idea to be better conveyed and not become too ‘science textbooky’. The pieces arranged on the face is also slowly coming together to form a new identity. For this work I had to cut up puzzle pieces to fit the body outlines. I wanted this work to also have a background different from the rest because I wanted to represent a sense of void so I used black and felt like it was more appropriate for this work alone.

Personal Thoughts :

This was actually my favourite out of all the six because I just think the use of puzzle pieces here really fit and it was actually the first concept that was solidified so I was really excited to work on this one. I also had problems regarding the wordings because I wanted to be accurate in the portrayal of breasts from the POV of a transgender and at first I was thinking ‘Completion’ or ‘Identity’ but then I asked one of my transgender friend and she told me that it was ‘simply one step to completion’ and I used it to build the puzzle pieces around that concept and left some pieces jaggered on the face and empty around the neck so the boobs are just one step in transitioning.

Breasts in the point of view of an Anorexic is Out of place

For this work I wanted to use the puzzle pieces to represent the breasts as ‘excess pieces’ and that was obviously out of place. So I made use of scale and colour contrast to really make the puzzle piece stand out. While the skeleton is painted with gaudy and dull colours the puzzle pieces were painted with bright flesh colours. Also a kind of commentary between the healthy and unhealthy and how an anorexic would see the breasts as unwanted and out of place eventhough having natural fat (breasts) is healthy. So the skeleton was first painted in acrylic and scanned and then had small mini flesh puzzle pieces layers around to represent the little skin on an anorexic woman. Also pieces together half a face to give the idea of femininity to the skeleton.

Personal Thoughts :

I really enjoyed doing this one because I love painting skeletons(Weird I know) but I really liked the illustrated feel of this and how simple it was. The problem I had with this was how to show the puzzle piece as ‘out of place’ and for this one scale was the major factor because I had to get bigger puzzle pieces to really make it stand out and chose the pieces that looked like breasts in the more basic shape. That was also how I decided to not crudely represent breasts like just in your face but use the shapes to suggest the anatomy of breasts.

Breasts in the point of view of a Breast Cancer Survivor is a Medal of Healing

For this work I wanted to take on a more hands on approach. So for the breasts they are represented (kinda like the transgender one) in a way where the puzzle pieces are missing but I wanted to use stitching to show patching and healing. So I had cut out puzzle pieces from the breasts and other parts of the body and then stitched them together to show that a survivor is also transitioning and that the flesh itself does not define them anymore. So instead of having a background for the missing piece I left it backgroundless and able to be seen through the threads to show that the survivor is not defined by the breasts anymore and that the breasts represents a sort of societal judgement that isn’t imposed on her anymore and that superficiality in terms of breasts does not apply to the survivor. So the sewing was really tough because I didn’t want the paper to break and tear and then I would have to restart so that was tiring.. and using red a very sexual colour, I wanted to show how a survivor is not define by the societal imposed sexuality standards. The stitches on the face represents the healing and reforming of a new identity for the survivor. Also adding on to the idea of playfulness in this work I placed a medal around her neck to literally represent the medal of the breast (overcoming cancer) and using pink because it’s the colour of breast cancer awareness.

Personal Thoughts :

I wanted to represent the removed breasts as triumphant and I had a hrd time thinking about how should I represent it and the idea of sewing came to me and the biggest challenge was the routine of poking the hole and trying to have a consistent pattern in the sewing. I was really happy with the outcome though. I felt that this one couldn’t really be too playful because it was too serious a topic for me and my grandma also died from breast cancer so I wanted this to have a sort of toned down mood.

SECOND PERSON POV

Breasts in the point of view of a Plastic Surgeon is a Puzzle waiting to be rearranged.

This was based off the idea of fat transfer in the world of plastic surgery. The idea of taking other parts of the body to place it around the breasts are really shows how some women really treasure breasts as an asset and also the funny concept( maybe it’s just funny to me) that breasts are essentially fat but some women take the same fat from the other parts of the body just to put it into the breasts. I illustrated a mannequinn as the base body form to sort of give it a ‘plastic’ barbie doll look and how a plastic surgeon would see the human body as a toy that could be easily manipulated. So I blacked out a couple of puzzle pieces at the lower area of the body and having the puzzle pieces placed ontop of them to tilt outwards to show the idea of removing the puzzle pieces to place it elsewhere. For the boobs they were balloons(thought that it’d bring out the playfulness in this work and also having rubber balloons which are synthetic) that were painted skin colour and then had the congregtion of puzzle pieces placed on top of them to show how pieces that didn’t actually belong there is actually being ‘forced to fit in’ now and so I wanted it to look overcrowded around the balloons. Having the background as pink I felt complemented the mannequinn’s colour and gave off a very ditzy, plastic vibe.

Personal Thoughts :

THIS WAS SO FUN TO DO. I loved the colour scheme and everything for this it’s just so cute and so Mehgan Trainor’s All About That Bass. The visuals and the song was playing in the head the whole time. The balloons were really fun to play around with (okay sounds weird when I typed that out) and I loved the simplicity in this. Just thought this was a really cute piece.

Breasts in the point of view of a Conservative is Censorship

So for this I appropriated the greek sculpture to reference the idea of male dominance in the modern day patriarchal society. A sort of playful POV of how many modern day women whether in religion or culture are told by men to cover up. So the greek sculpture without arms actually puts the idea of society still living in the past and how nothing much really has changed since then and that men are still having a dominant position over women and that they are still controlling them. So I felt that the greek sculpture having no arms actually it quite well and that the hands of the men are actually controlling the woman’s entire being. So I layered a translucent film over to create a layer of ‘censorship’ and to place the puzzle pieces as part of the sculpture that could be manipulated. I also wanted to use many colours for the hands to contrast against the dullness of the greek sculpture to show the colourful male hands making the female sculpture dull. The puzzle pieces are then used here to represent censorship of the breasts.

Personal Thoughts :

Had a hard time thinking of how to represent the body in this one and was just scrolling through Pinterest and finally when I typed ‘Woman no arms’ this came up and thought it fit the concept pretty well.

Breasts in the point of view of a Baby is Food

For this work it has a greater sense of nonsensicality because I represented the female body as meat in a slaughter house. For this work I represented the breasts as packaged meat similar to that in the supermarket. I photographed the puzzle pieces in a print-out of a styrofoam box and wrapped it in clingfilm and photoshopped a barcode on it. I just wanted to represent the breasts as outside of the body now and being represented as food for the baby. This work was one of the outrageous one and had the most problems with regarding concept because I did not want to represent it with just milk bottles and too literal and so I decided to take it a step further and made it more on the outrageous side.

Personal Thoughts :

I liked that this one mixed traditional medium and photography and somehow it worked to put contrast on the photographed puzzle pieces. This one I had so many ideas of how to represent the breasts as food and they were either too crude or too literal and I finally saw a photo of a slaughter house on google images and I was like THAT’S IT!

Consistency

For all of the works I wanted them to have a certain similarity in the body and the scale of it and to let the different portrayal of the breasts give different messages for each work. The pastel colours of the 5 works also give a sense of playfulness with contrasting bodies in the forefront and the background also serves to create a background in which the bodies could stand out of the borders and to really be ‘in your face’.

Reflections :

I loved being able to paint and manually create works but through this project I’ve actually learnt that it could actually be fun to merge the two! So for project 3 I would probably want to do a mix of both traditional and digital mediums and actually bring the two together after 2 Semesters of being in a dilemma going back and forth between traditional and digital mediums

2D Identitty Process

Medium :

I’ve chosen to use the medium of puzzles to lay over images. Searching through for inspiration I’ve found that the idea of layering segmented images would really communicate my idea well as the subject matter of breasts, being part of the female body, could be represented as physically attached but emotionally detached(I know bit confusing ah I don’t know how to explain) As in like for a transgender it could be represented as a puzzle to make one feel whole. And I find the idea of having cracks/spaces between the segmented pieces because it shows that it is not a true original piece but it could be formed and created to ‘finish’ your own puzzle.

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I’ve also decided to split the 6 images into two categories of perspectives:

1st person perspective vs 2nd person perspective

Positive Breast

Trasgender | Baby

Superficial Breast

Anorexic | Plastic Surgeon

Negative Breast

Breast Cancer Survivor | Conservative

Inspirations :

I wanted to have a minimalistic illustrated look to mimic certain magazine covers that I felt had a really clean look and to convey a message quick and easy but not too literal. So that was the main challenge for me which was to find a balance between too symbolic and too literal.

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I’ve decided to go with a consistent female body through all the compositions so give a sort of flow and simplicity to the works. I did not want it to be messy and all over with different representations for every work.

Mock-up of the puzzle pieces being placed on the body

For this work I began with a painted mock-up of the idea with a plain puzzle set from ArtFriend and during consultation the problem that was brought up was that the message of the work would be better conveyed if the puzzle pieces weren’t placed all over. So I’ve decided to rework it and place the puzzle pieces around the body instead, representative of the human superficial flesh in contrast to the inner body of a Transgendered person.

First basic mock up

Leaving of spaces

Creating spaces between the positive and the negative which shows the dissipation of the old identity and the reformation of a new identity.

Testing out with typography

I felt that the typography would actually create more visual mess and take away the focus from the work and message itself. So I decided to do away with the text across all 6 works.

Breasts in the POV of an Anorexic is Out Of Place

The first mock-up idea

The first idea for the POV of an anorexic which showed a crucified skeleton weighed down by shackles on the ribcage and the puzzle pieces represented the media covering up the ‘healthy lifestyle’ and only showing the ‘superficial’ pop culture.

The problem with the first mock up from the consultation was that it was very crowded and messy and had too many points (Media,Social) and that the focus was taken away from the breasts themselves.

So I decided to just remove everything around the skeletal figure and just focus on the figure itself and represent then breasts as puzzle pieces that were ‘out of place’.

Painting the figure

Personifying the skeleton. Giving a human face to her

Final arrangement of the puzzle pieces on the skeletal figure

Experimenting with the background colours to see which would best fit in terms of contrast and the mood and decided to go with the warm colour of yellow because I felt that it gave a happy but creepy feel with the illustrated skeletal figure in the forefront.

Breasts in the POV of a Breast Cancer Survivor is a Medal of Healing

Mock-up of the healing body

The idea of using threads as stitches to show a physical representation of healing and I felt that having it be real-life and not printed would give the effect of physical/superficial scars and to be able to see through the threads allows the message of not allowing the breasts t define them superficially anymore.

Painting the healing body

I realised I forgot to take photos of the sewing because I was trying so hard not do break the paper so yea :/

Breasts in the POV of a Plastic Surgeon is a Puzzle To Be Rearranged

Breasts represented as puzzle pieces to be fit together

Making of the breasts using balloons and rubber as a synthetic material that adds to the quirkiness of the work

I had to blow so many because I kept getting unequal lopsided boobs

The left breast had to be reblown because it was too small

Breasts in the POV of a Conservative is Censorship

Breasts in the POV of a Baby is Food

Wrapping the puzzle pieces up in styrofoam and photographed

Idea of depicting women as meat. I had trouble trying to find a balance between depicting the boobs as food and not some sex trade mysoginistic way

Miscellaneous :

Just some initial ideation for my own use

Overall it was a tiring process and mostly because of conceptual problems and I’ve realised that the concept is the hardest part for me and execution usually goes smoothly! Hopefully I’ll be able to conceptualise faster for Project 3.

POV Initial Research

-Oh my gosh I realised I saved this as a draft without posting it-

The first thing that came to mind when I was researching on this project was the idea of angles and how certain angles could bring out a different perspective of an object/subject matter. So I began researching on angled/optical art. But when I thought about it I realised that I didn’t have to be limited to optical illusions but I could also lay layers over so that once moved it could reveal a different image.

My initial explorations led me to exploring the female breasts. Initially I wanted to take on a more light-hearted and comedic tone but then i realised that if I could balance that with a message behind the comedy it would be more effective that way.

I wanted to create something that was visually similar to Banksy’s artworks where there is a sense of grim comedy that really gets to you.

Initial Ideation :

Boobs from the point of view of a grandmother

Boobs from the point of view of a pervert

Boobs from the point of view of a baby is food

Boobs from the pov of a bra

Boobs from the point of view of a teenager is transformation/change

Boobs from the point of view of a transgender is identity

Boobs from the pov of a porno film maker

Boobs from the pov of a butch

Boobs from the pov of a gynacologist

Boobs from the pov of a plastic surgeon is a blueprint/work of art/clay

Boobs from the pov of a sculpture

Boobs from the point of view of indian buddhism

Boobs from the point of view of an anorexic is fat/burden

Boobs from the point of view of a fashion magazine

Boobs from the point of view of pop culture is photoshop

Boobs from the pov of an american

Format/Layout :

For Layout I would like to present it in a book/magazine format and was thinking of incorporating typography in the works to further enhance the message.

Something like this. But I wanted to go for an illustration style where the subjects are not photographed.

Initial Plans :

Boobs from the point of view of a transgender is identity

I wanted to mount a male head on top of a female mannequin’s body to show how eventhough the body and head are separate they still come together to form the identity of a person

Boobs from the point of view of a baby is food

For this I wanted to use a milk bottle to represent baby’s food but replace the feeding rubbery part with a breast.

Boobs from the pov of a plastic surgeon is a blueprint/work of art/clay

Thinking of overlaying blueprints over the body.

Boobs from the point of view of a teenager is transformation/change

Not so sure about this idea yet

Colour :

Colours also play an important role for me because the mood i want to suggest also heavily relies on the colour since I will be illustrating. So I would probably contrast the colours with the image. E.g if I am presenting a gory image maybe I could use vibrant colours or if I am presenting a comedic image but with dark, desaturated colours. I feel like this balance would also contribute to the dark humour I want to portray.

In Banksy’s works there is also an apparent high level of contrast and I feel like this adds to the grim atmosphere of the work.

Symbolism/Depiction of Subject Matter :

I felt like with my subject matter, breasts, I had to be careful because I did not want it to end up crude and tasteless and at the same time I did not want it to be a work which did not visually convey the subject matter clearly.

Like what my classmates said in class it cannot be portrayed too ‘in your face’ and it turns out looking cheesy and cheap and it can’t be too symbolic either where the entire subject matter is not communicated through the work.

So I began looking for things that resembled my subject matter.

I’m still exploring so hoping I find a path

I feel like the these 3 components would be important to me in this project :

Colour/Contrast

Layout

Something rom the pov of a blind person

KFC from the pov of an animal lover

School in the point of view of an American is a shooting range

School in the point of view of a student

From the point of view of a terrorist

Fashion from the point of view of a guy

Book from the point of view of a dyslexic

Book from the point of view of a nerd

Book from the point of view of a tree

Book from the point of view of a cat

Book from the point of view of an escapist

Book from the point of view of a bimbo

Book from the point of view of an illiterate

Book from the point of view of a tree

Book from

Food from the point of view of an artist is an instagram photo

Religion from the pov of an atheist

Beauty from the pov of pop culture is anorexia

Beauty from the pov of feminist

Beauty from the pov of a plastic surgeon

Beauty from the pov of a

Breasts from the pov of a transgendered person

Breasts from the pov of a plastic surgeon

Breasts from the pov of a baby

Breasts from the pov of a bra

Breasts from the pov of an anorexic

Breasts from the pov of a woman

The glasses show different standards of beauty

Animals in the pov of the fashion industry is clothes

Animals in the pov of KFC is food

Animals in the pov of a zookeeper

Animals in the pov of

A book from the point of view of a tree – murder

layering background to change the meaning

arrange things in a mass gestalt

gestalt theory. Looks like smtg

the mind’s eye

negative spaces

push the image on its own

colours also to make something seem like smtg

image has to look closer

I was thinking about

Animated vs photographs vs drawing

Something rom the pov of a blind person

KFC from the pov of an animal lover

School in the point of view of an American is a shooting range

School in the point of view of a student

He is…

Overarching Concept

The idea of a crime scene through a series of investigative photographs allows the audience to be immersed into the work as the ‘detective’ themselves and I want to use the ‘detective’ in this work as a metaphor for judgement. We judge people like how we judge photographs ; one look and one impression is enough for us to form an opinion about someone and most of the time it’s negative. By using these series of photographs I want to poke fun and sort of ridicule the terms placed upon me and how there are always two sids to the story. I also wanted to use ironic imagery with the typographic words to further enhance the message I woud like to convey.

Setting : Home

I wanted to create a space through photographs so that my audience has an idea of the space around the death of the persona I wanted to convey through the narrative. I chose to set it in a home environment as I felt like a house is a safe place for a person, sort of like a sanctuary where one can feel safe and where we could really be our true selves. I wanted to flip the idea of home being a safe sanctuary and turn it into something sinister. Where the character( my exaggerated persona) could be himself but at the same time hate himself. I borrowed one of my relative’s house which is quite empty to shoot this project.

Evidence E :

He is a Vegetable Murderer ; I am a Vegetarian

This was my favourite 2 sided one to work on as I liked playing with the idea of changing a positive trait into a negative. This was inspired by sarcastic comments made by people growing up as a vegetarian. ‘You’re a vegetarian but you kill vegetables so you still kill’. I wanted the setting to be in a kitchen and turn a simple routine such as cutting vegetables into a murderous scene with ‘blood’ and ‘gore’. For this I was in a dilemma of whether to do a neat and tidy typography of my name or to keep it messy and not too obvious. The thing is I didn’t want it to seem like it was done haphazardly but my concept was that it was a messy scene and I wanted the audience to really look closely to actually be able to find my name, kind of symbolizing the idea of analyzing someone closely before we could actually find out who the person truly is. In the end I decided to go with the ‘messy’ look as I felt like it conveyed my idea better. By using tomato sauce (mixed with some watercolour paint to get the blood-like texture I wanted), I wanted to show that things may not appear as they are. Although it may look like blood at first glance (Vegetable murderer), upon closer inspection you can tell that it’s actually tomato paste (Vegetarian).

I also tried to make a blood dripping effect on the edge of the chopping board and applied some sauce to the edge of the kitchen knives to enhance the intensity of the scene. I actually used all my favourite vegetables and chose some disgusting ones like lady’s finger and long beans that have like a hollow inside with seeds on the inside that I could mimic ‘organs spilling out’ so that was fun.

Extra thoughts :

Out of the 4 I really didn’t enjoy this one because it was SOOOO SMELLY. Because I wanted varying colours and not everything to be vibrant I actually put the chopping board in the freezer so that some of the vegetables could lose their green and I could layer fresh vegetables on top but I shouldn’t have wasted time and just photoshopped the colour because the smell stayed for like a day and it was the most horrible smell ever.

Evidence O :

He is a narcissist/ I am trying to look my best

I wanted to have the cracks on a mirror spell out ‘Leo’ which is actually the origin of the name. Being named after the ‘Lion’ horoscope, a Leo is supposed to represent strength, confidence and courage but I wanted to play with the traits of a Leo in this work. So to crack the mirror I wrapped it in clingfilm and just stabbed it continuously with a screwdriver and I was so happy to get the cracks to somewhat spell out ‘Leo’ in my 2^nd attempt. I lined it with lipstick to symbolise how I try to piece the cracks together with superficial products and to conceal my flaws and also to emphasize the ‘Leo’ on the mirror. I wanted to have the reflection of my medication on the mirror as this was an important aspect of me. I took weight gaining pills and acne pills so that I could look better and to boost my confidence and so the reflection sort of symbolises what I see in the mirror now. It was really hard for me to frame the reflection of the pills because the shadows and the different angles of all the shards of mirrors showed different parts of the table so I had to position the camera at one angle and arrange the pills accordingly so that every shard of mirror had the pills in them.

Extra thoughts :

I had to break 2 mirrors for this because the firsto ne completely shattered L That is 14 years of bad luck on chinese new year somemore. I asked my mom for some cheap red lipstick but she said she doesn’t use random cheap lipstick(what a snob) but she cut off some of her estee lauder for me but it was brown so I had to mix some watercolour again. I was abit heart pain to use expensive stuff for a cracked mirror but oh well I loved the outcome.

Evidence N :

He is crazy ; I was a monk in my past life

I feel like I was a monk because I’m such a kind-hearted person. Joking.

Honestly all joking aside I really sometimes feel like I was a monk in my past-life because sometimes I have dreams of being in a temple and I just feel so zen and positive most of the time so I’ve always felt like I was probably a monk in one of my past lives. For this I wanted to create an altar where my persona is paying respects to an ‘ancestor’. Again, seeing that it was Chinese New Year I didn’t want to go too far and make my mom too angry because she was already pretty pissed that I broke 2 mirrors during CNY. So I borrowed 2 prayer candles and photoshopped the flame in, used a cardboard box cover as my name tablet and photoshopped by chinese name in and I wanted to do a portrait of me as a monk with my thumbs and to mimic the texture of incense ash as I wanted to imprint my thumbprint using incense ( Allowing my identity to be imprinted with something that used to be physical such as the ash so it’s kind of like merging the present and the past). I also wanted to lighting to be extra dark and creepy in this scene as I had the idea of having an extremely creepy feels for this one.

Extra thoughts :

Printing my thumb constantly on a wall was quite tiring and aching and sometimes the ash doesn’t stick and then I press harder and then it’s too dark. But I am really happy with the outcome.

Evidence L :

He is weird/ I am always standing out

When you look at someone who is completely white in colour you would probably think he is weird. And when someone is weird what do we do? We outcast and ‘kill’ them. I wanted all the other 3 ideas to sort of form this weird persona which is me and to make me seem really weird. For this scene I wanted to create a dead body scene and lay the different evidences around me as things to make me who I am but at the same time they are the things cause the judgements to kill me. For this I lined my body with caution tape and painted my body white and layered greys on top to create the effect of standing out from the background. I asked my mom to paint the lines according to the tiles on the floor as I was inspired by this artist Liu Bolin who paints himself to blend into the background. I laid different characteristics of the previous evidences around my body such as a monk bead bracelet, pills and vegetables. I had my face, arms and legs white as I wanted to sort of symbolise innocence.

Extra thoughts:

This was my favourite one in terms of concept as I loved the idea of the spelling out my name using the evidence plates. The paint was a pain in the ass as I was so dumb I went to use acrylic paint because I didn’t want to waste money but I totally regretted it because once it dried it was so hard to get off. Some of it is still stuck in my hair until now. This was also the hardest in terms of camera angle. I didn’t know where I would want the camera to be placed because it was such a huge space and I didn’t know if I should do top-down or angled or just flat on the ground. I am happy with the results though!

Overall it was tiring but fun!

He is… ( Process )

So for this project I went to research on crime scene investigations and I waned to mimic that high contrast + flash + angles in the photos. I also wanted to have like a really creepy feel throughout all the photos.

Evidence 1 : He is a Vegetable Murderer/ I am a Vegetarian

I started testing out printed fonts such as this and I was in a dilemma about using the space. Should I fill up the letters with vegetables and the space around it with the ‘blood’? or should I do the inverse.

Experimenting with different formats

Colour change

Placing the printed letters and taking note of the kerning and size

The colour was too brown for me before, I mixed the watercolour in to give it that bloody pop

Smearing the first layer of background on

Put the first layer in the freezer for a day so that the colours die down and so I can layer another layer of fresh vegetables on top so it has depth.

Setting up the camera angle

before I added blood to the knives and the blood dripping

So after I got the perfect shot I increased the contrast through photoshop.

Evidence 2 :

He is narcissistic/ I am trying to look my best

Clingfilm and screwdriver to smash the mirror

glueing the shards in place

Applying the lipstick in the cracks

Evidence 3 :

He is Crazy/ I was a monk in my past life

For this one I wanted to create a creepy altar space. For this I used incense to create a caricature of me as a monk using my thumnprints with paper ash to mimic incense.

I don’t know why I can’t rotate this pic on oss but anyway I tried to do a caricature of me without hair

Burning paper to create the ‘incense’ ash smudging effect

Thumbprinting which was tiring and painful but loved the outcome

My ash past life portrait

Look at my mom’s face she was PISSED

the moment the photo was taken she went to wipe it all off

Final Evidence :

He is weird/ I am always standing out (Unique)

For this final photo I wanted to create a dead body scene with me covered in white. So for this I had to paint my body white and wore white clothes and I also wanted to blend into the background.

Inspired by this artist Liu Bolin who blends into the background

Using my mother to paint my body

Miscelleneous initial compositions :

First ideas ever of 1. I am a vegetarian 2. I am Sweet

Initial orbituary idea for I am Leon and I am dead inside. Scrappeed the idea because it didn’t fit in

The first murder of vegetables (experimentation)

Initial idea for Hi I am Leon and I am Sweet. (Idea of how I seem sweet but when you get close to me you might die

Pill Ideas for : I am Leon and I am trying to look my best

Typographic Update

After consultation on Monday I have finally settled on an overarching concept. I want to play with irony and sarcasm and to just take the traits which I see as positive into how some haters might see it as negative and to poke fun at myself. I feel like I’m a positive person but always misunderstood. In this project I want to address the names in which people have called me eventhough I feel they are positive traits. In the beginning of the project I started off a mess and just jumping from concept to concept and having totally different ideas for every single typography and no consistent flow but excited to finally settle on one.

Using sarcastic comments of people towards me in this project to kinda show that words only hold that much power in affecting you and that I can turn hurtful words into something positive and light-hearted.

Mediums :

For mediums I will be experimenting with photography and mediums which i feel would be able to convey the message of each trait the best

2D Research

Typography :

I am really interested in using what we’ve learnt about the colour wheel last semester and apply it to Project 1 this semester. I feel that Dada works play a part in this project as Typography art also has a sort of arbitrary yet controlled way of placing and combining various subjects together to form an overarching concept through similar styles and tints and hues whereas typography uses the font design, lettering, colours, and placement to create a sense of flow when composition is seemingly arbitrary.

For example, in this composition, I felt like there is a flow in the composition eventhough every word uses a mutually exclusive font. However, all fonts possess a certain ‘casualness’ and fun in the sense where the fonts are ‘messy’ and seemingly random. But what I can take away from this is that the kerning plays an important part in determining the balance in the entire composition and that there can still be a sense of system and flow in a typographic composition with entirely different fonts and sizes and colours and designs for every single word. The background also brings the whole typographic composition together.

Another form of presentation of typography includes photography of live hand-made types. This allows the background and text to become one whole composition. For example in this work, the submerged text in water allows a blurry texture to be created which emphasizes thee word ‘delirium’ which has a ‘blurred’ conotation behind it. This shows how the background and the natural textures it creates in real time can be incorporated into the work itself.

I am also interested in words forming images as it incorporates traditional realistic styles with typography and allows the image formed and the words within the image to converge to convey a message.

Overall the things that I have learnt from the research include :

Background and text can come together to form an even more impactful and clearer message
Take note of the balance within the composition and to ensure that there is a sense of consistency even in inconsistent elements. To allow everything to flow.
Space(Kerning) between letters also can affect the neatness and the overall look of the typography.
The font visuals and mental relationship has to be coherent. E.G : a formal invitation with comic san ms font would be inappropriate. Well, actually comic san ms on anything would be inappropriate.
Words that require emphasis could be visually manipulated by altering the size, colour and fonts and the background.

The ‘I am’ that I have decided to go with are :

Psycho

Vegetarian

Impulsive

Vain

Adrenaline Junkie

Rule-Breaker

I am still finalising on the concepts and sketches and will be updating more over the weekend!