For my final pieces, I used creatures and beasts as my main subjects to represent my overarching love for zoology. I also used digital medium as it is the medium I am most fluent in hence allowing me to achieve the colours and tone I want.

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A Study of Self

This final assignment, arguably the most enjoyable one to date, had us reflecting on what made us who we are, and had us examining our values, desires, and ambitions. Naturally, when faced with the question of ‘who am I’, I begin by thinking of all the possible psychoanalytical methods of categorizing myself, and the many different ways a person can establish an identity.

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The principles of design are the governing ‘rules’ by which successful pictures are made, whether the designer had been consciously aware of them or not. The principles I list here are as described, qualified, and quantified by Charlotte Jirousek, with illustrated examples by artist John Lovett. In the context of the Rhymes 2D project, principles dealing in colours and examples involving colours have been excluded.Continue reading