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My Line is Emo – Final!

We’ve come to the end of Project 1 and theeeeeese are the lines I’ve chosen for the emotions I’ve picked ^_^

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Infatuation
infatuation
I thought of infatuation as a rather short-term and sudden emotion, hence the pattern slightly humps in the middle with more intensity, and fades off at the ends.
I dabbed ink with my fingers in a rhythmic manner to symbolize heartbeats; As if one’s heart beats faster and harder when infatuated.

Longing
longing
Longing reminded me of reaching out for something almost unobtainable, hence I made the lines really airy and light, to show a faint feeling.

Caring
caring
I’d like to link care/being caring to warmth, and the use of curved lines helps to encapsulate this ‘heat’, where it also darkens in the core of the strip of paper.

Annoyed
annoyed
I translated the emotion of annoyance using the amount pressure I would put on a pen when I feel ticked off, but instead of a pen, I used a penknife, so that the scratch marks can be seen on the strip. Also, I used a thicker piece of material, and in black, to ensure that the scratches look more obvious.

Bitterness
bitterness
In the case of mark making for bitterness, I decided to focus more on the action, whereby I simply dipped a brush into diluted ink and splattered it onto the paper. This gave a mark that helped to portray a sense of dislike; as if something was thrown away in disappointment and offence.

Envy
envy
I tried to create drawings of many eye-like figures that look towards different directions; As if they were looking at one another in envy!

Glumness
glumness
Glumness links to sadness which made me think of tears!

Rejected
rejected
I tried to portray rejection as a bigger force going against a smaller one.

Suffering
suffering
Used a sharp object to create these lines, to portray lines that look like cuts, but also adding a bit of smudge to make it seem more real. This helps to show the feeling of pain which is in line with the emotion suffering!

Pride
pride
Took the emotion of Pride with a positive connotation rather than a negative one, and made the middle single pointed shape taller than the rest to show a sense of victory and achievement, while the rest are lower and the ones at the end are a little messier, with the thickness gradually increasing at the ends.

Relief
relief
Relief gives a sense of relaxation, assurance and ease. I produced wave-like patterns to depict and symbolize the rhythmic nature of waves that would help to calm us down.

Optimism
optimism
Just like grass that reach out to grow, these lines show the same idea; Also, as they pan lightly and jumpy, this depicts a positive and happy feeling.

Panic
panic
The lines are anxious and messy, moving in a direction against one another – Just like how one would feel in a state of panic.

Hysteria
hysteria
Hysteria actually makes me think of people who are trapped in an enclosed space, trying to get out – to the point that they start to struggle with themselves, and hence i decided to use my own fingers to put myself in that position, depicting an extremely anxious motion, with no specific direction.

Uneasiness
uneasiness
I automatically squirm and close myself up as I think of the word uneasiness. The feeling of uneasiness goes hand-in-hand with discomfort, so I decided to make the lines here do that too (the action and movement, that is.)

Shock
shock
The idea of shock comes as a short and sudden expression, hence I make jumps of these patches in the midst of low lying patches.

Amazement
amazement
I feel like amazement is a continuous emotion felt within the given “time”, hence the base of this line show enthusiastic and eager lines. However, it also encompasses the idea of sudden “WOW” moments, thus, I added in the extra paint lines to portray that.

Startled
startled
Although the emotion ‘startled’ is something sudden, I feel that the feeling would still linger on after the moment, hence I made use of repetitive (but gradual) pattern.

I guess I’ve learnt that there are really endless possibilities to what we can do with lines, and lines actually speak so much more than I thought. Although it’s a pity that I had not ventured as much as I wanted to, I still enjoyed this project fairly much :-)

The end!

Mark Making #2!

This was what I did during the 2nd lesson of mark making! :-)

Didn’t really experiment alot, but tried to think more towards the emotions that I chose.

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Dripping paint downwards!

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‘Scratching’ out a white-line pattern onto black paint (could’ve used a thicker paper material!) (Annoyed)

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Left/right and Circular motions (Suffering)

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Using the sharp edge of the palette knife to create sharp lines, but also smudging the ‘thicker’ paint areas (Suffering)

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Up/down and Left/right strokes

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Using the base of a plastic cup (Uneasiness)

Also tried to start on thinner (although not the exact dimensions) strips to limit and narrow the space I have (for submission!)

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(Bitterness)

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(Glumness)

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(Caring)

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(Pride)

Not really satisfied with what I have now so I hope to explore and finalize more marks soon!!! cry

Mark Making Lesson 1

So we were asked to bring 2 mark making tools each for the first mark making lesson last week, and I decided on a comb and a straw. However, I realized that we could use many of our daily used items/almost anything lying around as mark making tools as well :-) The following pictures are here to document what I had done on the first lesson!

& These were all done with Chinese calligraphy ink & black paint!

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Using the teeth of the comb (Startled)

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Using the comb just as a ‘brush’

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Splattering of ink using the comb


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Blowing of ink through a straw (Startled – but to be sharper)

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(Annoyed)

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Just using the straw as a ‘brush’ (Panic)IMG_7833

Using the bendable part of the straw (Panic)

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Cutting up the straw into 5 parts (as if a fan)

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Use of fingers (Hysteria)

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Use of palette knife

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Left: Using a palette knife
Right: Finger prints (Infatuation)

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Linoprints

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Use of crushed tissue paper (Infatuation)

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Use of roller

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Making use of a strand of hair… hahahhaa
(Longing – but can have less lines)


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Tried Symmetry Print but did not work out as I’d like it to :-( So decided to mess it up (smudged it) a little bit after that!

Ended the lesson with that and feeling excited to try out more tools wink