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Ego in different settings- research + process

November 17, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Reference artist: Jimmy Liao

Jimmy Liao is a children’s book illustrator. His colour schemes are able to bring out the mood of his drawings very well. He uses a combination of ink, watercolour and pen.

 

In this picture, he uses blue and yellow as the main colours and also a slight tint of orange to create the contast.

This was my inspiration for the cage in the final work.

 

At first I wanted to use fish to represent school but mimi had told me it was inconsistent so I had used a flock of birds instead to add the tree in.

The design was changed as I thought that it was strange that the food went sraight to the stomach not the mouth.

At first, I wanted to use complementary colours in separate pictures the combine them in the last picture but I realised it couldn’t work. It made the thumbnails become separate so, in the end, I used the same colour scheme for all the pictures.

i had a hard time deciding which colour I wanted to use for the last one in the end I chose green and vermilion which gave a huge contrast to the mood and I had also changed the design to yin yang because it symbolised patience.

Forest Gump – Process

October 15, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Research:

The Stenberg brothers

Stenberg Brothers’ Poster for Buster Keaton’s 1926 film ‘The General’

they have this realistic yet retro style to their work. the way they put the images together is also interesting.

 

Crafting ideas:

The drafts were first done on paper. I wasn’t very inspired by some of the quotes so there were some designs that I felt weren’t creative enough.

I then recreated some designs on my computer.

 

 

We don’t discuss the future here we enjoy living in the good old here and now.- ms peregrine’s

this design was rejected since when I went to consult Mimi she said It does not look very eye-catching and interesting.

there was one design I had wanted to do but it was quite difficult.

I wanted to recreate something like this:

but the end product didn’t turn out well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It did not turn out looking like a brain. This was for the quote “I’ll show you how valuable Elle woods can be” but in the end, I didn’t use the quote at all.

the four quotes I chose, in the end, were this four:

Silk screening:

I had to redo it a couple of times since the ink smudges and the eye of the turtle couldn’t be seen but other than that I was quite successful and only wasted one tote bag.

 

 

 

Project 1 final

September 12, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Shown below is the final outcome for the mark making project. Most of the artworks are made using newspaper and all of them describe how I feel about newspaper articles.

The first one is about the guy who got bitten by the bear. I was a questioning why people keep ignoring the safety procedures of safari parks as this is not the first time that happened but my first impression was that of disbelief as I didn’t think that after the incident where a tiger bit a woman to death, something like this would happen again. I’m also disgusted by the article but amazed/ surprised that the bear could be so fast as to bite a person from a moving car.

The third one is done on a cut out of the stock page. My brother is very into stock recently, so I was worried that he would get addicted. and when you’re worried you feel like you have strings tied in your heart so I used strings to make the pattern.

For this second board, I wanted to shine a torchlight through it and show the different textures of the plastic and the uhu glue I had used to secure the last piece. For the first one, I used the leaf of a herb. and as my grandfather is a farmer, this is quite nostalgic to me as my dad had transplanted this herb from my grandparents’ garden. For the second one, I don’t like any articles talking about the economy and finance so I tore it to fine pieces at a fast speed to make it look like agitation. the difference between the third and the second one is the speed of tearing, the third one I tore it slowly to show more sadness rather than rage.

Process- Emo Project 1

September 6, 2017 / / 0 Comments

During the second lesson after the consultation, I was trying to experiment with rolling the paint on the paper as shown in the videos below:

I also cut up newspaper to make brushes instead of using conventional brushes.

There are more experimentation examples in my journal.

 

Positive/negative space + self intro

August 23, 2017 / / 0 Comments

My name is Ye Dan Ning. I was from Tampines JC. I was from science stream and did not take art as a subject in school but took some classes outside when I was in secondary school. I am still deciding my major but I think I’m going in the direction of design.

At canteen two when we sketched our surroundings I didn’t really manage to grasp the concept of negative and positive spaces. Is it just to create contrasts between objects? And what does it mean to draw the easier thing to draw?

Reflecting on my sketches I think that there could have been more shading and I should have been more confident in my strokes.