2D Project 3 Process

COLOURS

The process for this project has been a fun one as I get to play around with different colours this time. Before starting on the project, I researched abit about colours and found out the different theories like analogous, complimentary…

MEDIUM

During my research, I came across this watercolour artists, Afu Lee.

Inspired by her works, I wanted to try watercolour for the first time. Hence, I decided to do some trial testing.

Trying out one stroke painting with gouache tempera.

Tried watercolour on printing paper but the watercolour effect did not come out as well as watercolour paper.

My original idea was to use watercolour as my main medium for this project, however, I was not quite satisfied with the quality of my watercolour. Hence, I decided to have a different for each of my line, watercolour, illustration, photoshop collage and photographs.

IDEA/THEME

My main source of ideas was mainly from tumblr due to the wide variety artists and artworks on it.

In the end, I settled with my theme for this project as Lifestyle where I display my relation to food, friends, work and fashion.

2D Project 2- Process

This project proves to be quite tedious as I met alot of thinking blocks along the way. Initially, I wanted to use 4 different quotes to make a social commentary of how we pursue unlimited wants and they are:

1) Heavenly Forest

“I wonder if anybody’s nice enough to stop.”

2) Harry Potter

“After all this time?” “Always”

3) X-Men: Apocalypse

“Everyone fears that which they do not understand”

4) The Little Mermaid

“The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake”

For the little mermaid’s quote, I was pretty inspired by Hokusai’s great waves, hence, I decided to incorporate the waves in my collage. Initially, the plan was to have this “imaginary” cycle of how the fishes wanted to be like Arial- have a face and able to talk, and I will do the same vicious for the three other quotes. However, after I consulted Joy in my first consultation, she proposed a suggestion of having one quote and to expand my vicious cycle to a larger scale. Also, to have 4 collages come together to show a circle so that it resembles a cycle.

On my second consultation, I had my 4 collages done but after consultation, I realised that there were many problems like some collages being too dark and the hint for the circle being too strong. Hence, I decided to redo my collages.

The silkscreen printing process was another problem like my other classmates. When I tried silkscreen printing for the first time, it turns out well. However, when I wanted to print the design on the bag, the prints turn out to be either too dark or too light. After 5 trys and 2 tote bags, I was able to get the right tone I want on my 6th trys. YAYY!! Lesson learnt: Use ample ink and glide the ink on the screen with minimum strength.

Proceeding on with my collages, I went onto tumblr for inspirations as I was pretty much experiencing major blocks and couldn’t fork up any ideas. These are some of the artworks I took inspirations from. All in all, I managed to overcome the blocks and come up something.

MATERIALIZATION INTO REALITY

Mark Making- Process 2

I have always been inspired by the Chinese culture and would very much like to experiment further on this subject. After consulting joy, she encouraged me to explore the language vicinity like Egyptian hieroglyphics and not restrict myself to just Chinese itself. Also, she inspired my to research more on the norms and emotion standings of different races and religions.

With that being said, this is my first draft of emotions. Although not much thinking process is put into creating these patterns initially, but one of the strips became the spark towards what I want to go for.

With the theme of LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY, I began doing some background research on different languages like korean, japanese, arabic, dzongkha, italin, spanish and many more. Also, I’ve tried different papers like newsprint, print paper, chinese calligraphy paper and even wax paper.

How do I put across a message that emotions are kept within someone?

One of my ideas is to insert a Chinese poem, having tried different fonts and sizes, I finally found the perfect way to portray my idea.

Originally, one of my ideas was to show the evolve of Chinese characters. However, I can’t seem to put an emotion to it, hence, idea aborted.

Below are some examples of my thought process.

At this point, I have decided that writing materials will be my main medium due to it being one of the main form of communication in today’s world. Also, after my group consultation, my original idea of separating the board into 2 A2 boards with one focused on mainly Chinese language and the other one on world’s society and languages changed into just a A1 board depicting languages and societies around the globe.

STARTING EMO

Markmaking- Process

Before I started out with this project, I experimented a few pens and brushes for their textures.

This project seems all fascinating to me as “mark making” is a new foreign word that I picked up within these few weeks. Having no background in art at all, I was bewildered by all the fancy ways of creating patterns andeven textures. Hence forth, when joy introduced the procedure for mark making, I was so excited and eager to “touch” the roller!

Voila! I had my first mono printing ever! I’m so glad it turns out pretty well on my first attempt though.

Subsequently, I decided to explore the world of monoprinting and used many materials such as leaves, flowers, strings, foil, spray bottle and basically that’s in my sight. Some turns out print well and through this process, I’ve got the hang on how to do monoprinting.