EGO Documentation 2

New direction for this project, I need to re think all my ideas again.

Starting from how to depict my ideas using my classmate, i gave myself direction to choose from, maybe i can choose from generic ideas like for example metaphoric, a heart of gold i could use someone and lots of gold? brave as lion with someone and an lion in it?

Thinking about this, there is an inside joke between Jeremy and me, because he is a Mauritian which is beside Africa, I would disturb him by telling him to go hunt lion in Africa.. maybe i could use this idea.

A list of ways to do my work in.. i could do one medium for each box, making 12 medium in total, maybe?

or i could choose 2 mediums and do a 6 – 6 so that it would have a general theme to it hence clearer message since it is the classmate in the picture i want to emphasis, not my art.

brainstorming of ideas i could use for my final, those boxed out is what i chose and V1 and V2 meant version 1 and version 2 which i think it would be a better idea.

In conclusion, my 4 equation are –

Honesty + Optimistic = Humorous (me)

Hong sheng in “the honest woodsman” + Marianne in her cheerful smile = Zhouyang as himself (will be funny as it is)

Adventurous – Procrastinating = Dream chaser (better me)

Ibrahim in Adventure Time – Isaac doing things halfway = Jeremy chasing lion with a spear in Africa

More knowledge x More kindness = Save the world (ideal me)

Madeline studying x Munn feeding cat = Amazing Anam

Making friends + Having fun = Happy me (me in 5 years)

Me trying to make weird friends + Me doing abnormal fun things = whole class smiling cheerfully.

Heres my half done drawings with watercolour.

Honesty (supposed to be HongSheng, but not alike..)

Oprimistic (Miaranne)

Humorous (ZhouYang)

Adventurous (Ibrahim)

Procrastination (Isaac)

Dream chaser (Jeremy)

My half done digital paintings

More Kindness (Madeline)

More Kindness (Munn)

Save the world (Amazing Anam)

Making Friends (me with toothless)

Having Fun (me)

Me in 5 years (everyone)

andddddd~~~ time stalk my classmate facebook and search for their smilessss!!!!

this is the result of stalking!!!

spent many hours to find suitable picture reference and around 3 hours to have the lineart of these sketches, each sketch is done on a 200mm by 200mm file to preserve as much detail as possible of the faces and formed this..

It is kind of hard to rearrange everything to make it organised having me in the middle with 22 people in our class, so I added Shirley to make it 23 and I could make it into 22 + 1 = 11+1+11 and therefore arrange it nicely.

Next post will be my final works.

to be continue….

EGO Documentation 1

Ego Project, 4 Equation about Me, Improved me, Ideal me and Me in 5 years

the first thing i thought of for this project is to have my target audience to resonate with what I want to express,

and it is OK for others to not feel what i want to express or even totally don’t understand my work because that is not important, my priority will be my target audience.

I divided myself into category so that i can pick and match any two to form any equation,

Example 1 – Humorous + Forgiving = Friendly

Example 2 – Pride – arrogant = confident

Example 3 – Unpredictable x opportunistic = bright future

i think this it a good way to start my project as it gives me lots of possibility while still being me.

The better me, Ideal me and me in 5 years are all made up from the pieces in the “ME” equation.

Since this is a project about colour, i will start by linking a word that I want to use to a colour scheme for the feel that the colour has.

Arrogant/Confident in illustrator.

my initial idea was to vector the shapes and cut out different colour of paper to make it into pop up graphic.

like confidence and arrogance will be using the same picture, having confidence stacked up(additional/convex) while arrogant being cut away(left over)(subtraction/concave)

because i think confidence and arrogance is basically very similar but one is positive and one is negative.

After showing Shirley my work, she mentioned why use human when there ate more interesting way to depict confidence/arrogance and hence i redo it into a lion

lion are proud.

Learn more skills

for this while equation, I wanted to use game as i think that many classmates could resonate with my work as we play some game of some sort during our life,

i also wanted to use pixel art as it seems promising due to the rich colour scheme and not a main stream medium so I wanted to try something different.

this is not a screen shot from the famous online game Maple Story.

it is a template from maple story and edited it. any maple player will know it is impossible to get this skills in the game(heavily edited).

the stolen skills = skill I will learn

the Equipped skills = skills i learnt.

below are some pixel art i got from the web and intend to use it to construct my composition.

I wanted to use pixel art as a set of composition because i think it is really different and it works since my idea is More skills + kindness which both could be represent in pixel art.

Kindness

For this, i want to make my own avatar in the game to represent me doing some kind things

This is just for fun.

Honesty and Humorous

for the honesty, i decided to use a childhood story of mine to depict honesty, but with a twist.

the story is the honesty woodman, as of wikipedia

“The woodcutter who accidentally dropped his axe into a river and, because this was his only means of livelihood, sat down and wept. Taking pity on him, the god Hermes (also known as Mercury) dived into the water and returned with a golden axe. “Was this what you had lost?”, Hermes asked, but the woodcutter said it was not, and returned the same answer when a silver axe was brought to the surface. Only when his own tool is produced does he claim it. Impressed by his honesty, the god allows him to keep all three.”

but in my version, i decided to use the chinese god of fortune, holding axe in both hand and looking fierce while wearing what the god of fortune is not usually seen wearing while using a muscular arm used with the axe to create a gangster feel, like this, no one will dare to lie to him is what i want to show.

For Humorous, instead of showing some funny scene which stands for humorous,

I DECIDED TO MAKE MY TARGET AUDIENCE TO SERIOUSLY LAUGH OUT LOUD DURING MY PRESENTATION, I WANT TO GET THE REACTION FROM MY AUDIENCE.

SOOOOOOOOO.. I decided to draw Zhouyang from our class because he is naturally funny even if he did not try to be funny.

the picture of zhouyang will be one of the highlight in all my 12 composition i think, and because of this, I am inspired to scrap my current progress for a more meaningful project,

I will draw my classmates to represent some quality as it will have the most impact to the class, making them to resonate with my work,

I DON’T WANT TO JUST PRESENT MY WORK FOR GRADE!!! I WANT MY CLASS TO FEEL, TO FEEL HAPPY, TO LAUGH LOUDLY, TO UNDERSTAND THAT BEING HAPPY IS IMPORTANT, TO FEEL THAT FRIENDS ARE IMPORTANT.

And thus, I scraped all my work up to this point except for the 2 sketch above and rework everything for the greater good.

to be continued………

2D project 2 – Rhymes.

At first, i thought that i will only need to do the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. So my first reaction is to check out what the rhyme is….

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again

so first thought is important and so i am going to elaborate it.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty is supposed to be an egg, so he sat on the wall.. but what is an egg doing on the wall? is he a young egg? teenage egg? adult egg or old egg?

Humpty dumpty could be an egg, or could be not an egg..

1 – if he is not an egg, then what is he? – old man? – some naughty boy who likes to climb walls?
2 – actually i think it would be better because humpty dumpty is depicted as an egg in our culture, so by using some “common sense” to make my message clearer.. atleast viewer wont go “where is your humpty dumpty in the picture”
3 – so if humpty dumpty is an egg, what is he like? i personally like to depict him as an old man. because the older they are, the more story could be told.
4 – an old egg. what kind of egg is he? i would like to have some sense of humor in the personality which are easily shown through a single picture, maybe a lecherous old egg? maybe something from 50 shade of grey? it will bring contrast to the story as it supposedly was an childhood rhyme, but bringing some adult thing into it makes it interesting.
5- so what is Humpty Dumpty doing on the wall? reading a book? escaping from something? peeping? yeah peeping might be a good one.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

so the common sense of this sentence is that humpty dumpty fell down from the wall. i think it is boring so instead of using the “fall” as in “falling down”… how about the “fall” as in “autumn”? just changing the different meaning of the same word will change the whole sentence.

Humpty Dumpty had a great Autumn.

how? how is great great? Great as in Awesome…. so how do i depict awesome? thinking of the back ground story of humpty dumpty – old lecherous egg, what will be awesome to him? the answer is clear.
something to do with maybe drugs? woman? 50 shade of grey(this project is in black and white so i think this will be quite nice)

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men.

Repetitive nature due to the King’s horses and King’s men
symmetry could be bought out using the repetitive pattern of the horses and men
high contrast will be a good way to show the difference between the subject and background.

This is when I knew that we are not bounded by only one rhyme, we could do all the rhymes and choose which is the best 4 among it.

so I approached this project differently, to see which sentence of the rhymes could be interesting and i could visualize the outcome of the sentence.. so out of the 12, I chose the following.

The cow jumped over the moon.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do;

She gave them some broth without any bread;

Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

I decided to work on photoshop and illustrator to see what i could do with them and edit it along the way

The cow jumped over the moon Version 1

Emphasis on the cow and the moon, with little detail other than the cow, the moon and some stars. high contrast of white with black to make the moon and cow stand out. straight forward idea with element of the picture centralized and in the box (no element is being cropped off)

The cow jumped over the moon Version 2

The main cow is being tilted to give a movement to it, again, no element is being cropped off from the picture and every thing is constrained by the box, however the cow is being duplicated to substitute the stars to make the composition more interesting.

The cow jumped over the moon Version 3Different approach, the main focus will be the cow where the head is in the middle of the picture, the moon is slightly cropped to shift the overall visual weight of the picture towards the middle. I like this composition however i could only choose four and this is my fifth.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

My first thought about this sentence was ” what was there other than an old woman? did she have a partner? perhaps an old man?”

the contrast of an old grumpy woman and a smiley old man could have a background story as usually shoes comes in a pair, and the personality of the old woman and the old man is a big contrast but placed side by side, in the same shoe. personally i think this is interesting.

She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.The background of the picture is repeated pattern of a boy and a girl which colours are inverted, while the foreground of this picture shows a woman with a face without expression, centralized in the picture for a stable feel.

She gave them some broth without any bread V1

Repeated patterns of pots, bowls and some pans as background to bring out the implied lines of bread which symbolized that there are no bread present. the breads are also placed repetitively and in the center with different orientation for a slightly interesting composition, however in this, the bread is not clear.

She gave them some broth without any bread V2

To bring make the bread clearer, round circles are formed around the bread which i think the bread in this is too obvious and there is no implied lines anymore.. and after the consultation, maybe one bread at the center is better than 4 bread.

She gave them some broth without any bread V3

By retaining the four circles, the background was cleared but filled into the circles, the bread is still in the black circle because i like the contrast, however the blank bread is filled with the background but with lesser contrast.

She gave them some broth without any bread V4

The background tone was darken to bring the focus to the bread.

She gave them some broth without any bread V5- Final

Instead of an empty black circle to contrast the bread, a photo of a pan with vegetables are use for a human touch to make the picture warmer than just vector, this very well contrast with the vector background and i think this is much better than before. I like this composition and this will be chosen.

Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

Repeated patterns of beds are used while in the foreground, there is an action and diagonal lines used to make the composition more dynamic.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall V1

Humpty Dumpty in the picture is still and the woman in the picture is moving in direction towards the center and to the corner, repeated use of the woman is to balance out the weight of Humpty Dumpty as he is being cropped by the box and feels heavier, if only one woman was used, the picture will look heavier on the left.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall V2

HD in the previous composition is not dark enough and blend into the background, therefore contrast is increased to make HD pop out. I like this composition and therefore chose it as one of my final.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall V1

HD is placed in the center of the composition and the circle was placed to help viewers to focus in the middle because the leaves is pulling attention from HD. there is also a contrast between the background of leaves and HD as there is a dark outline around HD.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall V2Again, Hd is placed in the middle, a silhouette of a girl with a whip is added into the picture, i liked this more as the face of the HD is more comical and there is a lecherous face there, however the contrast of HD and the background is too low.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall V3

inverted the background colour to black to make the contrast of HD bigger and more focused. outer glow is also used to ensure that both HD and the silhouette stands out. there is still room for further improvements.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall v4

the addition tree is removed for a clearer picture, the mass of leaves is shrink to leave more empty space and therefore better focus, however the contrast of HD face is too low and there is a lost of detail.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall V5

changed HD position from sitting to standing, increased the detail on the face which further shows that he had a GREAT FALL. I like this composition and this will be chosen.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men V1

symmetry, repetitively pattern with different sized of kingsmen, the biggest one in the middle and the 2 giant horse capture the attention of viewer, there are also empty spaces to enhance the contrast of subject and the background, however there is little human touch and the composition seems cold.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men V2

the background is changed to a castle, however i feel this is a weaker idea than the previous.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men V3

Different approach, symmetry, repetitive pattern, harmony is also used. however there is also little human touch as it is all vector.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men V4

lower the contrast the kingsmen on the side to bring further focus to the main subject. I really like this composition and this will be chosen.

2d Project 1 – Lines (3)

Unsatisfactory final work of Aggressive, Sloven and Exhausted — Unsatisfactory final work of Aggressive, Sloven and
Exhausted

Alternative work of Spontaneous and Exhausted/Awkward

The process of sticking the strips to black A1 paper.

2D Project 1, Lines (2)

After my exploration, I realized that my idea is not strong enough as most of the work lacks the foundation of art and seems like the work of someone who just want to complete the work, therefore I re-did my research from the basis of design – The Design Element and The Principles of Design. I think that the foundation of design is important, so rather than just doing a project, I hope I could learn to apply the Design Elements and Principles not by chance but by consciously applying it. ( Those works in the previous pictures in which I circled and wrote with red text are those which was done after the further research )

This is also the reasons of final choice, I think all my finals I do should have a reason and basic design element/principle to execute it. The following is my 4 steps which leads to my final work.

Study and understand the design element and principles again and choose what could be applied in this project. ( I found a few principles and elements which are not taught in class, it made sense so I am using it too)

Principles of Design
Balance –
Symmetry – brings visual stability , sense of structured, pleasing to the eye and more organised.
Asymmetry – could be an informal visual balance, could balance the visual weight by putting the heavier weighted ( bigger or darker ) nearer to the fulcrum (center) and balanced by a lighter (smaller or lighter) further away from the fulcrum(center)

Gradation –
The tone from light to dark, can add interest and movement, cause eye to move along the shape from dark to light.

Repetition –
Repetition with variation is interesting while without is monotonous.

Contrast –
The relative difference between 2 tone, too much contrast will distract viewer yet too little will have no impact.

Harmony –
Combining of similar and related elements, create a visually satisfying result

Dominance –
Gives painting interest, Counteract confusion/monotony and could gives emphasis

Hierarchy –
lead viewer sight, gives importance in order.

Proportion –
Using Relative size to attract attention/focus. Scale could show drama

Elements of Design
Texture –
Surface characteristic, could also be flat and bring texture by using illusion of painting

Direction –
Horizontal – Calmness, Stability, Tranquility
Vertical – Balance, Formality, Alertness.
Diagonal – Movement, Action, active

Size –
The area occupied by one shape relative to the other

Space –
Overlap – To make object nearer/further
Shading/Highlight – Clearer lines are nearer, Duller are further
Linear Perspective – Smaller object are smaller

2 . Research the ways that people express themselves through art, (Mainly – what is said by the lecturer in art history lesson)

Art Nouveau –
Curves are natural, feminine, passive

Art Medium –
Brush stroke
Squeeze straight from tubes
Type of paints
Using Finger
Using of unconventional tools/mediums like glue, cutting of paper, punching holes

Types of Lines –
Implied lines
Zigzagged lines
Freehand lines
Dotted lines
Horizontal/Vertical/Diagonal lines

Art in Process –

Methods to execute the art.
The Story in making the art is an art itself.

3. Research the 18 words given again, understand how it is being carried out and how do I want to execute my idea/meaning of that word on paper
Perspective of words
Aggressive – Fast, Impact, High contrast
Anxious – Anxiousness is built up overtime
Awkward – Does not fit in, sudden corners in curve lines
Distracted – Shift of focus on mundane/monotonous work to fun and interesting, then back to the mundane/monotonous work long after it should
Embarrassed – Curve lines, low contrast and indefine lines to show a shy personalities
Exhausted – getting lesser, leads to giving up, using of a pen that is low in ink
Indecisive – hesitate, incompleted.
Psychotic – Unstable, using of negative space, using of ways which final result could not be predicted.
Sloven – Fast scribble, crushed paper, marks of ink leaked from the paper above, untidy.
Ambiguous – half full, heavier on top, question about the execution
Bizarre – the Unexplained, unorthodox
Fragile – i want it to be straight forward, the weakest/most fragile part of a paper is the torn part.
Lyrical – passive, curves, high and lows, 5 lines to represent staffs(lines) on music sheets, instrument which plays music
Nonsensical – Does not have a meaning, like a hotdog, a SUPPPPEEERRRRRR LONNNNGGGGG HOTDOG!
Sensual – Curvy, Ribbons, using space by light and dark tone, contrast, whiplash
Spontaneous – random stroke, unplanned, do what i want to do when i am doing the final.
Systematic – Plotted, measure everything, this needs to be perfect, no stroke overshot, every thing intended.
Turbulent – messy, wind could not be seen nomatter how strong it is, leaves could easily represent wind strength, negative spaces could form tornado like lines.

4. Choose what I want to use on step 1, 2 and 3 for every word and use it to build my final idea for every words.

*Word – Element, Principles , How it is being expressed*

Aggressive – Texture, Dominance, The method in executing the art.
Anxious – Size, Gradation, Perspective of words.
Awkward – Space, Asymmetry, Perspective of words.
Distracted – Size, Proportion and Asymmetry and Repetition, Perspective of words.
Embarrassed – Space, Contrast and Gradation, Whiplash Curves.
Exhausted – Size, Gradation, Type of lines – freehand lines.
Indecisive – Direction, Contrast, Type of lines – Freehand lines.
Psychotic – Texture and size, Contrast and Balance, Method in Executing the art.
Sloven – Texture, Contrast and Dominance, Type of lines – Freehand lines.
Ambiguous – Texture, Contrast and Repetition and Balance, Type of paint and squeezing straight from tube.
Bizarre – Texture, – , unconventional medium – Silicon glue.
Fragile – Direction, Contrast and Dominance, Using unconventional medium – tearing of paper.
Lyrical – Space, Contrast and Asymmetry, Whiplash curves.
Nonsensical – Direction, Gradation and Contrast and Dominance, Type of lines – Implied lines.
Sensual – Space- Shading & highlight, Gradation and Harmony and Asymmetry, Whiplash Curves.
Spontaneous – Texture and Space, Harmony and Proportion, Type of lines – Zigzagged lines.
Systematic – Direction – Diagonal, Repetition and Gradation and symmetry, Perspective of words.
Turbulent – Texture, Contrast and Proportion, unconventional medium – using of glue with marker

2D Project 1, Lines (1)

18 of the words could be separated into 2 column,

*Direct/result/how a person act*

Aggressive, Anxious, Awkward, Distracted, Embarrassed, Exhausted, Indecisive, Psychotic and Sloven

*indirect/cause/how a person sense*

Ambiguous, Bizarre, Fragile, Lyrical, Nonsensical, Sensual, Spontaneous, Systematic and Turbulent

Aggressive, Anxious, Awkward and Distracted exploration

Aggressive – Angry, Fast, Sharp edges, Hard Stroke, Thick lines, Impact

Anxious – Anxious people are easily agitated, they are unstable, Anxiousness are built up over time, and anxious people get more anxious because they are anxious. chain reaction. I watched this OCD and Anxiety Psychology Crash course to understand more about anxiety.

Awkward – does not fit in, the errrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmm, awkward silence

Distracted – Being focus on things that are unimportant, usually like scrolling facebook, instagram, and tends to overshot the “rest time” we set for ourself.

Embarrassed, Exhausted, Indecisive and Psychotic exploration

Embarrassed – Shy, Blushed, trying to hide, Small pattern, low contrast, Soft, Curvy Indefine line – only shading

Exhausted – unable to continue, slow, weak, leads to giving up, pen with little ink left. energy going down, feeble line

Indecisive – Hesitant, Shaky, Soft, slow, indecisive people tend to follow other people,

Psychotic – normal people are unable to apprehend, either extreme unstable/ extreme stable. Bipolar,

Sloven, Ambiguous, Bizarre and Fragile Exploration

Sloven – Dont care, Thick marker mark, fast rough sketch , crushed paper.

Ambiguous – have more than one meaning, open to interpretation,

Bizarre – Funny, Serious to self, Unorthodox, weird, odd – using of other weird/odd mediums

Fragile – No glass crack alike, perforation, Tear line of paper, zipline

Lyrical, Nonsensical, Sensual and Spontaneous Exploration

Lyrical – at first i got totally no idea, but i got inspired by art noveau from art history class and the whiplash curls. so 5 lines to represent the staff on music sheet and curvy lines.

Nonsensical – yeah, no meaning, illogical, meaningless,

Sensual – Curves, females, ribbons, arousing

Spontaneous – anyhow , having fun, freedom, unplanned, sudden impulse, zig zag lines.

Systematic and Turbulent Exploration and Draft 1

Systematic – Fixed pattern, Repetitive pattern, straightlines, plotted lines,

Turbulent – Wind, plane, messy, can be gentle, curves, leaves