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27 September 2022 - 11 September 2022
(Week 5 - Week 7)
Christine Tan Yuen Yan / 0344039
Design Principles GCD 60804 / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
(Week 5 - Week 7)
Christine Tan Yuen Yan / 0344039
Design Principles GCD 60804 / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 1 _ Self -Portrait
source: http://www.shanewheatcroft.com/
LECTURES
Week 5 Monday 19.9.2022
Self: Your basic personality or
nature, especially considered in terms of what you are like as a
person (Collins, 2020). A person's essential being distinguishes them from
others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive
action.
Self-portrait: A self - representation in the form of a
drawing/painting/sculpture/design/ A visual depiction of the
self.
INSTRUCTION
1) Create a portrait of yourself by applying various principles that
we had learnt throughout the weeks.
2) Progress:
During the week you are working on the project, discuss and present your
work with your lectures.
3) Requirements:
Contemplate your life experiences, which include your culture, your family, your
family, your friends, your schooldays, your favourite hangouts, your
favourite music, food, musician, etc. Observe your surroundings; people,
vehicles, buildings, plants, signages, nature and activities. Record these
in sketches, photography and/ or a video recording.
4) Design process:
4.1 Visual references (designs that have inspired your own)
4.2 Idea exploration and description
4.3 Final outcome in JPEG and a short rationale
4.4 Feedback is given by the lecturer
4.5 Reflection on the particular week.
5) Submission: Submit Project 1 - Self-portrait blog link, and JPEG
image of the final design.
Materials: Any materials, but pick the one that is suitable to
express your idea.
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Mind Map
Who am I? (week 5, 27/9/2022)
Before I begin to sketch out my self-portrait, we were assigned to create
a mind map to have a clearer picture of ourselves, we can choose to close
ourselves, so I decided to present my weakness, strength, characteristics,
and things I will do (meditation), Essential and Brain, as the theory of
the left, are tend to be more logistics, good at math however I am not
that good at math so I highlighted on it, I would say I'm more on the
right brain person. I am a more emotional person.
I choose to present 'Horror' in 'Weakness' for my theme of
self-portrait.
VISUAL RESEARCH
figure 1.1 sources Pinterest: https://pin.it/4xOHjws. (Week 5 29.9.2022)
The art is using the technique of digital collage, the author uses his
portrait and put the items he likes such as flowers and art drawings that
he likes all combined together, I find it interesting to use digital
collages as a way to express themselves.
When I saw the art, my idea was to create art that presented me and my
brain cut into half and the inside filled with things I like and dislike or
fear.
figrure 1.3,
https://johnbattalgazi.com/ (designer: John Battalgazi). (Week 5 29.9.2022)
Personally, I like the art from the designer John Battalgazi, as it is
remarkable how he used a very seems a simple way of designing art but yet
when combined all together it becomes a very unique piece of art. The art
has the principles of gestalt theory and a slight repetition of the circle
shapes.
figure 1.5, sources
from https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fear-april-reilly.html,
(Week 6 9.10.2022)
In the artwork by April, The Art Weasel, the description of the art is "Too
scared to go through the door". While I was searching some research for my
art as I was trying to have more scary images, and this art captured my eyes
although the description is too scary I was thinking the shadow
can be the girl herself as if she is the 'devil' but she did not realise
it. Thus when I thought I felt like is possible to create art
that make people wonder the question 'is evil around us or are we the evil
ones?'
PROGRESS AND IDEA EXPLORATION
fig, 2.1, sketch #1 (Week 5 29.9.2022)
In Sketch #1, I was trying to present the two different of 'me' however
both are experiencing different life, the idea is presenting the one upside
down as haunted by a spirit and the other side as having a normal
life.
For sketch #2, I try to change the position to see will it be better this
way.
I have an idea of like presenting a scenario of 'me' walking as usual and
behind 'me' being haunted by the spirit. However, I feel that is not scary
enough.
The first attempt was to focus on the 'horror' so the concept is
to present art that shows the two characters which are 'me' experiencing a
different life. However, throughout numerous attempts, I feel like this is
not the way that I want to portray myself. Thus, I give a second thought and
rearrange my ideas and designs, thus I did some research so my focus will
still focus on 'Horror'.
fig, 2.4, the sketch of the demon. (Week 6 9.10.2022)
I created the 'demon' by using a pen tool from AI.
fig, 2.5 the outline of 'demon' (Week 6 9.10.2022)
I used the Mesh tool from AI to create the effect for the body, the concept is similar from the movie 'Venom' that stick on their host.
fig, 2.6, sketch #4. (Week 6 9.10.2022)
The thought of 'bad; 'or evil' is unquestionably has been encountered by
everyone, a question that has been debated by philosophers for centuries
'were we born good or evil?'
Well, in my opinion, I believe no one is either one instead we are both of
it, 'evil' is very good at hiding, however, it will appear to you
immediately once you need them. My art is to present that everyone has their
own evil part including me, hence once we have bad thoughts, they will rot
our mind without us realising. We look normal but we know that we are not
once we face our own shadow. The devil is there to enlarge our inner evil
part.
The art is all created by using a pen tool, eclipse tool, mash tool and
gradient effect. I added the shadow in an evil form to show that I am slowly becoming one of 'them'. And when I saw my shadow I am frightened.
fig, 2.7, sketch #5. (Week 6, 11.10.2022)
I tried to change the shadow into a darker colour and bought attention to
the 'devil' by changing the colour brighter.
FINAL DESIGN & Rationale
the final design for the self-portrait (Week 6, 11.10.2022)
Personally, I find it difficult to reveal parts or entirely of myself
to anyone, regards emotions or my real personality however the aim of this
exercise is wanted us to get to know more about ourselves, but that is also
difficult to do because it is uncomfortable to face your own weakness,
and deep down I do know what kind of person I am but I choose to not
reveal that side of myself to anyone. I do have some 'bad' thoughts
occasionally which brings me a shock that I have that kind of thoughts,
hence the art I'm trying to present is I do have evil thoughts sometimes,
I am even shocked that I have that mindset hence am I evil?
I believe no one is born good or evil when we had 'bad' thoughts it
is okay as long we don't actually practice them and hurt people.
FEEDBACK
Week 6 - 4/10/2022
The combinations of colour are interesting, however, Sketch #2 can try many
ways to improvise it such as instead of the skull on top of the head, can
try to open the head of 'me' and the skull is on top of it.
Sketch #3, if trying to show the two different dimensions of 'me' the
alignments will seem not suitable, as the image of myself all uses circles
so is the art presents too different like square and circle it will seem
quite odd because two of it is a very different shape.
General feedback, even the idea and sketch is interesting however, Dr Yip
encourages us to try various ways to portray ourselves instead of having
just one idea.
Week 7 - 11/10/2022
The idea is interesting, however, can try to change the devil's colour
brighter to have contrast, and the shadow can change the colour darker. The
general idea brings out a deep meaning for the audience to receive the
message, as the self-portrait majority will think of drawing of themselves
however an idea like self-portray by also bringing a message is quite
interesting.
REFLECTION
Self-portrait definitely is a new area for me, is my first time exploring this area as the whole concept of
portraying myself has never approached me, hence the beginning was tough for
me as I was struggling what is the best way to portray myself. The first
attempt at my idea failed, I find it quite a cliche that my first draft
is always not the kind of art that I wanted to present, but I do enjoy seeing
the differences between my first draft and final work. Also, I like how this exercise gives us the freedom to use any materials and
allows us to learn more about ourselves and find ways to express
ourselves.
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