Design Principle / Project 1

1.10.2020 -18 .10.2020 (week 6 - week 8) 
Phoebie Ng / 0341172 / Bachelor of creative media
Design principles
Project 1- self portrait

LECTURES 

Self- Your self is your basic personality or nature, especially considered in terms on what you are really like as a person.  

self portrait- a self representation in a form of a drawing/ painting/ sculpture/ design. A visual depiction of the self. 

fig 1.1 famous self portrait example by Van Gogh 15/10/2020

 

fig 1.2 The desperate man by Gustave Courbet 15/10/2020

INSTRUCTIONS

TASK 

research 

fig 2.1 screenshot of google form 16/10/2020

I did a google form survey and send it to my family and close friend to see what they think of me in person. There are total of 19 responses, I found that most of the comments are cute, artistic, funny, blur and quiet.  And some of them really take their time to write a full paragraph for me hahaha, really touching and appreciate that. I only include 1 question and changed it to long paragraph answer to not restrict them in the number of words.

fig 2.2 idea exploration 16/10/2020

After collecting comments from friends and family, I try to observe myself and what do I like and hate to know me better.

fig 2.3 visual research 16/10/2020

After that, I try to find some visual research from Pinterest.

Previous self portrait that I did during Foundation in Design

fig 2.4 self portrait I did during foundation 16/10/2020

fig 2.5 self portrait I did during foundation 16/10/2020

I try to look at the previous self portrait that I did during foundation time to see if I can find any element that I can include in this project. Fig 2.4 is oil painting that I did in semester 2 during foundation time in 10 weeks time. Fig 2.5 is mix media that I did in semester 1 during foundation time in 2 weeks time. 

idea explorations

fig 2.6 idea 1 16/10/2020

fig 2.7 idea 2 16/10/2020

fig 2.8 idea 3 16/10/2020

fig 2.9 idea 4  16/10/2020

fig 2.10 first attempt  16/10/2020

I had my first draft and I showed it to Ms. Maria and she said that she like the idea in fig 2.6 more, I could fit in my personality there and the pictures that I chose is too direct, it will not look nice together. After listen to her feedback, I agreed with her, maybe I should try to make something that is not so direct and works together. This idea also will take a lot of time to paint it out, so it is better for me to find other ideas. So, I try to sketch more and show it to Ms. Maria.

fig 2.11 idea 5 16/10/2020

fig 2.12 idea 6 16/10/2020

fig 2.13 idea 7 16/10/2020

fig 2.14 idea 8 16/10/2020

Here are the four more sketches that I sketch and I sent to Ms. Maria the next day after consultation. She said that the sketch of fig2.14 is more interesting. So, I proceed with this sketch. 

progression

fig 2.15 progression 16/10/2020

fig 2.16 progression 16/10/2020

fig 2.17 progression 16/10/2020

fig 2.18 progression 16/10/2020

I used procreate for this project because I think it has a lot of different brushes and I am familiar with it. Although it is digital but it contains different brushes like pencil all those so it could create different texture in visual.

FINAL OUTCOME 

fig 2.19 final outcome 16/10/2020

This is the final outcome for my Project 1- self portrait. It shows that the head of me is being opened. I wanted to show that although I looks quiet and boring sometimes but after you getting know of me, you will know that I am quite funny sometimes and positive. I also want to show that I love drawing so that I had used pencil brushes to create strokes of black and white and color pencil sketches. 

The design principle that I had applied: 

Emphasis- The thing that I want to emphasis is the colorful eye of me that shows that I am creative.

Movement - The string in between the parts shows movement from the top parts of head to eyes and to the bottom parts of head.

Contrast- The contrast that I had applied here is the difference between the black and white drawing and the colorful eye drawing.

FEEDBACK

week 7: Ms. Maria looked at my progression and 1st draft, she said that my things doesn't fit together and those are copied and paste, the size doesn't fit in the line. I could fit in my personality, color I like, or pattern that symbolizes my personality. The image I chose are too direct and the color and size is not fit into the image. I agreed with her so I sketches more and show it to her the next day. After I show more sketches to her, she said that  fig 2.12 is interesting.

REFLECTION 

week 7:  I had quite a good experience on making the google form which makes me know what my friends and family look at me and also really appreciate them to take their time to do the survey for me. It is a good experience for me. Although I did a lot of self portrait during my secondary school or foundation time but I think all of them did represent different of me in different time. At first, I wanted to paint this by oil paint but the time I have are restricted, I scare I am not able to complete that, so I chose to do it digitally.