Design Principle / Project 2

18.10.2020 -30.10.2020 (week 8 - week 10) 
Phoebie Ng / 0341172 / Bachelor of creative media
Design principles
Project 2- sense of place

LECTURES 

Observation: An active act of acquiring information, through the senses, of a subject matter in its natural setting.

Observation is important to designers as it enables them to see problems, as well as getting ideas for solutions to those problems.

fig 1,1 painting by Vincent Van Gogh 21/10/2020 

This is the example of Van Gogh painting by observing his room.

fig 1.2 painting by Monet 21/2020

This is another painting example from Monet that can see that it is not realistic but by observing the place and turn it to painting.

INSTRUCTIONS

TASK 

research 

photo taking

fig 2.1 photo taking around my house 31/10/2020

I took some picture around my house and the garden outside to see if I can observe anything there.

visual research

fig 2.2 visual research on Pinterest 31/10/2020

After that, I try to do some research on what other people observe.

idea explorations

fig 2.3 sketch 1 31/10/2020

fig 2.4 sketch 2 31/10/2020

fig 2.4 sketch 3 31/10/2020

Here are some of the sketches that I sketched. I had included some sea creatures as I think it is really interesting when I did the visual research. I had decided to use sketch 3 as my final.

progression

fig 2.5 progression 1 31/10/2020

I had used sketch 3 as my final. This is my progression during week 9.

fig 2.6 progression 2 31/10/2020

This is my outcome at week 10. After Ms Maria said that my bottom of sea bed is too empty, I tried to fill in the blank area.

fig 2.7 progression 3 31/10/2020

fig 2.8 progression 4 31/10/2020

fig 2.9 progression 5 31/10/2020

I also did some color filter, because the color accuracy of my laptop is not that good after I had compared it with my Ipad.

FINAL OUTCOME 

fig 2.10 final outcome 31/10/2020

This is the final outcome of my final project. I had used my room as reference and produced this art work. I had imagined it as a combination of undersea and my room from the inspiration of my visual research. I think it is really interesting to imagine you are sleeping with all of the sea creature, it's like living under the sea. I had added an animal that are not really the same thing as I drew which is the cat because I love cat a lot but I never own one. I had used a color combination of blue and orange because I think it is a good combination. Blue represent depress and sad. Orange represent fun and cheerful. I want to show that everything have it's different side. 

The design principle that I had applied: 

golden ratio: I had apply golden ratio on this artwork and place the cat which I want to emphasis at the golden ratio point.

harmony: I had used complementary color for overall artwork.

emphasis: I had used different color for the cat to emphasis it.

repetition: repeat of fishes and bubble.

movement: the position of the fish and turtle moving the same way.

FEEDBACK

week 9: Ms. Maria looked at my progression and she said she like it. She look how the color look like and there's no comment on it.

week 10: Ms. Maria said that I could fill in the bottom of the sea bed more.

REFLECTION 

Experience: Throughout this exercise, I had gain experience on using photoshop and different blending mode while using brush together. Because of the color accuracy of my laptop, I need to rework on my work for a few times to make it looks like the color that I want to show. I was really disappointed and sad at that time because I need to rework with the color filter again and again to get the color that I want. 

Observation: I noticed that it really save my time using photoshop to draw than during it manually because I don't need to wait the paint to dry. 

Finding: I found that it is really important to organize your stuff into each folder in your laptop file. For the past few project, I didn't organize my work into each file and it takes me sometimes to find the things that I want to insert in my blog. So organize your file is really important.