Ways of Seeing – FYLC Fall 2018
First Year Learning Community
This Project thought me a lot about warm and cool colors and how to represent them. It also thought me a lot about the different ways to combine colors to achieve each level of saturation and value. I also learned a lot about visual weight, balance, and symmetry. This was a very interesting project, one that I will look back on when creating future work.
The color temperature or color scheme that was given to my group was Warm. we made a list of words used to describe our color temperature. The words chosen would be used to create our band name. The words that we chose were Spicy and Hiss. Combined they become ” Spicy Hiss”. I decided to make this poster simple and bold. I chose the color Orange which is a warm color, for the background to give a warm feel. The word spicy should bold and hot, so I chose Hot pink, a very warm color, for the word Spicy. When thinking of the word hiss I think of a very settle color, I also want this color to fit in with the poster. I chose a muted Orange color for the word hiss. Together the colors of the poster really give it a warm feel and you can really hear the subtle hiss and taste the flaming hot explosions in your mouth.
Time: 2 hours 45 min
The objective of this project is based on color and combination itself. There is a lot of colors that are mixed between two and depending the value of the color. The most challenging one so far due to this project was phase #3, which is in a group of 3-4, we have a word and we need to describe it with two words of sense. Once we chose our two sense, we would individually work in adobe illustrator (Ai) and redesign with a poster provided for us. I’ve enjoy and learned a lot about coloring, combination and the meaning itself. I am looking forward for the next project.
The two words that describes warm is “Spicy/ Hiss”. I think it might sound catchy and have a strange taste besides the theme color I chosed in this poster. The word “Spicy” has this 3D feature and I think it has a strong sense of describing warm and the word “Hiss” is placed at the background of the poster, repeating itself vertically with less opacity on the texture. When I think about the word “Hiss”, I would imagine it less visible and directly spread out.
These are guide colors that explains the mixture between two color and relationships. There are three sets and each set has two rows, the top is the original color and the bottom is for light colors that white color is added as well. This project is used with a Bristol paper and gouache paint. It took some time to get the function of mixing for a color and to be considerate of the proportion of paint used. To be honest, it was quite stressful but I did quite enjoy mixting and discovering colors.
Duration : 1-2 days (first day- 3-4 hours).
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
This is my saturation chart.
This took about 1 to 2 hours
This part of the phase took me a good two hours and a half to get done. It was a bit hard at first because I had to find out how to adjust different colors together and to make colors seem compatible. The last two was kind of hard for me too in a way because I didn’t understand the difference between the last two.
The glossument book named “The Waves – A Work of Art… Altogether Joyous and Lovely” consists of illustrations based on vocabulary words. This project is inspired by “A Humument” made by Tom Phillip. Digital artists are is used to being able to undo things simply with a command, Air E.N has reflected that this book is different due to the fact that there is no such thing as a button that will undo a mistake. Digital art is able to be kept forever since it is in the computer unless someone purposely deletes it; however, the book is fragile and can be broken since it wears off as time passes or can be destroyed in the wrong environment.
This project was a departure from the artist’s previous work which focused more on representing digital illustration based on a pre-existing concept and design rather than illustrating them through pictures and words simultaneously. The artist has previously explored character design, fashion, and color which was on digital media. Having a physical book to work with helped the artist see mistakes and the option to keep them or correct them which alters what the artist finds acceptable in terms of aesthetics.
The motivation behind these pages is exploring traditional media once more and learning the aspects on how to use the materials before the artist converted to all digital. These mundane objects on all the pages, as well as the rest of the pages in the book, convey a feeling to the viewer and artist of simplicity. This could occur during work when office supplies may have been the only thing available to create art with or it could also bring them back to their childhood. There is a recurring uniformity in the way all the pages look similar, which is blackout poetry accompanied by an illustration.
The process was taping the page with masking tape first, then choosing a vocabulary word that would fit the poem on the page, and lastly, the artist illustrated accordingly. The book ended up becoming somewhat of a picture book with a poem as the images and colors take up the majority of the page. Some of the illustrations reflects the artist’s interest such as the word Valorous representing an interest in game design and concept design. On the last page Omnipotent, it reflects on the artist’s personality of easygoing or silly. And lastly, the book itself is a collection to demonstrate the artist’s skill, style and aesthetic of everything being clean, simple and fleeting.
Blackout poetry is already a technique used as highlighted by Austin Kelon in his video “Steal Like An Artist”. What the artist took away from this video is that William Burroughs got the cut-out technique to rearrange words into a new poem idea from Brion Gysin who did the same thing out of newspapers. The central idea being that there are many artists that get inspired and nothing is truly original. This was motivation for the artist to start something imperfect and to try new things. The artist took the idea of blackout poetry and the reassembling of words to utilized black masking tape in order to black out the unnecessary words on the book. Instead of a sharpie or marker the artist chose black masking tape because it is removable. Then the illustration portion was inspired by the video “Altered Book Pages- December 11, 2013” : which is a video of a person painting a page white before adding illustration. In the glossument that the artist has made, this has a similar effect to whiting out two pages to make a spread using printer paper.
Didactic panels below:
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