Fall 2017 | COMD1100_LC08 | Prof. Spevack
I learned a lot about the different terms for value such as high key/low key and broad/narrow range. It was new vocabulary that is needed in this field. I wish I had more time to study the vocabulary and had more/better examples that we’d have to come up with, just for the sake of practicing it more.
I really liked the chance we had to digitalize our images. I tried to stay as true as I could to the original details and layout of the image but I looked for certain areas were I could blur the lines between the specific squares so I could create and even better flow and unity. I believed that the eye would automatically complete the lines mentally if I correctly lined up the different spaces.
Time spent: 1 hour
I chose to have the eyebrow as the focus of the piece because it had a very high light when compared to the rest of the image that is full of dark tones and black. I tried to unify the image by the texture of my hair that you see in multiple areas around the piece. The piece has a broad range because of the small high light/white moments, but the image is very low key because it is mostly composed of dark tones and black.
Time spent: 1 hour 30 mins
So far this semester I’ve learned a lot and accomplished way more than I thought I would and if I’m going to be completely honestly I’m extremely proud of myself. From project #1 to project #3 I’ve had so much fun learning new things and really pushing myself to do the best I can. The strange thing is that these projects actually changed the way I view things for example I was talking with my friends one day and we were Times Square and we saw this really cool billboard and without thinking I started talking about how it was a good use of figure ground relationship and they stared at me with a blank look on they’re faces and it was so funny to me because not to long ago that would’ve been me giving the blank stare. Overall I’m extremely pleased with what we’ve been doing so far and I can’t wait to learn more.
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd1100fa2017/2017/09/14/urban-artifacts-phase-3/
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd1100fa2017/2017/10/18/sound-visualization-phase-3/
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd1100fa2017/2017/11/13/value-added-portraits-phase-3-5/
Overall this project has been a great learning experience for me never in my life have I looked carefully at a photo and really examine it to see that all those whites, blacks, and grays are different shades of each other and that even the smallest change in shade makes it a new color. I’ve never really painted before so that was the most challenging part of this project for me but it was fun to sit down and really study these colors and try to match what was in my collage, I look forward to learning more about color.
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd1100fa2017/2017/11/13/value-added-portraits-phase-1-7/
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd1100fa2017/2017/11/13/value-added-portraits-phase-2-7/
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd1100fa2017/2017/11/13/value-added-portraits-phase-3-5/
Narrow range collage and digital recreation: low key
Broad range collage and painted recreation: low and high key
Narrow range collage: low key
Narrow range collage: low and high key
Narrow range: low key image
Narrow range: high key image
Broad range: low and high key image
I have to sum up everything I learned from the three projects we’ve completed.
I’m always late, that’s what I’ve learned, but also…
I liked Urban Artifacts
This is where we first started doing work. I had fun with this one. This is where I throw in vocab words so it looks like I’m following instructions; 4-step design process taught us how to be organized and present our work in a professional manner, figure/ground relationship is basically subject and anything supporting it, and thumbnails is just a professional way of saying doodles.
Sound Visualizations was so wavy!!!
I want to do more work like this! The Adobe suite programs honestly intimidate me, but when we started doing this project (!!!) I had so much fun; I wish I could’ve made a whole video for the Runaway song I used.
This project, if you strip the vocab terms and details, was basically listening to music, drawing shapes, and making them move. I COULD DO THAT ALL DAY!!!
More vocab. I picture Staccato and Legato as two people; staccato is short and runs as fast as they can, and legato has long legs and takes their time to take a step. Boom! Explained (drops mic)
(picks mic back up)
Grey is STILL grey in Value-Added Portraits
I really JUST explained it in the previous post. I wanted to come back as a dog in the next life. I changes my mind because of this project. Cool project IDEA, but grey is still just grey to me. It’s very neutral. Apparently, professional artists have provided even MORE vocab to explain grey.
First, I wanna call out the guy who made ‘WHITE’ the ‘KEY’ in black/grey art; is he LOWKEY racist (pun completely intended)?
I kinda like this set of vocab, it sounds artsy. Lowkey and Highkey are the differences between the amount of light in a grayscale piece. We learned spectrum and I got so excited, but then Professor Spevack showed us greyscale and I died a little inside. A broad spectrum is where everything in the whole spectrum is included, and narrow is where only a few shades are included. Monochromatic is the use of a single shade of either black, white, and/or grey, whereas chromatic is the use of multiple shades of B, W, and/or G.
I learned I’m bad at keeping a steady hand when painting.
I feel like we were working in the dark ages with all of these colourless projects! I did learn a lot from these projects; photography, drawing with microns, listening intently to music, seeing figures, doodling as homework, photoshop’s features, and grey.
I’m excited for colour.
Grey has never looked more grey in my life. I’m glad I don’t see in only grey.
This is how you know artists are crazy; IT’S ALL GREY!!!
Wow!! Lemme put this one white little spot here and make everything else dark! We’ll call that lowkey. Flip it around and that’s highkey! And since their focal point is all alone, it’s a narrow spectrum.
Hold on, what if it’s mixed up of all the greys, you ask? That’s broad spectrum.
It’s all grey to me.
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