My thoughts on this project are that it was fun, I enjoyed and like the final look of what I’ve done for the project, yes it took different steps and a longer time period but it was a fun process. What I’ve learned would be the difference between ambiguous and stable drawing along with the elements it needs to be considered one or the other or any details that can be added to it. To the criticism I recieved on the project, making the lines a bit thicker would be best in changing of the artwork and something I would keep in mind for the next project and consider its effect it can have on what I do in future projects.
In this project, I have learned the difference between a stable figure relationship and an ambiguous figure relationship.
A stable figure relationship is when you can clearly see the object from the background
An ambiguous figure relationship is when you can’t see the object from the background
I try to create a connection between my ambiguous and my stable drawing. When I was presenting my work, I learned that my first stable wasn’t good enough, so I started over and make a new one using some of my ambiguous objects.
Urban Artifacts: Phase 4
After the criticism i received from class, i needed to make these two pictures relate to each other. By doing that i took the circle from the stable figure and added it to the ambiguous figure. With the circle, the ambiguous figure looks like something spilled and covered up the 40. From what i learn from the critics, for the upcoming projects i will use figures that are able to relate to each other.
Urban Artifacts: Phase 3
Here we have one stable and one ambiguous. The stable one is a .40 that I found outside of city tech by the bicycles. It is stable because you can clearly see the number from the background. The second picture is a stain that is near the Nathans hot dog stand a few blocks down from city tech by the train station. It is ambiguous because the background and figure are equal and if you were to turn it and look at it from a different side it would show more than one thing. I chose these two because it took place in near the school. Each of these drawings were taken from phase 2.
Urban Artifact: Phase 3
Here you have one stable and ambiguous figures. It took me a few minutes to do. I was inspired by the subway wall tiles where it’s all perfect and squares. So I wanted to incorporate that for the stable figure as one somewhat perfect square. For the ambiguous, I wanted to break that perfection and make it all distorted while adding new lines and shapes. This phase relates the other phase where we had to take pictures of stable and ambiguous and now we have to sketch it out for more understanding of it.
Urban Artifacts: Phase 4
Time: 45 minutes
Manhole cover – Star bracelet
I learned that a stable figure can still be interesting with good composition and scale. This project reminds me of a stencil project I did back in high school and detail didn’t matter there. A stable figure is a 30/70 while an ambiguous is almost a 50/50 when it comes to background and figure. What I could have done better was made it more of a solid black until the marker strokes disappeared. I will bring this into my next project by attempting to work slower and more accurate.
Urban Artifacts: Phase 3
I finished the stable image in class and chose to shrink it and move it more towards the top of the page (I centered it in this image but not on canvas). The way I drew it looks like it could be hanging from somewhere and it looks more interesting to me. This is stable because the background surrounds the object. 30/70 ratio.
I finished inking the other image also in class but had to go over it again at home because my marker was dying. This is clearly ambiguous because compared to the bracelet there is a 50/50 relationship between the background and figure which makes it unclear what the figure is.
The story between the two images is that the bracelet fell into the manhole.
I think this was about the last 45 minutes of class, it took me 5 minutes for the first one because I made it smaller.
urban artifacts phase 3
AmbiguousThese are the finished, inked, design of the urban artifacts phase 3 project. I chose the tree stump photo, and the Trash, because i felt there was a lot to simplify and stylize. I decided to go with a simplified pattern or design to make it seem more like a textile.
the stable design, is black and white, split roughly in the middle, with easy triangular shapes to show some sort of definition. While the Ambiguous peice is a black and white repeated pattern. vaguely replicating the rings of a tree stump.
Urban Artifacts: Phase 3
For this part of the project, I had worked for around 1 hour and a half. I picked the ambiguous figure I had chosen in phase 2 along with changing it so it can also be a stable figure as shown in the first image. This would be the reason why I choose this image seeing as it was fun to manipulate the lines with no precise direction. Along with that, the images can show a start and an end of the lines that start of small being a stable figure but over time more cracks appear on the surface that it ends up creating an ambiguous figure.
Urban Artifacts:Phase 2
This took me around 2 hours or a bit more. Within the first image, there are 11 thumbnail sketches choosing three out of them create one ambiguous figure and two stable. The second shows an ambiguous figure due to the lines reaching towards the edges of the page. Along with having an unstable ground as the white parts of the image can also be a fous point. The final two picture are stable as it shows clearly what the fous is along with having a larger bakground that supports that image.
