DESIGN PRINCIPLES - PROJECT 1 (SELF PORTRAIT)
31.08.21 (Week 4 - Week 5)
Christie Angelica Bakhary (0350655)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Design Principles
LECTURES
- A self representation in the form of a drawing/painting/sculpture/design.
- Not necessarily about creating a realistic image of yourself; instead, it's often an exercise in self-exploration. It as a visual depiction of the self. This represents the designer - how we see ourselves or how we feel or how we want to be seen.
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| Figure 1.1 Self mindmap |
Some questions D why do you choose canvas? why do you choose this medium? what do you try to show there what is special about it ? what do you want others to see and understand out of composition?
PRACTICAL
Visual Research
Inspired by my recent favorite artist, Yonigiri (@yonigiri on instagram), I chose to represent my self portrait in a dark style with black as the main color and added with a hint of contrasting colors for some elements that are going to be emphasized later.
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| Fig. 2.1 : Self portrait art by @yonigiri on instagram (Post) |
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| Fig. 2.2 : Art by yonigiri on instagram (Post) |
As I love horror and creey things, I wanted to do apply that style to my portrait. The art style I'm doing are inspired by a famous horror manga artist, Junji Ito. I really like the style he did because it looks quite simple with just black and white color but does looks very terrifying.
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| Fig. 2.3 : One of Junji Ito's character |
Progression
Before starting to sketch, I made a short list about who I really am. I also asked some of my close friends on how they see me because I was curious by how other people see my personality.
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| Fig. 2.4 : Mindmap about myself |
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| Fig. 2.5 : Pennywise photography by Nong Vang (Source : Unsplash) |
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| Fig. 2.6 : Rough sketches for the idea |
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| Fig. 2.7 : Sketch that have been traced and colored with pen |
Idea Exploration
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| Fig. 2.10 : First draft (combined both traditional & digital) For the final submission I decided to add animation to it because I'm not that satisfied with the result and wanted to do a little animation on it. I chose to animate the bloody tears and also the hand that coming from the chopped head because only both of them are easy and suitable to be animated. I try to animate all of it on Procreate for the first time, which actually not that hard but just doesn't have that much option than Photoshop and other animation app.
I done this animation frame by frame, where I need to draw it one by one in different layers. The final look doesn't look that smooth but I'm already satisfied with it than before. |
Final Submission
Mediums :
Pencil and pen on watercolor paper (traditional way) + digital painting & animation on Procreate
Artwork Title :
"The Unseen"
Concept / Story behind 'The Unseen' :
"The happiest person also has their own struggle"
This is how I'll describe the theme of my self portrait work.
"The Unseen" is a self portrait of myself that portray what other people don't see in me on the outside. People always see me as a happy and very cheerful person while on the inside I'm actually struggling with my own thoughts and problems. In this artwork I wanted to show how I was trapped in my 'bad' personalities especially with perfectionism and overthinking, how I wanted to get out from this personalities so badly, but it is a very hard thing to do because my ego is much bigger, and how I am a closed off person who doesn't tell and show much to others because I'm too afraid to make them feel uncomfortable and disturbed by my problems.
Having all of these are always tiring. I've hated myself and my works just because I didn't achieve that high standard I set. Stressed, overthink and got overwhelmed by things will always be my routine and my main food. Battling with these kind of personalities are not easy at all, I always ended up by giving a hard time for myself. But then, I realized that they were all still a part of myself, this what makes me a person, and this is who I am.
Design Principles used :
1. Contrast (color contrast) - Contrasting black and white, and red color on some part of the drawing.
2. Emphasis - Background is colored with red and left the main vocal point, which is my self portrait, in black & white color to emphasize it more and captured the viewers eyes.
3. White space & texture (on the wcolor paper)
4. Unity - The drawing were all united to each other and placed in the middle of the frame
Detailed description on the drawing :
- The messy red circle frame - to indicate how messy/horrible I am
- Smiling balloon - to show how people see me (my 'outer' self, a cheerful person who often smile) and to show how I am sometimes a people pleaser
- Bloody tears and eyes without the eyeball - how I was tired with myself and tired to always be fine to others.
- A girl in prison - how I am trapped in my own self and horrible personality, how I am hard to be opened & speak to people about my problems.
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| Fig. 2.11 : Girl in the prison zoomed in |
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| Fig. 2.12 : Asking for help hands zoomed in |
FEEDBACKS
General feedback : Make sure to apply the design principles into the self portrait.
REFLECTION
In this project I found myself were too drown on my own self & thoughts, that's why I wrote quite a lot of things, which I don't usually do on the other task lol (but I'm trying to), but I really enjoy it tho. While doing the task I still set a high standard for my work and ended up procrastinating as well as stressing again. But other than that, I personally love a project/exercise like this because I can get to know myself more and more again and portray it into an artwork. I also got really excited because I got to sketch a human portrait manually again which was my all-time favorite thing to draw, where I haven't really touch traditional art throughout this semester. I also actually didn't get to portray that much of my personality on the drawing and just some little part of it, but overall I'm already satisfied with the final look and I'm looking forward for more task like this in the future!!><
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