DAY 34

today i concentrated on the word "move" and followed started to follow up the idea of the platform game. and i found this text http://www.non-format.com/archive/wire/5/ and thought about how it could animate and grow out when the figure or mouse is reacting with the letter. the image below was made in illistrator and instead of drawing each indervidual line with some skillish copy and pasting and re shaping i manged to create an organic look with under 30 vector lines. i then tried the same technique in after effects using the glue effect. its pretty time consuming and takes a long time to render might have to look for a new way of doing it if i want to finish on time or come back to it later.

DAY 32

 typography project  we started with 5 words that we had to start to create ideas of how to show them. this project really excites me because its so free and coming up with new ideas is what i enjoy doing. the first work sheet i did was really fast paced and basically just doodled down as fast as i could and then the second sheet i decided to work in a more sculptural way to help me visualize the work.
i had 3 main ideas for 3 words the first one was "focus" i want to make something digital maybe like an interactive website or something. i thought u focus on things with your eyes and focus with a camera so i could merge the 2 together and when the mouse (on a computer) moves up or down the eye rotates like a lens and the word focus draws
 
into focus.
"move" i thought of a platform game and could have an animated drawn man climbing over the letters (like plat forms) or could just be an animation but i do like the idea of it being interactive.
the other word "depth" could react to the mouse movement and go back and forward over lap and so on.
working with the paper in 3-d really helped me to figure out the depth and i think helped show other people my ideas more clearly probably something i will do again but its hard to keep.

 

DAY 31

Fabric + form

Something I’ve never really done before. The way we did it (using a design/ idea

Sheet) worked really well. We were told to experiment with the machines and material so i had a quick go at the sewing machine trying out what we where shown. lets just say it wasn't the best of works. so i went to my idea sheet and started to think up some ideas for form. 

i started to think about the flow of the material or even air over a figure so it raps around. then just using a sheet of paper started to create it on a manikin. i think it work closer to the idea if i turned it horizontal so the ends would hang straight/ straighter of the figure. if i were to make a final piece i would want it to be free standing and rigid enough to be of the figure completely possibly even involve some casting of a figure. next fabric and form in 2 weeks

DAY 29

Evaluation

Today was spent evaluating my work talking in a group really benefited me I think explaining my research project to someone who asked questions made me think about it even more. The idea of the piece becoming a massive vine that grew around this room with an animation (flip book styli) drawing inside so people could actively crate a movie by running around and dragging there hand like on a fence to make the tac-tac-tac sound.

The room became a factory of ideas pretty quick everyone saying what there thinking and the process. Really helps to understand the work and gives me a lot more ideas to bounce of.

Day 27

Printmaking is something I’ve never done before and never really thought I would be excited by it. we where set the task to create a repeat, a sequence and a series. By the nature of the stencils everyone seemed to conform to a grid rectangle shape. Something I found restricting so after doing my first page I decided to experiment with material. Using ripped and shredded cotton I was able to escape from the square format. I started to experiment with creating depth by over laying the image and roller with different levels of ink.

The shapes and patterns I came up with really got me excited and could see them as a background for a website or even a massive panel or on a canvas. The print making process led to being more free and creative than I first thought and it felt like an organic version of designing on the computer. The tools I use on the computer translate fairly obviously to the techniques used to create the prints. So I will probably return, as it is much better to sketch and get ideas with. i have also edited them a bit on photoshop after wards playing with the contrast and colour.

 

DAY 26

DAY 26

Photo workshop using the D80 with the zoom was so good. I really started experimenting with the aperture trying to get the macro effect. And today was the first time using raw and found the picture so much easier to manipulate how I wanted in post-production. I also wanted to try out an idea I’ve had for a while just never got round to doing it. I’ve done 360 wide-angle images where the camera points out but wanted to see if it was possible pointing into an object. So I set up the object (yellow boot) by hanging it from the roof and photographed around. Coming to edit it I realized I needed to take much more pictures because I was looking at it from a circular (or bubble) view point and it needed to be tailored to the surface area so each curve flattened out. So in the end the image started to take away depth rather than add it, which has been the main focus of most of these workshops. The overall image is probably too high contrast but I did that so the background was black and just made it easier. I could see myself trying this technique again … but maybe as a sculptural practice so with my research project apply the same idea so cut the pages to form many viewpoints of an object creating a liquid like exploded view. I think the main influence today was taken from the composition introduction and lecture where the old paintings showed many perspectives. 

DAY 24

Research project

I’ve had some ideas before hand so I started by making a longer than length book because I liked the binding of the book so much. I want to make a sort of book tentacle with the pages sculpted to form different shapes a bit like the continues line drawing we did on the categorizing day.

Ive bought some wire for 35p that should be strong enough to manipulate the book how I like (photos)

Today was the first day where I was in full control of what I was making and felt much better although tended to lack in the side where I wasn’t worried about ruining it. 

DAY 22

Book binding today was a workshop where we couldn’t really be too creative but I found it extremely interesting and will defiantly do it again and like the book with out the cover better because you can see all the sewing

DAY 21

Colour

The colour workshop was all about how to create depth with shades tones saturation and light and dark. The general rule was the more contrast the grater the space between with vibrant colours at the front and dark at the back. Dew to the repetitive nature of the workshop I lost concentration and enthusiasm half way through and didn’t take my time trying to get everything in the lines that was partly down to my brush and practice with paint. The paint workshop only worked because I wasn’t trying to be confined.

DAY 19

PAINT

 Today was really eye opening I haven’t done much painting at all in the past. And it really helps that Simon is clearly so interested and enthusiastic in his medium. We started with a slide show of different painting styles and technique which really helped in broadening the spectrum of what paint could create. Also the technique we used at the start possibly gave me the best start selecting the 10 most important lines then adding another but in a different colour and basically doing what I don’t want to do just letting it happen really ended up working. And making the first one I knew what I didn’t want to happen in the second painting. I was especially pleased with the second picture and using the stencil technique and rubbing the  purple down like in my gestalt to create that grunge look with highlights of the complement yellow really jumped out of the page. And I should do more things like it I could easily see it becoming a website or poster background some of the feed back from the relaxed crit as well was really positive “epic” and “stylish”. The second part of the day was reflection on the paintings something I really enjoyed and I found my self putting points across and speaking when I haven’t before (gaining confidence) maybe because we where in a smaller group. And still amazed how every workshop we’ve done everyone’s turns out differently.

DAY 16

Categorizing 12 objects we now have a huge cataloged of 1000+ objects ¾ man made ¼ natural. We spent the day ordering objects making a visually pleasing rainbow of colour. Before ordering the items I t was didn’t have much power over the room but as it started to get sorted it gained presence and purpose. Experimenting with colours such as what colour makes what stand out and complimentary.

I love the fact that you can look infintly close and pic up on the shape form texture but each object carries similar colours around it. another point that was mentioned is where the colours meet deciding what goes where found it fascinating that everyone sees different. Not just in colour but in time and thought. Art shows viewpoints.