Month: October 2019

Color and Pattern Post 2

| Bailee

Develop and Finalize

After choosing my color schemes, I ended up doing the switching of the patterns, and I felt a lot less confident about the whole project. Both of my designs felt very plain and spaced out. For awhile I just played around with my designs to try and figure out where I wanted things to go, and how I wanted it to look.

I ended up deciding my tail should be repeating, one under the other, four times down and my snowflake go in kind of a checker board patter, with three rows. I liked the way the both looked but I still thought the looked really plain. In class, we did peer reviews, and it helped a little bit, but I didn’t really get useful input back.

I’m not trying to be rude, but all my comments were just fats about my iterations, and didn’t say whether they were good things or bad things. But even one thing was clear to the others, my designs were too plain. I knew I needed something else so I ended up deciding to add things in the middle of them.

For my lizard tail I thought for awhile what to do. I knew I wanted to give it more of a jungle feeling, as well as cut off the abrupt ending of the tail. I tested out different leaves that I wanted to do, and ended up choosing the most jungle feeling. I wish I would’ve kept the leaf progress, but I ended up deleting all of the other leaves I tested. I just enlarged the leaves, put them in the middle of all the tails, and made them the two greens of the dots on the tail. I made the darker green the border and middle of the leaf while the lighter green became the filling.

For the snowflake, I spent two hours trying to figure out what to do. I tried putting wavy white lines between the flakes, I tries putting ribbons with diamonds. I tried putting banners with circles, and even tried putting my own circle chain across in between each row. I ended up deciding to just space out evenly sized circles between the rows, and alternating the two least used colors of the snowflake, which were both darker, muted blue. I really enjoyed the outcome of this, and it gave the whole thing a chevron look.

I ended up transferring these to vectr on my iPad, and did the whole final layout on there since you can’t save as a pdf on the laptop software. After I put it together I really fell in love with both of my final outcomes and still think that this is my favorite project for BOTH design labs so far all year. I hope you love my designs as much as I ended up loving them.

 

 

Color and Pattern Post 1

| Bailee

Learn & Research

I knew from the beginning of this project that this one would be my favorite so far. As soon as we listened to the project about color, it brought me back to a TedTalk I watched about why certain colors make you feel certain feelings, the TedTalk that made me know I wanted to do some kind of design.

When we started researching our patterns in nature, I was surprised at how many of them I thought of right off the bat, and how unique they were. My favorite ones were the lava and the pool water, but I didn’t end up choosing them because of the simplistic models that I thought of for them.

I ended up choosing the snowflake for my symmetric and the chameleon tail for my asymmetric patterns. Both of the options I chose were my individual components analyses. The snow flake ended up being my more static option and the tail was more dynamic, because your eyes followed the leading lines which created a lot of movement.

Iterate

This part of the project was my personal favorite. I ended up downloading vectr onto my Ipad (which actually helped a lot and was easier to use) and pretty much tested out color schemes there. I looked up color schemes with words including “cold” or “jungle” and pretty much tried to use colors that created a nice feeling.

To start off, I just layers all the colors I found on top of each other and then lines them up to see what would look good together. Then I chose 4-5 of those colors to be the ending color scheme that I would test out in my design selections.

For the snowflake, I used one color options that were very muted blue colors with a harsh yellow as the background. The blues reminded me of snow and cold and I wanted a contrasting background for them. I chose very cold blues and purples as another with a sharp, cold pink as the background. I did this for the same reason, that the blues and purples felt very snowy and I wanted the background to be opposite. Lastly, I chose all blues and greens to go with a very winter theme. I ended up choosing the first one.

For the tail, I chose a very funky bunch of colors, because Chameleons can turn into all kinds of funky colors. This included some magenta, pink, orange, blue and green. I ended up feeling very mediocre about this one, but a lot better about the other ones. For one of them, I did a a pink background, a tail made of of two greens, with different colored pink dots. I did this because I feel like greens, pinks, and reds are easy colors to find in a jungle. I then did one with a light blue background with a light pink and purple tail with green dots. I did this because it was kind of like the previous one, but the colors were more pastel and muted, and let off more of a warm and wondrous feeling, which was what I was going for. That is the one I ended up choosing. I was very happy with both of my outcomes.

Interpreted Journey

| Bailee

I actually enjoyed this assignment very much. As soon as I took my notes and did all of my iterations I had a pretty clear idea of where I wanted to go with it. I chose exploring a new planet because I thought you could get super creative with this idea. Flying you could only put a person in the air, and being chased most people would only blur the background. But exploring a new planet could go in so many different directions. I started off drawing hands and bodies and facial expressions just so I could get a feel for them because I’ve never drawn people before. Then I got into my actual drawings

For my first drawing I did it in the point of view of someone looking at a Wendy’s bag in the trashcans outside of Hayes. This is my favorite out of all my drawings. I did this as a way to say our planet has too much plastic. I for one am very environmentally friendly and I hate plastic. SO I figured, people from different planets would want to know what it was and why it’s polluting our Earth. I think I did a really nice job of shading the trash can and I’m proud of the drawing as a whole.

The second drawing I did was outside of Derby Hall, and instead of just the front of the building, I drew my subject looking in the window of it. This was my first time drawing a person and I think for the position they are in it overall looks really really nice. I drew this because I figured if someone was exploring a new planet, they’d look in all the windows they could to try ad figure out what’s going on around them. I also tried to draw this one at a canted angle to give it more of a confused and eery feel.

For my third drawing I drew someone laying on the bench outside Derby. I did this because I figured someone who was exploring a new planet wouldn’t know what the bench was for, maybe thought it was somewhere to sleep or something like that. I am less proud of this drawing and don’t think I shaded very well. Also, I couldn’t draw a good facial expression, so I kept the face blank as if you were too far away to see that about them.

For my fourth drawing, I drew someone meditating outside Thompson at the statue. I did this because I figured that someone on a new planet would see a statue and think it was a god. I am proud of this idea because I think it was my most creative, but I don’t think the drawing was executed very well. But the persons body proportions look right and everything so it’s all good.

Lastly I drew my treasure, a fake plant in Thompson. I was gonna draw the subject eating a planet because I figured they would think it’s some kind of food, but I could not draw a side profile at all so I ended up drawing a hand feeling the plant, because its shinier than most plants since it’s fake. I think the hand proportions are a little off but overall I think it looks pretty good. It could be shaded better though. Overall, I am pretty proud of my work, and I had fun thinking of all the ideas.

2D to 3D Orphographics

| Bailee

So this project was fun in it’s own endearing and very annoying way. Let me tell you why by going through this process. I absolutely loved making the 2D orphographics that we made, but as soon as we started making these cubes, I knew my life, and my free time, were going right down the drain.

The first cube itself I only made 3 times, and I got in the okay pile, which is pretty good if I do say so myself. But then when we started moving on, that’s when I started failing at these things. I started off doing bold, tension and increasing. I made y orphographics for those three even. I started building the blocks for them all as well and then last minute decided to do congested instead of tension. This meant more work, but ended up being a good thing considering I think my congested looks the best out of all of them.

I really didn’t enjoy how many cubes I had to make over and over, but I did like making the orphographics and coming up with different ways to present my ideas. Hopefully the next project wont bruise my hands as much as that knife does tho.