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Pattern & Scale

| Bailee

Process

When I made my iterations, I had no idea what I was actually doing, and when we looked around the whole class, I realized mine were NOT the best. But my peer discussions and table group gave me some pointers and I ended up coming up with some designs I liked a lot more. My designs were developed further and I thought they would be successful, but that wasn’t the case in the end.

Design Process

I quickly realized how tedious this process really was, and what it really meant. It took forever and I realized a lot of my shapes were too small so I had to restart with bigger shapes, making my process take even longer. The process was brutal and I didn’t really enjoy it at all.

My ending products were okay, but I feel like if I wouldn’t have procrastinated as much, then they would have been better. I am overall not very happy with myself on this whole project.

Abstracted Metamorphosis Post 2

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Abstracted Iterations

The first abstracted iterations that I did were for the statue. My original five iterations for the statue were a car, a winter hat, a cactus, a helicopter, and a chair. I was going to use the helicopter for something that more than one person can fit inside of, and was all set with all three of my final abstractions, but when talking to Emily, she said that I could be more creative and realistic with my abstractions, so I ended up exploring the form again. I ended up finding two more abstractions, one being a little robot guy who travels around on one wheel, and the other being a new invention I made, a gas pedal powered skateboard. I’m sure someone else has already invented it and found out the dangers of it, but I figured I could make it my own and show my creativity with it. I ended up using this skateboard as something for one person to use, and this can be used by someone as a mode of transportation

The second abstracted iterations I did were for the squirrel. With this one I made a love seat, a car that really resembled a Volkswagen beetle, a pumpkin, and a rocket ship. I tried really hard forever to think of a fifth one for these and could not do it, so I ended up coming in with four. I knew I couldn’t really use the pumpkin for anything so I was left with limited choices. What I was going to use for this one was the love seat/chair thing as something that could support someone but again, was told by Emily that I could be more creative, so I decided to take the car I had already designed, and make it into my own type of car that accentuates every part of the original squirrel. This was probably my favorite to do in the end but I  can talk about that later.

The third abstracted iterations I did were for my tree. Coming into class I had created a really cool winter hat, a nice chair, a tent, a house, and a campfire. I was going to use the campfire as something that could be used by one person, but when I came up with the gas pedal skateboard, I ended up exploring more abstractions for this one as well. All I could really think of was more ways to make houses, but didn’t need a house because I was already using the car as something that could fit more than one person. I ended up decided to take the chair I had already made and just add a lot of detail and make it look really nice, thus fulfilling the last requirement, something that can support one person.

Reconstructions

I am very very proud of my ending reconstructions. My favorite one was the skateboard. I think my shading and texture ended up really nice. The car ended up being okay but my shading could’ve been better. The body of the car ended up looking a little awkward because I didn’t know how to shade it. I also drew an exhaust pipe as a part of the essential components of the car but forgot to put it in the actual drawing, which I’m pretty disappointed about. I also drew the couch and was extremely proud of how it turned out considering I usually get my proportions very wrong. It wasn’t perfect but I still ended up loving it. I printed out all of my ending reconstructions because I did them digitally, and the printer I used to print them was running out of ink and didn’t print with very good quality, so I think I am going to make my portfolio scans digital as well trough vectr. I didn’t think I was going to like this project when we started, but it actually ended up being pretty fun.

Abstracted Metamorphosis Post 1

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Initial Forms

For my initial forms, I was under the impression that I had to take all of them from campus, so I spent a whole afternoon walking around campus trying to take pictures of things that seemed organic. The first two pictures I took were the obvious ones, a squirrel and a bird. I thought these were pretty obvious things, but also complicated enough that I could make tons of new things out of them. The third thing I found was a stone statue next to the little stage right by mirror lake. I didn’t know if this was was technically organic because it was made out of stone and had a square base. Because of that, I decided to take a fourth picture of an initial form, and I went as basic as I could go, and took a picture of a tree. This was the one I was least excited about, and the one I planned on not using if I could use the statue.

 

 

 

Exploration of Viewpoints

This was definitely the easiest part of the project, breaking these organic forms down. I broke each of the four forms down four times. The tree was definitely the hardest to break down while capturing the whole initial shape, and I think that is why it grew on me and I changed my mind about it being the most basic. At this point, I got to ask Emily if I could use the statue as one of my abstractions, and she said yes as long as I didn’t use the boxed base. After that, I took a long look at all four of them and decided which ones would work best for my abstraction and the guidelines. After testing a few out of them all (which will be talked about in post 2) I ended up choosing the bird, the statue, and the tree.

 

Color and Pattern Post 2

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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.

 

Spacial Assembly Project 2

| Bailee

To be honest, the was not my favorite project. Actually, it got even worse when I accidentally exited out of this page after I was already done writing this post so here I am redoing it. But that’s okay. ALWAYS save before you click something. All the projects are learning lessons, right? What I learned from this project would be shading, spacial structure, and overall how to be a better artist. But, I am also already a perfectionist, so that did not go well with this project. I drew the grid 5 times before I finally decided one was goo enough to use. I thought some [arts about this whole process were hard, such as putting objects on the back wall and drawing a stool. My stool looks really wonky and will probably be pointed out by Emily tomorrow, but thats okay because I am pretty proud of my work. I am especially proud of my shading, considering I learned how to shade about a week ago in class. This whole process has been a great learning experience but I am so glad it’s over. I am thankful for it’s lessons but I am very very very excited to move on and excel at the next.

2D Principles and Squares final

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Process:

This whole process was my favorite out of all my design lab projects so far. I had fun designing all my squares and coming up with all of my final designs. I find vectr super easy to use (other than putting in masks) and I find it fun to try and handle.

The best part about my whole process was the fact that what I thought my favorite squares were in the beginning ended up being my least favorite and vice versa. I thought that all of my designs for order were clever and I hated coming up with ideas for tension. I ended up LOVING my tension submission and thinking that order was my most boring. I also didn’t really like my playful one throughout the whole process but I loved designing bold and loved my final submission.

I found this project very interesting and hope to do similar  things in the future of this class!

Journey To Treasure Final Project

| Bailee

I really enjoyed this project and doing all of the sketches that I was supposed to do. I am very proud of myself for the effort and change I made in my drawings. I did a lot better than I thought I would and I’m really trying with everything that I’ve been doing. I am very proud of the progress I’ve been making.

The hardest sketch I had to do was the library one. That is why I shaped that one out but never finished it. Also the drawing of Derby Hall was kind of complicated.  But I am glad I put in the effort, and it ended up being my favorite drawing.