Instruction
Finalize the pattern and tiled components.
Purpose
Finish the project.
My Interpretation
See above and previous progress reports.
Month: October 2019
Abstracted Metamorphosis – Detail Progress – Project Four (2310)
Instruction
Add detail and further progress towards final drawings.
Purpose
Further develop detail. Explore texture and what is added or subtracted from the form.
My Interpretation
For my boot rearrangement I decided to repeat the pattern on the heel throughout the lower post of the boot. I experimented with many leather textures but did not like any of them. I also wanted to change the perspective of the drawing to more clearly develop it’s shape. For the hair drawing, I also experimented with textures. I tried clog to upholstery to corduroy to velvet, but finally settled on that puffy coat material. I made the chair out of that material and made the back wall/remote holder a carpeted texture. Finally, for the pavilion rearrangement I also changed the perspective and added a lot more depth to build the space with it’s variety of tables and chairs and stools.
Color & Pattern – Tiling – Project Four (2110)
Instruction
Using masking and four even rectangles, rearrange your tiles into repeatable patterns.
Purpose
Notice excessive negative space and adjust accordingly, explore what shape of pattern you want to pursue, full or half drop or tessellated.
My Interpretation
I explored the idea of flipped patterns and radial symmetry as well as full and half drop repetition.
Abstracted Metamorphosis – Breakdown – Project Four (2130)
Instruction
Create a realistic, semi-complex, and essential component breakdown of three organic-like figures throughout OSU campus. Break down to only most essential details.
Purpose
Begin exploring the beginnings of abstraction and how forms can become simple shapes and can then be rearranged.
My Interpretation
For my three objects I decided to use a small flower, some small sculpture, and a mailbox. I wanted a range of organic shapes, starting with completely organic and ending with hardly organic. I also wanted to I explore different numbers of components, the sculpture having the most and the mailbox having the least.
Color & Pattern – Palette Progress – Project Four (2110)
Instruction
Continue progress on Color & Pattern project.
Purpose
Reach towards the next step of the project.
My Interpretation
Using the wide-analogous pattern based off of the changing leaves, I decided to break up the large empty spaces of color with horizontal lines of adjacent colors, creating a small gradient. I experimented with both palettes by putting them on a 50% gray background and ultimately decreasing the saturation, adding some tints and shades, and changing some hues. Finally, I changed the background color of both to help aid the pattern in it’s style and intention.
Research – Abstracted Metamorphosis – Project Four (2310)
Finding Objects
The goal of this research was to find at least six objects on OSU’s campus that had some sort of organic shape. It was necessary to take pictures of it from all or most angles or simply take a video of the subject while rotating around it.
Chosen Subjects
Walking around campus I spied for various levels of organic and semi-organic shapes. The first examples I had were a red chair shaped to the human body, and next to that was some covered outdoor heat lamps on Curl Market’s patio that also had a vague organic feel. After this on another day, I walked around and found a small structure/sculpture, a mailbox outside the journalism building, and a flower and bench just in front of Hitchcock Hall. My goal was to explore truly organic shapes found in nature (the flower) to objects that are only partially organic (the mailbox).
Exercise – Break Down and Build Up
Instruction
With the given reference images, break down the subject by creating a realistic, semi-complex, and abstracted view of the same subject. For the final set of shapes, do the opposite, building up from abstracted components to a realistic view.
Purpose
Practice abstraction of breaking down and building up objects into a subject that was not their before. Exploration into essential components.
My Interpretation
The break down drawings are self-explanatory, but for the build up drawing I immediately saw a top shape. With that in mind, I created a semi-complex drawing, adding detail, and finally further emphasized those details in the realistic one.
Color & Pattern – Palette Exploration – Project Four (2110)
Instruction
Explore palette possibilities within the line work of what was previously established. Use color schemes that are found in nature or mimic a picture of it. Additional lines within the line work are allowed.
Purpose
Understand and acknowledge varies types of color palettes, observe nature’s natural colors and try and capture what makes them so pleasing to look at.
My Interpretation
I started by reevaluating the beetle, noticing that it’s shiny green exterior reflected various warm colors of yellow and red. Trying to build off of that, for the beetle, I added a bent line to copy the reflective surface it has, initially staying in a monotone green then developing by adding a complimentary red. Eventually I ditched that idea and tried the analogous style, first doing blue and green pastels like the ocean, then ultimately deciding on a much wider analogous pattern that reflects the changing leaves outside. Moving on to the eye, I initially started with split-complimentary (both with a whiter and black background). I then experimented with removing some lines and thickening certain lines to see how that changes the weight and balance of the entire composition with several analogous and monotone palettes. Finally, with the legs of the beetle I experimented with a gradient of purples broken by its split-compliment of red and orange to try and capture the colors of a sunset. I also did this with the body of the beetle.
Interpreted Journey – Final – Project Three (2310)
Instruction
Finalize the drawings.
Purpose
Finish the project.
My Interpretation
See above and previous progress reports.
Color & Pattern – Line Work Progress – Project Four (2110)
Instruction
Outline one symmetrical and one asymmetrical pattern that stuck out to you in a digital format.
Purpose
Allow yourself to explore what you were drawn to (component, proportion, direction, value) and get adjusted to the digital software you are going to be using for the entire project.
My Interpretation
Of my bug line work, I focused on more than wears necessary because I was slightly confused on the project guidelines. I included line work for symmetrical beetle components/proportions, that same beetle but for direction, color and value in a fly’s eye, and more components/proportions in a spider.