20/Jan/2022 - 30/Jan/2022 (Week 3 - Week 4)
Kim MinJoon (0353248)
Bachelor
of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / GCD60804 / Taylor's University
Project 1 - Self-portrait
LECTURES
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Week 3 - Self-Portrait
A self-portrait is a design of work that draws how one perceive themselves on a canvas. It is a design that reflects directly to how the author sees themselves and puts those feelings/passion onto the design. This sort of design does not necessarily need to be realistic, but can take different principles of design to make the art be more unique and be related to personality that the artist has.
INSTRUCTIONS
PROJECT 1 : Self-Portrait
Visual Research
For this project, we were told to create a self-portrait by expressing ourselves, feelings, thoughts and even emotions into an artwork. We needed to draw ourselves and I wanted to try on something that was different, unique and had a meaning to the design. I thought of the term 'glass' the moment I heard of reflecting myself onto a canvas. So I searched up some different types of glassart that can be implemented into my design.
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| Figure 1.1: Reference #1 |
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| Figure 1.2 Reference #2 |
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| Figure 1.3: Reference #3 |
Although many of the designs that I have seen were very well made, It didn't quite make the subject of a Self-portrait vibrant. These were all physical designs done by hand and being honest, I do not want to get my hands cut. I took some time to rethink about what kind of 'glass art' I wanted to do because the references that I got from google was not something I am inspired of. I knew this because I tried it out for my first design but it eventually got scrapped. It definitely has its own amazing features but it wasn't something I was looking for. I needed a meaning behind the thing I wanted to do.
So I searched up some more on the internet and then, I saw it. something that inspired me. A jug.
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| Figure 1.4: Reference #4 |
A jug didn't really mean anything but it gave me a feeling of in-completion when water is being filled in the jug. It never gets filled to the brim but only until it is enough to pour out again and getting refilled again. I made sure to use this as a reference when it came down to starting out my design.
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| Figure 1.5: Reference #5 |
Reference #5 was a reference for the scrapped design but I needed a color idea and the the way it portrayed the face with different hues, contrast and lights. It made a unique style to the artwork but sadly it wasn't really what I was searching for.
My Design
I first thought of tracing my face from a picture, then adding a crack to it which was inserted with my feelings and such for each crack that was blooming from my face. I wished to color the cracks individually so I got some references in google, to get an idea of what colors i could use for the artwork. Eventually, the concept was scrapped since it felt like it didn't show any characteristics of me and it was to blunt for it to satisfy me.
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| Figure 2.0: scrapped self portrait |
I wanted the design to have a meaning, and i wanted to show that humans are fragile, and can be filled with experience as time goes on, so i decided to make my face a glass jar and be filling with water, indicating that someone cannot learn everything but experience can only guide them through, and so the water filling up the jar is considered to be life experience, creativity, and all the feelings that we learn through time. But i guess it is for the viewer to decide what they perceive the water to be.
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| Figure 2.1: Concept of self portrait |
This was my first time trying out the principles of glass and the reflections it gives off so it was quite difficult for me to make it look like a real glass jar. I traced my face off of a photo of myself that i had, and i outlined it to have a drawing that i could work with. I drew in the tap and added the water in as well.
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| Figure 2.2: Self portrait |
In figure 2.2, I added in the details of a glass jar, to make it seem more realistic, with outlines, transparent reflections and such. On that week, Dr Charles had a reviewing class, so I got some feedback on the work that i had so far. He gave suggestions on how to make it follow a principle and he said that if i bring in the tap a little bit closer to the jar, it would give a principle of proximity. He also told me to refine the glass a bit more to make it seem like a glass, so i gave it a try and got the results on figure 2.3.
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| Figure 2.3: 'Inner-flow' |
The final outcome of the jug face of mine came out pretty decently despite how this was my first ever attempt on a glass art. I wouldn't know if this is actually considered a glass art but this is something I never thought I would do. The way that the jar and the tap came together in the end really makes it seem like it is one with the other and it feels very naturally combined. I named it 'Inner-flow' to describe both the water running into my glass head but also the feelings and the emotions that the water holds.
FEEDBACK
Week 4
As for the feedback, Dr Charles gave me some suggestions on what i could add on to the design to support the principles much better. He said that the idea of this was interesting, and that i could use so many different elements to the design i had by filling up the jar with different kind of materials instead of water. He told me to get creative with the idea with this concept.
REFLECTION
Week 3
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