Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design 1) Final

After much consideration and opinions seeking from friends and lecturers. I decided to refer to one of my sketches as the final.

The Sketch

From this sketch, I made the final A2 size poster traditionally by using watercolour and oil paint.

Final

Also we were required to make a digital work too.

Artist Statement

Both of this artwork was based on The Juniper Tree by The Grimm Brothers fairy tale. From this fairy tale I learned that we could used our bitter experience as a foundation for the our future. Reflected back to the society today, we are facing the news of teenagers and adults turning to suicide as their last resort to their problems.  As I emphasized the positive vibe by using bright colours and the fire bird emerging from the dark depths below, its a quiet direct visual to deliver this message. Overall, I feel that from this artwork and process I improved myself in skills and emotionally and I hope that the viewers to this artwork would feel the same.

Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design 1) Update 4

Another two sketches done tonight

These sketches  were  done  to widen my perspective  towards  the artworks.

Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design 1) Update 3

And so I have sketched the first draft for this assignment.

Sketch  5 (Draft 1)

Description

Traditional 

1. The title is at the upper right corner accompanied with the songbird.
2. The poem is written at the center of the piece with stylized calligraphy.
3. The colour scheme was to combine warm and cool colours as the fairy tale implies the extremes of contrast placing as one of its element.
4. Execution plan: Medium( A2 size illustration board or printed with craft elements) || Calligraphy( ruling pen or cola pen) || Colours( watercolour and white gouache unless printed).

Digital

1. By using the same elements, it will be brought into Adobe After Effects for animation.
2. It will be a 30 seconds animated picture.
3. I will use the music, Awake in A Dream by Adrion Von Ziegler.
4. I will overlay with real life footage of food colouring drop as to implies the serene watercolour effect movement.

More on this later. XD

Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design 1) Update 2

I decided to use calligraphy as part of the typography poster based on The Juniper Tree.

But first, I did a sketch as to capture the emotion that I want to centralised in the poster.

Sketch 1

I took the elements of the songbird, juniper tree and blood. I also took the poem as it was very relevant and one of the most important element from the fairy tale. As for the colours, the bird was said to sang so beautifully it made people stop doing their work and gave it things that they wanted to hear it sings again.

As for the calligraphy, this particular pages were used by me to practice using the ruling pen.

Sketch 2

Sketch 3

Also I did some research to have more knowledge about the fairy tale and its elements. Basically, the fairy tale emphasize on the moral of relationship and family. Also, juniper trees most of the time corresponds to the value of life and rejuvenation. 

Sketch 4

Assignment 3 (Media Arts Design)

For Assignment 3 we were assigned to make two artworks (traditional and digital) based on a fiction.
I chose a fairy tale from The Grimm Brothers, The Juniper Tree. The reason why I chose this fairy tale is that it is unique and I can relate to the elements and moral of the story.
Attached here are the fairy tale. Feel free to read it :)

Assignment 2 (Media Arts Design 2) Update 3

After choosing keep as the new verb. I made the composition form the initial sketches I made. It was exactly the sketch.

Black and white

Coloured

I took the risk combining the two "e"s as I would it to look like a chest or a safe. But, as I went along and printed the posters most of my friends could not make out the word and instead kept seeing the merged "e"s as "H".

The printed posters

Assignment 2 (Media Arts Design 1) Update 2

I have to break away from building as it started to limit my exploration. So I just randomly sketch verb by verb that came form songs I'm listening to.

And so, I chose keep to be my new verb.