andrew chen

my mind

The Last One: Bad Boy

This final project is based off the same concept as Mask.

I believe in way that songs are a type of masks that people use in their every day life. While not a mask to disguise, but a mask or even a costume to express.

A song itself is ‘not real’ or not tangible but is expressed through feeling and sense with lyrics and even color. Different songs represent types of feelings and people. A happy song can cheer people up, a sad song can make people tear up.

This song I based off this project on is called Bad Boy by a South Korean girl group called Red Velvet. Personally it’s one of my favorite songs due to it’s sultry sound and passionate lyrics. I wanted to bring this song ‘to life’ by taking the feel of the meaning and lyrics and the color concepts to something 3D.

the set is interactive, almost like a puzzle piece. it consists of the five member of Red Velvet, a rose, a broken heart, and a sign with part of the song’s lyrics.

the front five pieces are interchangeable, and so are the back three pieces, but just now with each other.

 

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Anti-Hero

My Anti-Hero is based off the season of winter. Initially I wanted to create it off of the seasons but decided it was too broad so I used winter.

His name is Ice Prince. He represents the entity of winter and is known by his cold and cruel attitude to reflect the season. But just like winter, Ice Prince is not necessarily evil. He believes some lives need to be cold in order to survive. Lives like polar bears, winter foxes and wolves, and even some plant life that only grows in the winter time. He protects these lives from other seasons such as summer and spring and after, he helps welcome the new year and a new circle of life.

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Project 3: Sisyphus, What’s Your Sign?

goal: creating an automata in action with the concept of “futile”

I wanted to focus on the topic of astrology and zodiacs. I believe today many people put their social lives and trust on the power of the horoscopes. Though I also like reading horoscopes for fun, I don’t base my life off of it. It’s futile because I personally don’t believe you should trust or not trust anyone just by their zodiac signs. They don’t define a person and shouldn’t define a person. When you trust someone by their sign, it defies the term of being unique or being different because they share the zodiac with every other person the world.

sketches:

 

mockups: the pinwheel didn’t work effectively so I had to change it into two wheels

final:

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Project 2: Hyperreality

goal: creating a “viewfinder” to represent a reverse mask that alter reality through different scenes and props

ideas: i wanted to focus on people’s reality today how everyone mostly look at themselves more now rather than looking at the world, so I wanted to create a purpose that serves the opposite. I also wanted to focus on children’s imaginations because I believe that children can see things that adults cannot see. their imagination is wild and I want to bring that out more into reality.

sketches:

mockups/templates

reality screens

final

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Assignment 2: Perfect Cube, Reference Images, and Mask Mockups

Part 1 – Perfect Cube

part 2 – Reference Images

a. different content/same material

 

b. different content/similar material

part 3: Mock ups

 

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Pop Up Book: Heaven and Hell on Earth

The theme of my pop up book is the domains of Heaven, Earth, and Hell. Each fantasy/fictional plays has its own roll and own characteristics that are represented the book.

Heaven represents the God and the angels that watch over earth. the center book represent God. the color palette consists of blue, white, and yellow/gold.

Earth represents life forms and free choices where it is neither good nor bad. it’s signature colors are green, white, and blue.

Hell represents the evil and the opposite of Heaven. It’s represented by black and red and in the center is the horns of the devil.

each page also has a small pop up pocket that are filled with three photos each of scenes that represent each domain.

top – heaven: church, late singer, garments

middle – earth: sunflower, people, buildings

bottom – hell: coldness, dark rooms, subway tunnels

sketches:

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09/15/18 Pop Up Book Progress

 

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Assignment 1: Foundations Forms, Reference Images, and Form Studies

Part 1: Foundation Forms

Part 2: Reference Images

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Part 3: Form Studies

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The Dream of the Shepherd

The Dream of the Shepherd

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, Bern 1853–1918 Geneva), Oil on canvas

   Sitting alone with a sorrowful aura around him, The Dream of the Shepherd is a Symbolistic painting that is empathized with a feeling of sadness and separation of class. Made in 1896 by Symbolist European artist Ferdinand Hodler, the Shepherd’s face is seen buried in his left hand, and his right hand gripping onto his shepherd’s staff below eight nude women in a dancing movement.

In the painting, the sadden shepherd is seen sitting on the grassy ground with boulders and pebbles around him while grieving by himself, but he is not alone as there are eight nude women all seem to be dancing at the ground above and far from the shepherd. The painting is beautifully painted with delicate brush strokes that spread from the grassy plains the shepherd is sitting on to the blue water, and the bright sky with the women. The stylized gestures of the eight naked women evoke the young modern dance movement, and women’s pale, ethereal forms mark them as apparitions, in stark contrast to the shepherd’s muscular body, rendered with naturalistic detail.

The Dream of the Shepherd explores a universal and psychological played themes of sleep, dreams, death, and love, often with erotic tones, and produces an otherworldly realm, covered with strains of erotic and seductive desire. The eight nude women dancing above creates an attraction that contrasts with the saddened emotion illuminating from the lonely shepherd. There is a complete contrast in the expressions and relationship of the shepherd and the expressions of the eight nude women.

The painting also conveys a message of social structure and classes to show that there will always be a gap between the upper class and lower class. The nude women seem to be dancing with enjoyment that is shown through their flexible and smooth movements, gestures and light, faded colors of white, beige and blue, while the skin of the shepherd is smooth and hairless with several light to dark values. He is painted without shoes, which can possibly point out that the Shepherd is poor and living in poverty. The eight nude dancing women can represent wealth and ease; they are stress free and their nude represents their freedom in society. Whereas the shepherd is all covered and is oppressed by society as a lower class and different cultural backgrounds.

The painting gives emotions of both happiness and sadness, and opens up a numerous amount of values, theories, and imagination to many different emotions and meanings to understand other different cultures and values. It represents a separation of the rich and wealthy to the poor and poverty, similar to today as status and class has a large impact on society where people can be as free as the women, or as unfortunate as the shepherd.

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Final Time Project: Say It

all these insecurities man, what do I do with them?

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