I made my Infographic similar to a tourist map of the best places to visit in South Korea.
Research/ inspiration for infographic
Photos of topic research, information you used- could be a screen shot or your hand written notes
Symbols- sketch and pen tool version
color palette
Experimental Type Composition
Final Infographic
Photos of research/ inspiration
-I decided to put together the first random things/objects/places that came into my mind and those were Manhattan, glass cup of water, wings, and a rubix cube.
initially I wanted to create places that incorporated into tiger stripes but it didn’t work out because the whole element did not seem to match or work out.
I wanted to go for a lonely type of expression. Roses and wings can sometimes be seen as loneliness, or feelings like “beauty that cannot be touched”. I pictured a person sitting alone in a bar on a lonely night in Manhattan where they have a drink to themselves, detached from others, and tried to put it together into a piece that appeals to people’s eyes and aesthetics.
Overall I enjoyed this project and am proud of the final drawing, although, I do wish to have spent more time on it and think about adding vines or thorns that correspond to the roses and “loneliness.”
A fifty-year old man named Virgil, who had been virtually blind since early childhood. He was born on a small farm in Kentucky soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, and had poor eyesight even as a toddler, sometimes bumped into things, seemed not to see them. At the age of three, he became gravely ill with a triple illness-a meningitis or meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and its membranes), polio, and cat-scratch fever. During this acute illness, he had convulsions, became virtually blind, paralyzed in the legs, partly paralyzed in his breathing, and, after ten days, fell into a coma. When he woke up he was completely different person a lived his life blindly before his sight came back to him.
Virgil could still see light and dark, the direction from which light came, and the shadow of a hand moving in front of his eyes, so obviously there was not a total destruction of the retina. He had no idea of distance. He had no idea of space or size. And he was confused by drawings and paintings, by the idea of a two-dimensional representation of reality. he lacked a coherent visual field, because his central vision was poor, and it was almost impossible for the eye to fixate on targets; it kept losing them, making random searching movements, finding them, then losing them again.
Virgil could identify an animal by its motion or by virtue of a single feature-thus, he identify a kangaroo because it leaped, a giraffe by its height, or a zebra by its stripes-but he could not form any over-all impression of the animal. It was also necessary that the animal be sharply defined against a background; he could not identify the elephants, despite their trunks, because they were at a considerable distance and stood against a slate-colored background.
The first month Virgil saw a systematic exploration, by sight and touch, of all the smaller things in the house: fruit, vegetables, bottles, cans, cutlery, flowers, the knickknacks on the mantelpiece-turning them round and round, holding them dose to him, then at arm’s length, trying to synthesize their varying appearances into a sense of unitary objecthood. with Amy’s help, he started to use the line as a home base, making short sallies and excursions to either side of it, so that he could see the room, feel its walls and contents from different angles, and build up a sense of space, of solidity, of perspective.
I believe vision and perception work together in order to have sight but are slightly different. Perception is the conscious understanding of something while vision is the sense or ability of sight. Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment by processing information that is contained in visible light. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision.
sketches
figure ground collages
landscapes and figures:
I used landscape images of the NYC Highline, a graveyard, and a rough beach to represent happiness, loneliness, and hazard emotions respectively.
Finished Images:
The colors I chose to use to represent the emotions are yellow for happiness, gray for loneliness and, orange and black for hazards.
I personally really loved doing this project especially thinking about what places and colors and people and actions to use to represent emotions. Next time I would like to put more effects and emotion into happiness and loneliness. my most proud one is the hazard one.
In this assignment we learned about expressive colors and colors in use. We used unnatural colors to draw and paint a figure that was not the colors of the skin. I used a variety of greens that differs from light green to dark to green to indicate the depths and areas that were hidden from the light. If I were to improve it, I’d want to put more detail in the face, hands, and feet.
The purpose of this project is to create our own configuration of an unrealistic place or environment. We learned about first, second, and third perspective, and had to go around to places and take pictures of angles of respective perspectives before choosing on to do for our final project.
Sketches and Brain storm images: for my project I did an ice village that consisted of an ice palace, a village, and round spheres stones. I wanted something asian traditional so I made the palace as half western and half eastern theme.
3 Digital Perspectives:
1st Perspective
Second Perspective
3rd Perspective
photo of 18 X 24 in linear perspective drawing:
Finished Cinematic Spac
I feel the stones, ice palace, and the mountains went well in the project. But for improvement, I would make the houses less simple and more designed. Some of the parallel lines did not match up to the horizon line either so that is always something to be taken note of.
On September 3rd, I went to the American Museum of Natural History. There, I drew a blind contour and finished drawing of a Carnosaur. The first was the blind contour which was difficult because I find it hard to draw in a constant line without looking at the dinosaur. While drawing the final one, I used techniques like line weight and proportions. The bones that were closer to my distance were drawn much darker than the bones, such as the ribs, were drawn with a lighter pencil to show that it was further away. The whole experience was great and I’m hoping to go again to draw more dinosaurs to improve my skills and techniques.