Category: Drawing+Imaging

Drawing/Imaging.B35.Fa22

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Upload 3 process steps.  This can include reference materials, thumbnail sketches, scans from your sketchbook, and actual screenshots of works you created.  Remember – if you worked in Photoshop/Illustrator, you can Hide and Show specific layers to screenshot your steps. Brief descriptions of what we are seeing are vital to communicating the project. 

STEP 1-TRACING THE ARTIFACTS:

I imported these three images into Illustration, made it black and white and lowered the opacity of the layer so I can trace the outline easily.
I traced the outline of these images using the pen tool and created the curves by holding on the line and dragging the handle.

CREATING MOOD BOARD:

Creating the mood board: I used pathfinder to manipulate the shapes into different interesting shapes. I then find a picture that I want to apply the elements in the piece and find a color scheme that fits the theme of my piece. I also created different gradients to see how well the colors work together. Lastly, to create the pattern, I chose one shape that looked the most interesting, and I used a pattern tool to make it.

STEP 2 – CREATING COMPOSITIONS:

I created these three possible compositions for my piece. I quickly sketched the composition as I wanted it to look more organic and less ‘intentional.’ I sketched these compositions in my sketchbook.

STEP 3 – CREATING THE FINAL PIECE:

For my piece, I wanted to depict a child-like arts and crafts project with paper cuttings and different geometric forms. I also wanted to use this piece to symbolize my journey to college and leaving my home country by using a more geographical element and different symbolic animals. For my first step, I scribbled some lines using the pen tool on my canvas (See Fig. 1). Then I used the pen tool again to trace the outline (just like how I traced the objects) and the boarder of the canvas, then fill in the shape (See Fig. 2). I chose a variety of desaturated analogous colors for my piece. I continued to pile up my colored shapes. To create the layered and shadow effect, I went to effect –> stylize –> drop shadow (See Fig. 3), which made my piece looks like layered paper (See Fig. 4). To add my pattern to the piece, I drew a rectangle and pasted my pattern in (See Fig. 5). To complete my piece, I added my shapes and played with the layers to make it feel like its above or below (See Fig. 6).

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REFLECTION

I enjoyed creating this piece as it awakened my inner child. I had fun playing around with this piece. I feel like this piece does represent me as a person. The object that I chose seems random, but it’s not. For instance, the perfume belongs to my boyfriend (my childhood crush), the pumpkin represents the season I entered college, and the elephant family I bought from somewhere that represents my parents and me. In my piece, I used the shape I made from the perfume bottle that looks like a butterfly to represent how scent can remind you of memories and a person. The butterfly is somewhat like me, missing that particular person. It could be my family or my boyfriend. The pumpkin and the elephant silhouette are hidden between the layers, meaning that my parents always have my back, even when they’re not vocal about it.

MY FINAL PIECE:

dream-story-telling