visual techniques- week12

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Irregularity 

Transparency

Complexity

Spontaneity

Boldness

Variation

Randomness

Activeness 

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Asymmetry

Irregularity 

Opacity

Consistency

Distortion

Randomness

Sharpness

These two artworks successful present their concepts and values to audiences through numerous techniques. The first artwork employs randomness and unrestricted as its main techniques.  The second artwork relied on understatement and repetition the same basic shape as its main techniques. Both artworks are interesting and special.

On the first image, the artist employs irregularity techniques through using free lines to construct the basic shape of a human face. All of lines have different density, thickness and colors. It empowers the figure in the image to movement effects such as swinging of hairs. The designer also employs transparency technique to presents 3-D space effects with lines and colors. The line showed slight variations in thickness and the color also change on the intensity to create depths and thickness that separate positive object, the human face, from the negative background. Finally, the designer demonstrates techniques of both complexity and randomness through the neck area of the main character. The neck is computed without restriction since that are no consist direction, order and style. It is freedom, boldness and flexible. The transparencies of the lines present a feeling that is the figure immersed in illusion, unrealistic. I would adopt techniques of both free lines and transparency in order to produce better artworks in the future. These visual techniques enable the artwork to present a feeling of unlimited possibilities and freedoms.

The second artwork presents an extremely special cloth. The artist demonstrates a different view point for cloth that people do not recognize before. He/she employs techniques of both consistency and sharpness to empower the uncomfortable feeling. The equal amounts of spaces between folds create a sense of consistency.  The larger folds within areas such as shoulder create a sense of sharpness. The cloth is constructed by different triangles and each triangle presents sharpness, consistency and understatement. These techniques enable the artwork to present 3-D impression. However, the triangle is randomly arranged, which presents a reality feeling to the artwork. These visual techniques can be adopted on the industrial design work such as the furniture design.

contrast - week 11

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This is a successful advertisement that emphasis the power behind the soccer ball. The designer present the existents of the soccer ball through making it have similar scale as the building. The artist employs such technique to counteract against the human perceptual system. The idea that a soccer ball has similar size as a building, and it can cause impact on building is contradicted to believe that audience has in their perceptual system. These contradictions of both realities and believes flashes out the existence of the soccer ball. It enables the artwork to catch attention from audiences through the first sight since people will always be attracted by unfamiliar objects. The main concept behind the image is to emphasis impossible things within the normal world through the enormous soccer ball and its impact. These techniques enable the artist to present an artwork that successful present its concept to audiences through the first glance. The techniques of contrast size and color on the poster may also benefit me in my future artwork.

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The poster makes an unsuccessful attempt to present its main concept to its audience. The scale of positive characters is not large enough. This mistakes result audiences to have difficult time to distinguish the characters from the complex background. Also, the negative background of character has enormous details. This mistake result confusions within audiences on whatever these details belong to the background or to the characters, especially the arm of the woman who is standing and the man who stands on her left side. Finally, this poster is presented by black, blackish green and white tones, which are used throughout most of the image. However, the most interesting area of this poster is the bottom black angular figures, which do not share a similar color tones. Its scale is the largest out of all other positive characters. The contrast between red blood and black body creates attracts attention from audiences. But the artist fail to make clearly point on whatever the figure is negative background or positive background. These confusions make it difficult for audiences to understand the main concept behind the artwork. These mistakes make the artwork has difficult time to communicate with audiences to make them understand its main concepts.

Motion in Graphic Design- Week 10

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This is a successful demonstration of Optical Art. Audiences will identify strong waves perception on this flat image. They will feel numerous waves that travels continuously between the left bottom corner of the image to the right top corner of the image. The author employs both the visual illusion and persistence of vision in order to carry out such effect. The visual illusion is used to create a illusion effect because of human perception that enable audiences to see the “imaginary wave movement”. Even though that there are no real wave movement on the image, the carefully arranges of colors and patterns produce the illusion of continuous waves that travel across the image. The designer also arrange colors and patterns to produce a two triangles that points to both the left bottom corner as well as the top right corner to have a directional movement. This result waves to travel continuously straight within these two points.

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This is an successful example that demonstrate the movement of energy. Although the woman stands on the flat floor, it seems that she sinks into the whirlpool. The artist employs the thickness of lines to express the energy within the movement. The season that cause the woman to sink into the whirlpool is the thickness of line. The outer lines of the whirlpool are thinner. The inner lines of the whirlpool are much thinker and have smaller distance between each other.  This technique cause the visual illusion within the audiences. The flow of energy creates a movement within the whirlpool that makes it to appear to continue to flowing into the center circle that have unpredictable depth. The energy become larger as lines become busy and complex, The energy is largest at the bottom center since it have the thickset lines out of the entire whirlpool. These techniques enable the artist to produce a visual illusion effect that enables the audiences to visualize the circular movement of the whirlpool within a flat image artwork.

Depth perception -Week 9

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This is a successful demonstration of depth/size cue poster. The artist emphasizes the enormous size of the main character, Hulk, through comparing him with the objects that we are familiar such as building and vehicles. The overlapping of the main character over the white buildings and vehicle creates a relative scale between the Hulk and the buildings. Since Hulk is larger than both the buildings and the vehicle, the enormous size of Hulk become more easily for the audience to understand and to believe in. The artist farther emphasizes the strength of the main character through placing it before all other objects to create the atmosphere that the main character is standing in front of  audiences. The details within the Hulk, such as textures, farther emphasis his giantess and closeness to the audiences. The blur details of farther objects, such as buildings and ships also create the feeling of a three dimensional world instead of flat image that make the overall artwork more interesting and realistic.  There is also an overlapping area on the left arm of Hulk arm and the white houses, which can prove that Hulk is closer to the audiences than these white houses. The helicopter is another scales to farther emphasis the three dimensional space. The scale between the larger helicopter and the smaller helicopters create a feeling of depth as the size of the helicopters become smaller as they are farther away. The closer one would be larger than the ones that are farther away in order to create the unlimited extensions of depth to make the artwork become more realistic and believable.

tone and color-week 8

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This artwork represents a colorful poster on the majority part of this image. There are lots of tonal information within this poster. The foliage part on the tree is cold tone. The artist uses different tones of the green color and yellow color to represent the foliage.  The trunk of the tree is illustrated through combining of different tones of the color brown and lines. The different tones of the yellow visualizes the reflection lights of the trunk, while the lines provide unique textures to different part of the trunk. The artists employees warm tones such as orange color and brown color to incorporate words with the trunk above them. The warn tone of orange color and white color at the bottom of the image also establishes a sense of warm and fresh mood. Fresh and bright color symbolizes the vitality of the designer. The artist emphasis the bright tones in order to bring the foliage out of the image. However, the shadow is also an important tone on this image. It enables the image to be seen as a three dimensional images instead of dull and normal flat image. The artist employees line element and dot element to represent this image. The most interesting part in this picture is that dots are made by lines.

There are enormous color usages within this image.  The artist uses enormous saturation color to represent the fresh tree. The designer carefully chooses color usages to incorporate objects as one central concept while arrange them to form strong contrast with each other. One of examples is that the artist places yellow trunks within the large green brushes to emphasis their existence. It also enables the liveness within the trees due to the numerous extensions of the trunks. The color brown and the color green are highly contrast at the first glance in order to establish the feeling of brush and trunk. However, due to their closeness within the color table, these colors also create a unite feeling within the entire foliage.

The shapes of foliage is very interesting especially the shapes within the brushes. The brush shapes create an feeling of liveness due to extensions of the brushes from the trunk.

basic element - week 7

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This artwork represents a successfully poster that persuade its viewers. The majority parts of this image are constructed by the tone element. The gray tones that are presented throughout the entire poster to emphasis the feeling of sadness and helpless in the life of this child. The feeling of sadness are enforced through the contrasting of firearm and the seriousness of the child and his age. The artist presents the seriousness through applying heavier dark tones on the face to represent the heaviness hardship that this child encounters. This poster emphasized the hardship using gray tone as negative background while using light dark red on the positive to empowers the concept of infant sadness. The artist uses different colors to separate the word, infantry, to reveal the sadness behind the child infantry. The white color tone is used to separate the word, infant, from the rest of the word to represent that infant are born to be innocent. The black color tone is used to separate the word, ry, from the rest of the word to represent that darkness within human races force these innocent infants to become dangerous infantries. The red background represents blood that spread while these child soldiers eliminate life of others. These techniques successfully construct an overall sadness while powerful concept to viewers of infants who are used as weapons to eliminate others.  The most important for designing a poster is to make the viewers understand the concept of it through the first glance.

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There are enormous color elements usages within this image. The artist uses fresh and bright color to contrast with each other, which enforces each  shapes to stand out from each other. These techniques enable the image to pop out from the poster. However, the author also uses contrast color to  emphasis the shape of the main character in this image.  Blue and yellow are contrasting color so people would focus on the Snow White more than other seven dwarfs due to the hight contrast between these two colors. The saturation of the positive characters is stronger than negative background so viewer would focus on the positive characters. Colorful images present an feeling of warmness and happiness, which will attract many viewers such as child. Most of colors on the children’s book are fresh and light to emphasis the feeling of happiness and warmness to comfort and care to their readers, especially child.

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The artist use gray lines heavily to construct the basic body shapes of each individual characters. The gray lines are used to make body shape enclosures while position them correctly into their proper locations. The blue, red line is the iterative process, giving more detail to the exist body shapes of each individual characters. They also represents light directions, which helps the artist to place shadows and colors more correctly. The important part of design and sketch process is to position each element correctly, such as characters, backgrounds, lightings, and actions. These design successfully accomplish these important goals, which helps the artist to have strong foundation for a successful work. 

good and bad design -week 6

This poster demonstrate a design that successfully present its goal to its target audiences. Print advertisement designer focuses on present an idea to audiences with symbols that empower original ideas into powerful statement. The artist of this picture presents a balanced but sharpen structure through contrast. Even though that most of poster presents negative area, such as the blue background, but the color of the positive symbol, the white pigeon, successfully sharpen the ideas of this poster. The white pigeon that flies upward and the enlarged word “Peace” balances the poster and makes it to have a sense of level. It uses other color such as green in symbol, the green leaf, with the word to tight the balance. Three colors that are chose for these image also presents similar idea, the peace and softness. These techniques build an idea of Peace into a powerful and sharp idea that have great impacts on its listeners.

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This poster presents an unsuccessful attempts to present the point to its audience. Major design mistakes that print advertisement designers make is fail to help audiences to understand and accept the point. One of mistakes that this image presents is fail to sharp out the main idea. There are too many overlapping areas that make the main idea, which is the football player, difficult to see.  It is a stress on the middle of this poster.  It looks so busy and too much detail on it. The contrast of colors between the negative background, which is the mixture of gray, violet and orange, and the positive symbol, which is the white football player, is difficult to distinguish. The orange color of the negative background is sharpen than the white color of the positive symbol. The first moment that audiences view this poster, the orange background will be the first sight instead of the football player. These techniques fail to attract audiences to understand and accept the target point of this poster, since ideas are neither clear nor strong enough to be understand and accepted.

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