P1 Craft Assignment

This composition is composed of different line weights and feel. The shallow depth of the photograph changes the physical properties of the lines from a positive solid shape to a gaseous one.

The light and silhouette of the paper gives this photograph a oasis feeling. I read it as looking up a large dune and seeing a structure of some kind. Has a grandiose quality to the object.

P1 F/G, Grid, Message, Craft Observation

The book cover for "The Black Swan" is a great example of figure/ground relationship. The duality of the origami swans unite the black and white, and provide a visual bridge throughout the composition.

The dvd "Burn after reading" is a good example of grid. The grid is obviously still intact but pushed to create a interesting, chaotic relationship between the characters.

A classic example of message in a composition is the dvd cover design for "Me, Myself and Irene." The split personality is easily discernible from the composition.

This dvd cover design is for the "The Evil Dead" trilogy. The cover is a soft highly textured replica of a tome from the movie.

P1 Composition Assignment

Composition is the backbone, the structure of everything. It is usually not noticed upon casual glance. A good composition is usually taken for granted by most people. A bad composition will be noticed by everyone. In my own work I find myself jumping into details to quick and leaving an incomplete composition sometimes. the original composition assignment took the actual physical creation out of my hands so I could only concentrate on the composition. I think I also over think things and when my work succeeds I work intuitively and quickly, I am going to try and push this during the duration of this semester.

The horizontal composition reinvestigates the problems of illustrating the emotion. I reused the idea of un-sustainablity by destroying the of the regular, modular words. This time the white spaces above and below provide a tension and pressure to the letterforms.

P1 Color Assignment

The most frustrating thing about this project was the use of colored pencils. The medium didn't allow for any careless strokes. Using the complementary colors of purple and yellow proved difficult as well because of the enormous value difference between the two hues. Other complementaries don't quite have this problem. As a result the purple had to be extremely tinted to create a 0 value color contrast. One rewarding thing about this project was the satisfaction of having the colors vibrate against one another.

P1 Color Observation

This assignment really made me look hard at my immediate surroundings. Color and color combinations were every where. I didn't have to leave my house to get these images.

It seemed that most of the complementary color combinations were red/green. I didn't find many examples of orange/blue. The desaturated purple with the yellow  gray walls I feel is the most intriguing of the group.

The analogous color combinations where more prevalent because I feel the it is human nature to bunch like colors together. People I think shy away from using other color schemes because they feel it is to daunting of a task.