28-7-14. My first post! Starting off with a truly inspiring quote.. Everything starts with an idea - Barnum et al. 2012.
29-7-14. Shot from Q1 Skypoint - Observation Deck, Surfers Paradise.
30-7-14. Studio session exercises.
31-7-14. Skull sketch. Whilst learning about illustration this week, I gave sketching a skull a go.
01-8-14. Blind self-portrait. It turned out to be much better than I expected.
02-8-14. View of Hobart's wharf from the Grand Chancellor Hotel whilst in Tasmania. It was one marvellous sight!
03-8-14. My Grandmother's birthday present. I decided to offer her something a bit more special this year. :)
04-8-14. Late-afternoon at the Gold Coast. As the sun slowly went down, beautiful colours in the sky started to emerge.
04-8-14. Originally was a selfie taken in a dark room, but then after adding a greyscale effect was when I realised how much I loved this photo, shame the quality isn't as great though.
05-8-14. Self-portrait of me. (Was inspired by a selfie I took the other day).
06-8-14. Week 3's studio exercises!
07-8-14. A tree story told.. A very powerful image, it can illustrate to us a deep story about the life of some trees.
08-8-14. This time experimenting with Winsor & Newton indian ink on 300 gsm watercolour pages.
09-8-14. Having some fun with the sun.
10-8-14. Life under the water. A photo which features the monochromatics of blue. It also gives a nice calm feel to viewers. Taken at Sea World's Shark Bay underwater viewing.
11-8-14. A composition exercise featuring a combination of different patterns inspired by Charles Rahn Fry.
12-8-14. Playing around with preset textures on photohop.
12-8-14. During the week, the moon shined as bright as a diamond. If only I had access to my dslr camera, I would've been able to produce a better composed photo through changing shutter speed and ISO settings.
13-8-14. A play with expression and identity. (With a fine-tip Sharpie marker).
14-8-14. Too beautiful to be true. Shot at the beach trying to achieve a nice natural midday lighting from the sun.
15-8-14. Interesting designed building with nice patterns of line, shape and colour.
16-8-14. Different textures rubbed over with a sanguine charcoal.
17-8-14. Experimentation of depth of field at the local park.
18-8-14. Finding perspectives on UQ buildings.
19-8-14. Action shot. Motion, direction and dynamics.
19-8-14. Laying the horizon at the man's eye level.
20-8-14. Sky, Horizon & Sea. Monochromatics of blue.
21-8-14. The water on the lower-half of the image looks like extremely thick blue paint. Great texture to the water!
22-8-14. Movement and motion of trees.
23-8-14. Repetitive colours, patterns, textures and direction.
24-8-14. Building dynamics which lead the eye to follow the curved lines..
25-8-14. Composed to lead eyes to the center of the image.
26-8-14. Walking home again witnessing a formation of clouds in the sky.
27-8-14. Colour theory with watercolours.
28-8-14. It caught my eye so I caught it. Interesting canvas design and colourful patterns
29-8-14. More colour theory. Combining pencil sketches with watercolour pencils.. Also tried to blend some of the colours with a damp brush.
30-8-14. Strong and vibrant colours! One of my favourite photos.
30-8-14. Monochromatic experimentation.
30-8-14. Primary and Secondary colours with their different shades ... Inspired by page 168 from our textbook.
31-8-14. Stones beneath shallow water. And the subtle reflection of trees bouncing off the surface of the water.
31-8-14. Rough textures!
01-9-14. More rough textures.
02-9-14. An accidental photo which turned out to be a very interesting one.
03-9-14. One morning on a bus to uni. Taken with phone camera focusing directly on the raindrops.
04-9-14. Blooming season. Taken at Brisbane Botanical Gardens.
05-9-14. Focusing on its particles.
05-9-14. Again, playing with depth of field.
07-9-14. The element of Line is dominant in the this image.
08-9-14.
09-9-14. The roots on this tree I thought were very interesting.
10-9-14. Brisbane city..
10-9-14. A portrait taken during a lighting exercise in our studio session this week by my fellow student, Jessica. Later that day I made small adjustments through Photoshop, removing the glare found on the lens of my glasses that we had problems with during the shooting.
11-9-14. Couldn't resist. Taken on phone-camera while walking home in the evening.
12-9-14. During the weekend, I experimented with lighting inside a dark club. A friend turned on his camera light while I photographed with another light. By doing this made the bottles stand out more from the dark.
12-9-14. Very interesting layout of fallen trees I had found in Gympie.
13-9-14. Photography exercise involving shooting an obect from different angles.
13-9-14. Finding symmetry in Brisbane. Shot at Cultural Centre Station Busway.
14-9-14. The Brisbane Ferris Wheel behind the foreground of trees. It makes the wheel seem hidden like treasure.
14-9-14. The sunlight created an amazing reflection of the trees above from creek water.
14-9-14. First time seeing this whilst walking to QUT's Garden's Point Campus. The texture of timber planks showed a range of contrast and created motion which makes our eyes flow through the desgn.
15-9-14. Repetition of tree designs with crete paper with repeating greens.
16-9-14. Practice of landscape photography whilst at a birthday party at a park.
17-9-14. Taken during a late-afternoon sun showing a mixture of warm and cool colours.
18-9-14. Moment captured.
18-9-14. Lighting exercise with my Nikon dslr.
19-9-14. A growing lemon getting its daily sunlight.
20-9-14. A cool experiment I tried on my smartphone camera where I placed my fingers over the top and bottom edges of the camera lenses (without touching the lens) to produce vibrance in this photograph.
21-9-14. More practicing with aperture + ISOs.
21-9-14. Reflection.
Over the past 8 or so weeks, I have collected a series of images which reflects my creative progress in KIB120. I have grown as a design student to find new perspectives on ideas and to think 'outside the box’. As this assignment requires students to take part of documenting daily exercises it made us build our confidence and style in our own work. As designers we should be unique and be able to produce our own materials to work with. By being independent the discovery of our work by others will be much noticeable through its uniqueness as audiences do notice the things that have not yet been discovered.
Illustration and working with physical utilities is my strongest point in my design discipline. In the past I have been familiarised with pencils and their different weights, from the lighter HB to the heavier 6B pencils, charcoals, pens, and fine-top ink markers. However working with paints/inks is not my strong point. But through the weeks of different experimentations, I am quickly learning how to use these different mediums through constant use and additional research.
I am not very experienced with digital illustrating programs such as Adobe Illustrator but I know the capabilities and functionality of Photoshop. Regards to to these applications and my Behance profile, I think I could have shown images which showed more experiments with Illustrator by even creating small designs. This goes for typography as well, I need/should have added different fonts to show that I do have knowledge about typefaces and their relativity to an image.
Colour plays a huge part of my life and is what attracts my eyes the most in photos. I have uploaded a series of photos which showcase some of the colour theory which was studied in the weeks of this unit. Touching on primary, secondary, complimentary and monochromatic colours, I was not able to include some examples of colour schemes such as the triadic, analogous and tertiary colours to my Behance. Though I do understand these concepts, just by showing an image which practiced one of each would support my knowledge on colour theory.
In the early weeks of this unit, I had been taking photos with my mobile camera, which was not too bad until I learnt about the capabilities of the dslr camera and its advanced functionality for shooting photos. I then made the decision to purchase a dslr camera to assist me in studying, not this unit just for this unit but also for the units to come during my study. I have learnt an extensive amount of knowledge on the use of these cameras through the weekly lectures, in-class studio exercises demonstrated by my tutor, from online resources and of course the daily image exercises/experimentations.
With the photos I have taken, I have composed more centralised images approach than using procedures such as the Rule of Thirds and the Fibonacci Ratio. This might be because I got carried away by the ‘interesting everyday photos’. Personally I believe to find balance and symmetry more appealing and is something that I like to see. But as a designer designing for a client/s, I must be able to adapt and understand their needs and not just produce something to my needs.
After uploading my last image, I have been very proud of myself and the achieved effort put in the 9 weeks of image collecting. But going through the lot, I felt I could contribute and showcase more experiments of mediums which I have not shown/not comfortable with and to step outside my comfort zone. I think I was ‘playing too safe’ for this assignment. Although I am the type of person who likes and prefers to showcase only my best works. to the weekly themes rather than photography simply 'what looks interesting to me' but having a photo which relates directly to the weekly themes/tasks.
Overall, this is one of my favourite assignments ever through my student life. The tasks really do get you to be more consistant and more engaged with the assignment, it's very hands on whilst making us creatively think each day so our experience and knowledge becomes more firm with design principles and elements. So as designers creating aesthetically pleasing visuals for audiences, we must explore and see things from a different perspective.
Bibliography:
Barnum, A., Haddock, S., Hicks, A., & Oppen, F. (2012). Graphic Design: Australian Style Manual. North Ryde: McGraw-Hill Australia.
Male, A. (2007). Illustration: a theoretical & contextual perspective. Lausanne: AVA Academia.
