Scientific Illustration - Week 2 Day 1: Melting candle
Reasoning: I was motivated to draw a melting candle because I was interested in the time it takes the candle to melt from a solid form into a liquid, then solidify quickly into a dynamic shape.
Inspiration: The softness of a candle in the dark has inspired me to draw with pencil, which is a medium that can create sharpness and softness.
Technique: Drawing with a 4B pencil
Process: I have done this by blending the different shades a lighted candle possesses. A paper stump and a rubber has also helped me achieve this shading.
how did you make it? did you have any special set up? lighting? special tools?
Reflection: The use of a 4B pencil and a paper stump has helped me create softness in the candle's form, however I wanted to create more darker shades to enhance the candle light. Furthermore, it was challenging to erase out previous lines and blend out lines without smudging the image. By the end of the creation of this image, it looked softer and untidier than I wanted it to be because I didn’t use a combination of other pencil such as 8B and 2B, and a clean eraser.
Scientific Illustration - Week 2 Day 2: Decomposing Leaf
Reasoning: I am interested in the way a leaf decomposes over time.
Inspiration: The challenge of smudging the image in the previous illustration has influence in the creation of the leaves.
Technique: I used 2B and 4B pencil lead shavings and eraser to create shadows and smooth lines.
Process: In the process of making a accurate representation of the leaces I shaded the shape and then used an eraser to help create smoother lines and a form without a hard line around the image. However I had to draw a hard line around the crumpled leaf because I wanted to show the brittleness of the edges and its deterioration
Reflection: I enjoying smudging the lead to create contrast and softness, but it got messy. I did this because shading with a pencil sometimes leaves lines, and if you use the shavings of a lead it looks more natural and smoother.
Scientific Illustration - Week 2 Day 3: Matchsticks
Reasoning: I wanted to draw match sticks because I was inspired by the melting candle. In the process of lighting a candle, a matchstick was used. It's fire takes up the stick quickly. I always feared match sticks (fires) when I was young, to be able to depict it in it stages resembles this idea of a ticking time bomb in my eyes when I was younger.
Inspiration: I was influenced to create an image with dots to shade from the texture of the oranges bumpy surface.
Technique: I used a fine point pen to create the drawing.
Process: Pen was used in a way that creates shade through a technique called stippling.
Reflection: The technique was successful in creating different shadows and texture the match stick had in each stage to its disintergration, I enjoyed it. However it gets tiring after a few times trying to create shadows.
Scientific Illustration - Week 2 Day 4: Highschool Graduation Memorabilia
Reasoning: The teddy bear is a item that symbolises a time and significant event in the past, it reminds me of the time I was happy, sad and nervous all at once; unknown of the future. Three years I look at it as motivation for the future.
Inspiration: I was inspired to draw the teddy bear in a way that captures its rough texture and weariness through the years of its abandonement.
Technique: Used a 0.4 and 1.0 pen
Process: I used cross-hatching to create the image with pen to depict the canvas teddy bear's texture. A combination of 0.4 and 1.0 fine point pen help me achieve the shade and form of the memorabilia.
Reflection: I predominantly used 0.4 fine point pen to create the shadows and the 1.0 pen helped with creating more darker shades. Cross-hatching is very messy but sucessful in creating a texture look rough fabric.
Scientific Ilustration- Week 2 Day 5 : Tree
Reasoning: I was motivated to draw a decidious tree because it portrays the passage of time in its seasons.
Inspiration: I was influenced to recreate the dying tree at work that I have watched over time.
Technique: Pen, pencil and Colouring pencils
Process: Different drawing tools with use of sketching and shading was used to create the image. The pen was used to create the clean lines of the brances and the pencil helped create the leaves, which is the softest part of the tree. Colouring pencil were used to create tone and obviously, add colour to the image.
Reflection: Overall, the image was less than ideal. The leaves turned out to be untidy and less scientifically illustrated as expected. This is due to the different shading direction I used such as going diagonally, horizontally etc. However I enjoyed drawing the form of the tree, as it captures its natural form.
Photo Journalism/ Storytelling- Week 3 Day 6: Dining In
Reasoning: I was motivated by the idea of time in the dining room.
Inspiration: Through time, the dining room is the place were there are countless get togethers and memories. Eating in the room is timeless and a tradition within most families. I want to capture the warm feeling and time passing by as we sit.
Technique: DSLR camera
Process: Moving the camera to the left with a slow shuttter speed
Reflection: I enjoyed using a camera and making line drawings to capture motion. The dining table is not visible due to the room I have. To make the image better there, I should of took a photo of the people eating or plates set out to further enhance the concept of dinner time.
Photojournalism / Photostorytelling - Week 3 Day 7: Hour Glass
Reasoning: I wanted to take an abstract approach to the idea of hour glass. The first image was based on the idea of time having many perceptions and angles, the reality (time) is distorted. The second image is based on passing time and wanting to reach a certain goal/time.
Inspiration: An hour glass is a symbol of time.
Technique: DSLR camera and glass, took a photo in a glass pointing at a scenery
Process: Using glass helps distort and create a pattern which is organic.
Reflection: It is interesting and fun to play around with distorting an image through a house item. I dislike the darkness in the photo, I should test more with the sun light. In these images it crated a glare and did not capture scecnery I am poiting at.
Photojournalism/Photostorytelling - Week 3 Day 8: Game Time
Motivation: Watching a soccer game that goes for 90 minutes is intense when no one has scored.
Inspiration: I am passing time by watching the time it takes my brother to play. In this photo journalistic image I capture the different times, the time of day as it is sunsetting, the time of the game and the time I had to watch a soccer game in the cold inside the car.
Technique: DSLR camera
Process: I took advantage of the sunset and the clouds engulfing its shine.
Reflection: I don't like the dust I have capture in the photo when I was in the car. It was too cold to be outside (as my arms are shaking), so that does not help. The image captures a lot about time, and the sunset in the background adds a nice touch to the image. It successfully tells a story about a game without the need of a player.
Photojournalism/ Photostorytelling - Week 3 Day 9 : Bus Trip
Reasoning: The passage of time on the bus to and from university is long and tiring.
Inspiration: Watching the day go by as the sunsets, people drive home, as well people busing home.
Technique: DSLR camera with a low shutter speed and window
Technique: DSLR camera with a low shutter speed and window
Process: I used a low shutter speed, to capture the movement. I also used the windows of the bus, to capture the reflection of the inside and the scenery outside.
Reflection: Using the reflection allows me to capture two images at once, it shows what it feels to be inside and what feels to see the outside. It is a technique I enjoy because a lot of meaning can be depicted with the overlay of two images. Also this was unedited, in regards to the 2 images, which makes it raw and natural photo of the daily life in Brisbane.
Reflection: Using the reflection allows me to capture two images at once, it shows what it feels to be inside and what feels to see the outside. It is a technique I enjoy because a lot of meaning can be depicted with the overlay of two images. Also this was unedited, in regards to the 2 images, which makes it raw and natural photo of the daily life in Brisbane.
Photojournalism / Photostorytelling - Week 3 Day 10: Busy Buses
Reasoning: The passage of time from outside the bus, I can see the busyness and fast pacesness to get home.
Inspiration: I wanted to capture the movement of things passing time, and show how vehicles/technology has played a significant part of our lives.
Technique: DSLR camera, using a low shutter speed
Process: I used a camera to capture the movement through a low shutter speed and photoshop to clean blurry shots.
Reflection: Some of the images are blurry due to my shakiness fromo the cold. I dislike how blurred it is. However, to be able to capture light and movement of things is fun to do because you can depict its motion and feeling. It tells a story and records the busy city I live in and how time is fast forward because of the transport that is there for me.
Comic Strips and Graphic Novels - Week 4 Day 11 : Studio Work
Create a teapot and then create a teapot with emotions.
Teaches us to find ways to evoke a feeling without looking 'corny' (eg. emotive faces on man made things)
Comic Strips and Graphic Novels -Week 4 Day 12: One Drink They Said..
Reasoning: I wanted to make a simple story about that one friend who says 'just one drink' (alcohol), and over time they end up having more and passing out.
Inspiration: I was thinking about how alcohol requires time to be effective. Also I was inspired by idea instruction to create this minimalist comic strip.
Technique: Illustrator
Process: With illustrator, I wanted to use straight and simple shapes to evoke the story. Since it is a comical story about alcohol, there shouldn't be much detail and accuracy.
Reflection: I enjoyed using illustrator. Colouring in with live paint is a simple and easy tool, it helped a lot in the process of making the image. The comic strip can look too simple and lazily done. But it is suppose to be straightforward, as the story tells itself without text and through the formations of the squares, which encourages the audience to look at it from left to right.
Comic Strips and Graphic Novels - Week 3 Day 13 : Ball Motion
Reasoning: I was motivated to make this image because of the time and physics of a bouncing ball to stop moving, acccording to their characteristics etc.
Inspiration: The motion of the ball shows the time it takes to reach its lowest point. It is a comic strip in it self as it takes a journey of ball through its different stages. The identity of a ball depends on their qualities eg. bowling ball, beach ball etc.
Technique: Used a Pencil and photoshop
Process: Used pecnil to draw the images, then I darken those lines with photoshop to show more hardness on the circles
Reflection: The hardness and boldness of the ball doesn't capture the 'in motion' and 'springiness'. Maybe using softer and lines will give more of a 'bounce' feel. However I like how the ball movement is recorded in split second stages.
Comic Strips and Graphic Novels - Week 4 Day 14: Urban Development
Reasoning: I was motivated to depict the time through the years of a developed society. It shows the societies identity evolving and persuades the audience about our effect on the environment.
Inspiration: Over time, the population grows and globalisation is increasing. A land that was filled with wilderness is turned to houses full of the wild.
Technique: Sketching with pencil and photoshopping
Process: I firstly sketched the images, then scanned into photoshop to paint them. I only painted the tree and the city, to put more emphasis on the story and the difference between the two. The paint goes outside on the lines intentionally to create a soft feel and emotion in the trees.
Reflection: The selection of colour used in the images helped convey the message and enhance the story about natural verse urban environment. I wanted to create simple images, and the results are sucessful, however there are a few things I could improve on, such as sharpening some details to help the audience understand the narrative.
Comic Strips and Graphic Novels - Week 4 Day 15: Getting Ready to Sleep
Reasoning: Motivated to tell a story through simple and symbolic moments in the time of getting ready to go to uni
Inspiration: Icons, Signs and logos.
Technique: Illustrator
Process: I began with planning and then drawing what I wanted to depict each stage we get ready to go to university. Then I scanned the drawing into illustrator, and then outlined each drawing with the pen tool. Then used live paint to create shadows and bring the icons to life.
Reflection: The different blue colour shades create shadow and 3d effect. This was enjoyable as simple forms of which that can symbolises a stage in time, can tell a story . I like that there is no outline on the images because it highlights the shape and colour and makes it look more clean.
