Week 1 - Inspiration
The above image is my Inspiration Image retrieved from; http://wallpaperfolder.com/wallpapers/forest+path
l am drawn to images of nature, this image I feel portrays a mood and a subtle story and creates intrigue. I ask myself when looking at this image, where is it? There is a sign to the left which implies a cross road and a path ahead. This image to me could communicate the circumstance of being at a hypothetical cross-roads in life. The saturation of the image looks subdued to potentially communicate a dreamlike state of mind. I am interested throughout my image making exploration capture nature/ objects and convey an emotion, mood or story.
Week 2 - Image as Documentation
Title: Basil Growth I
Technique: Still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone + digital Manipulation
Process: Basil Growth I, II & III was illustrated using 0.4mm Ink pen and Coloured Pencils. The illustration was captured with an IPhone and the white levels were adjusted in Photoshop to make the background a crisp white to make the illustration stand out. The Basil plant growth was illustrated/ sketched over a period of 3 months. I illustrated the plant to capture primarily leaf growth and colour. When initially planted the Basil was not thriving, but did have some signs of young growth. This sketch does not capture the true physicality of the plant, but captures the living state/ health of the plant.
Reasoning: I have a Basil plant on my balcony, which I planted a few months back. The plant was not purchased from a greenhouse, nor was it in a soil pot. It was from a plastic sleeve in a Coles super market. After using several of the leaves, I thought I would try to grow the plant myself and see if it would actually survive if I placed it into the dirt of a pot on my balcony. I recorded the plant's growth with photographs initially. I then began sketching the plant as the subject of this project. I have captured the plant in 3 levels of growth over time.
Reflection: What has worked well for these still life/ artistic illustrations is that I feel I have successfully captured the notion that the plant was thriving and growing successfully. It started out with a small number of leaves and on the brink of completely wiling to them blossoming into a fruitful basil plant. I would have liked to have continued further documentation of the plant as it has now began to turn yellow. I think these colours would have been interesting to capture in a quick illustration to show various stages of growth/ decay of a basil plant.
Basil Growth II
Still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone + digital Manipulation
Process: Illustrated using 0.4mm Ink pen and Coloured pencils. Captured with IPhone and white levels adjusted in photoshop to enhance image from the background. Basil Growth II displays that the Basil is now growing. Again, I have captured leaf growth and the colour of the plant.
Basil Growth III
Still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone + digital Manipulation
Process: Illustrated using 0.4mm Ink pen and Coloured Pencils. The illustration was captured with an IPhone and white levels were adjusted in Photoshop to make illustration stand out from background. The plant is now maturing as leaf growth and colour has been recorded.
Redcliffe Jetty 5:15pm
Still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Process: Illustrated using lead Pacer, coloured pencils and chalk pastals. Sketching quickly to capture the changing levels of sun light/ sky colour at sunset.
Reasoning: I often go driving to Redcliffe jetty to walk along the esplanade. I decided to take my illustrating tools and document something that intrigued me when I arrived. I decided to sketch the Jetty as I walked past it. It is beautiful and almost touches the horizon from where I was looking at it. My aim was to capture the essence of the jetty in that moment by quickly sketching its form and colours.
Reflection: I did not have to much light at the time to complete my illustration. I realised when bringing the drawing back home and in in a brighter light that I did not quite express the Jetty as neatly as I had anticipated. I used soft pastels primarily, I would have liked a more pigmented white pastel to illustrate particular features of the jetty. The railings of the jetty are painted white, but here I have used black to create a sense of their form.
Redcliffe Jetty 5:50pm
Still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Process: Illustrated using lead Pacer, coloured pencils, chalk pastels, acrylic paint. Captured at sunset quickly sketching to capture changing levels of sunlight and colour at sun set.
Reasoning: Walking back from the opposite direction of the esplanade I realised that the Lights had now come on and the Jetty was bright and its railings were almost glowing. I attempted to capture this bright/ glowing jetty. The background ocean and sky behind was a much dark blue/ grey behind a lit up jetty.
Reflection: I found it difficult to capture the white glow of the light poles on the jetty. After arriving back home from Redcliffe, I used some white acrylic to bring out the white of the lights. I feel this has brightened the image but was still somewhat difficult to capture the essence of the glowing bulbs.
Flower Documentation I
Scientific Illustration + still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Process: Still life Illustration using lead pencil, coloured pencil, 0.4mm ink pen.
Flower Documentation II
Scientific Illustration + still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Process: Still life Illustration using lead pencil, coloured pencil, 0.4mm ink pen, chalk pastels.
Flower Documentation III
Scientific Illustration + still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Process: Still life Illustration using lead pencil, coloured pencil, 0.4mm ink pen.
Flower Documentation IV
Scientific Illustration + still life gesture drawing - Captured with IPhone
Process: Still life Illustration using lead pencil, coloured pencil, 0.4mm ink pen.
Week 4 - Image As Storytelling
My Mothers Hands "Mother of 3, Maria, moves her hands quickly and skillfully to lay out the pasta. Maria loves nothing more than cooking traditional Italian meals from scratch for her family."
Iphone 6S Photography
Process: Image captured with Iphone and natural interior light. The location of the table is just infront of a door letting in natural midday sunlight, on a slightly cloudy day. The Iphone is positioned with the light coming from behind, and the subject matter positioned in front off the natural light. The hands are captured as being slightly blurred, as my mothers hands move quickly to adjust and lay out the feticcini.
Two Stone Hearts. "Love is two different hearts coming together and dwelling in the same place".
DSLR Photography - f/5.0 - 1/50sec - ISO200 - Flash:NA
Process: My own hand holding 2 small stone hearts, in natural undirect sunlight. Cloudy day.
Foot Prints. "Footprints on the beach are made and erased. How long until ongoing erosion erases the beach forever?"
Iphone 6S Photography + digital manipulation.
Process: Image captured at Brunswick heads NSW with IPhone mid-afternoon. Image is cropped to capture only footprints in the sand. Sunlight is coming from the left side of the camera direction.
The Fall . "Depression amongst university students is at an all time high. How do we help students from falling into this illness?"
Image of girl falling which I inserted into my photo is from ( http://indulgy.com/post/gjN0YjNnf3/neurosis-falling-girl-photography-black-whit )
Iphone 6S Photography + Digital manipulation + Collage
Process: Image captured of a Building facade. Direction of the camera is looking straight upwards to the sky, and capturing the vertical glass facade. Hue/ Saturation adjustments + Brightness/ contrast adjustment in Photoshop. The Falling figure was isolated and over layed into the image using PS.
Hand in the Sand "Sam was angry. She left her handprint in the sand at a windy beach. Sam said, "ill be angry for as long as my hand print remains in the sand."
Iphone 6S Photograph
Process: Image captured using an IPhone. Sand was manipulated using my hand and flattened out and then pressed my hand into the sand.
Week 5 - Image for Persuasion Identity
Awkward Bathroom Encounter.
Handsketch + IPhone capture.
Process: Hand sketches with pencil and ink pen where photographed and turned into image trace images in Illustrator. I then applied solid colour with illustrator pen tool. Arranging the comic in a linar story.
Reasoning: I was in the bathroom and overheard the following awkward conversation.
Reflection: For the purpose of this exercise, it was required that we create a 5 window comic strip. Unfortunately here there is only 4. I would have liked to have simplified the characters more, and use more consistency with their characteristics. The pupils of the mans eyes change is every window, which I would prefer to remain the same and work more with facial expressions of the characters. Creating more of a bathroom environment to set the scene as appose to bathroom stalls repeated.
I was not quite happy with the font of this comic, nor the speech/ thinking bubbles. A more simplified symbol might have been more appropriate here.
Week 6 - Lighting, Abstraction & Portraits
Relaxed Reading
Iphone 6S photography
Process: Image captured with IPhone using natural afternoon sunlight. Moderately cloudy weather. Light coming from the left of the camera and ambient light coming from in front.
Smoke Portrait I
DSLR Photography - f/5.6 - 1/60sec - ISO200 - Flash:NA.
Process: Image captured using Digital SLR, natural afternoon sun coming from the front right hand of the camera. Darker interior light to the left hand side.
Smoke Portrait II
DSLR Photography - f/5.6 - 1/100sec - ISO800 - Flash:NA
Process: Natural afternoon light coming from the back right hand corner of the camera, darker interior space behind subject.
Smoke Portrait III
DSLR Photography (f/5.6 - 1/60sec - ISO400 - FlashFIRED) + Digital manipulation.
Process: DSLR capture, natural light coming from the right hand side of camera, natural ambient light coming from behind. Dark interior space in the background, subject positioned in the foreground. Background of image made darker in PS to highlght subject and ciggarette smoke.
Roommate Portrait I
Iphone 6S photography.
Process: Subject portrait captured indoors. Natural interior light coming from screen door on the left hand side of camera, artificial orange light coming from the right hand side of camera. White sheet positioned directly behind Subject.
Roomate Portrait II
Iphone 6S Photography
Process: Image captured on an outside balcony. Natural undirect sunlight on the left hand side of the camera, dark interior space to the right. White sheet directly behind subject.
Roomate Portrait III
Iphone 6S Photography
Process: Interior shot. Natural sunlight from window coming from left and right of camera. Artifical Iphone torch light directly shining onto the subject from the front.
Sad Gaze
DSLR Photography (f/4.0 - 1/100 - ISO100 - Flash:NA).
Process: Natural sunlight coming from the front of camera, Subject positioned slightly to the left and in between camera and light source. Dark interior space behind camera.
Week 7 - Ethics, Image, Design & Textures
Brick Texture
DSLR Photography ( f/5.6 - 1/85sec - ISO100 - Flash:NA) + digital manipulation.
Process: Captured with cloudy afternoon sun. Camera focused on brick wall in the foreground. Blurred background's colour saturation was subdued in PS to highlight the colour and texture of the bricks.
Mirrored Tree and Moon
IPhone 6S Photography + digital manipulation.
IPhone 6S Photography + digital manipulation.
Process: Image captured using natural interior light from a nearby window. Ps brightness/contrast adjustment. Smaller section of canvas mirrored 3 times and the resultant image tiled.
Layered Hands
Iphone 6S Photography + Digital Manipulation.
Process: Photograph of hand in front of a white wall with an artificial lamp and natural window light on a sunny afternoon. PS mirroring, and isolating the mirrored hands from the background, copy and paste, transform and positioning the mirror hands in a grotesque flower arrangment.
Grotesque Hands
Iphone 6S Photography + Digital Manipulation
Process: Photograph of hand in front of a white wall with an artificial lamp and natural window light on a sunny afternoon. PS mirroring a hand image twice and then copy and pasting the image 3 times into a horizontal 3-frame arragement.
Spider Hands Pattern
IPhone 6S Photography + Digital Manipulation.
Process: Photograph of hand in front of a white wall. PS mirroring, and isolating the mirrored hands from the background, copy and paste. Outline of mirrored hands traced and silloette created in white from a solid black background. Image opened in Illustrator and copied to form a tiled pattern.
Rocks
DSLR Photography ( f/5.0 - 1/250sec - ISO100 - Flash:NA).
Process: Image captured outside on an overcast afternoon. Capturing close up texture of garden boulders.
Compiled Lines
DSLR Photography + Digital Manipulation.
Process: Pre-existing ink pen line drawings photographed with DSLR. B/W Image trace in Illustrator. Imaged collaged in photoshop and created at PNG transparent images.
Leaf Pattern Cutout
Drawing+ Stencil cutout+ Iphone 6S Photography + Digital Manipulation.
Process: Hand drawn abstract leaf, sells of lead cut with pen knife. Leaf photographed with direct overhead artificial light to create contrasting shadows on a flat table surface. Image trace applied in Illustrator (WINDOW 1). Leaf manually manipulated and rolled and captured on iphone with shadows from direct overhead artificial light source. Image trace applied in Illustrator. Both images placed side by side in PS and cropped.
Ice
Iphone 6S Photography.
Process: Image taken from Hail storm at the end of 2015 in Taringa, Brisbane. Natural sunlight, overcast afternoon. Hail is in place, untouched where it fell on a sidewalk.
CD Cover I
IPhone 6S + DSLR (f/5.6 - 1/100sec - ISO100 - Flash:NA) + Digital Manipulation.
Process: Stair case image captured in apartment building - overcast afternoon - natural light from the window only creating a spooky and dark interior stairwell. Canvas painting "Mirrored Tree & Moon" Hue/ Saturation manipulated to alter colour to a more autumn hue. Canvas painting cut and pasted into window. Leaf Pattern Cut Out isolated from background and pasted with 70% transparency. Text Applied in Illustrator.
CD Cover II
IPhone 6S + Digital Manipulation.
Leaf Cut out Isolated and applied to a peach pink background in PS. Text applied with Illustrator.
Week 8 - Brave New Worlds
Buggy
DSLR Photography ( f/5.6 - 1/125sec - ISO100 - Flash:NA).
Process: Overcast Afternoon. Natural light from the right of the camera.
Peaceful Pup
IPhone 6S Photography
Process: Minature dog figurine approx 6cm long. Placed onto a mug coaster that looks like a rug. Props inc dog bowls made from modelling clay. Natural light source left hand side of camera - window.
Homeless Pup
IPhone 6S Photography + Digital Manipulation.
Process: Photograph taken in garage with natural sunlight from the left hand side. Photograph hue/saturation manipulated in PS. Props: small chicken wire scroll to left, shredded paper and tisssue paper to create minature garbage bags.
Ducks
DSLR Photography ( f/5.6 - 1/60sec - ISO640 - Flash:NA)
Process: Duck figurines, placed into table with a rippled texture that makes it resemble water. Soil and leaves from a basil plant used in the background to mimic the edge of the pond. Wooden ducks are approximately 4cm long. Overcast natural afternoon sunlight.
Cigarette & Ash
DSLR Photography ( f/5.6 - 1/125 - ISO100 - Flash:NA) + Digital manipulation.
Process: Afternoon natural light, shaded area, light coming from the front of camera. Camera pointed downward into ash tray. The red sticker at the base of the ash tray was turned to B/W in PS. Ciggarette retains its hue.
