digital imagery

I created this image on photoshop and wanted to use it within my developments for this project but am still unsure as whether or not to include colour. On one hand  I feel the overall composition of the image is good but the lack of colour or contrast from the black and white deems it boring. However, the idea of using colour within the image isn't sitting well as I like how it looks. I recorded parts of the conversation the two people I was drawing were having as I wanted to capture the expressions of the conversation and the level of intimacy between the two's speech as this is an indicator of how close and how dependant one is of the other to respond.

interaction imagery continued

I developed an image I drew earlier during the project in attempt to look at the simplicity of the colours I could use throughout the rest of my image development. I think the linework and the extent of colours used throughout the individual images above is effective, however I don't think I will want to focus on such vibrant and abrasive collections of colours together. I do think that with the extent of my digital work for the project so far and the amount of digital work I aim to produce, this was a vital segment in attempting to produce something that I could analyse and use points to change my work further.

'interaction'

I want to go forward with this project and expand my thoughts and view on how I envision interaction and the qualities within the idea of it and which versions of interaction appeal objectively to me. I want to use and draw and develop the necessary images of interaction I capture and transfer them into images that I can develop. The platform I want to display my series of images on will be digital, so I want to venture more into digital forms of media and explore animating to a certain extent to transform the original drawing's I will create into the final outcomes. I think that focusing on the theme and exploring the differences and new forms of interaction that I haven't covered will be necessary, but I also want to focus on development and techniques of producing my collection of images.

04/15 - robots

A look at factory workers in Shanghai and how they interact- or actually how they don't. Some really interesting stuff about Apple and their maybe-kinda-sort of brainwashing. Most workers choose sleep over food.

04/15 - drawing sketchbook

   

Examples from my observational drawing sketchbook for my final major project, 'Interaction'.

04/15 - observational research, artist: charlotte ager

I looked at Ager's illustrations originally as I knew a focus within her work is observational studies and that that related to my project directly. The style in which her drawings are created is particularly unique and something that I haven't seen excessively before. The distinctive artistic style and the way Ager has represented the subjects she has studied is eye-catching and the areas in which detail is lacking is made up for in other areas, I am particularly interested in the composition of her illustrations and I am interested in experimenting similarly. I think that particularly because of the limited use of outlining mostly people but as well the surroundings within the illustrations, the illustrations themselves look considerably childlike and quick, which is a quality that I think works in Ager's favour as it is refreshing and doesn't require an intense focus on the details that are presented.

The colour palettes presented throughout a large quantity of her illustrations that I found on her blog are very limited and pastel like and I think that this is a redeeming and popular method of adding colour to illustrations, and I think that my work relates similarly to Ager's in this sense in a few ways.

final major project - test animation

I created the preliminary version of this animation from observing people in the high street and began to want to test out how I could be able to animate further the observational drawings I was creating. I began by scanning this drawing into photoshop and then adjusting the size of the image. I maintained a focus on 3 simple frames sequenced at 0.5 seconds apart from one another and began to re draw sections of the original observational drawing that I wanted to showcase the movement of the people I drew. I think the overall result and the length at which the animation took to complete is substantially sufficient but for further animations I want to focus on a closer relation to the original drawings and manipulating the movements, especially to capture the exact likeness of the original drawing and to create a more fluid animation.