Design Principles // Project 1: Self Portrait
Caitlyn Aurelia Tjandra (0339381)/BDCM
Design Principles
Project 1 - Self Portrait
Design Principles
Project 1 - Self Portrait
Lecture
Week 7 (10/10/20):
Ms. Jiinchi briefed us on this assignments and gave us a video about self portrait. I watch both of them and The one that caught my attention was video called how the artist explores self-identity?. Modern Art helps us understand not only the artist but ourselves too.
1. 1929 Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
Rivera was known for his murals and Frida was known for his wife. Frida is a Mexican artist remembered by her unique self-portraits. We could see that her drawing relates to her personal life experiences. Her physical and emotional pain are depicted starkly on canvases, as is her turbulent relationship with her husband, who she married twice.
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| Fig 1.0 Frida Kahlo Self Potrait With Cropped Hair |
This Painting was painted by Frida when she divorced her husband Diego Rivera. For me this is her symbolism of freedom, how she is not tied to her life with her husband. Since you can see the hair scattered around the ground and shears were held in her hand stated that she herself cut her own hair.
2. Runaways 1993 Glenn Ligon
Born and raised in the Bronx, Glenn Ligon grew up taking art classes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art while learning about identity politics through the racism and discrimination toward homosexuality that he encountered in New York. He combines this formal art education and complex personal history to create emotionally charged works that convey challenging messages. |
| Fig 1.1 Runaways |
Ligon asked friends to write descriptions of him as if they were reporting a missing person to the police. He then rendered the text in typography that mimicked the original ads and paired them with drawings from newspapers and anti-slavery pamphlets of the time. Ligon was surprised to find that the descriptions his friends wrote were similar to those from the slave ads. Critics have also commented on how the texts read like accounts of criminal suspects, perhaps a critique of racial profiling by law enforcement.
Instruction
Research
Moodboard
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| Fig 2.0 Mindmap |
Who am I? This question has left a deep meaning to myself. I never really explore myself that much since I was focused on my surroundings. When I was assign in this project, I talked to myself who I really am? what do I like? what is my hobbies. a lot of things comes crossing my mind and I compiled them into a moodboard.
My moodbaord has four seperate sections:
1. Personality
I am a Leo since I was born in 10th August, when you are looking at a leo people said that they are passionate, enthusiastic, loyal and leadership. However, the ironic thing is, my MBTI personality has some contradiction of it. According to MBTI, I have an INFJ personality which is an advocate. INFJ is introverted, intuitive, feelings and judging.
2. Hobbies/Interest
My hobbies is ofcourse designing something. However, I also have other interest that people around me knows which is literatures. I love reading books, creative writing and especially poems. Poetry has been my alternative way of expressing myself. As an introvert it is hard to convey myself to others. Poem is my freedom and it tells a story about myself. Therefore, I definitely want to incorporate this to my work.
3. Concept
I definitely like conceptual design. I like the design that has a meaningful image that's relatable to others and myself. I definitely want my design to have relation to my poem which helps evoke the sense of myself.
4. Art Style
for this project I wanted to have a simple, minimalist and flat style. As shown in the reference, I want my style to be similar as vector. I want it to be a flat Illustration.
Reference
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| Fig 2.1 Reference 1 |
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| Fig 2.2 Reference 2 |
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| Fig 2.3 reference 3 |
Exploration
Sketches
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| Fig 3.0 Sketch 1 |
This one is based on the concept of duality. How the head is a mask and you can change it. The longvhair is me in the present and the head on my hand is me in the past. The facial expressions could tell how me in the present is smiling while me in the past has a straight face.
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| Fig 3.1 Sketch 2 |
For this one i wanted to potray how i felt lost within myself. I tend to overthink and sometimes i felt trapped in my own self like a maze and I can't get out. This actually correlates to a poem that i wrote back in high school.
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| Fig 3.2 Sketch 3 |
I play around and added the colour and background. I use a simple two-color contrast. I use pink to portray my infj personality. As pink represent sensitivity and intuitive which reflects my INFJ personality. I also made my eyes black to represent hollow and further convey the feeling of lost and confinement.
Sketch Revised
Application
Colour and Background
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| Fig 4.0 draft 1 |
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| Fig 4.1 draft 2 |
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| Fig 4.2 Draft 3 |
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| Fig 4.3 draft 4 |
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| Fig 4.4 draft 5 |
Final Chosen
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| Fig 4.5 chosen draft |
Rationale:
This is my eventual outcome. This artwork reflects my true personality. I did a portrait of myself with the head sliced and replace it with maze. This is because I consistently used my head and speculate about everything. I always overthink about inconsequential matters, and this could be a positive and negative outcome. By overthinking sometimes I recognized something others don’t, however, since I’ll be thinking about it all day it made me mentally exhausted.
You can see a small person in a green hood in the middle of the maze. This represents myself becoming lost within myself. This is likewise why I made my eyes black to give a sense of hollow and lost. Since I am a particularly close person, I never literally open up to anyone but my close friends and my mom. I presented the original poem behind me, which has the meaning of the artwork. My Artwork consist of Emphasis, and contrasting principles. The contrast of the hollow black eyes with other background colours elps creat an impact on the eyes. I also did a small Emphasation on the small me in the maze by using white as a glow.
Final Outcome
Maze
Its all a maze
I been stuck for days
Lead me to the sky
Save me from my cry
Every Step I take
lead me to the end
Please Grab my hand
Before I die
Game over, I wish I could sleep
Drowning in the ocean deep
Every breath I take
Left me here awake
Faces of the clock turn midnight
I've gone lost and needed my knight
Exhausted from all the lies
Just let me close my eyes
-Koriandr
Koriandr is my pen name. Pen name is similar to stage name. It is named when you make poem/stories and you don't want to use your real name. This poem is one of the poem I wrote back in highschool and I felt that I could relate to this even now. This was written in my old dark days when I felt lost and stuck within an infinite maze. The poem starts out with me stuck in a maze for several days. No matter how many step I take it would always lead me to the same result which is a dead end. I wanted someone to reach out to me and save me before I went insane. There were times where your friends would reach out to you and say that they would be there for you anytime. But that was all a just small talk. Therefore , I usually stay up all night wondering to myself. I would think " then, who is my real friend?". This is my personality, I would overthink about everything and that makes me lost.
Reflection
Experience: Honestly, this was quite personal to me. My design reflect my self in the past and I still feel like that sometimes now. It was fun being able to incorporate meaning ful poem to my design. Poem is my life. it is message that I cannot convey.
Observation: I observe that I dont really ask myself about myself. I am a person that put others need first than myself. I also observe that a lot of my friends seemed to be confused baout themselves too which tells me that it is normal to be lost and you're not alone.
Findings: I find that during this time,I was pretty much out of ideas juice. I wanted to be able to create a good masterpiece however I was pretty sad that my brain has stop me to do so.
Feedback
- You dont need to have the maze pattern background because it is already clearly shown
- move the slized maze into your head
- make the poem in the background to fill in the white space in the back
Week 10
Research: Good to see a mini mindmap-moodboard that gathers and lays out your thoughts about yourself and the approaches you had towards this project. Detailed writing that describes the mindmap-moodboard is very helpful for me to understand you.
Final design: The final design looks balanced and the chosen colour combination are complementary but where is the rationale for the final design? The words at the end, are they your poem/lyrics of a song? Whose poem is it (give credits)? Why do use it? What is its significance to you in expressing your personality?
Blog entry: Incomplete for Project 1. Please update the Lecture and Instruction sections for Project 1: Self-Portrait. Make sure you include the source of each image with the caption.
Final design: The final design looks balanced and the chosen colour combination are complementary but where is the rationale for the final design? The words at the end, are they your poem/lyrics of a song? Whose poem is it (give credits)? Why do use it? What is its significance to you in expressing your personality?
Blog entry: Incomplete for Project 1. Please update the Lecture and Instruction sections for Project 1: Self-Portrait. Make sure you include the source of each image with the caption.
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