Week 3 - Week 5
FEILYCIA JOY KURNIAWAN / 0373400
Design Principles (GCD60804). / Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative
Media
Task 2 : Visual Analysis & Ideation
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INSTRUCTION
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LECTURES
Visual Analysis
Is a method of understanding design that focuses on the visual
elements and principles with the purpose is to recognize the choices
that a designer made in creating the design
Visual analysis is a critical part of visual literacy, it is
divided into 3 phases
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Phase 1: Observation - closely looking & identifying the
visual elements. All about looking, thinking and finding good
language to communicate what you notice
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Phase 2: Analysis - think about your observations, combine to
create design principles that complete that work of design
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Phase 3: Interpretation - find the meaning, purpose, mixed with
facts you discovered during the first 2 phases
Task 2 Brief
1. Write a 300 - 350 word visual analysis of why you chose that
artwork
2. Sketch 3 ideas on how to improve the artwork with a 30-50
word rationale ( can add visual references )
3. feedbacks
Title : She Was Gold
Artist : Liffi Wongso
Medium : Watercolor on paper
Year : 2020
OBSERVATION
Main focus is the two figures with the intricate flower and vines.
The tow figures seems to have two different facial expression,
with one looking sorrow and one looking ethereal almost relieved.
The color full flowers and vines add color to the solid background
and the titanium white of the figures hair. We can see two
butterflies mating, which is the main inspiration for this
work.
Overall, this piece looks intricate but still looks very
harmonious and effortless.
ANALYSIS
The contrast between colorful main focus and the plain black
background help us to draw our attention towards the main subject.
This also balances out the intricate design, making it less
overwhelming for the viewers.
She also have this specific style when drawing flowers and plants
which is a huge part of her art style. Emphasis can be seen
in the two girl's expression, the upper figure appears ethereal,
almost detached, while the lower figure exudes sorrow and anguish.
This emotional contrast strengthens the narrative quality of the
artwork, making it not just a visual piece but a deeply expressive
one.
Movement are created by how the swirling hair, delicate
fingers, butterfly's wings are made leads the eyes throughout the
piece in a fluid motion.
Overall, the part I love the most of this piece is how intricate it
looks but still looks very harmonious and effortless. The color
choice is also a huge part of why I am deeply mesmerize by the
piece.
INTERPERTATION
This piece itself is inspired by mating butterflies. Butterflies
itself represents transformation, personal growth, death and
rebirth.
IDEATION NOTES
Although this seem very "perfect" at first glance, there are some
things I feel like I could take note on.
The butterflies are the main subject on the artwork since this work is
inspired by butterfly mating, yet, the butterflies seems to blend to
much with the other subjects. So I would either change the colors or
placements of the butterfly for it to create more contrast to the
background.
I am a huge fan of "airy" drawings, this artwork also have a lot of
airy-ness and flowy-ness to it. So I would like to improve on that. I
would make the hair flow even more, reaching more into the plain
background.
Colors also is a huge part I love to observe about. In this piece I
can see that the colors on the upper figure seems to be more colorful,
with the plants surrounding it. However, the figure below seems to
lack a bit of color, with the main colors are white, skin color, and
purple. I would like to add a bit more color to the figure
below.
IDEATION
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| sketch #1 |
The main focus of this piece is a tiger that is walking. The stripes
are hollow black, purposefully to blend with the plain black
background. The stripes will grow vines and plants,
representing growth and change while walking forward. What I
took from my chosen artwork is the hollow spaces and the plants.
Movement is created by how I will make the vines and plants, the
direction will be from the tiger's body and grow diagonally to the top
left of the page.
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sketch #2
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In this sketch I was to take the butterfly inspiration. But rather
the mating aspect to it, I want to take what butterfly represents.
Butterflies represents transformation, personal growth, death and
rebirth.
The figure is laying, showing that she is tired and helpless.
Plants and the butterflies showed growth and rebirth. Meaning that you need to
open yourself up to let growth happen.
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sketch #3
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In this sketch, I also want to take the butterfly aspect to it.
Focusing on the growth and transformation of mind and how we think.
For the hair, it will be solid black, then at the back part of the
hair, there will be patterns of plants and butterfly. The main focus
is how
we need to adapt and keep transforming, and it all started from
the mind
FEEDBACK
Week 3
General Feedback - Explained the task
requirements
Specific Feedback - -
Week 4
General Feedback - Do not copy the artist work, but take
some aspects from it and create a new artwork
Specific Feedback - He really likes the observation
and really interested by how the artwork is inspired by a mating
butterfly. Try to make the sketch for next week
Week 5
General Feedback - Nice work
Specific Feedback - Sketch 3 was chosen. It has a lot
of impact, try to make several versions of the sketch and play
with the background colors
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Experience - I had a great time
sketching each ideas out. Taking a little inspiration from
our chosen artwork is a great experiment for me to further
develop my art style.
Observations - During consultations, I
enjoyed seeing my peers ideas and their correlation with
their chosen artwork.
Findings - I learnt that
visualizing ideas and implementing the design principles
can a little bit challenging. But, if you successfully
implement the design principles to your work, it can be a
game changer to the composition.
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