Progression regarding Color Wheel

20/7/2014(week 15)
Imani Najwa Bint Nordin (0319405)
Progression : Colour Wheel

Weeks have passed by and yet we are still on the slow bandwagon.My team mates and I seem to be on the verge of cracking our skulls.Much discussions were being made an new problems seem to arise,much to the point were it almost seemed impossible to create this monstrous thing.The exploding Volcano or also modified into a tree is now again modified into a waterfall.

Yes we have indeed scratched the whole idea of making the tree spitting paint idea,instead we decided to go with the whole traditional waterfall,simply because we think that a tree spitting out rainbow foam simply doesn't make sense,not that it has to be,just that we felt it was kind of off.And the fact that it was pretty hard to built it.

A waterfall however is much more reasonable since the rainbow coloured foam would be much more nicer to flow.It will then fall into a basin made out of clear perspective.At the end of the day people can start dipping their hands,legs too if your up for it) and swivel your doubts away.

We wasted no time and started carving out the mountain shaped rocks.I used the sharp blade to slice off the foam,I kind of winged it since rocks don't have to look exact.I made them slightly sharper looking,so they look more solid.Cutting the sponge is pretty easy like slicing a knife through butter so naturally anyone can do it.

After much observing,I asked Nabil to pick up the knife and asked him to start helping me.

He gave up a few times :p

Then Olivia came to the rescue,so pretty much we did okay for the first part.The only thing was that we made a whole lot of mess.Sorry XD

After all the carving was done,we then had another problem which was how to glue the sponge foams shut together.The problem why we couldnt just use regular glue was because the florist sponge was super drying and it would just not stick.As you can see we messed around with maskin tape but that didn't quit work out either.Lastly,I thought of using those regular satay stick you can get anywhere and use those to poke holes and merge these sponge foams together.To such luck they worked splendidly although a bit of glue was still used just in case.

 The night I stayed back to build and carve this white Styrofoam into little tiny waves.It was pretty tiring luckily Nabil stayed back for awhile and helped painted after I thought him how to actually mix the paint together xp

Then came the spray painting part.Nabil was really excited for this part,he volunteered to spray paint it all.Me and Olivia took turns giving him instructions as to which parts needed painting and which needed to be left out.

The finished look of the whole rainbow foam waterfall.

First of I'd like to wish everyone a warm thank you because if it wasn't for team work and dedication it would have had been impossible to finish it in time.I also wanted to thank everyone who participated and helped out our team through out the last second before our presentation.
I loved how even though each of us are in different teams we were all one and united helping each other out finishing their final touches.

Assignment 4: Greeting Cards

14/7/2014(Week 17)

Imani Najwa Binti Nordin (0319405)

Assignment 4: Greeting Cards

Lecture :

Three weeks has passed and today came the presentation day.We were all required to submit our assignment 4 projects which were greeting cards.

This assignment was given a few days before our Hari Raya Holidays,which to me was pretty dreadful.I meant it in a way that it was Raya and we muslims deserved a break,a proper one to be exact since all of us were pretty busy getting prepared .Anyways long story short,weeks had passed and today I've presented my work.

Process:

I went out to popular the other day to get most of my art materials that I wanted to use.Before hand I had an idea as to what materials I wanted.First things first,was card stocks .Since I've read the marking criteria and rubric I've noticed that Ms Lisa has clearly stated that she wanted out cards to be made out of solid non flimsy papers.The moment I went to the card sections I knew for sure that I needed alot of coloured papers.

Once i've gotten my materials ready,I've started to work on the basics of the whole jungle theme which were the leaves and vines.

The vines were my most favourite parts to cut out,since they were irregular in shape it was pretty simple to just go with my gut and cut it straight out without making a simple pencil draft.

In addition to that,leaves were also a part that was exciting to cut out since leaves again came in different shapes ,sizes and even colours.Most of these stuff I just eye balled them .

Experience:

This was different for me,I actually thought about just staying in my comfort zone and create simple artworks that usually represent me.But to know that over the past few months I've only just been doing things that I am only comfortable with made me realise that that this habit of mine should be broken.So I've proposed to Ms Lisa a couple of themes,first was about valentines/long distance love relationship.The second was the cute jungle themed and third was  the Lion King (Im a big fan by the way :p)

Cards:

 1.

 This was my most favourite cards out of the rest.Basically because,I've kept a very simple cut out  look of a palm tree and sticked it to the front cover.I've always loved the simplicity look so to me this made perfect sense.

 Surpriseee.A splash of colours all over the entire card.I do wish that I had done more party animals since it would look much better.

2.

Its a simple quirky pun that actually me and Serra were joking around with and I thought that maybe it would be kinda cool to actually make it into a card and have a monkey to swing around.

3.

 This card was pretty upsetting to me.It obviously didn't match the first two jungle themed that I've had in mind.And yes this was sort of a last minute kind of work,since my original idea didn't really come out as great.

I wanted to make both of the elephant trunks knotted and twist to reveal a heart shape effect.

And the background was pretty disappointing.I wish I had time to actually cut out bamboo trees and past them as a background.

Comments and remarks :

Ms Lisa said that she was happy that I've decided to step out of my comfort zone since she did mention that my previous artworks were mostly dark.However she did comment that the last card and second could have been much better if I had taken the time to do so.

Assignment 3: Colour Wheel

3/7/2014(week 13)

Imani Najwa Binti Nordin(0319405)

Assignment 3, Group Work : Colour Wheel

Lecture:

For todays lesson Ms Lisa had a brief lecture about the importance of colour wheel.She then asked us to split into groups of four and which we  had already decided

My Team Mates :

Janey 

Imani(me)

Shu Ling (Olivia)

Nabil

This were the first sketches we did before Ms Lisa gave us a briefing on what the requirements were for this upcoming assignment of the  colour wheel

In this sketch we had roughly drawn out 5 ideas on how we wanted to do our colour wheel.

1.Volcano eruption 

-It basically erupts coloured lava.

-However this plan had been modified later on since Ms Lisa thought that a volcano lava has been done plenty of times and thought we should be more original.

2. Hot Air Ballon with a twist.

-the hot air balloon  will hold secret messages of all(our classmates/lectures) and at the end of the day we will release the ballon full of secrets up into the air ,sort of like a spiritual release 

3.Messy twister paint game 

-First lay down the twister blanket

_secondly add fabric dye onto the respective colour on the mat

- When playing with the messy twister paint,wear plain t-shirts since the paint is basically fabric dye and will stick and create patterns on the t shirt.

4.Fun face painting with a catch

 -basically your friends will paint your face with once colour but different shades of it,sort of a small competition

5.Bubble paint

-first place paint in a bowl and add water and start blowing into the bowl till it forms bubbles,once bubbles are created just press paper on top to create different patterns.

Sketch after Ms Lisa's speech and requirements :

We added more ideas to the sketches 

6.Cupcakes

-The idea was to bake cupcakes and frost them with all the colours of the rainbows to the different hues.

-This idea was rejected because it was simple and obviously had been done before 

-However Ms Lisa still thought it was cute.

7.Rainbow Foam

-Its made from dish washing soap and food colouring,mix and whip them together and then boom you've got fluffy coloured foam.

-It is a simple idea where you place the foam in the basin and let people interact with it by placing their hands in the basin.

-Ms Lisa though it was interesting but wasn't interested with the idea

8.Egg Geodes 

-This sort of involves simple Chemistry 

-It is basically crystallised salt  using an egg shell that can be coloured later on to display pretty crystals.

-Ms Lisa thought it was a beautiful idea since it look shimmery and attractive,the only thing is that it is only nice to display.

Lastly,Ms Lisa choose for us the erupting volcano.However,she did added the fact that we didn't only have to make a volcano since a volcano has always been done,she wanted something original and different.She gave us a suggestion to make a tree instead,and let the tree branches splash out paint.It was just a suggestion but we kept that in mind.

We also had a back up plan.Since the volcano eruption requires more work to be done,Ms Lisa said that we should keep an eye out for a second option(plan B) incase anything fails.Our backup is the hot air balloon that carries secrete messages into the air.This was relatively  easy since all we needed to do was buy pre made helium balloons and basically just make and tie a light weight basket around the balloon for the place to insert the secret messages.

Observation:

I have to keep in mind that after ever lesson I should just update my blog then and there since in the long run I know I will end up procrastinating and be lazy.At the same time it is really not that difficult to just write out what progress I've done so far.

I've also came to realised that most of us(classmates) are spreader and divided out evenly.What I meant was that everyone is not in their original group of friends,everyone is completely splited up and separated from each other.In a way I think its for the best ,sort of like an  ice breaker between all of us course mates.Even though ,we all know each others names and faces,sometimes we barely even say a word besides the usual hello's and goodbyes.So i think this will be a whole new experience to be able to be working with them and to see how these other people work and start storming ideas together.After all designers like us are supposed to explore beyond our comfort zones .Therefore I am both terrified and thrilled to be working with people outside of my close friends zone.we all must sort of get a feel of what others are capable of and who knows maybe something great will happen along the lines.

Paper Cut Outs

12.6.2014(Week 11)

Imani Najwa Binti Nordin (0319405)

Progression Assignment 2(b) : Composition cut out

My newly assignment was to create two paper cuts outs.One symmetrical cut out and another an asymmetrical cut out.Ms Lisa had first asked us to sketch our ideas and show it to her for her approval.I had made rough sketches,roses and thorns,lions and much more but she had rejected those earlier.She had mentioned that they were either to simple or had been done.So when I was finally about to draw another sketch Ms Lisa saw that I had made a very rough draft of a two headed dragon  and finally she asked me to do more of those,she said that it was something different.

So long story short my subject matter was a dragon.

Process:

Working with the dragons were a bit though,first I begin to sketch a rough draft of how it would look like on regular A 4 paper,this I had to show Ms Lisa to get her final approval before she releases us for the semester holidays.She said mine was nice and that she wanted my theme to be slightly dark and so I followed.

I then begin my work,at first I wanted to use hard card stock paper for the cut outs but they were sold out :'( Not wasting any time I begin to find other alternative papers I had lying around in my house.I've found a stash of black sugar paper and decided it would have to do.I quickly begin sketching on my black A4 sugar paper.

After the sketches were completed,I begin to cut.Bare in mind I've already had a bit of a practice on our Thursdays lesson.Cutting the dragon wasn't so bad, but it wasn't so easy either.I had to be patient when handling the pen knife and certainly patient about cutting the tiny details,since dragons have either hard rock skin or scales I had to take my time cutting out those sections.

Most interesting/ favourite part :

The dragons head: I had lots of fun drawing and cutting out the dragons head,this was where I paid lots of tiny details into consideration,the dragon has scales up to its face,so I had to make tiny cut outs of that.

Wings:I had fun cutting out the wings since they look like skeleton bones with spikes.It truly was something different.

Originally I had wanted my asymmetrical dragon to have more of a butterfly enchanted wings,but Miss Lisa said I should stick with the whole gothic look.

Symmetrical two headed Dragon

Much details were put into the face of the dragon.

Asymmetrical Dragon

A knight fighting a fire breathing dragon 

Challenging part:
The most challenging part for me was to cut the symmetrical dragon.Its actually can be quit easy in the sense where you fold the paper in half and cut it slightly deeper so that the knife cuts through both thickness of the paper But ,always the big BUT.Since Ms Lisa doesn't want to see the crease on the centre of the paper,I couldn't do so.
Thats were it got tricky,I had to use tracing paper to trace exact same drawing on either half of the paper and it got me frustrated.Im a perfectionist,so using tracing paper wasn't the most accurate thing,however I bared with it.

Symmetrical Dragon

A two headed dragon

I was experimenting on which coloured background would suite most.Red anyone?

Tips:

A tip is to cut on glass,it is far more easier to do so rather then using those cutting mats in which I've found whenever I use my blade and cut too deep it would get stuck and this causes the paper to slightly rip.

I have yet to past and mount them on a A3 mounting board for my upcoming class presentation.Best of luck .

These are the final outcome of the finished cutouts.I've nicely mounted them on my A3 mounting board and placed it by the window stele to help show it off to my class mates.

I've observed that everyone is really creative and that each of us is unique in our won special way.Some of my class mates stepped it up a notch and payed a lot of attention to the little details in their artwork.One of my class mates Ester had made a paper cut out of the famous japan wave Kanangawa.I was green with envy when I saw it,never the less I also admired her work.There were a few that really stood out to me and I enjoyed looking at everyones art work placed on the window seals of the classroom.It really did look like some art exhibition.Ms Lisa did also mentioned that if there is any such luck we should be able to book and display all our art works in the art gallery of our university.

Last but not least,before class ended Mr Lisa mentioned that we would have to each separate and create a group of 4s and 5s for our newly assignment which is the Colour Wheel.

Rule of Thirds ( Assignment 2)

Imani Najwa Binti Nordin (0319405)

Rule of Thirds (Assignment 2)

The Theme :The Wonderful World of Jellybeans

Process :

First of I begin to make simple drafts on the ideas on how the scenes would actually look and turn out.I quickly noted it all down in my personal idea journal.

After much thoughts and ideas being poured out into my idea journal I decided to start my assignment.

So far my progress was okay,but before anything can be set to motion, I had to go buy my jellybeans.Did you know that jellybeans are really expensive,no kidding.I spent almost 12 bucks just to get a few grams of jellybeans.Once I got my jellybean I was anxious to start my assignment.I begin to layout my background.I went with a simple white paper background.Since my first frame shot was supposed to be red heart shaped sunglasses but that didn't work out well  1. because it was to difficult to recreate, 2.I didn't have much red coloured jellybeans to make the big sunny heart frame shaped sunglasses . So I decided to start off with the sunny sunshine shot.I begin to place the jellybeans here and there.At the beginning it wasn't that difficult and I was really starting to enjoy it.Then

Lesson learned :

One of the first lessons I've learned is to not procrastinate,don't ever do this! I wouldn't say that I did procrastinated on purpose.It was difficult for me to get my hands on some jellybeans because 1. I didn't have time and 2. the ones I wanted were too darn expensive,so I had to hunt for cheaper alternative.Although that shouldn't be an excuse. Luckily I did find some cheaper alternative ones from the Famous Amous store in our university.Boy was I relief.

Another thing is to not get lazy in between works,when I first started taking shots of my stop motion pictures I was very excited and tried my best to take perfect angular shots but towards the middle I begin to slack off and this cause me my stop motion video to be slightly jumpy.However I did try to make it up towards the end,I've realised that you shouldn't just simply do things without passion,it is 

then when you begin not to care,which will then effect the quality of your work.

To top it off, lessoned learned, is that I should not have waited to edit my videos last minute,since this created a whole new issue for me.I thought that I had enough photos for my video since Ms Lisa said that we need at least 30 shots minimum.I had taken a fair amount of 130 + shots in total and I though that was more than enough.Turns out when I edited the video , the music I choose had a fast beat,which meant that I needed to shorten the time limit for each photo.This resulted to a shorter video period,this made me worried as the day of the online submission was on Thursday.Tho god has been good to me and I've manage to finished my assignment on time :)

Summary :

The summary regarding my POD video is just a simple video,it doesn't have much story line except that it has a scenes  that connect with other scenes,they don't have to make much sense.Further more,

as you can see the begin is a picture of the sunny sunshine,going with the flow of the song the sun begins to set on beyond the horizon and you will begin to sink in the ocean

To be honest,making this entire video was pretty challenging to me.It was tough in a sense that I had to hold and angle my camera in such way to make the outer frame look good,even though I didn't do a pretty good job at it.The thoughts part would probably be arranging the jellybeans .I personally had endless amount of frustration trying to place the jellybeans in order so they would look decent.Sometimes they would roll off track and I would have to place it back only to find that it just wouldn't stay put again.Many times I would find my jellybeans beginning to melt in my hand and smudging the pages. It  was very frustrating when most of my papers were smudged with melted jellybeans.I ended up changing papers many times.Not only that, the jellybeans also begin to mixed colours.The whites don't look white anymore,specks of blues and greens begin to appear .Other then that,lighting was another major thing,I tried to do my assignment during nigh time and it didn't give me the best result.This is because when I took the photos in the morning using natural lighting you can see casted shadows from the jellybean shapes which adds a bit more depth in the photo.During the night time I needed to use the flash of my camera and it made the jellybeans look unappealing .

Despite everything,I still enjoyed making this video,even though it took time and effort Im proud of myself for actually at least trying.

Here is the link for my Video that I've uploaded on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJQHjyXSDM&feature=youtu.be

Rule of Thirds

Imani Najwa Binti Nordin
(0319405)
Rule of Thirds (Composition)

Lecture :

At the beginning of class Ms Lisa had given us a brief presentation about the Rule of Thirds.She explained the importance of composition in a photograph.She showed us that colour,texture,movements all can make a huge difference to the viewer.Ms Lisa then asked us to drew a box ,one with the Rule of Thirds Grid while the other without.Ms Lisa then proceed by asking us to draw anything (a flower,ect.) in the empty grid-less box.I drew a flower sightly off centre towards the corner of the frame.When asked who drew anything at the centre of the frame majority of the class hands rose up.When this happened Ms Lisa showed us a picture of a tree,one taken from the centre frame and the other slightly off centred,she then questioned us as to which picture looks best.All preferred the second picture where the tree is off centre.When she asked why my answer was simple "Simply because the tree looks static."She said that was right it look rather unappealing.We then dived into our new assignment.

Ms Lisa showed us a couple of videos regarding the Composition of Rule of Thirds assignment done by our seniors.There was a story about a shoe(which touched my heart),one about cars(which was pretty insane/as in cool)a funny one about goggled eyes and people jumping.I enjoyed watching the videos.A stop motion is when you take one shot and move the subject and take another,its a long process but it is worth while.After the whole lecture Ms Lisa told us to take out our view finder which acts like a frame to give you a rough idea where the lines should be.

At the beginning my subject matter was my trusty bunny key chain.I took two shots with it,then I got bored and decided to explore different ways of taking photos instead of using the same subject.

Miss Lisa particularly liked this flower shot.

Umbrella's are arranged in an alignment

*photos were taken using phone camera

Before class ended Ms Lisa told us about our second assignment.I've chosen jellybeans as my medium and will work on a stop motion video.The assignment is due next two week( 5th June).

Self-Portrait Art Movement Assignment

24/4/2014( Week 4)
Imani Najwa Binti Nordin (0319405)
Principal of Design
Progression on The Self Portrait Art Movement Assignment

During todays class Ms Lisa had told us that we would be contunying our progress regarding our art movement self portraits.Since my art movement was arts and craft I had brought all my materials to class in order to continue where I had left off.With the help of my friends they gave me a rough idea on how I can make my dream catcher look more of a self portrait.I showed Ms Lisa my progress on the dream catcher and even asked if I could make the dream catcher in such way that it wouldn't look like any other traditional dream catchers.Ms Lisa told me that it was completely fine and that I have the total freedom to do anything since it is craft related.

My Progression so far :

Crafting supplies that I've used:

1.A ring/Loop

2.Strings/Yawn/Coloured thread

3.Beads

4.Feathers/leaves

5.Glue 

6.Wire

7.Patience 

The top picture is another dream catcher that I made but I've decided to go with the one in the second  picture.

I tied the strings together and knotted them to the loop which I then added some tiny beads at the centre of the dream catcher just to add a little extra detail.I've kept the loop unwrapped because I like how wooden and minimalistic the loop looks that way.

I begin to add colourful beads and tied them together with the feathers.

Heres a fact,I actually cut open my friendship bracelet that was given to me from my primary friend just to get those beads.

I then wrapped the wires with colourful strings just to add more colour.I then took the coloured wires and coiled them with the feathered beads.This took a lot of patience I've even injured my self with minor cuts.

Excuse the table background,but as you can see I've made a wired side view of my head (with the help of Serra,thank you) to add to my dream catcher.

There you see the loop is finally finished.I again wrapped the wires with colour thread and secured it to the loop.There you have a side view of my portrait.

progress update soon