Blind Contour Drawing
Thinking Visually
Making Patterns in Illustrator( losing your mind in 5 simple steps)
So module 4’s seemingly easy task of creating a pattern from a photo, specifically of an objects shadow that had to be recognised as an object and turned into a vector image seemed relatively simple, however I found it frustrating trying to save the art board of the pattern and exporting it as a jpg for the assessment and to post to the forum and here. By Comparison part two of the module will be a drawing of my hand without looking at the papertimed over 10 minutes which I will post shortly which I thought would be the harder of the two was so relaxing in comparison to the 3 hour ordeal in trying to save an image in Illustrator. I don’t use Illustrator often I’m a huge fan of photoshop and Lightroom but I find Illustrator cumbersome and frustrating to use.
A Visual Oxymoron
Face Palm
This task for part 2 of module 3 asked us to create a Visual Oxymoron, I’ll admit i had a complete creative block and ended up playing around with photo editing programs and creating composite images with a self portrait when I struck apon an idea of a portrait being a mirror image and mirrors being reflective of our images and rested an image composite that worked, I’m not sure that I have the idea of a visual oxymoron correct but here is my take on it. It lends to face palming 🤦♀️ when you feel silly so I’m calling my finished image Face Palm 🤦♀️.
Colour Swatches
Colour Themes Collection Module 3 Part 1
The Task
I really enjoyed this exercise, looking at images and colour pattern, palates and swatches was very relaxing and I even found an app for my iPhone called Adobe Capture that I can use out and about with my photography for colour asset management and will make colour themes easy to achieve.
This exercise asked to chose 5 images for each category and post our favourite colour Swatches from each of the 5.
The five themes:
- Natural environment
- Corporate culture
- Relaxed
- Contemporary design
- 1960’s London
Natural Environment Palate
Relaxing Palate
Contemporary Design Palate
1960’s London Palate
Corporate Culture Palate
Wire Drawing
The exercise in preparation for our first assessment task was fairly strait forward. We were given the following instructions and a few tutorials to watch on YouTube. Overall I found it frustrating trying to get the wire to comply with what I wanted to do with my quick sketch and continuous line drawing of the head phones. I wasn’t happy with the result and did not enjoy this process at all.
Assessment 1 assets’ to assist you with these below steps.
- Choose an inanimate object from around your home that has potential to be ‘drawn’ with a continuous line (the wire). The more interesting its shape, the more detailed your work will be.
- Following the steps given in the provided handouts, create sketches of the object – keep these loose and rough.
- Once you have simplified your sketch place tracing paper over it and draw a single continuous line that captures the essence of your refined sketch.
- Using some thin and easy to bend wire (like floristswire) start to express the object through this continuous line. You may use your hands or pliers, just ensure that your wire is easy for you to manipulate. Make sure that you have plenty of space to work in and that you are aware of where the ends of the wire are and that you keep them away from your eyes.
- Post a photo of the finished product on the Module 2 Discussion Forum – Part 2: Wire drawing or the line with no end’ with your reflective thoughts. How does it feel not to be able to rub the line out? What does the wire drawing express of the original object? What do you think of the end result?
Thinking Visually- What’s in this Picture?
This task asked us to choose four images from decaptioned photos and to assess what is happening in each. The four I chose really spoke to me about what was happening in each and As a self confessed Candid and Street Photography nut I spend a lot of my time behind the lense in the street watching people and wondering what they’re thinking what they’re doing and where they’re going in such a rush and also the things the eye overlooks and doesn’t like to see such as abandoned alleys underpasses and the homeless, so this task was a fun one for me.
Deportment Class
When I was a teenager in the late 80’s and early 90‘s deportment classes were still a thing for young ladies to do as we’re debutant balls….I did neither of these things mind you but had many friends that went to The June Dally-Watkins Finishing School and fussed over elaborate white dresses. At this time of life I was heavily into sneaking into clubs underage to drink and mosh with like minded grunge and metal heads or suffering alcoholic poisoning in a field away from a bonfire party, however I digress and the image suggests using rolled up towels or small rugs to improve posture and the items set out in front of each woman are classic beauty items like mirrors and cosmetic, and possibly notes on etiquette.
Environmental Disaster
Initially this image made me think of a crime scene ,but as I took a closer look at The tented area I could see there were a lot of plastic bags and the man in the foreground of the shot is taking a photo of sand which makes me feel it has more to do with an environmental disaster of some kind.
Doomsday
This image immediately gave me a sense of preparedness for doomsday, as I looked at the image more closely, I noticed the box office movie and the vehicles and deduced it must have something to do with the 1950’s Cuban Missile Crisis in the United States of America and that they were wearing radiation covers to protect them from supposed nuclear rain fallout. As it happens it did not come to pass but the terror must have been very real and the image conveys the mood of the time.
Quarrentine
This image struck me as airline passengers either boarded on a flight or about to board being checked by quarantine officers due to the hazmat /biohazard outfits and the infrared thermometer being focused on the child in the woman’s arms in the rear of the shot. As a Street Photographer I spend a lot of time watching people and as a mother of a child with a chronic illness and no immunity due to medications we spend a lot of time monitoring disease outbreaks as to whether or not she should be excluded from school or time in hospital for her illness. It gives me a kind of invaded and clinical feel
Danielle Rose Photography 