Principle Of Design- Composition and Design :)

For today class, our pretty lecturer, Ms.Lisa had showed us through LCD which is about the basic and the important about Design that we as a learning designer should know it. If not, shame on you! :) I mean 'me'. 

Two-dimensional design is based on utilize the visual elements and principle of design to create successful composition. What I had learned today was about Elements of Design, Principle for Visual Aesthetics, P.O.D, and Composition.

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN 

Elements are the basic that provide the foundation to build composition, which create an aesthetically sound piece.There are 7 elements which we need to know and remember it.

• Line, Shape, Texture, Space (Positive and Negative), Time and Motion, Color, Typography

Here's the explanation and details about the Elements:

Line
Many types of line include sharp, jagged, hard, soft, thick, thin, ragged and irregular.The function of the design will dictate which type of line to choose form (if any).

sources: http://phobos.ramapo.edu

Shape
Shapes are line limited to two dimensions. For instance, lengths and width that have connecting point which path creates a 2 dimensional shape, be it geometric or organic.

Texture
Achieved by using imagery like brick, fur, smooth, rocks, marbles etc. The key to successful treatment of texture is to have proper contrast and to give the 'illusion' depth and surface.

Positive and Negative Space
Positive space is the dark and the Neegative space is the light. Both are important in design because many young designers only concentrate on the positive without considering the negative aspect of the piece.

sources: http://phobos.ramapo.edu

Do you see the two faces? :)

Time and Motion
Time can be depicted through sequential photography, moving object to blur the background or by utilizing repetition and rhythem.

Color
A.Descriptions
Hue- movement within color
Value- color initial
Chroma brightness

B.Schemes
Primary; pigments: Red, Yellow and Blue
Secondary; pigments: Orange, Purple and Green
Monochromatic: One color value range
Complimentary: Opposite colour wheel
Other: Warm/Cool earth tones, Pastels, Metalic, Industrial,etc.

                            sources: http://www.flickriver.com/groups/colorpencilsonly/pool/interesting/

color wheel

Typography
The ability to design with typography is essential. Treating type as shapes can help a composition. 

• Serif means got tail at the end of the end of the alphabet.
• San Serif is without tail. 
• Form of type Serif, San Serif, Script and Custom.
• Tracking (spacing of words), Kerning (precise way to control spacing between characters) and Leading (spacing between lines in a paragraph) are some ways to change initial type attributes.
• Do not manually scale fonts vertically or horizontally. Find a font which suits your purpose.

serif and sans-serif

VISUAL AESTHETICS-THE PRINCIPLE

Principle of design are applied to the Visual Elements to create aesthetic compositions.

• UNITY AND VARIETY 
• BALANCE
• SCALE AND PROPORTION
• DOMINANCE (FOCAL POINT)
• RHYTHEM AND REPETITION

UNITY AND VARIETY (important)
Unity comes from an aesthetic unification of design elements in a composition, be it by using similar shapes, same typography or a consistent color scheme. Variety is important so a piece does not become mundane. It can be achieved by combining fonts in a layout, changing the background color on pages in a website (but keeping the layout consistent) and mixing organic and geometric shapes.

sources: http://www.sophia.org

BALANCE (important)
An asymmetrical composition can have balance as well. To balance an asymmetrical design is to use large fields of color, larger sized shape(s) and balance through typography.

sources: http://phobos.ramapo.edu

sources: http://practicumjourney.wordpress.com

SCALE AND PROPORTION (important)
Scale is the size relationship between elements and proportion is size relationship of those elements to the composition.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Proportions of The Human Figure( c.1485-1490) (after Vitruvius)

sources: www.barewalls.com

sources: http://phobos.ramapo.edu

 sources: http://phobos.ramapo.edu

HIERARCHY (focal point/dominance) (important)
Hierarchy is the visible level of order or emphasis in a composition. This adds interest and dominance of information to your work.

RHYTHM AND REPETITION (important)
Repetition is the consistent repeating of visual elements which can create motion, movement, time, continuity and unity. Rhythm is created by repetition. By repeating the same sized and colored circles in a layout and rhythm has a more solid feeling. However, repeating circles of different sizes and colors creates a more dynamic feel.

Starry Night 2- Impressionism Art

sources: http://practicumjourney.wordpress.com

Personal Style is what sets Designers Apart!

The composition and the 3 phrases of designing:

1. Research,
2. Development,
3. Finalize.

COMPOSITION

• Format, the first step in design for page layout is choosing your format, portrait, landscape, square,circular, etc.
• Layout, Symmetrical and Asymmetrical.
• Grid, guides for graphic elements to line-up vertically, horizontally or diagonally while still considering the basic rules of composition because our eyes and brains crave a certain amount of order and consistency.
• Rules of Third, breaking the board up into thirds and placing elements along upper lines and at the intersections. Moreover, AVOID discomfort tangent! 

sources: http://www.nelsontan.com

 sources: posted by: http://giveawaytuesdays.wonderhowto.com/inspiration/10-photography-tips-for-mastering-your-camera-phone-0128865/

Captured by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/5268324476/

• White Space, as important as the text and graphics on the page is the empty space giving it visual breathing space and emphasis.

sources: http://vesnakozelj.com/photography/composition-rule-of-thirds

credit to: http://vesnakozelj.com/

These are the notes shown in LCD which given by Ms.Lisa. After what we had seen, Ms.Lisa given us 2 hours to go around the school to choose our own subject matter, holding our 12 inch x 9 inch with a cutout frame of 1.5 inch border mounting board and take 30 pictures of it. We have to use this 2 hours wisely and choose the subject matter wisely.

First Presentation!!

 My very first presentation for Principle Of Design and I was freaking nervous!! I had to present my self-potrait which is in A3 size infront of my lecturer and classmate.The art movement which i had chosen within all the art movements is Realism. What I do know about Realism is that Realism emerged in France in1848 but lasted till 1880 and what you had draw is really do exist, can see it in our daily life and reality of the world without idealize it or beautify it. It is just something like taking a picture by a camera. I like the natural beauty which god has created, the truth and 'picture says everything'. This is the reason of why i choose Realism as my art movement. However, the Realism art abandoned and the photography has invented. So here's my half face self-portrait which i had used about 1 day to finished it.
 
  I selected this picture and draw it as my self-portrait because I always feel that when we closed our eyes, we managed to think and flash-back about past which would probably do happen before or it is just imagining, we still put a smile or laugh crazily for it. Therefore, I drawn it out a half face of mine with a closed eye and had a smile on my face.

Basically, this self-portrait was combined with 8 different gradient pencils.

• 2H, B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 6H, 7B pencils.

I used my fingers to blend the portrait so it could be more natural. Although my self-portrait not really 100%  same or real from picture, I do enjoy drawing it and this was my first time draw myself.

Design Process



At present, technology had bring more and more talented artist in creating amazing digitally manipulated images and illustrating anything you could possibly imagine. Somehow, I believe the pencil and paper are the genuine and compulsory materials in creating works of art, which is what I'm going to show here today.

Instructions - The Materials You Need

• 2B pencil, mechanical pencil
• Papers, a sketch book
• An eraser
• A paper blender, or my fingers

Step 1.

Look at the image while taking your lightest value pencil and slowly start to sketch its outline. Once finished, draw a vertical line in the middle to divide the face to half. Then, draw a horizontal line as shown which will be the eyes lower line or as a reference line.

Step 2.

Start outlining the shape of the face and draw the eyes.

Step 3.

Draw a rough sketch for the nose and adjust until the shape you want it.

Step 4.

Look intently at the values in the colour of the object, the shadow and the highlighted areas, start shading at the lightest areas.

Step 5.

I had lightly shaded the nose with 2B pencil and gradually get darker until the object is completely coloured in. Then draw the mouth.

Step 6.

 I had blended the shaded areas using my fingers and start from the lightest areas. Gently shade in all of the object colour until the colours blend together as one.

Step 7.

After i completely drew out the portrait, I added some sharp and dark colour at the hair part using mechanical pencil just to make the picture look more real.

Step 8.

To make the object realistic looking, have to add depth into it.

More examples of self-portrait sketches that I had drawn.

As you can see, every sketches that I drawn contained feelings and emotions without idealization or imagination. This is also the reason why I choose realism as my art movement because I enjoy the most natural view without editing the paint.

My Research

An art movement is a style in art with a specific common goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, maybe a few years ago or long decades ago. Art movements are very important especially in modern art whereby each consecutive movement was considered as a new leading-edge for future art. There are many art movements include Gothic, High Renaissance, Rococo, Impressionism, Realism, Post Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, De Stijl, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Graffiti, Steampunk and so forth. Learning about different art styles and looking at those amazing arts created by the artists in the world wide is very enjoyable. This is also a part of the journey of developing our own painting style.

In my personal views, realism is the art style that most people considered it as "real art", it is not because of its name, 'real'ism’. Realism art is where the subject of the painting looks very much like it appears in real life or in our daily life. From a little distance everything looks "real" like it was captured with a camera but up close you'll see it is an illusion created by a stunning skill of using paint, colour and tone. The artist uses perspective to create an illusion of reality, set the combination and lighting to make the most of the subject.

History of Realism Art

Realism art refers to the accurate, not to beautify the impression of the ordinary, observe the world without idealization. Besides, realism art keeps away from romantic ideals of beauty, abstraction and imagination. It seeks to depict objects and figures as they do appear in real life. Many realist artists like Gustave Courbet felt the need to depict ordinary people and show the rest of society what their lives were like. It was social commentary, pure and simple.

Realism art shares several elements with naturalism, which explains why the terms art realism and naturalism are sometimes, but not always accurately used interchangeably. The fundamental differences between art realism and naturalism resist simplistic comparisons between the two schools of painting. In the broadest sense, art realism represents things as they exist, without embellishment or adornment, while naturalism portrays things as they might exist, suggesting a certain degree of improvement over their actual appearance.

What's more, realism depicts the world, its events, and people as they really are. There is no personification of people as mythological beings, no one is glorified, and romanticizing anyone or anything is out. It is a social commentary on the world in which we live. Artists took the common and ordinary, and elevated them to a higher status.

Art realism movement

 

The realism art movement emerged in France in the wake of the 1848 Revolution and lasted until 1880. Although several attempts at infusing realism into art had been made throughout art history, the actual wave of realism art swept the art world after Gustave Courbet's independent exhibition in 1855 of his shockingly truthful realism paintings to a scandalized public who, until then, had only been exposed to original art steeped in the sublime aesthetics of Romanticism or the classical ideal of the Old Masters. Rejecting the idealized classicism of the old academic tradition, the realism art movement found raison d'etre in what Gustave Courbet himself called the “representation of real and existing things.” In realism paintings, ordinary, familiar and unadorned figures and objects become worthy subjects. Often implying a moral or social message, realism paintings present a straightforward depiction of the grim lives of the common folk. However, not all realism paintings are intentionally imbued with social consciousness or political subversion as there are also realist paintings that capture every day scenes of contemporary life that the audience may find sweetly sentimental or innocuously spontaneous.

Artist

Gustave Courbet

A french painter, Gustave Courbet was born in Ornans. His birthplace is his favourite subject in his paintings. He studied under several minor artists, and also copied works in the Louvre to establish his own realist style. Courbet won a gold medal at a Salon exhibition in 1949, but his success diminished after his presentation of ‘The Burial at Ornans’, a piece which was considered shallow, ugly, and excessively large. Due to the French Government became suspicious of him during the 1848 Revolution, Courbet held contempt for his native country for the remainder of his life. He refused to exhibit at the World Fair in 1855, and also refused to accept the Legion of Honor offered to him. Because of these actions, Courbet was exiled and spent the last years of his life in Switzerland.

The Stone Breaker

‘A Burial At Ornans’

Francois Bonvin (November 22, 1817 – December 19, 1887)

Francois Bonvin was also a French realist painter, who began studying art at the age of eleven and painted his first known work while working as a clerk for the Paris police department. He was inspired by the Dutch paintings that he studied at the Louvre, especially those of Pieter de Hooch, and imitated their quiet, intimate feel in his own still life and genre scenes. Through his relationship with Gustave Courbet, Bonvin became a leader in the Realist movement. He supported the artists of the movement such as half-brother Leon Bonvin, James McNeill Whistler, and Henri Fatin-Latour, giving them money, supplies, and exhibiting their work in his atelier. Later in his career, Bonvin traveled in the Netherlands and London before settling in a small French village to continue painting his small genre scenes.

 Francois Bonvin, Charity 1851.

Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899)

Rosa Bonheur trained under her father, Raymond and showed initial talent. In 1841, she first exhibited at the Salon at the young age of nineteen. After her show, The Horse Fair, which traveled in Britain and the United States, she gained recognition for her work and her feminist views. Bonheur became the first female member of the Legion of honor in 1865.

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair (1853-55)

Wilhelm Leibl  (October 23, 1844 – December 4, 1900)

Wilhelm Leibl first studied at the Academy in Munich. He met Courbet in 1869, while the French artist was traveling with his exhibition. Not long after this encounter, Leibl moved to Paris with Courbet and worked as his assistant. In 1870, the Franc-Prussian War forced Leibl to return to Germany but he continued to exhibit in Paris. After 1873, he moved to the Bavarian countryside and began painting subjects from the area.

Wilhelm Leibl , Peasants in Conversation(1877).

First Class Activity for Principle of Design :)

This are the first class activity for my Principle of Design lesson. Our pretty lecturer, Ms.Lisa, has given us a 'mission' after she introduced herself which we have to do a mind map and a self-portrait that combined with natural material. Basically, first class is all about self-discovery and asked ourselves, "Who am I"? So we have to go around the university to search any materials that comes from nature or trashes. For examples, dried leaves, grass, branches, leftover cardboard paper which are useless and so forth. This activity needs to complete it within 2 hours and it does sound interesting for me because we can explore outside and choose any natural materials we want based on our own creativity and combine it to our work.

So this are my mind map that i had created without any natural materials. It's because i really wasted to much time and effort on drawing that little anime "Hatsune Miku", on the center of my mind map but luckily i managed to draw out of it within the limited time. I have written down about my favourite foods, books and movies. Of course, i had also wrote about what i hate, my birthday date, and where i live though i'm not really sure where i was born (I always forgot and confused about it). I do love everything about Japan, not just their culture but also their food! Furthermore, I do wrote about the reason i choose FID. The reason are simple, I love drawing and likes to look at those fascinating and awesome drawing by many amazing artists. However, FID is not my first choice, be a veterinarian is my wish to be because i love animals but i couldn't achieved it.

So here is it, my personal mind map although I didn't write all about me yet I'm still enjoy this activity. :)

The next picture is my self-portrait which i had added few dried leaves to act it as a ribbon. I never draw myself before, not even once so I drew this self-portrait in a anime or a cartoon-look.

So these are the work that I created within 2 hours in my first class activity for Principle of Design class.