Design Principles Week 11-13 : Final Project (Visual Analysis)

Design Principles GCD60804

NAME: Sea Hirayama

I.D: 0347596

COURSE: Bachelor of Design in Creative Media 

●Visual research (visual analysis)

 

- The design by Hajime Sorayama

Figure 1.1 - 1.4  Some design by Hajime Sorayama

 These design by Hajime Sorayama have some interesting points such as the elements. As for visual elements, the main point is that they are same in texture like a robot with same color scheme and real objects such as robot. Overall, these are not too much complicated design. These are used narrow line, detailed work and compose big impact with these shape. No words, only illustration is. Also these are glossy and strong without outline and some pattern.

 Hajime Sorayama's design is good composition and asymmetrically balanced. The robotization with metallic texture, material is the most focus point of design. The glossy painting emphasis it more. The posing of them shows movement, emotion. For one of top left, the background is used dark color shows mood and sadness or anxiety, but the woman is contrasted with drawing light, sparking. The shape of the wearing with her shows strong impact and delicacy because all of it is not sharp but also is smooth line. And for the next one of it, it is really delicacy with the composition of woman and metallic wearing. The woman is also wearing cardigan shows kind of erotic. It is not crude and is refined image with good proportion that is why it shows unity and harmony. Same for the bottom left, the posing of her and the texture shows beauty and power of woman. For the last one, the balance is composed with main object and the around small one. It is created hierarchy and good balance, the size of main object emphasis by comparing the other one. Also it can be seen vibrant, lively and movement because the central dinosaur look like to enjoy running and playing with them. Overall, for background, it is just simply, gradation color with a calm color shows a little adult and a relaxed atmosphere. It is also unity, same color tone and shape express universality of art what object is put on.

 These work embraces multiple themes of contemporary societies like racial barriers, eternal life, fusion of technology and beauty, artificial intelligence. World widely renowned for the Sexy Robot series (1978), a representation of the woman beauty transposed to a robot that had a great influence on the perception of the robot image; he is also known for the design conception of Sony's entertainment robot "AIBO" (1999) and the cover of Aerosmith's rock album "Just Push Play" (2001). The robot is also art, the shape, metallic color, massive feeling, sometime scare and erotic etc. It inspire a lot kinds of art, for typography, fashion and so on. Especially, for typography, there are begin for like metallic font, the part of robot font etc. For this, it shows modern society and harmony between human and robot, machine. Art is free to express ourselves, also difficult things to inform own thinking and feeling  with own hand, technic. Actually, for this way of art with machine, shows us not only scare with robot, we can see it stylish. Recently, this is popular way in art, graphic design, particularly for young generation with revival.

     

Figure 1.5 - 1.8 Examples of typography

●Idea exploration

 I thought that it is good opportunity for me to draw my own portrait with learning this task, so I tried to draw it with me. First of all, I sketched the face. It wasted time because it is first time for me to draw myself more clearly. Anyway, I drawn the part of machine after I finished it.

Figure 2.1 Sketch of face (24/06/2021)

Figure 2.2 Sketch of face (24/06/2021)

Figure 2.3 Sketch of part of machine (24/06/2021)

 I just tried to draw all them reality that is why I focused on details of them more and more. Especially, these shape like robot took me a lot of time. This experience taught me about design principles such as contrast, emphasis and harmony as well. 

Figure 2.4 The process of part of machine (25/06/2021)

Figure 2.5 The detail of part of machine (25/06/2021)

Figure 2.6 The detail of part of face (25/06/2021)

Figure 2.7 The process of part of machine (25/06/2021)

Figure 2.8 Final design in Illustrator (25/06/2021)

 After I finish draw this design, I fix it in Photoshop to improve it more. Actually, I found some tool and enjoyed it.

Figure 2.9-2.12 The tool I found in Photoshop(25/06/2021)

●Final design

 For my design, selected the way to focus on face with some part of robot because I just wanted to create it more clearly and deeply. So this time, I wasted a lot of time to learn his art and do it in my way. To add, it was first time for me to draw my face clearly that is why I also noticed about me. 

 Actually, for his art, there is simple shape but also has impact because it shows good composition and color scheme. So I tried to focus on balance and harmony. For the part of my face, I drawn it less emphasis compared with the part of machine that is why I used color which its tone was low and its touch was kind of soft. But also, it has smooth unity between face and machine part with complicate details such as eyebrow and lentigo I had. Especially, it was really hard for me to focus on details of light and shadow. I put the shadow by the machine part on face, made it more unity and harmony that is why I could create it without some discomfort. 

 For machine part, I tried to made it more complicated that is why it was kind of difficult to compose them. The part of like a hose, there has really difficult details such as shadow to contrast between main part and it. Also, its balance shows some impact as well as some parts of machine. To add, for the reason I selected the way to draw with brush like this was that shading brush can express kind to see it and harmony. But before I fix it with some filter, it was just kind of less impact that is why I add filter to fix the level of them. Then it could have impact, emphasis and hardness.

 This moment to learn his art and do it with knowledge I got made me more confidence as well as developing my art. Of course, I thought it was really important experience for me to draw in different way with new challenge. Actually, I could to draw it in good design which I wondered to draw someday. 

Figure 3.1 final design for Visual Analysis - JPEG (25/06/2021)

Figure 3.2 final design for Visual Analysis - PDF (25/06/2021)

●Feedback

I really really sad for ending this lecture because this Design Principles's lecture is my favorite class ever. From these lecture, I got a lot of experience to develop my skill to draw and think about design, art. Especially, I noticed some rules to create some in good way. I just would like to learn more and more that is why I decided to learn English in order to grow my skill up with English for my future. Anyway, this lecture by Dr Charles made me more confidence to create some with free feelings. I really appreciated to him and also my classmate. I really enjoyed attending this Design Principles's lecture.

●brief reflection for the week

I really enjoyed to do this task this week because I could draw my favorite art way and there were a lot of things I never notice so far.

●FINAL reflection for the semester

 It was first semester of design for me so it was really fun semester I felt. There were many opportunity to learn and get new knowledge, so I really appreciated to this semester with nice teachers. When I have been first few weeks, I was really nervous and anxious of study with online and in English but, now, I thought that this experience made me more confidence to learn more and more. Anyway, I just satisfied with great experience to learn. Thank you sir.