10 best 3D shapes

I choose these pieces as my best 10 for my 3D shape because in the pictures I showed negative space so the object it self can be focused on when viewers look at it, I also used wire as my material to create a path like structure.  The darker photographic’s however don’t use negative space, these objects are surround by shadow and I did this to give the line of light more definition, this is because the light was a object to use to show a path, I also used a found object as the shape behind the light to create two different contrasts with the light, and the background when the photo is converted into black and white.

Final

My final piece is a 3D shape, parts from my digital work, tactile and 3D shapes. From my digital work I took the shapes that were used for example squares and circle, I also used layering with the placing of the shapes and this was a technique I used in my digital pieces and from my tactile in some pieces I had painted some parts of it with marble effects, so I took that and painted the whole piece in a marble effect and the parts taken from my 3D shape is the materials used in this piece which is wood and wire and again here I used the wire to create a path way,I also used I strip of light this object is used through out my tactile and 3D shape for definition and also to represent a pathway.

The pictures here are also edited with photoshop and blending effects were added.

 

3D Shapes (Traverse)

These 3D shapes were made with wood and wire, the wires are bent to look like a abstract path and spray paint is used to paint the wire and the wood piece, however not the whole wire is painted black and this is because it greats a effect when taking a picture for the light to only hit parts of the wire and black was painted on the wood piece so the object is the most focused part and using a white background as the backdrop helps with this illusion. Light was also used as a object to create a path in my photography, I used the light to outline shapes and to show a simple line through shapes.

Pinterest Board (Pins for research)

 

Through out my research I looked at images of  graphic designs, paintings and sculptures. The images I have collected for my research all have a similar style of minimalism, geometrics and abstract, I choose images with these three themes because I find that most of my work I produce go under these three themes and looking at these images give me a lot of inspiration for what to create and experiment with, also it gave me ideas to try using different materials I haven’t used before in my work like light and wire, and as my main focus on is normally the digital side of design looking at other work besides digital pieces were very interesting to me.

The pieces from my digital work were inspired by me looking at geometric shapes. I looked at images at 1st that were very messy and a bit over the place with the shapes and shading, as I kept looking for more inspiration I found geometric shapes that looked very minimalistic and abstract, I ended up making my pieces based on this style and as I created pieces I found that not using a lot of detail but making it abstract made the piece seem liked there was a lot going on at the same time of it being minimalistic. The minimalistic images didn’t have that much elements on them, also had very little colour on them too and this gave the image a very straight forward concept, there wasn’t any meaning behind these pieces either, I also noticed that colours are placed in different ways to create the abstract look.

Other medium I looked at was paintings for my tactile pieces, as I hardly ever paint I wasn’t sure where to start with my work and so I looked at all styles of paintings for my research images to see what would inspire me the most and got pulled towards to the abstract paintings and pieces that used negative space. I mostly looked at paintings that had not a lot going on but played around with texture by the laying on black and white paint, also looking using strips of paint as the element in the piece. The lined used in the paintings I looked at were very controlled and had this flat and thin texture to it making it look transparent, however I also was interested in lines that looked free flowed as I wanted to experiment with the paint and different tools to create pieces. I ended up using different materials instead of a paint brush to create something similar with my work.

Sculptures was another new area for me to work with I decided to look at light sculptures as it was something I always wanted to try for my 3D shape. I looked at tubes lights, these weren’t very detail, the light itself was the form of the shape and each of these tubes of line were put together into a space as a installation however they lights had a lot of space between each other and I wanted to use this in my work and create shapes. I ended up using LED light as part of my to create shapes and lines in the background for my sculpture but not so much as the main focus as it was difficult to get the items needed for it to create my original idea. I came to a conclusion to make sculptures out of wires after looking at some images of them, the images of the sculptures I looked at used wire to create outlines of shapes and I took this idea and created lines in different motions to represent a path way.

As for my final piece I took out parts from each area of my work to create one object. I used shapes from my digital work as the main form of my object which were a square and a circle,  I also add a line of wire and use wood as my materials, and these were objects used in my 3D shape. I painted the piece in a marble texture as this was something I did in one of my tactile piece however this time it had colour, so I looked at some images of marble paintings with colour I focused on the colours blue, white and gold as I thought they mix well. I also used the LED light as part as my final piece, this was used during taking the 30 pictures of my work, and I used this as a illusion as a pathway again, It was interesting editing these pictures as I could do a lot with the blending effects on photoshop, and overall creating all these pieces was a new experience.

10 best Tactile (Traverse)

I choose these pieces as my 10 best because these were my most successful pieces. In these pieces I used paint and pens to create a illusion of a path, this was done by painting with different stokes with different objects like paint brushes, cardboard, strings or other found objects, using dragging motions and this also makes the pieces look abstract.

The materials used were black and white paint, indie ink and cardboard paper.

 

10 best Digital (Traverse)

These images were chosen to be my 10 best in my digital pieces because they were the ones that intrigued me the most, this is because I feel like these are the best pieces I produced, the shapes in these pieces are placed well to show “traverse”, also all these pieces have white space around them to create an minimalism look and also all these pieces use the same shapes however I have cut out parts of the shape out or repeat the shape to layer them to create a new shape.

The 10 best were printed on tracing paper and  cream textured paper. I choose tracing paper to print my digital pieces on because this created an abstract look for my work and I choose cream textured paper because it gave the work over all a nice clean look.

 

Tactile (Traverse)

 

These pieces are done on cardboard paper with the indie ink, white and black acrylic paint. The size of these pieces are on A5 – A4 pieces of paper, I used white and black paper depending on what colour paint was going to be used on the piece.

Digital (Traverse)

These pieces were created in Illustrator, the tools I used were the shape tools, line segment tool, and the shape builder tool. There isn’t much detail added to these pieces as I tried to keep it as minimalism as possible, reputation is used in my work and was done by placing the same shape over the original shape, I also used lines to create shading. These steps are mostly repeated in my work for these pieces.

 

 

Story Board

Process Group Project

My group made cut outs for our project, we decided to make 3 pieces each and each piece represented some part of nature and my pieces represent the ocean therefore I did cut outs of waves.

Cut Outs

Cut outs were done by getting a image of a wave to stick on the piece of cardboard paper, once the image was glued on the piece of cardboard I would start placing more images around the cardboard, also spray on glue was used for this process. Once everything was stuck on I would start cutting lines out based on the image, the tool I used were a scalpel, the image was only used for the outline of the image all the details were done free handed and this process was repeated for each piece.

Background

The background was designed with water colours, this was done by using water and liquid based water colour. Water is placed on the page depending on where I want colour and then I drip patches of ink into the pool of waters on the page, this gives it some sort of effect and blowing the ink out is also played with to create more patterns, also after that dries more paint is added on the page for more detail and this is mostly blue and white colours. This is also repeated through out each piece done.

Final Piece

The group did a final piece, this was a cut out of a circle which was used as a stencil  for a cut out from each of our pieces. Colour was added with water colour with a paint bush to paint over the stencil to create a image on the circle cut out and then this was framed for a more clean look.

Hanging

The process of hanging our work was very experimental as we tried many ways to hang our work to see what worked out best. The first time we hanged our work we decided to hang them crooked down in a straight line and this wasn’t a very appealing look at the end, we thought it looked like a mess and then we ended up deciding to hang them straight and three on each side, after doing this we sticked with this placement as it looked the best.

PROS AND CONS

The end results were good because its how we wanted views to see our project however we had trouble with the hanging process as working through out hanging our work we didn’t have the tools we needed to hang our work to the ceiling, also we were originally suppose to use screws for the ceiling to help hold our work to the ceiling however this did not go as planned because they did not go through the ceiling, we ended up tucking strings holding the working up to the boards of the ceiling and we also and trouble getting the pieces to look straight but in the end achieved this with team work.