My Art Created Creature Advertisement

I took quite many steps to solve this problem of making a created creature advertisement.

First of all, I planned out which physical features would be from each animal. I decided that since I didn’t know how to use Photoshop, I just made a draft layout of my animal, combining different features from the three animals I chose.

Then, I started to work on the lettering; the text. I found this harder than drawing the layout of the advertisement animal. In the end, after brainstorming visual words for each animal, I decided that my penguin would be dark, my dolphin would be sleek and my dog cuddly.

After this step of creating the advertisement, I played around with the words to see how the text would be lettered to visually show the appearance of the three animals while including all the principles and elements of art. I attempted, and even though I’m not utterly, totally satisfied with it, I think the words pretty much fill in all the requirements. I might need to work on being a bit more creative though.

My draft layout was all colour blending; I didn’t know what else to do, since I wasn’t really sure what the meaning of my advertisement was at that step. So I just colour- blended from pink at the top of the head to brown at the toes. I also added silver swirls for more interest and focal point. It did look more creative but it wasn’t much of a focal point. I planned where my words would be placed in terms of balancing the advertisement.

After all of the drafts, planning and asking Mrs Vincent whether I was actually on the right track, I started on my final version in the Art lesson. Mrs Vincent told me that I could just do what I did for my draft, except there would need to be a distinctive focal point.

When I had sketched my animal and the words, I started colouring them in. But this time, I knew the meaning of my advertisement; warmth of the animal. So, instead of going from pink to brown, I blended the colours in this order; pink- purple- blue- lime- green- yellow- orange- red- back to pink. Mrs Vincent suggested that the colour at the bottom should match the colour at the top so it looked like a cycle of colours. I did the animal’s arms with blue to green to brown. For the swirls, instead of silver, I decided to have gold instead, to show more warmth.

The letterings were quite challenging. Even though I had already planned them out, I still changed them slightly.

I decided to have the background darker colour than the animal and the letterings, since I wanted a big contrast in order for them to stand out and show the warmth with warm colours.

In general, I had quite some fun making this advertisement. I didn’t really understand what to do at first, but when I understood and really started my work, I found it fascinating. Also, since I love colour- blending (It is my favourite part of art! =)) I liked colouring the advertisement in as well. In terms of creativeness, it wasn’t the most creative piece of work, but I don’t think it wasn’t that bad- looking, like some of my friends call it pumpkin head!!!

Just Wondering... Do YOU Consider Photography as ART?!?!?

I just had this pondering..., do you consider photography as art? There was an issue about this, as some people say that it isn't. But I think it is; certainly! Just look at the photos below and think whether you do or not;

Silver Drops.Raspberries.

So, what do YOU think? Do you think photography as art, or not?

Finally!!! PAPER MACHE!!! =D

Yep, yep, yep, yes, yes!!! Hanna Kang, the slowest in the class, is FINALLY up to the paper macheing! Goodness, after about seven lessons of 'hard' work of scrunching newspapers and taping, I was so excited to have that gooey glue on my hands as well.
First, I ripped strips of newspaper. Since I had observed how other people did theirs, I easily knew what to do and decided to rip with my ruler. I ended up ripping them too thin and long, but they were torn in ripped in neat rectangles, so I was satisfied. ;)
Next, Emma poured the white, very- gooey glue from the bucket to the container. It looked, to be honest, disgusting, so I was reluctant to put my hands in it, but once I did, I liked it so much! :) I stuck the strips of newspaper that were soaked in glue, and spread glue on top of the strips of newspaper to make sure they stayed on the mask. I worked my way from the top to the sides to the tail, beak and the bottom. I didn't get to finish the first layer, but I did about half of the mask, which I was really happy with. The strips of newspaper were layed out on the mask so they looked organised instead of just 'stuck on randomly'. For the rest of the lesson, I continued on glueing the strips of newspaper to the mask that actually looked like a mask now.
I am very looking forward to the next art lesson. Hopefully I will be able to finish my first layer and start my second! =]

My Colour Scheme of the Mask...

Okay, here are the rough colour schemes of the mask...

This is the Side View;
This is the Front View;

Animal Optical Illusions...

To have something else other than reflections for a chage, I have added some animal optical illusions so the reader doesn't get too bored with my blog...

Anyone interested in zebras and.., lions???

I like.., all these animals in the picture!!! How many can you find?

Can you see the illusion of the tree branches? I think it's pretty cool!

That's funny.. It's sort of freaky though...

The HeartPuppy! It's not really an illusion but I added it anyway. =]

These animal optical illusions can be found at the link below:

http://visualfunhouse.com/category/animal-optical-illusions

What We Have Been Doing in the Past Few Lessons...

For the past few lessons, we have started to create our masks. I never knew it had so many different steps and stages to go through!
First, each person had to stuff a plastic bag full of newspaper. This was going to be the basic shape of the head of the mask. Okay, since my head just wouldn't fit in to the plastic bag after I had stuffed in one whole booklet of newspaper, I had to use a lot more. I felt sort of sad... My head felt really big!!!
Then we stuck masking shapes around the plastic bag to make the shape of the head; mine had to be a penguin's head so it had to be round, but it turned out looking like a pumpkin. When we were done, it looked like a garbage dump full of newspaper. Secondly, we started to have the basic shape of the mask. As the lessons progressed, these basic shapes made of newspaper, a lot of masking tape and plastic bag, as well as cardboard, took more shapes and became detailed. I realised though, that my talent was not in making shapes out of newspaper. I was extra slow; I took two lessons doing ears and the fin of a dolphin and one lesson doing the beak. I still have to do the tail and the face!
I did my ears as cardboard, and I am planning to make the tail out of cardboard as well, except it would be stuffed with newspaper inside.
The next step, the third step, which I haven't gone into yet, was the start of paper- macheing. This was done with liquid glue (very gooey!) and strips of newspaper; the mask had to be covered with pieces of newspaper and really start to take shapes.
I can't wait till I start painting the mask though; I think I will be much better at that then making pumpkin- heads and stick- like beaks out of newspaper! =-)

Plan of My Mask...

WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT LAUGH OR BE TOO CRITICAL EVEN IF YOU THINK IT IS THE WORST DRAWING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. IT'S NOT FUNNY TO LEAVE MEAN COMMENTS EITHER. I DID TRY YOU KNOW, AND EVERYONE KNOWS I AM NOT GOOD IN DRAWING!!! SO PLEASE BE KIND...

This is my plan of the mask I am going to make this term. The parts of the mask are all drawn from the animal pictures I researched in Term 1. This is sort of like the rough plan; just to see what the mask would look like. The actual design of the mask will be posted later on. Each box is a part of the mask, but I didn't do the shape of the head. (In case you wondered, it's the rounded head of a penguin. =])

Here it is! (READ THE WARNING AT THE TOP.)