IVN CHAI WEI YI (0369561) Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media (Taylor's University)

 ILLUSTRATION & VISUAL NARRATIVE 

October 03 2023

27/9/23-3/11/23 (Week 1-Week5)

Chai Wei Yi (0369561)

Illustration &Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media/Taylor's University

Task 1 Exercise

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  Introduction 

Lecture 

Week 1 Lecture

Figure 1.0

Following our class briefing, the instructor tasked us with engaging in an activity known as "Bezier" using our computers or laptops. As a beginner, I initially found it quite challenging, but after some practice, I successfully completed it by manipulating 12 nodes. It proved to be an enjoyable and stimulating experience working with Bezier curves.

Week 2 Lecture

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Summary of My lecture

In week 2, Mr. Hafiz provided us with a briefing on the fundamentals of designing a digital character. These characters needed to be iconic and distinctive enough to capture people's attention. During the lecture presented by Mr. Hafiz, he comprehensively explained the key elements and points that we should pay close attention to. These elements play a crucial role in defining the characters themselves, including aspects like shapes, colors, emphasis, contrast, harmony, expressions, and poses

Shapes:

Design a silhoutte

Color :

establish the basic roles of the characters

Emphasis, contrast exaggerate to memorate

Harmony: every element in your design should match with each other

Expression, poses: expressive emotive character win the audience

Week 3 Lecture

Summary of My lecture

In this lecture, the concept of Chiaroscuro was clearly explained. Chiaroscuro, an Italian term meaning "light-dark," involves using the interplay of light and dark to create the illusion of three-dimensional volume on a flat surface. The primary purpose of Chiaroscuro is to enhance the dramatic tension of a scene by accentuating the subject's importance through the manipulation of color or the contrast between light and shadow. Why chiaroscuro is excellent in visual narrative? its cause its a greatest lightning choice to differentiate positive and negative spaces. Positive space pertain to the subject matter or objects of interest within a visual. Negative space, in this context, refers to the filled areas or background that encircle the subject matter and objects of interest within the visual composition. Hence, it can also be used to increase dramatic tension, create sensational effect, attract attention and make tasteful composition

Task 1
Exercise 1:Vormator Challenge 

Figure 2.0 Shape that provided 

In week 2, Mr. Hafiz introduced all the details about using shapes provided by him to create a character with our unique concepts and creativity. This challenge is known as the Vormator Challenge, and we were all very excited about it. It involves producing work using only a limited set of shapes and strict rules. Each of us received the same shape and was tasked with designing our own character. This challenge required a good amount of creativity and the ability to visualize shapes in our minds. All actions, such as flipping, copying, and adding, subtracting, or intersecting elements, were allowed. Fortunately, there were no restrictions on color, and we could create our own unique color combinations. Additionally, other elements like gradients, strokes, filters, and effects were also permitted

 

The figure 3.0 above is one of the exercise of pen tools to get the outline 

Figure 4.0

Figure 4.1

I challenge myself with the vormator challenge, and the final product I've created is inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean. I personally love this movie series, so I bravely attempted to digitize and cartoonize it. The idea for this creation comes from my fascination with Pirates of the Caribbean. I felt that the character wasn't similar enough to the pirate captain, so I added a parrot to make it look more like a pirate. But I found that I couldn't perfectly replicate the colors in my mind for the pirate in my vormator challenge. I'll do better next time in terms of coloring.

Figure 4.2

Exercise 2: Chiaroscuro Exercise 

Our first exercise on Chiaroscuro during week 2 was about tracing a pear. We were asked to use the pen tool and pathfinder tools to trace the pear and its outline. For the shadow portion, we were required to utilize the pencil tool to outline the pear's shadow using a color darker than the pear's original color For the slicing part, we were required to utilize the knife tool to separate the pear into slices. Furthermore, we needed to use the pen tool to ensure that all the pear slices appeared smooth and complete

Figure 5.0 (Tracing of Pear)

Figure 5.1 (Slicing the pear using knife tool)

After the exercise about the pear done, we were asked to improve more skill in this type of exercise. We have to trace out the shadows of skull and place it onto the pear.

Figure 5.2 (Picture Given)

Figure  5.3 (Skull Shadow on Pear)

Chiaroscuro People Exercise

In the following exercise, we were provided with a picture of people, and our task was to apply the chiaroscuro techniques we learned from the pear exercise to the people in the image

Figure 6.0

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Reflection

Throughout the past five weeks in this module, I have realized that this course has brought me more than just growth in the fundamentals of the professional field. It has also nurtured a more careful, patient, and responsible attitude towards handling tasks. I am delighted to see my personal growth and can't wait to apply these skills more extensively