Posted by: Edward | October 23, 2009
ARTS 1311 Project 2
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I like your use of design. I like how the focus is on the planet and it is in our hands. Very strong message coming across. Why didn’t you use the world in his hand though? The composition could be stronger. The background could have related more with everything else. The hand is so strong and overpowers the piece. We don’t want to take away from that, but you could have change the background to something else. You could have changed it to a american flag to tie the colors together. Using black or white for the background would work great on billboards. This would work great for multi-purpose advertising without the background. So we could just focus on the point.
By: youremycasualty on October 27, 2009
at 5:51 am
Your concept for this project comes across well.
However, I am not sure if I would convey a “green” concept from this design. I feel that the text needs to go just one more step. The images are appropriate but maybe could just be rearranged in a different manor. However, you did a great job with blending them together. I am not good at that all. Would you share what software you are using?
The little bird lends great detail to the sphere in the hand along with the texture of the sphere itself.
I like the use of color in your background. It enhances your focus images. I think it would be cool to be to have little more of the color value show thru the trees and water just for an added effect.
I am interested in the story that inspired your concept. Where did you get your images?
You did a great job!!
By: platter103 on October 28, 2009
at 3:36 am
Value is used in the composition by the circle in the hand along with the background. The variation of lighter and darker colors is used to show the edges of the circle in the hands. The strength of value could have been a little better used by adding different gray tones like a darker gray than used or using brighter colors. I think you could have made things look more 3D by adding some light to one side of the circle. Any type of light added to one side would have given it a lot more value. Over all I think the image is cool but it could use a few things here and there.
Good job.
By: jetgirl01 on October 28, 2009
at 3:55 am
2. What role does texture have in the composition? (Detail, pattern, space, and/or design). Be specific, if texture missing or weak include that also.
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Edward,
You used texture for details and space. The textures of your background image, the water mainly, really give water its quality; as for the trees, it contrasts well against the water. The ball (Earth) looked a bit too smooth yet grainy at the same time. Perhaps just using an image of the planet Earth with different values would have been more effective, but I know how difficult it is to make all of the images blend in well together. (I myself had great difficulties with it.)
I wished you had experimented with texture a bit more as it could have enhanced your image even further. The water being squeezed from the Earth on the far right (blue and red), to me, didn’t contrast well against the hand or background; it sort of just looks like lines of ribbon that didn’t belong. Perhaps a different color and using filters such as “liquify” or blending in other textures to the water would be a bit more effective. Overall, great job!
-Vivi
By: vipham on October 28, 2009
at 2:21 pm
Thanks for the comments.
The message is about squeezing water out of the earth hurting, and the red is supposed to represent blood, from either the earth or the hand, meaning it could be hurting one or both. I had to improvise with that “water” on the right because I didn’t want to waste real water for an image about preserving water (and couldn’t figure out how to get the effect I was looking for anyway).
The background is actually the original version of the sphere that is in the hand, though I guess it’s hard to tell, since the hand is covering the birds. The trees in the sphere are supposed to look brownish, as if they’re dying from the lack of water.
I actually did do some liquifying to the falling water. It would’ve looked too calm otherwise. ^_^
I’m not really sure about the story behind the image though; I think it was just a random idea that came to mind while toying with images I had started with.
I use Photoshop CS4, and the images were mostly taken at White Rock Lake. All the nature ones were, so no water was wasted during the making of this image.
By: eaglemcbirdie on October 30, 2009
at 6:14 am