Visual Language: Week Three - Visit to Brunswick Centre and initial concept sketches

-

11th - 12th Oct -
Research for 3D structure design -
Visit to Brunswick Centre and initial concept sketches

Photo from Brunswick
Centre visit 

To develop a concept for a 3D structure, I visited the Brunswick Centre to better understand the thought processes of architectural design and research the proposed area, to visualise the ideal placement of a temporary structure on the terrace area. From my visit I collected photos and sketches to consider the layout and general aesthetic of the area, which I could then reflect on to develop my structure ideas. The Brunswick centre had a very monotone colour palette, and the layout of the interior felt very liminal and soviet in atmosphere, due to it's domineering concrete forms and minimal lighting. This created stark shadows, an echoic audial experience, and encouraged a sensation of isolation. Due to this research, I decided to propose. structure that greatly contrasted this atmosphere.

Photo from Brunswick
Centre Visit

Developing my initial idea, I drafted some visual elements in written notes to then riff some sketches off of them. My first thoughts were to create something that opposed the mood of the Brunswick centre, so to counteract it's isolated atmosphere, I wanted to use more vibrant colours, create an ancient and natural aesthetic to conflict with the modernised, concrete buildings, and evoke a sense of the ethereal and magical rather than the human-influence already present throughout the environment. Due to my personal interests in Japanese culture, I decided to sketch a draft design featuring a Torii gate (Shinto shrine gates, that represent the transition from the human realm to the sacred). My idea was to create a pathway in which the audience enter via a Torii gate into an otherworldly environment full off vines, running water, and imagery of Kami and Yokai (Japanese deities and spirits) lining the interior walls. The audience would then exit back into the real world via another Torii gate.

Brunswick Centre sketches

My sketches clearly depicted my thought processes, however I feel I could have expanded on this brief further by sketching out some of my other written ideas which may have then further influenced my final outcome (see next post). By only focusing on the one idea that I felt most passionately about, I feel I restricted my own creative process and didn't allow myself to experiment more in the development stage. I will improve on this in the future by allowing myself to explore more than one of my initial ideas.


Initial idea for temporary structure sketches and notes -
Torii gate tunnel to another realm


One aspect I am very satisfied with from these sketches is the consideration for sustainability in my idea - by focusing on the ancient and ethereal, it allowed for my idea to rely heavily on natural materials rather than manmade ones (for example, the proposed tunnel design is formed out of naturally grown vines and plants, rather than concrete or glass). This could possibly better benefit the area as a whole, encouraging more wildlife and vegetation growth to prosper, as well as influencing the audience to consider the positive emotional impact that nature has on us in contrast to an otherwise mundane and industrialised environment.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Visual Language: Week Six - Summary of Unit

-
Image
Visual Language: Week Six - Summary of Unit Throughout this unit I have experimented with a multitude of visual language elements and principles to diversify my artwork and introduce thematic subtleties (primarily focused around the theme “error”) to create atmospheric and emotional depth to each of my pieces. This unit has helped me to understand the importance of VL elements and principles in every art form from illustration and typography to architectural design and cinematography. These elements and principles can be manipulated in numerous ways to create diverse effects within the artwork. Value can be used drastically to emphasise the contrast in shading, or it can be used in a more subdued manor to delicately symbolise balance between colour tones. Equally, the use of various textures can create a sense of harmony in a piece of artwork if these textures compliment each other, or conversely they can create a distorted movement in the piece by varying in scale and shape from one a
Read more

Visual Language: Week Two - Result of visual experiments - 4 page comic

-
Image
7th Oct -   Result of visual experiments - 4 page comic As a result of my previous experiments and research, I decided to make a 4 page comic as a response. This comic concerned the continuing development of artificial intelligence and how it’s impact could possibly affect the future of current and future generations. I began by storyboarding the idea, drafting the pages in very quick sketches - just to establish the panel placements, and decided on the overall movement of the comic’s narrative across these panels. I then proceeded to create the comic digitally using Clip Studio Paint as my program of choice. Rather than sketching out the poses and environments of each scene and fine lining over that - I went straight in with the rough, sketchy line art to emphasise the dark underlying tone of the narrative. I further emphasised this by picking a monotone colour palette, defining the individual shapes and forms of both the environments and characters with gradation between the values o
Read more

Visual Language: Week Two - Visual Experiment - Response to broken Mew toy

-
Image
4th Oct - Visual Experiment - Response to broken Mew toy found object: mew toy Using a found object (a broken Pokemon toy) from home, I produced a series of drawings to further my understanding of visual language and the fundamentals of art/design. The results of these line makings were mixed, however I feel they have helped to further my understanding on key areas such as value and form. The total batch of drawings included some gesture based line work studies (rotating the subject to experiment with form and shape), value studies accentuating light and shadow hitting the object, studies on shadows cast by the object, and experimentation with how scale affects the detail captured in a piece of work. gesture and value studies I feel that one of the three gesture drawings was very successful,  accurately capturing the form of the object in the angle I was  viewing it from with simple, quick, decisive lines. However, I feel the other two drawings were less successful - one being too sket
Read more