An Artist - Jalaini Abu Hassan

I think that pretty much explains about my post today.

We had to interview and artist for our subject, Contextual Studies. This is also our final topic for this subject.

I hope you have enjoyed reading all my post and who know maybe I'll keep updating this blog!

Only time will tell but for now, ENJOY!!

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DIY Roller Wallpaper Thing

So for our final 2D project we had to go back to nature and get inspired by nature and also only work with black and white as our colour palate.

We decided to do our very own DIY roller wallpaper thing!

The designs are really inspired by nature ( I mean literally) and we had our ups and down in creating this product.

Telling you the steps this would be easier with pictures as guides so....HERE YOU GO!

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Things need in creating this wallpaper roll thing are;

-Fresh Leaves (you can get them for a near by park for more variety of choices)

- Toilet paper roll or unused box (as roller base and stamp base)

- Craft foam (get them form the nearest Popular book Store now!)

- Base paint

- Any form of paint (we used Chinese ink because it has very strong ink pigment)

- Cutting tools

- Brush

- The very trust worthy UHU glue.

-The bottom caps of a tin can drink (for finishing)

- Old roller handle

- Hands and yourself.

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Step one - Choose your desire size of roller to work with, and paint the outer layer with some base paint. This will ensure that no water will go into the roller when you use them.

                

Step 2 - Choose you desired leaves and apply paint onto one side of the leaf and stamp it on to the craft foam. Repeat step two until you have enough leaves pattern for your roller.

Step 3 - Cut the foams into the leaves shape that was printed on the foam. Note that if you scrape the surface of the foam it will create gaps when you apply it on to a surface later.

Step 4 - Glue the desired leave carved foam into your painted roller. Repeat step until you have fully design your roller. 

Step 5 - Once you have design you roller patter, give it a go! apply some paint on the craft foam and rolls away!

 

Step 6 - Now that the roller is done time to create the handles for them, you will have to cut the two of the bottom part of the canned drinks and drill a hole in the middle, only on one of the tins. Then slip it in to the roller in the following sequence - TIN - ROLLER -TIN. Apply glue at the ends of the tin and secure it into place.

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SO THERE YOU GO YOUR VERY OWN WALLPAPER ROLLER

SEE YOU!!

Little Paper Plane

We have to design and make a mini comic? so this is what I came out with.

ENJOY

But before enjoying the comic...here is the behind the scene thing.

 - Story board and layout design -

- This was the first sketch I did of the comic, it was shorter and much simpler with very little square blocks. It didn't work for me because I ended the story too soon, so there was no climax what so ever into the story and it was a little bland to me.

- The next two sketch you see are an edited version of the first sketch on the comic's story board. I added more blocks and made the story longer and now it comes with a climax and the story was no longer boring.

- At my half way point through the story....yey! 

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NOW ON TO THE MAIN EVENT

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*note that it is impossible to fly someone a paper air plane through land and sea….this is purely from my imagination….any lost paper air plane will not be tolerated….fly at your own risk*

You read the comic from left to right, then from right to left…your eye movement will slowly form a ‘S’ like shape much like a descending paper air plane.

This story is about a long distant pen pal, passing notes with each other through a simple paper air plane.

In the first page you can see a girl happily sitting down under a tree and getting ready to read a massage that she just received. Notice that the back ground of the girl is all happy and sunny bright. Moving along the page, as the girl open the massage, the scene change from a nice looking landscape to a more horrid looking landscape with a house on fire, later you see a girl wearing a kimino looking down while holding a letter. As tears run down her face the comic continue to the next page (following the tear)

On the second page, you see the continuation of the tear and it later became the tear from the ponytail girl. Because the ponytail girl felt sad for the bunhead girl, she decided to send her some words of encouragement in a form of a paper plane. She then folded the paper plane and flies over to the next page and got stuck in a tree.

On the third and final page, you will see the bunhead girl noticing that there is a paper plane stuck in the tree, she grabs with a long stick with nets attached at the ends. Before she opens there paper plane, notice her facial expression is all sad and moody, but after she opens the paper plane she looks up with a smile. then it later shows that her surrounding land scape is all flourish and beautiful.

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Tessellation MADNESS!

TESSELLATION - It's fun once you get the hang of it!

A Tessellation (or Tiling) is when you cover a surface with a pattern of flat shapes so that there are no overlaps or gaps.

When I first saw a tessellation (from my lecture's slide presentation, and he said that we have do to this) , The first thing that comes in my mind was; 

"WOW! How the heck am I gonna do this....Fish!!"

I really had no idea on how do you create a simple yet complex looking tessellation.

SO, OFF TO THE AWESOME INTERNET!

For better understanding on how to a simple tessellation and honestly speaking it was not as hard as is seams....you just need a REALLY long ruler and other drawing materials.

I took information,tips and tricks from this website, and I was doing complicated looking but yet simple to do, TESSELLATIONS!

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Now time for the presentation part!

We had to design not ONE but SIX tessellation and each of them had some criteria to fulfill and we must use the elements of design as our main focus on each of the design.

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- CONTINUITY - ELEVATOR -

- I use a collage method with newspaper to finish this design -

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- PROXIMITY- TREE -

- Because Christmas was in the air, so I decide do to a tessellation for the occasion -

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- FIGURE GROUND - FISH -

- I used the basic concept of Ying and Yang, and created this tessellation -

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- CLOSURE - FRUITS -

- Honestly I don't know what is this fruit, but I did saw it from a fruit drawing book -

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- ALIGNMENT - ANTS -

- I like to observe ants when I was younger, and yes they walk in a line -

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- SIMILARITY - TASTY -

-YUMMS! nothing beats a strawberry sundae with cherry on top! -

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2D design basics

Today I will present to you my PAPER CUTTING PROJECT (applause) . each of the following picture, I have briefly explain on how did I use 2D design principle in each and everyone of my paper cutting project.

Most of my design I use Square as my basic shape and transform them into other forms making you normal average square more interesting. SO ONLY THINK IN THE 'BOX' or SQUARE.....

and I chose yellow because it is a very striking color against the black background thus you can see the design better

AND NOW WE BEGIN!!

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Repetition - To repeat a pattern

In this piece, I use a square basic and cut out other little square in that square...and inverted them to create this design. i think its very....tiles like? but when you stare to long...your eyes will hurt.

  

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Movement - The flow of the subject in one's art.

When you see this paper cut out, your eyes would want to start from the small square (bottom) and move all the way up to the larger square cut out. If your eyes moves in that way then I have achieve 'movement' in my paper cut out. YAY!

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Symmetrical balance - Balance between elements (same element)

In this paper cut out, I try to keep it simple but yet tedious to do but I did achieve the balance that I was going for.....

(thank god i didn't lose any piece from the cut out)

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Rhythm - The 'beat' and movement of subject.

This cut out was OBVIOUS inspired from Tetris. I use Tetris block shape to create movement in this cut out. if this was a real game I would have lost....

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Hierarchy - The order of the object

I have showed two types of hierarchy. the first one (top left) I have use a pyramid base shape but still maintaining my 'simple square' concept  the other one (lower right) was inspired by the equalizer in the car. Going UP and DOWN with the beat on the music.

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Scale - The difference in size between one shape to another

Its a game of big fish eat little fish...and bigger fish eat big fish. the circle of life~ 

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Dominant - one element rules over other elements

I was inspired to do this symbol after watching Tsubasa Tokyo Revelation, SO to commemorate this anime, I did this paper cut out in shape of a cherry blossom flower or 'Sakura' which is also the name for one of the character in the anime.

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Asymmetrical balance - Balance between balance (different element)

Achieving balance...but with different elements...but still balance...confused? so am I. but I will try and explain it to you with the help of Google and other notes!

Asymmetrical balance occurs when several smaller item on one side are balanced, a larger item on the other side, or smaller item are placed further away form the center or the screen than larger items

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- DONE -

STEAM POWER!

Why is my post labeled 'Steam Power'? Well its because this week (well it was actually this topic was given two weeks ago but.... OWH WELL!) we have to do an art inspired but the era of STEAM-PUNK.

Steam-punk works are often set in an alternate history of the 19th century's British Victorian era, Americana "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power was mainstream in the industrial world. Steam punk perhaps is the most recognizable features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century.

TO PUT IT IN THE MOST SIMPLEST WAY :-
                                                   

VICTORIAN ERA + GEARS AND STEAM 

= STEAM-PUNK

May it be and outfit, building, cats?! it could all be steampunk-efied!

 - outfit inspired by the era of steam-punk -

http://artisancakecompany.com

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- Building landscape -minecraft -

http://5493-planetmc.voxcdn.com

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- Steam-punk inspired landscape -

http://25.media.tumblr.com/

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- Steam-punk air craft -

http://4.bp.blogspot.com

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Now with these concept in mind, I have to compose a landscape inspired by the steam-punk era and use these art technique to bring my art to life.

- LINE -

-This technique takes LOTS of patience and pen (or pencil if you are using it )  -

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/

OR

- DOTTING -

-This technique take LOADS (and i mean LOADS) of patience -

http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au

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But whichever one you use, you will have to stick to it till you finish with your landscape( it's in A2 size by the way)

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MY TAKE ON A STEAM-PUNK LANDSCAPE

Voala! MY MASTER PEICE!

the building structure was originally from this illustration

but with a few editing here and there....I totally steam punk-afy it! ( I think)

and I also got my insparation for my work (over all) was from this dude

- TIM BURTON -

- HIS OTHER ART WORKS -

http://24.media.tumblr.com

http://www.slashfilm.com

http://i222.photobucket.com

Truth behind the MASK

MASK IN CULTURE

Across culture and history, the face has been bestowed with incredible importance and power. Faces represent as a point of contact and their artistic representation, whether  human, animals or spirit.

MASK has been used for many centuries to express culture and spiritual believes  creating identities and transform personalities. In some culture, it is to said that spirits and ancestral beings can inhabit in a mask. thus making the wearer endows themselves with new power.

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- Mask of Garuda - Bali -

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- Korean Hahoe Mask - Korea -

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 - Dia de los Muetos Figure - Mexico -

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http://australianmuseum.net.au

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MASK IN EVERYDAY LIFE

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From then picture above you might have guessed what are mask use in today's society. If you have guessed to protect one face form sun burn, then you have guessed WRONG. The correct answer is to protect one's identity form the rest of the world. Much like this super hero, WE (as normal citizens of the world)  have created our own mask that we use in our everyday life but we just don't have ACTUAL masks for these mask (kinda like invincible mask...in a way) and we unconsciously put them on when we need to.

"Have you ever seen a friend of yours do something that shocked you the very core? Something that made you think, “I thought I knew him/her, I didn't know they’d be like that”? "

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The existence of there ask can be seen in the fake laugh and smiles that explodes form a person who tries too hard to look good to empress someone.

“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.”

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If you are telling yourself that you're not wearing a mask by the end of this post, have you ever thought that MAYBE you got too use to wearing a mask that you don't notice it anymore?

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PS : My blog post is not in order.....sorry...