Since coming back to University, I’ve quite enjoyed it. Its fun coming back and seeing everyone and getting back into a routine again but at the same time it’s not all fun and games. Visual design this week showed and taught us more about what Art is and the processes of it. It’s really complicated, first of all, everything is upside down, our eyes just reverse it, it’s a complicated process, we all take for granted what our eyes allows us to do (see things) but the thing is in education Art is seen a lot lower down on the list. The reason for this is that I think a lot of people don’t see it as something big or important, but in actual fact it is extremely important, without Art and Design there would simply be nothing, because nothing would have design, even we as human beings have a design to our bodies. Let’s face it, without being able to draw and plan things it would be quite difficult to say make a house without planning. It’s like what I was talking about in my hopes for this year, if you don’t plan a drawing and go straight into painting it from scratch you probably find it really difficult unless you’re some sort of Art wizard? People don’t appreciated Art as much as other academic subjects, but let’s just how the world would cope without houses or building, electricity, gas or food. I mean even food has design, something needs to be made to hold and store energy that we all need, else we wouldn’t survive and not have anything we have today. I might be getting too much into this but if the lord gave us problems, design is one of the best ways to solve these problems because we make things that help us solve them. What we’re doing is complicated, the receptors in our eyes are taking light that’s there in front of us turning it back around in which we are able to apply that to paper etc using different media.
Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia but Art on many sites I've seen is described as a mode of expression though all kinds of things such as music, film, photography and literature etc, basically all the things we take for granted cause everyone has something they like and whatever it maybe is a way of expression. For example everyone has their own taste in music pretty much but would you call the music wrong? I don't you would since you take a liking to it, no matter what kind of form of music it maybe. What I'm trying to say is Art can be pretty much anything, and pretty much anything has some sort of expression or emotional impact on you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/f/what_is_art.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/picasso/500/Meaningofart.html
(They all pretty much say the same thing)
This week we was shown about how Artists like Claude Monet were obsessed with colour yet let it be known Monet couldn’t see colour we all normally do and eventually found out that the colour in all of his works were wrong, but the fact is this did not ruin his work at all, his works were still great pieces of imagery, the thing is it showed what these real life scenes looked like to him through his vision. It’s interesting because the colours are different, and the thing is we all see things differently so it doesn’t make it wrong, it makes it unique if anything. This year we are going to have a much more creative year I think and we too are going to be obsessed with colour, I have studied colour theory in the past too but pretty much picked up the basics of it, for example different colours have different meanings towards us all, for instance yellow could mean joy and happiness and the colour of the sun, red could be danger and violence, green neutral, blue calm and beauty and pink love etc. A lot of Artists explored different colour, I think Picasso and Monet are particularly good examples, they used many different colours throughout their works exploring the brighter and darker colours. Some Artists express their feelings and emotions through the use of colour for example using darker colours such as blue and blacks when they were feeling down and depressed, but used brighter colours such as reds and pinks when they were in love which is interesting as Art obviously can be used as a way to express you.
I think that paintings like these are good examples of expressing emotion and feelings:
Claude Monet - Poppy Field
(Happy and joyful with brighter colour)
Picasso - Les Noces De Pierrette
(Sad, darker & colder)
This week we went to Abbey Park for the day, it (in total honesty) got kind of boring after a short while. We’d been to the same place back in April on a bright sunny day to so it really was just looking at the same thing, the only thing different was that it was a different time of year so the colours of the leaves and trees were slightly different. I’ve written how I’d like to go further out to different places or just other places in general around Leicester. It’s was really just a repeat of the last trip but this time trying to find a different scene to draw. Me personally, I like to draw the buildings (though there aren’t that many) and structures around the place rather than the trees. Tree foliage is something I’m dreadful at and will avoid at all costs, though in my sketches they are always lurking in the background no matter how hard I try to find a non green area around there. In my final I wanted to try and take all the things we talked about in our lecture, basically looking at the rule of thirds trying to bring the eyes back around the painting by placing the main focus point to one side. I found a small building there which this worked quite well with and I was able to make use of proper perspective. I also used a colour swab to create the image using just 3 colours being green, an orange like colour, yellow and of course black and white. I’ve wanted to try creating an image using this method before but I can say it’s amazing what you can achieve using just a few colours (though I didn’t struggle to make a blue colour out of it). I layered the colours over in my final digital painting but and I gave it my best shot on trying to create the trees and bushes. I used some different customized brushes to help create the effect, which I think went okay in the end.
In game production, we’ve been given 3 different projects to do, first being a professional brief from Blitz studios to do a treasure chest, the second a trash project and the third being a self portrait in which I am dreading. I hate photo’s being taken of me let alone drawing myself or even people drawing me. I’ve already finished the modelling for the project, so all that’s left to do is the texturing although this time the texturing comes with a twist, being paint it yourself, which is quite fun because this allows us to be expressive in our work creating different patterns etc to place on the model, the style will of course be the same cause we all have our own ways of painting. It’s allowing us to use more advanced techniques in which we make and apply texture, because we are pretty much free to do what we want on that as long as it resembles a treasure chest. Getting us use to professional briefs is good to as last year we were told to pretty much model this and that and get it done, were as this year it’s a bit more open and free and not strictly limited! This year we have been told that when we model, we must think about the shape and form of everything, make sure that every polygon or triangle has a purpose and is doing something, as last year I can admit that I had a lot of useless polygons everywhere doing nothing, good mesh flow is essential!
That’s about all for this week; one last thing is obviously critical studies. First and foremost I was disappointed and quite annoyed to hear that I was one of the ones that fluffed the first year but they are going to give me another chance. I can’t complain because I’ve got the chance to put what went wrong last year, right this year. I’ve been worried all summer long about making it back and I’m here now so I guess I’ll just shut up. Anyway we were basically introduced to what goes on in the second year and how this year we are taking a massive leap forward towards becoming Game Artists. We are not Game Artists yet, but we will be once we hit the end of the year so we are told. Looking back at last year’s groups projects, there is a lot of work involved producing a good game level asset, I’m expecting for all of us to be told what we are doing is boring and to add more stuff into our projects, I remember being told that adding extra tiny features into the asset makes a game more fun and the user will enjoy it more. I can relate to that, in fact all of us could relate to that in all the game we have played, but before that I think the main purpose is to get the mandatory parts finished first then add the extras. It’s kind of weird put in all areas this week, its all come down to planning. Planning has sort of been the theme of this week, the best work is produced when the planning is perfected I believe.
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