Questions to consider:
1. What is the personal story you would like to tell in this course?
2. What kind of media form you are going to use?
3. What is the case study you may refer to when developing your project? Why?
context: reasons/influences/mini-topics (body paragraphs)/themes
NOTE: 500 WORDS MINIMUM
Title: my amazing technicolor postcard
[intro]
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Behold; to be held; to capture; to enrapture. The "moment the sky embraces the earth is called a rainbow", and at that moment there is beauty in and of the rainbow, of the colors we see in life. Some may find it pretty- pretty cool, pretty ugly, pretty normal-, but personally, to me, that's pretty much it. And that is enough.
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[story]
"What is your favourite colour?"
I remember hearing this question when I was younger. At the time I didn't know how to answer. How would I when I wanted everything as a child and when everything was equally good?
"Green", I said.
The answer didn't matter back then. It was the colour I used for the skin of a fairy princess, the wheels of a truck, the petals of a flower, and so on. Colours didn't seem to matter back then to a child with colouring crayons. And yet it did. The green grass, the blue sky; the colours seemed nicer when it was done "right", I thought.
Fast-forward to a couple of years later in the present, if you asked me the same question, I would be able to give you an answer.
"Orange", I said when I was 10 years old, receiving a new jacket present from my family overseas.
"Blue", I said when I was older, finding a not-so-big jacket that doesn't fit me anymore .
"Black", I said when I was even older, looking at my wardrobe filled with 'cool' styles that begs my friends to tease me on.
and finally, "Green", I said, now when I am this old, looking at the garden in my backyard and my mum's dying plants.
I did have a favourite colour, well not really. The answer didn't matter now. The colours are still beautiful anyways, for some reason.
(note: word count for the story above is 238 words.)
Media form: digital drawing, animation, postcard? Lenticular Postcard!
[] reference:
[body paragraph 1]: color
[] Ratatouille case study? trolls case study? inside out case study? related to synthesia (might be misunderstanding the concept if trying to relate?)
[] maybe relate to the historical moment of changing TV B&W to colour? Pleasantville case study?
[] case study and show how to develop
In this project, I plan to explore my personal experience with Aesthetic Culture through the medium of digital drawings. My first development began by breaking down the commonalities of drawings and aesthetic in a particular aspect: color.
It is fascinating how colors have the ability to visually present reality. This is because I think that colors are dimensional. The world that we live in can be interpreted through a greyscale perspective, defining the spatial form of objects, living beings, phenomena and everything else in simple values of black and white. And yet it carries a masterfully complex application. Beyond this greyscale dimension, introducing different colors conveys depth not only to the colors as a concept but in turn to reality as well. The world is more vibrant and assorted; full of energy, of stimulus, there is a new perspective of the world to experience. This is the case with the case study of Pleasantville (1988).
I plan to incorporate this into my work by mainly utilising a greyscale palette, to symbolise the simplicity of reality, and in turn, emphasise the presence of other colors that would be sparsely visible among the cluttered doodles, around the centre pose of a character.
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[body paragraph 2]: aesthetic
[] Mario Strikers Battle League case study? related to SF6 style and 1000radraing (instagram artist) reference?
[] case study and show how to develop
The result of the aforementioned constituent elements is the visual presentation, and therefore energy of an image, the aesthetic. Looking at what would be the result so far, the work seems far too lacking to exhibit my intention behind the contrast of colors and visible readability. By this, I mean in the beauty of what I think is simple and complex, reality, shown through the cluttered, doodle space around a character in the drawing. As such, the concept behind the work is the focus of "uneventful life", or rather, "simple yet not".
One case study that helps with this idea is the Mario Strikers Battle League (MSBL) (2022) game. What affects the aesthetic of an image is the style of the drawing too. In this regard, MSBL has an appealing sketchy, hard-edge style that carries a passionate and exciting visual energy of action in its official art. The vibrant colors complements this delivery further with salient differences in color that distinguished characters from each other.
To implement this effect, I plan to repeat these drawings- structurally the same but distinctly unique. There would be a different character, different doodles, positions, and a different singular contrasting color per drawing.
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[body paragraph 3]: personality
[] MBTI personality test case study?
[] case study and show how to develop
Overviewing the expected result so far, the developments toward the idea of Aesthetic Culture through art style and colour are in place, but in relation to the aspect of my personal experience there needs to be more progress.
"Beauty doesn't last forever, but a beautiful personality does." The same objects, the same colors but the beauty perceived can be different, as much as how our perspective changes. Such a perspective changes with time, from being more experienced and knowledgable, and yet, ironically, our eyes stay the same (size), perhaps to our vision too. As such, what one recognises as beauty changes all the time as much as ourselves change. I want to show this progress through in the work.
One case study that can help is the MBTI personality test, or more specifically the 16 personality types that can be achieved in the test. There are four distinct groups of four character types, categorised according to different scales of characteristics and further separated according to an introvert-extrovert spectrum. The focus behind this lies in the personality type that I most likely resemble according to the test. By using the similarly repeated drawings I could incorporate what personality type I held in the different points in life that I had. The personality types would then inform the colors to be used in the respective drawings, and as a whole could be 'collaged' to showcase growth, opting to create a dynamic pose composition of those characters to also carry the aesthetic along in its visual presentation and energy.
Therefore, the medium could possibly be updated to a Lenticular Postcard, with one side displaying a '3D effect' by changing what is seen depending on the perspective the side is viewed through. This would shift through purely black and white versions of the drawings, alongside the 'coloured' versions, organised according to a supposed chronological order.
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conclusion: the artefact can be a 'series' project. The lenticular postcard can be sent to like the past or the future; can act as a 'stamp' card of myself at that point in time. It would document the different yet 'correct' answer that I can give and look for, in the colours of the rainbow, white colouring books and my black-coloured outfits.
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note: remember that the concept behind the doodle was "uneventful life"/"simple yet not"
Note: need to refer to proper research at a later date so, for the sake of expression, most of the words in the section(s) above are mostly representative of my subjective thoughts and opinions, and the remainder represented by the influence of the current progress of research prior to this writing.
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