Sound Through Visuals

Given the task, 'Sound through visuals', we were told to get one of our favorite songs and then use it through visual media. This source of visual was going to be a grid type of formation.

With that in place, i selected my song and i analysed it and got the tempo of how the sounds would be and what i would use to display on the grid. So first i set up a grid chart with rolls and columns as to where my diagram was to be.

Fig 1. The Grid

After i laid up the grid i then played the song and i was going to use the instruments and the base as a guide line on how i would place the line of the sound visual. The song was more of a slow starting song and then builds up on the chorus and then sets down after the chorus so i was going to do the intro and the chorus and the intro to verse two as it also builds up in that verse.

Fig 2. The Grid With Sound Movement

The sound movement was going to show the pitch or the volume the song hits and u can see clearly that the rhythm is not just steady but builds up from the beginning and then sets in at the end of the high pitch which is the chorus.

The grid diagram was a little too plain and then understanding the pitch rates for me was enough so for that, i further added bars which were going to express the bass of the song. These bars were to be placed at the bottom of the chart and were going to show that this level of a bar shows the pitch is at rate, e.g a red bar  would show that the pitch/bass is at high level.

Fig 3. The pitch bars

With all that i placed from the beginning and analyzing the song and expressing it through this visual, all together final project was shown below. Atleast with first of site one can see that the line can correspond with the bars and can see that his part of the song would be high and this part low etc.

Typography Art

With the task, we were told to incorporate the knowlege that we have on the word that we picked. My word was was 'Line'. Therefore i had to research on what line was based on and what it related to with a design that would come. And with the reseach i made, these are the following meanings that i got.

After finding out the meanings of the words, we were told to see how these words can relate with images/pitcures so that we can have an idea of how our project would come out. With that in place, these are some of the images that i found that related to some of the words of choice.

Arrow showing direction

Grid

Speed through line

Formation through line

Thereafter, we are now to look at our concept on our final piece of art. How we were going to mix it up and come out with a line based project. Five images were told to taken and then form some sort of a book or storyline with a meaning of the images taken.
I was going to do something related with something that i have a passion for and that being, Music. So i had to explore with how i would come up with a design incorporated with music. Hence, these are a few sketch ups that i came up with from. The images taken were :

• Guy with headsets

• Speakers

• Piano

• Guitar

• Microphone

Few sketches of the work that i was to do is below here.

My main idea/concept was to show a flow of the music from the top to the bottom. Hence the project having a meaning from the headsets to the mic. With that in place, i started a few projects on ilustrator and with a multiple consults from the teacher my design gradually changed but i still wanted to maintain the same 'music flow' of my work. Here was a few works of how my work changed from the begining to the very end.

First idea that i had and worked on.

Second idea that i did that had more of the flow of music.

Final Piece of Art That I Did.

With the final piece of art, can see that i used alot of the line meanings to have a design, those being line, curves, shape etc. The knowlegde i had helped because i knew already what i wanted to depict from the final piece of work and hence the transformations helped with ideas coming in. Adding text around certain images helped as well and which also gave it that typography feel  to the images and gave it more depth. Here are the transitions of the artworks to the final art.

After all the research and all the concept refining, i was pleased with my final work because i had got more ideas and more understandings with the work and it helped to change a few  ideas to make it have more meaning.

Typefaces With Nature

In this specific task, we were told to explore the happenings that are around us environmentally and from there, form a word or expression with a typeface that fits in that natural element.

Here we had to look at the way typefaces are made for us to understand how we can relate from it all. And with that, this is what i made came up from the typefaces that spoke to me.

Self Expression

In this task, we were told to express ourselves in any sort of media that we could improvise. Be it photography, images, text, typography, drawing, illustration etc. Expression had to be of the things we have interest in doing it, be it sleeping, art, and so on.

So with that understanding of the task, i noted down the interests and the ideas i was going to use to express myself and what i would do/use to come up with the expression of me. These were the expressions i was to use on expression me as a whole.

• Music
• Gaming
• Fashion
• Commitment 

After noting down those, i thought about how i would use that to express, so i was going to use a figure that represented me. That figure was going to be a body that had my face, main body and part of my legs, more of like a body picture of me. That drawing was going to be separated into parts that speak to me, so my interests were going to be placed on it, more to give an abstract portrait of me.

The process of how i was going to use were my interests are listed below.

• Music - Having a passion of music, i was going to find a way to implement this side of me in the drawing. And for that, i got the idea of getting the musical staff that has music notes and that was going to represent the blood flow in my body but not only does the blood flow but the music too. And my heart was going to be a speaker that was going to be placed in the center of my body as the source of the 'pumping' of the blood in my system.

• Gaming - I have a gaming side to me and i love playing games for fun and keeping me busy and so i wondered how i could use this in my art. So i my first idea was to have a playstation console, as  my main body and have it open where my heart being the speaker would show. But after consultation from the teacher, had to create a more defined art and something one would understand and for that, i decided to stick to the same gaming concept but have an idea and that was to have control pads/joystocks that were going to mirror each other and then have the speaker between in them which would show a more bright and meaningful work. This idea was accepted by my lecture and hence i put it into my final art.

• Fashion -  To look good is one thing that i also like and have i love to express that in the way i dress and present myself through my appearance. So for that, i was going to use this idea on my face and have a piece of Ray Ban shades that were  going to cover one eye and show that side, The shades were going to be see through/transparent this is to show that i can see past through my own vision through the shades.

• Commitment - Having a commitment to work is one thing that i do and try my best to strive and throughout the struggle to archive the most of the work i do. And for that i was going to have to find a way to use that expression and i was going to use my legs as ladders that would show someone climbing up to archive his goal.

The materials that i was going to use for the following art were

• Recycled manilla paper
• Ray Ban glasses
• Straws
• Headphones
• Shoelaces

With the ideas and all and how i was going to use the materials with the work, this was the final product that i came up with :

Alphabet Letter Making

In this given task, we were told to look at any objects around us that give us the resemblance of the alphabet. These had to be taken by pictures and then we form a grid or a pattern and then place all the letters and the should all look like the alphabet and can easily be spotted by someone. 
With that in hand, this was my final idea of all the objects that i managed to take.

REFERENCE FOR LETTERS

A - Bench

B - Stand alone desk

C - Old casket handle

D - Door handle with shadow

E - Art drawing stand

F - Shelf design

G - Fire hose

H - Seats at eating place

I - Vending machine coin slot

J - Umbrella handle

K - Gate of a fence

L - Markings on a sports court

M - McDonalds paperbag

N - Roofing under design

O - Speaker 

P - Lighting box

Q - Satellite dish

R - Button

S - Neon lighting

T - Trench

U - Piecering ring

V - Trees

W - Design on the ground

X - Gate design

Y - Road signs

Z - Old spanner

Copying And Referencing

In the given task, we were told to make a research on the following words and how the differ from one another. These words being 'copying' and 'referencing'. A description or understanding about both needed to be done and for thus, my comparisons between the two were as follows.

Copying - By my understanding, copying is more of a skill or technique that is used to 'copy' ones original information or artifact and then make it their work without knowing or going through the process of the original work. Copying itself is not 100% accurate because depending on what someone might be copying e.g, a drawing, the two copies, original and copy might not be exactly the same because the copy might have less accuracy due to not having a clear understanding of how the original drawing was made. When it comes to the modern digital style of copying, it is much easier and possible to get a 100% because one can easily just copy/cut and paste the exact same information normally off the internet and make no changes to it. So copying could be just a process of regenerating original material.

Referencing - By the word itself, i already understand that this method is a type where as the person getting the information has to refer to where the got the original information that they copied. So simply referencing is more of acknowledging the sources of ideas that you have got and applied to your own work. More like appreciating the original work and showing their credit in your own work. Mostly referencing can be made/seen in drawings, illustrations, information gained from interviews e.t.c.

So with the two being understood, we can clearly say that copying does not show any originality in your work, it is more of a replica of ones work or idea and showing that you are using it as your work whereas referencing is a more better style of working because its a sign that you used someones ideas, information and then created something of your own but still credited the original piece of work and showed appreciated by referencing where that piece of information was taken from. 

Drawing Skills

In this task, we were told to explore types of drawing that we were taught. These drawings were :

• Speed Drawing - Drawing an object within a given time e.g 30seconds.

• Contour Drawing - Drawing an object that gives an outline of it without lifting the pen/pencil/marker up and just using one line over and over to make up the drawing.

• Blind Drawing - Drawing an object without looking at the piece of media. E.g, paper. So you are more of drawing an object blindly whilst staring at it and not looking at the paper.

With those types of drawing understanding, we were told to incorporate that with our task. The tasks for each drawing are explained below :

• Speed Drawing - In this one, we were told to draw an object within a specific time and those times were a 30second drawing and a 60 second drawing. This drawing had to be recorded to show proof that it was actually drawn in 30 and 60 seconds. Below is the drawing of both 30 and 60 seconds.

• Contour Drawing - Here we are told to use any pieces of material that will give it a contour drawing feeling. Hence materials like threads, Wires, Shoelaces, Toothpaste, Paper could be used to come up with the 'drawing'. For my drawing, i chose a human face that i designed wires to come up with it. So after using the wires, i used more recycled materials like shoelaces and pink paper i found laying around. The pink paper gave me an idea to use it as the color of the lips and then the shoelaces i used were cut to that i could give it some eyebrows, a beard and some hair. Just to add more 'life' to the contour drawing.

• Blind Drawing - We were asked to use any piece of recycled material like papers, newspapers, clothes, and just any piece of media that we could draw on as well use different drawing objects like paint, pencil, markers and maybe coal. After choosing the drawing object (pen or pencil) we draw on the material without looking down and just focusing on the object.