Here are my 3 sketches for the mandala project. I originally thought of doing a flower for this, hence the first sketch. For the second one, I tried branching out into more than a flower, creating “life” within the mandala by adding eyes. For the third one, I just simply tried combining water and fire while adding some of the aspects from the previous sketches into it.
This exercise was pretty simple to understand. I didn’t really have any difficulty with anything and I think I’m well informed on how complimentary colors work.
This exercise was pretty simple to understand. I think I’ve gotten a better understanding with how to create line art in Illustrator and I’ll try my best to create the best mandala I can for the final project.
This exercise was pretty simple to understand. I was able to do most of it and create some decent designs for the last two constructions. I already have some ideas for my final mandala.
I noticed last minute however that there’s a stray circle in the middle of the page. I hope it isn’t too much of a bother.
Here’s my final result for the blackbird project. There were a lot of problems I had as I was trying to create things. I wanted my image to be elegant but it ended up something like this. I had to sacrifice a lot of my initial ideas so I could make everything work out. Figuring out how to have one thing stand out over another was another struggle of mine. I’m not entirely happy with my final result, but it was the best I could do.
What I attempted to do with this image was focus on the blackbird and the woman in the poem. A part of the poem I took this idea from was “Do you not see how the blackbird / Walks around the feet / Of the women about you?”. In the initial image I wanted, I also wanted to include a man from the stanza “A man and a woman / Are one. / A man and a woman and a blackbird / Are one.” I attempted to add mountains in the background and make the long hair of the woman into ocean waves as stated ” The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” I tried creating lighter wings at the bottom of the blackbird to represent the “golden birds” in the poem, but I don’t think I executed this well. The white pound signs are meant to represent the snow, the tree beside the woman is meant to represent the cedar limbs, and the bag the blackbird is holding is suppose to represent the unity between the man, woman, and blackbird. The white pound signs beside this bag is also meant to subtly represent the golden birds mentioned in the poem, in case the light wings couldn’t.
Here are the three sketches I came up with for the blackbird project. I have two ideas in mind but I ended up fleshing out my second idea more than my first. The third sketch was an adjustment I made to the bag the blackbird was holding.
I enjoyed doing this exercise a lot. I enjoy thinking creatively and figuring out how to rearrange letters to create something new. I want to keep continuing to make different combinations with different letters.
With this particular exercise, I had some technical difficulties figuring out why some things weren’t lining up or why some things were happening the way they were. I wasn’t sure why my text was coming up double spaced whenever I tried putting it on the page. Despite some difficulties, this exercise was pretty easy to follow.
When creating this image, I had some technical issues but I quickly figured out all the problems I had and continued working. I’m not exactly sure why the image came out fuzzy once it was exported, but this is the final result.
Here’s my finalized video for the readyMade rDNA project. Working on this project was fairly simple and I hardly had any troubles. The most I had to do was finding the right content to use for the video and fixing any pacing and composition issues I had.