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Design Principles: Visual Analysis

 



26/10/21- 26/11/21, Week 10- Week 14
Nitish A/L Naveen Kumar 0346592,
Design Principles,
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media,
Visual Analysis


Lecture 


Visual Analysis 


  • A method to understand design that focuses on visual elements and principles.

  • A way to describe and explain the visual structure.

  • Visual Analysis is a skill that helps people read and interpret images and its a critical part of visual literacy. 



How does Visual Analysis work?



Phase 1: Observation                                                                                         Phase 3: Interpretation


Phase 2: Analysis 



Observation 


  1. Looking
  2. Thinking
  3. finding good language

Looking closely and identifying the visual elements of a design, to describe a design accurately and carefully in our own words.


Analysis 


To think about our observations and make statements about the work based on the evidence made by our observations.


Interpretations


  1. Observation
  2. descriptions
  3. analysis

  • Fused with facts of the design work and historical context
  • The meaning of the designs 
  • The purpose for it to be created

Instructions 


 

 Visual Analysis


For this part of Visual Analysis I chose a few illustrations by two different artist the 1st illustration is by Lana Marushchenko and the rest is by WLOP. I went through many media and platform to find the one's I like and I found all of this in ArtStation.


Reference


Figure 1.0 By Lana Marushchenko


Figure 1.1 By WLOP

Part 1: Visual Analysis

Chosen Illustration

Figure 1.2 Bride by WLOP

1) Observations

This illustration is in a portrait format, and it has a variety of colours as well as 3 subjects which are the girl the floating crown and the skull. The girl looks sad and unenthusiastic while giving a hopeless look. She's wearing a dark coloured dress as well as a skull with ribs that is stitched on the dress at her left arm a dark translucent veil and a floating crown which is emitting slight light on her. There are also flowers on the skeleton as well as a very small stone on her necklace that is also emitting a tiny amount of light which looks as if she wants to touch the glowing stone on her necklace. The colour palette for this illustration is yellow, orange, black, grey, red, maroon, purple, light brown, dark brown, white, and peach.



Figure 1.3 breakdown 

2) Analysis

This illustration is A-symmetrical balanced. The emphasis is on the left which is the floating crown as it is brighter than the rest of the illustration. The floating crown lighting creates a contrast between the background and the face which makes the face to be the centre of attraction when looking at the illustration. The hair shows movement as there is slight curls starting midway all the way to the bottom whereas the top part of the hair is straighter. By looking down more there are flowers on the right side of her shoulder, and it shows repetition of the same colour used as well as the flower design. The texture creates a very realistic as well as an unrealistic sense when viewing the illustration. The colours used as well as the designs compliments each other which also creates a sense of harmony.


Figure 1.4 Bride by WLOP
3) Interpretations

This illustration called "bride" was created by Wang Ling otherwise known as WLOP in Hong Kong, China 2018. Wang Ling's work has a lot of value in his illustration which brings your attention to the ideal place where he wants you to see, his works have a lot of eroticisms as well as a realistic and unrealistic sense. There are also a mixture of fantasy and impressionism as well as semi-realism art style in his illustrations. Wang Ling illustration also reminds me of artworks made by Joaquin Sorolla where luminism is also applied.

Fig 1.5 "Sewing the Sail" By Joaquin Sorolla 1896
Wang Ling illustration are mostly done digitally whereas Joaquin uses oil painting for his artwork nevertheless both of their artworks look similar, Joaquin uses impressionism, realism, and luminism on this artwork whereas Wang Ling uses semi-realism, impressionism, and fantasy. Comparing both there is barely any differences between them as their art style are almost similar, just like Wang Ling, Joaquin artwork also contains eroticisms and nudity.

Fig 1.6 "Impressionism" art style by WLOP

Fig 1.7 "Semi-realism" art style by WLOP

Fig 1.8 "Fantasy" art style by WLOP
Wang Ling's combination of art styles and his uses of value makes his work a very intricate illustration, the subjects/ characters used in his illustration are mostly futuristic, fantasy, as well as characters based on books, anime, and games. Some of his works are based on Ghostblade and most of his works are very detailed and sharp but when looking close the brush strokes can be seen clearly but when looking from far the brush strokes can't be seen. His works also contains a lot of eroticisms, partial nudity and action, where it gives the viewers a sense of awe or feeling when looking at his artworks. He uses imagination as well as certain characteristic traits to create his illustration which gives the character life.

Part 2: Design

I decided to use "impressionism" and "fantasy" art style in my work since I always like "fantasy" based subjects whether in movies or art and "impressionism" since I've always like this particular art style. The first thing that popped up in my head when doing my art was the skeleton based on WLOP art and tried to do it in a different way. So, I thought of creating a ritual based type setting but not a ritual, then I came up with the idea of creating a skull on a "pot" that is made out of wood and leaves falling to show a "positive" feeling since the skull creates a "negative" feeling to create a balance between both. It is basically a grave, but the skull is floating on the "pot" since magic is lifting it up in the air, but it can’t be seen. I added flame to give a sense of wariness to not mess with the skull but the flame is actually a symbol of prayer.

Sketch/line art



Fig 1.9 Sketch

Process
Fig 2.0 Process of design


Fig 2.1 Final Design JPG


 
Fig 2.2 Final Design PDF

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Reflection


It was hard to analyze the illustration for this assignment since it is very complex I probably missed a few things from the illustration but i still got a lot out of it. This assignment taught me how to learn about the artwork of the artist as well as creating my own work based on the art style and influence from what i got when dissecting the illustration.

Reference


Figure 1.0 "Lana Marushchenko"

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8exJ0w

Figure 1.1 "WLOP"

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