Design Principles - PROJECT 2: Sense of Place

18/10/2022 - 01/11/2022 / Week 8 - Week 10

Glen Owen / 0354952

Design Principles / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Project 2 -  Sense of Place

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LECTURES

Week 10 (01/11/2022)

Dr. Jinchi gave some feedback on our finalized idea and she also gave us a briefing for our final project.

Week 9 (25/10/2022)

In this week Dr. Jinchi gave some feedback on the sketches that students has made.

Week 8 (18/10/2022)

Independent Learning Week

Pre-recorded lecture

Observing is an active act of acquiring information, through the senses, of a subject of matter in its natural setting. Our senses are important for us to know, feel, understand, analyse, and even plan what we want to do. Observation is important to designers as it enables them to see "problems", as well as getting ideas for solutions to those problems.

8 Ways to Improve your Powers of Observation

- Know your subject

- Slow down and look outward 

- Try something new

- Improve your concentration by cutting out distractions

- Challenge yourself to a mental workout

- Test your observation by playing a memory game

- Record and consider your observations

- Stay inquisitive

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INSTRUCTION

Page 7 - 8

Project 2 - Sense of Place

Week 8 - Week 10

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PROGRESS

• Brainstorming

   I have 2 ideas in mind, firstly is like a place that has some music and loud vibe and the other idea is something calming and more natural.

Fig 1.1 https://pin.it/5qwzBzC

    I like the composition on this artwork (Fig 1.1), it gave me like a banging vibe while you listen to music then you just like to dance or move according to the rhythm.

Fig 1.2 Morioh Town from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable

 https://pin.it/3D17hMS\

    When I tried to explore on Pinterest on which kind of work should I do, I stumbled upon this work (Fig 1.2) and suddenly I realized that I have seen this place somewhere while I am watching an anime. This place gave me that calm vibe yet also mystery because there are so much things that is really bizzare.

Fig 1.3 Seirai Island and Tsurumi Island from the Inazuma Nation in Genshin Impact

    Personally I really like this one (Fig 1.3) because visually it's pleasing. It gave me that mysterious and ominous vibe which I really like. It has that kind of energy like some negative energy is leaking from the island.

Fig 1.4 Some of my original artwork back in 2021

    After looking back at my past work, I find this pieces (Fig 1.4) could atleast help me making the sense of place project. To be honest I completely forgot on how I managed to do it, but I will try to recreate this kind of scenery later on in the project.

• Sketching

Fig 2.1 Sketch idea #1

    

Fig 2.2 Inspiration for sketch #1

    My first attempt is I tried to make a place that exist in the real world, in this case it's the arcade area. I took this picture back in September 2022 (Fig 2.2), the picture I captured here is a row of maimai rhythm arcade game machine that looks really deserted because usually there are many people playing here. My first idea on making this is to make that vibe here you can only hear musics in a deserted place.

    But then I think about another idea, instead of making an existing place I tried to make a place that is imaginary or you could say it unreal. I was planning to make this place later on in my Illustration and Visual Narrative class for my project which is making a comic/manga.

Fig 2.3 Sketch idea #2

Fig 2.4 Inspiration for sketch #2

    I took this picture at October 21, 2022 (Fig 2.4). That time there is a talkshow that is related to my Typography class so I joined it since it will be related for my Typography class. I try to recreate it like a classroom but in my style which is the classroom in my imaginary world. Eventually I scrapped this idea because I know my limits. More over I drew this because I am bored at that time.

Fig 2.5 Sketch idea #3

Fig 2.6 Inspiration for sketch #3

    In this sketch I was inspired by one of my old artwork (Fig 2.6). I'm trying to give that sense of an aftermath of a battlefield. I lost the progress file but lucky me that Instagram still have the piece of art I've made. I was planning like to make a refine of the inspiration I used so I'll keep this idea just in case if I want to use it or not.

Fig 2.7 Final Sketch Idea

    I called this one "The Sanctuary". Like the title said, it's a sanctuary to my imaginary creature that I have created for my future manga. In this sketch I am trying to emphasis the tree and the axe which is why I put in the center. This work is still incomplete so I will complete it when I am trying to digitize it. It was also inspired by Fig 1.4. I wanted to give something that is like a memorial place which is calming.

• Digitizing

    So I have decided to make something calm and mysterious vibe with a adventurous fantasy theme. 

The idea is that a hero died and when he died his body turned into a sanctuary.

Fig 3.1 Progress

    Here's my first idea on making the fictional place. I'm planning to add a light source later on and it will point to the axe at the center. 

Fig 3.2 Progress part 2

    I am planning of putting one of my original character at the left side of the land but not sure if it will fit the vibe or not. I could just put another one of my original creature I made but probably I'll just put some creatures instead of character to match the vibe.

Fig 3.3 Result

    I try playing with some tool that is provided in Ibis Paint X and here (Fig 3.3) are the result after trying lots of experiments.

• FINAL SUBMISSION

Fig 4.1 "The Sanctuary"

Fig 4.2 "The Sanctuary" PDF

    Here lies "The Dark Hero" (Fig 2.6) who sacrifices everything to restore Earth by eliminating every single living things including humans that uses their power to corrupt and for personal uses. No matter if they are innocent or not, the only one that survived this calamity are those who are worthy to live in this beautiful world. Those who survived will take care of this haven and shall be prosperous with every living things including monster or strange creatures.  After the death of "The Dark Hero" this "will" is planted to those who survived the calamity. 

    The creatures in this work are the animal that has been affected by "The Dark Hero" death and survived the calamity. Some animal physical body stay still like the monitor lizard in this work while others has been corrupted thus become a mutation (in this case, it's the cow at the right side). The white dragon that is chilling at the small river is called Wyetta, the "Dark Hero" childhood friend's companion. Her job in there is to be the alpha of all living things in the sanctuary and keep things prosperous. 

    

    After "The Dark Hero" died because he sacrificed himself, his childhood friend instructed her dragon to guard this place. After instructing the dragon, she leaves the dragon and start her new journey.

EXTRA:

Fig 4.3 "The Dark Hero" with his childhood friend fighting for their lives

    I made this artwork back in March. At that time I was bored and tried to draw my original characters together and here it is. I called this artwork "The Swarm", reason being is that they are swarmed by swarm of monster inside of a cave.

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FEEDBACK

Week 10

Dr. Jinchi suggested that for the dragon make the color fits the place and as for my idea have to put it at the start first. I would like to change the dragon's color but too bad the dragon was supposed to be white.

Week 9

Add specific description to the rationale

Week 8

Independent Learning Week

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REFLECTION

    I don't know why but while making this task it gave me some nostalgic vibe when I first tried making landscape work as a hobby. My first try is horrible that I could remember it like it was from yesterday. Even so, I am pretty satisfied with the result (Fig 4.1) I have done.