Another main character present in this story is the turtle (sea turtle in technicality due to the setting being in an ocean, but most characterisations do follow more of a land turtle’s), who function as the communicator between the sea king and the rabbit due to it being the only animal to ‘travel through both the water and the land. I wanted to put more focus on the sea turtle elements to my character, so I have simplified the shape of a sea turtle into two shapes: the teardrop shape which comprises the head and the limbs, and the ‘muffin’ shape which composed the body or the shell. Photo of a sea turtle by NFWF Then, as I have with the rabbit character, I analysed turtle characters from famous media. I have suspected that sea turtles would not be a common character since ocean-focused cartoons are very specific and rare, and my search had shown as such. Land turtles were more common to be used, with the rare exception of the sea turtle Crush from the movie ‘...
Penny Siopis is an multi-medium artist of Greek descent born and working in South Africa, representing issues ranging from the traumas of children in South Africa to global, political issues. She has worked with a range of mediums, from photography and films to paintings, but I am focusing on her painting series and her techniques, specifically her abstraction and fluid art. For a long time, Siopis worked with concepts that were ‘beyond representation’ (South African History Organisation, n.d.)– personal representation, psychology, trauma and such– and integrating dynamic materials into her works as if to show the organic nature of such psychological issues. This may be especially due to her life in South Africa which had and still has several social issues, one of which being ‘Apartheid’ which is a type of racial segregation that happened in South Africa to South West Africa during 1948 to 1994 due to the all-white government. She specifically mentions this iss...
Digitalisation with Adobe Illustrator Based on the sketches made previously, I have selected few among those and started creating digitalising the logos. During its creation, I still kept in mind on creating a circular shape to suit Buddhist-style logos. I first began creating with Adobe Illustrator as it was able to create vector lines, however an important function that I needed in the creation of these logos were missing. I needed the mirroring tool in the application to create an even drawing, but the mirroring tool in Illustrator, at least on the iPad, was very limited. The eraser tool also did not work when using this tool, so I had to create it in another application. Process with Procreate After I changed my program to Procreate, I was able to create the logos in the style I wanted. Although I was not able to create a vector image, I lessened the pixelation of the image using a larger canvas of 4000 by 4000 pixels. By doing this, the image would not decrease i...
good work - please follow your plan and ensure you complete your work each week
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