Monday, October 29, 2012

the symbol of nobility, elegant, luxury and mysterious

There was a color, as the last color of the rainbow, the color that has the lowest frequency, the color that represent the royal families and was restricted from civilian, the color that once was the best selling products in trading market of Phoenicia- an ancient civilization... this color has a long history and great influence on poetry, culture, and economy.

The reason that I was attracted by this color was easy - its uniqueness. Its between enthusiasm and calm, it don't belong to either side but it has the trait of both sides, therefore it has a sense of mystery. And usually intelligent and talented people favorite this color. That was another reason for a kid to favorite a color.

Other than this, I found that this color could express different concept brilliantly. For example...

elegant of ladies (fineartamerica.com)
sadness (expressivecolor.blogspot.com)
time passed (ebsqart.com)
naive
hope...
romance (fineartamerica.com)
Well, that's the end...

my preferred way of expression

Since this subject was about design, so it will relate with art. My definition of art is the way of expression through lines, colors, shapes, and other visual tools in simple, direct forms.
abstract art (rebeccabessettle.com) 

When I'm google-ing about abstract art, I was attracted by these few drawings. The drawings used contrasted color to present the vitality of life - good and bad, lightness and darkness- that we couldn't avoid.


abstract art (denslee.com)



naive art (en.artoffer.com) 
furthermore, I found that I like naive art. I had a few picture books which the amount of pictures are more than words. I feel that pictures can "say" more than words do. For example, the picture above may say about freedom, dream of reaching the moon, or friendships. It's depends on the each individual's perspective...

I also found Minimalism was also consistent with my own concept towards arts. Minimalism is any design/style that used the simplest and fewest elements to create maximum effect. Somehow I feel stressed when seeing some drawings that contained many elements in it.This movement advocate to express by using the nature form of elements, without any polish.


minimalism (art1paintings.com) 
minimalism exhibition (thinkingaboutart.blogs.com)

In conclusion, I got to know more about the ways of expression due to these researches on art movement and have some idea on how to express the issue of child labor. (Well, sort of.. XD) 

words effect

this was the original wallpaper...



and after adding some effect on it...
the effect kinda lost... still working on it, but upload 1st...

Monday, October 1, 2012

1st attempt to color


the background was a scene from an animation named Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl). The scene is the gate to the hell...
found it quite contrasting with the Ironman... 
death is unavoidable, even for Ironman