Color sense

Base on the topic, color sense. I found some information from the websites. There's a person in forum...He taught me something.
"Color sense comes with experience. Coloring an image consists of three parts: base color, shading and material effects. For the beginning you need not bother about material effects, those are tricks mostly anyway.

Base coloring gives a flavor to the image. Styles vary from grey-scale to the typical asian color shock. I personaly favor colors that surround a certain central color-scheme.

Shading is somewhat more tricky for it adds the depth component to your images. For the beginning i would advice always using a fixed light source (i.e. parallel light from the upper left), so you can focus on getting the shades right, rather than having to worry about light positioning.
I've done images with many light sources and other than additional difficulties for the artist it doesn't appear to add to the overall impression of the image.
Since you're into manga i would suggest using three color shading. That is one color for the parts facing the light, one facing away and one for everything else. Or you can try smooth shading with many different darkness levels.
To learn this i would suggest grabbing a very soft pencil (2b or softer) and start drawing shades in grey scale. Whatever you learn here you can use for colored images as well.
Once you're halfway secure in this you could try to shade the drawings you already uploaded. You may find that even the worst drawing looks several times better with a proper shading.

I hope this was halfway useful. I started off where you are now and i am certain that you will figure in time. Just never give up and observe what other artists do. Learn from their masterpieces and their mistakes."

I did this color wheel and it's was a tough practise ever for me...The color is so hard to combine until what you really wanted...however, I learned something from what the forum's guy mentioned.

Juxtaposition

Definition: Simply stated, juxtaposition means placing things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The viewer's attention is drawn to the similarities or differences between the elements.

While juxtaposition can be used in terms of formal elements - for example, the use of aggressive mark-making in contrast to an area of very controlled shading, or an area of crisp detail against something softly handled, it more often refers to concepts or imagery. An artist might juxtapose a machine-made object or urban environment against organic elements of nature, in order to highlight different qualities in the two. Note that the way this is done can dramatically change the meaning: we might regard the machine-made or human-created as representing safety and order against the uncontrollable strength of nature; or we might see the fragility and beauty of nature against the soul-less uniformity of the urban world, depending on the nature of the subjects or images and the way they are presented.

 In literature and film, Juxtaposition is the arrangement of two opposing ideas, characters, objects, etc. side-by-side or in similar narratives for effect. Lost often uses juxtaposition to further develop the storyline or characters - it is applied variously to opposing emotions, abstract concepts, character traits/ values, or images.

Juxtaposition arts~

Is a youth oriented non-profit visual art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota known for community collaborations, studio classes and workshops, public mural programs and art exhibition. Founded in 1995, the organization's mission is to empower youth and community to use the arts to actualize their full potential.

Lynas

Lynas Corporation, Ltd. is an Australian rare earths mining company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange as a S&P/ASX 200 company. It has two major operations : A mining and concentration plant at Mount Weld, Western Australia, and a refining facility now under construction at Kuantan, Malaysia.


Kuantan, Malaysia

The LAMP at Kuantan is being built with support from the Malaysian government, with 'pioneer' status including a 12-year tax exemption. The ore processing will annually yield several thousand tonnes of waste product (Gypsum - A very soft sulfate mineral) which contains high concentration of thorium, a radioactive element. Concerns regarding the short and long term storage of this waste material, politicised in the context of forthcoming parliamentary elections, fueled widespread protests in Malaysia in 2011. According to a New York Times report whistle blower engineers claimed that short cuts were taken on the construction of the LAMP including the use of cheaper standard steel instead of the more expensive materials to deal with the slightly radioactive, super heated and highly corrosive slurry used in the plant.

THIS IS WHAT THE LYNAS CORPORATION, LTD says...
Lynas Corporation strives for excellence in safety and health. We are committed to providing and maintaining a safe work environment and preventing injury, illness and impairment to the health of our employees, business partners and the community. 


But do you think it's really safe? How IF someday after built, it accidentally get error? How IF someday the corrosive accidentally flows to the river? and the radioactive flows to the cloud and rain in our city?

I'm seriously disagree with this project!! ANTI-LYNAS...Save Malaysia and fuck the lynas yeah~

The architecture's design

Half Dose : BIG♥NYC

 For the fourth year in a row the Times Square Alliance has commissioned an architect to create a heart in Times Square just in time for Valentine's Day. This year's installation is by Bjarke Ingels Group(BIG) with FLATCUT_and Local Projects and it is appropriately titled BIG NYC. As the placard next to it, visible in the photo above, describes it:

More people = more love. A BIG red heart pulses with glowing light in a grove of glass rods. A

single person can activate the beating heart, but joining hands with others will make the heart

beat even faster to create a brightly burning heart.

These 400 acrylic tubes -- a 20 by 20 grid -- create a 10-foot-tall cube that recedes or holds its own in the Times Square environ. The installation alters between these impressions depending on the glow of the LEDs in the center of the cube: Between "beats" the tubes almost disappear, but when glowing the heart shape is well-defined and it pulls one towards it. The above view is from a block sourth of Father Duffy Square, where the heart resides just south of the TKTS booth and steps.

 The photos above and below are taken from the TKTS steps. These views are particularly interesting because they give a slight glimpse of the tops of the 400 tubes. Also, from the steps the immediate background for the heart is the crowd of people passing around it.

Just south of the installation is its interactive component, called out simply with a heart on a podium, the words "touch me," and some visual directions on how to make the installation beat faster. Upon touching the pad, the LEDs glow in a pulsating rhythm that speeds up when people hold hands or, supposedly, when they kiss. It's a neat idea, to link the intimacy of Valentine's Day with the impersonal crowdedness of Times Square and New York City. This occurs not only in the interactive part, but also in the way the heart -- physically something that each individual has -- is figuratively created by the density of rods.

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While the three previous installations created hearts from matter -- metal, ice, fabric -- this one opts for immaterial light and the convergence of the color red in a mass of otherwise undifferentiated clear rods. In name BIG♥NYC may be as much promo for Mr. Ingels as it is a Valentine's display for New York City, but its qualities are undeniable and it is a welcome addition to the Times Square for its brief duration (until the end of the month).

Typography

Oh yeah, I found out something interesting as what i had mentioned last blog...haha.
It's a fun topic and i quite interested on, I found a web that giving me a very nice sentence, which is
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/23/typography/

"Good typography is just as important on a Web page as it is in any other medium. The fact that it appears on a computer screen and not on a piece of paper is immaterial; it should still be pleasing to look at and easy to read."

From here, i started to do some more research about typo, and it's not tat simple to make someone feel comfortable with the color sense and the composition. Every tiny mistaken will given a big outlook to the audience. Although most of the audience didn't know about typography at all, but they can still having a sense to conclude it's nice or bad...

Other than composition, emphasis, de-emphasis, relativity and type, size, weight and many more are very priority to make a perfect typography.

I had a typography class in semester 1, and I learned many thing in there. before i learned, I would like to play sometime very 'decorative' which many people thought it's nice! Conclusion, it's totally not what a typography. And I changed to be making something simple and perfect.(still in beginner process only, hehe)

However, A complicated background of any poster or whatever design, there must be a simple font for it, or else no focus point and very dirty outlook for the overall. No one will realize it. For decorative font is using when the background is quite empty and simple. haha...

I guess this is something i learned, and there might be more about it.

Creatives Logos

These days, i started to get more interest on playing logos, I know logos is something pretty hard to get the concept and idea...One of my senior who studying in graphic design, he told me logos is the toughest to make the better one...Simple and perfect. This 2 words is easy if separate them, but when they are combining together when we going to do both into a graphic. That's totally insane...

I had found something nice and cool...I wonder how they get those ideas and i just love it. I wish i could able to create some logos for any company. That will be a very precious moment after work done.

here's some links i found.
http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/logo-design-ideas/
http://justcreativedesign.com/2012/02/01/the-2011-logo-of-the-year/

From the first link :
I found out they are very outstanding, for sure.
And I get knowledge about different type of logo for different company, such as business, target audience, always brainstorm, thinking an alluring tagline...etc...
It's very cool~! I more interested on business's logo type anyway...

From the second link :
I don't think i could make that, haha...It's freaking awesome...
The toughest thing for me is the colors, I'm weak on it, because I don't have any base before i joined dasein, I'm totally nothing for arts...and these, 'FORK & KNIFE' and 'Bread & Breakfast' have makes me feel soft and peaceful color. such as a grassy green with a darker green instead of dirty colors, but i more admire on the "bread & breakfast' it's using a very soft and tough color to combine together, it's very hard to make it, I do tried before...

Beside that, I'm also quite interested on Typography style.
For audience, they might say, It's freaking easy, just put the words~!
No, It's totally a wrong thinking. Typography which i had studied last 2 semester. and i learned something much on it. It's very strict, can't even have any mistakes inside, or else that's an epic fail typography...
Next post going to have some typos stuff...^^

Something I found

Oh, A day outing, having some creative stuff to show off...
I had gone to 1Utama(Jusco), where i found a shop, Material...
It surprised me and lured me in. Why I said so? haha, just take a look, unfortunate I never capture much items which sell there...

  A camera lens outlook, but actually just a cup bottle. looks real~

  A beg with a camera, it's so real~! Never thought it's real if just simply a look.

Money put in money, it's quite common and i know it...but i still like their spirit to remain the creativity into all of the item they sell. Another thing that i appreciate is their shop name, Material...Too bad i didn't capture it down, but it's gave me a nice and special outlook...more like a recycle shop, and it definitely is.

Such a long time never have a walk in a shopping centre...and i realize i'm kinda...outdated, seriously. I don't know what had changed outside...