COLLAGE EXERCISE- BLIND LADDER

Collage is an artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color and create 1 single meaning picture. I love this style of artist because it ‘s quite easy to make, you don’t need to draw well. The only thing you need is idea and how to show your idea. With the support of Photoshop, this work is become easier. This is my idea. It name “Blind Ladder”.

PHOTOSHOP EXERCISE – JUDGMENT DAY

Last Tuesday, I had an Photoshop exercise. This exercise was very interesting, because by using simple pictures, after applying some effects in Photoshop, I can create impressive pictures in my own way. I applied this exercise to show my idea “ Judgment day”. In the Development of electronic technology, human life is becoming more advantageous, however, there are also disadvantages, people are becoming depend very much on machine, the environment is also being destroyed by modern technology. One day, human life will be ended by themselves. I took my own picture, edited( change level of the town scene to make it darker, crop the sky and replace eyes, change color of eyes, create thunder, etc) to create the picture of “Judgment day”.

MY SHADOW MAKING

This week , I learned how to make a basic shadow manually not by available tools such as filter in Photoshop. I realized that making a shadow of a picture by our self is more real than using available tool because we can control the picture flexibly. I tried at home.
Firstly, I used pen tool to crop the picture, cope 1 more cropping picture. In the copied picture, I used level board to make it completely black and after that used blur tool to make it blur. After that , I used transform/distort to make the shape of the black shadow change depends on the direction of the light, make it feel suitable with the main picture. Finally , I used layer style/ gradient to make the shadow gradient ( dark in the bottom and light in the top of the shadow).Complete.

ORCHIDARIUM CARD

In class, we had an interesting exercise about creating a card for Orchidarium. The requirement of this card is it have to be simple but chic. After cropping the orchid by pen tool in Photoshop, I created this card in Illustrator. Because the colour of the orchid is pink, I decided to choose black colour for the background in order to make the orchid more impressive. The colour of the name “Orchidarium” is yellow because this colour is also one of colours in orchids and the yellow “Orchidarium” will be easy to read on the main black background and part of the orchid background. In the information part, I choose white colour, especially, the name “Michael Speaks” is in dark orange colour .

SELF GRAFFITI

When looking at posters of CD cover of singers, especially hip-hop bands. I feel very interested in the ways they use graffiti and black color. On the other hand, when viewing a blog of Bui Nguyen Tung ( my class mate) , there is a small lesion about how to create a simple graffiti . Finally, I decided to make self poster by combining between my own style( using black and red color) and graffiti. At first, I use illustrator to create my name in “wildstyle” graffiti (a form of graffiti involving interlocking letters, arrows, and connecting points). Then, I took my own picture, using photoshop to edit it looks like a painter. In the background, I choose black color and 2 lines( one is red which represents for fire, one is blue which represents for ice)

GESTALT EXERCISE

After studying about Gestalt Theory for Designing, we have a practice exercise: using available images and text to illustrate 2 following concept : proximity and closure. Because the title “ The secret life of plants”, I decide to represent 2 ideas: plants and sex. Firstly, I decide to make the title lie on the curve, I mean sexy curve and make it look like the body of the flower. Available images are clipped mask to shapes of flowers ‘ petals. On the other hand , the curve of shape of the paragraphs are also made to follow the curve of the title.

RHYTHM of THE TROJAN

This is my own simple flash animation about Trojan Rhythm. As we know, Trojan, Virus , or other spyware are one of our concern especially with people who work with computers. In some attractive website, the probability of spyware infection is very high. I am really annoying and angry when my PC is infected by Virus. For that reason, I decide to made the flash, using sound that I recorded especially signal sounds in computer when infected, images of the computer screen and after that connecting them together to create an annoying rhythm of sound and I think that all of people who often work with computer hate this sound very much.( you can also view in this link : http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t218/s3146097duy/flash.swf )

THE SUN AND MOON

When thinking about 2 subjects: the sun and moon. The first thing I think about them is the opposition. And then, the familiar thing about opposition I image is Yin-Yang theory. For that reason, when required to draw the pictures about the sun and the moon, I decide to draw them in the way that is related to the Yin-Yang theory. Yin-Yang theory is the Ancient Chinese philosophy. There are 6 mains concept in this theory:

1- Yin and Yang include each other: which means nothing yin or yang perfectly. Everything have it own opposition.

2- Yin and Yang are interdependent: which means Ying can not exist without Yang and the opposite way

3- Yin and Yang can be further subdivided into other Yin and Yang.

4- Yin and Yang consume and support each other

5- Yin can transform into Yang and the opposite way

6- Yin is part of Yang and the opposite way

Summarize 6 main elements, 2 things that strongly influent me is : everything has 2 ways and in 1 way also has the another opposite way. So I apply this concept to draw the pictures of the sun and the moon. The moon and the sun can not exist singly and in the moon there is sun and in the sun there is moon.

the moon
the sun

http://www.healingtherapies.info/images/Yin__Yang.gif

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

When thinking about Vietnam, people will image an eastern country with traditional custom. However, in the modern life, there are many things about Vietnam culture changed depending on position, life condition, each family and each person. In the northern of Vietnam. People are very formal, the traditional ways of communication in the relationship between people are still being kept for example : younger people have to respect older people, especially their teachers, parents and grandparents. In addition, the concept of “ honor” is very important with people in the northern of Vietnam. Similarly, people in the middle of Vietnam are also very formal. Because the influence of custom from Nguyen dynasty, the living ways of people, especially elite class, seems to be very strict and annoying. Especially, one of the good characteristic of people in the middle of Vietnam is hard working. Finally, people in Vietnam have characteristics and traditional custom which are very unique. Because the natural condition in southern of Vietnam is very good, the characteristic and culture of the southern Vietnam is very various and generous. In my opinion, Vietnam has a special traditional culture. However, in the modern city, people are losing their own culture and the western culture is replacing, especially with young people when in the western countries have opposite way. My living way is keeping good elements of traditional culture, especial classical ways. However, I always try to find and trying new modern things and after that try to combine them together and this is not only my living ways, I also combine these elements in my fashion styles, my designs and decoration.

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~TAICHI-K/vietnam.JPG

DEVIL VS JUSTICE

In our life, there are many attractions such as beautiful girls or handsome boys, money, delicious foods, nice clothes, nice cars, etc. These attraction often makes people follow and achieve them blindly even achieve them with any cost includes crime. Sometimes, people hesitate about their decision. There are an invisible competition between attraction and determination, devil and justice. When watching some movies ,especially cartoons, I often saw there will be 2 contrast characters( 1 demon and 1 angel) appear when a person in the hesitation. Now, I try to create one by using my pictures and images.

http://www.polars.org/IMG/jpg/P.crime.jpg
http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media/images/9/7/crime_1.jpg
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/burger_king_drink_solo.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/0003/russia.issues/content/crime.jpg
http://www.cap-s.org/Images/issues/crime.jpg
http://www.paradise-engineering.com/bluepara1x1.jpg
http://www.londondrugs.com/NR/rdonlyres/D754E043-9598-4F71-9FA7-06BA113D446E/0/charity.jpg
http://www.theautographsource.com/images/charity.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/09/03/katrina.hospitals/vert.charity.hosptial.evac..jpg
http://360.yahoo.com/friends-79K_qjk1br.lkYlz9Q--?cq=1