Digital Photography & Imaging Project 2A (Mr Fauzi)
Week 6-8
Chan Meiling 0337771
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
INSTRUCTIONS
“Self-titled is an exploration project for the students to express their own individuality and reflect their personality into digital art self-expression. The main idea is to build up self-confidence and discover their interest.”
Reference picture:
Illustration image of space inside a gumball machine
For this gumball machine idea, I got inspired by looking at this illustration art and I'm planning to include pictures that I like such as food, lifestyle and nature. I will also include two images of different version of me and try to figure out the composition.
The colour palette that I'm going for will be pastel and something pleasant to the eyes. I'm going to use the colours from the Instagram feed of one of my favourite Instagram account @residentobjects.
Sketches
After having a rough idea and sketching it out, I took some pictures of myself:
Pictures of myself
Since I have a habit of taking pictures of things that I like every day, I decided to go to my photo gallery to find pictures that are suitable. For the gumball machine, since I do not own one I have decided to download the image online.
Here are some pictures that I used:
After selecting and masking all the image together, I tried to arrange it so that they are in the gumball machine and I am holding at the handle to turn the machine.
Outcome
After the first feedback given by Mr Fauzi, he said that he liked the idea but the pictures doesn't seem to blend in with gumballs well. Besides, he also said that there isn't much contrast of me and the background and my picture isn't the first thing that comes to the audience's eye.
After listening to Mr Fauzi's feedback, I have decided to try on another idea about my relationship with food during quarantine.
Picture of myself
Then, I edited myself on the teacup and added the pictures of food and flowers.
I was having a hard time deciding the colours so I decided to wait for sir's feedback.
Feedback by Mr Fauzi:
Final Self-Portrait
Self Portrait Rationale:
For this self-portrait, the idea behind it is about my unhealthy relationship with food during this quarantine. I have decided to put the grids inside the box to represent being quarantined. During this period of time, I have built different eating habits that I have never experienced before. From the start of quarantine, I have made up my mind to lose weight. I had strict restrictions on my diet and worked out excessively every day. I used to count all my calorie intakes and even chose to not eat healthy food so I could have more cookies, cakes and bread which I can’t resist. Months later, I started to binge eat and lost control of my diet completely. Soon, I started to realize my problem and how serious it is and decided that I should make some changes to it. I started to try and change my habits even though it is not easy. Then slowly, I found myself I started enjoying making breakfast and baking a lot. The pictures above are some of the pictures of breakfast I have made for myself. Besides, I have also started to drink hot beverages and I can’t help to have something warm every morning and before sleep so I decided to add me sitting on a teacup in my self-portrait.
REFLECTIONS
Throughout this whole project, it was actually a pretty fun assignment to do. Since the title for this project is self-titled, we are required to come up with an idea that is closely related to ourselves which I think it's a good opportunity to get to know ourselves more and what we like before creating an artwork. I realised that feedbacks from others are important as sometimes we can be oblivious on the work we are doing and we are not able to see where the problem is after working on it for a long time.
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