For my final work, I named it “irrational city”. I have chosen the topic of rebellion in the contemporary art. In my final work, there are three parts (or two parts) of them, the first one is a design of the “irrational city”, the second part is like a colour palette of the city design. I mainly used Photoshop and Illustrator to finish my final work, illustrator for buildings and landscapes illustrating, and photoshop for colouring and to finalise the whole design.
There are two artists I was researching and referencing to my work, Jess Johnson and Hitchhiker. Jess Johnson’s drawing and installation practice are influenced by the speculative intersections between language, science fiction, culture and technology. In her drawings, she depicts complex worlds that combine densely layered patterns, objects and figures within architectural settings. Johnson’s drawings are often displayed within constructed environments that act as physical portals into her speculative worlds. Hitchhiker is a musician-producer, but there is a very distinct personal style in his music video. In his music video, a metallic polygon-shaped dancer is dancing on the street, he combines virtual and real objects together, it forms his own style. “You don’t know what the truth is but when you see the video [and read the subtitles] you feel it is true. That’s my goal,” said Hitchhiker."It's a sort of comedy.” Both of these two artists perform artworks that “rational to irrational”.
In my design, the most important and distinct element to perform the concept of rebellion and irrational. Different colours give the different atmosphere to audiences. The same illustrated project can give audience different perceptions in use different harmonise colours. Even different colours can lead audiences to unalike focusing point. In my view, the use of colours can straight direct people to understand what the artist wants to express. So, the concept of rebellion and irrational also can be described by the design of harmonising colours.
Illustrating is the most complicated part of my final work. I just built a normal city landscape by the illustrator. Because of my limit illustrator skills, I followed a particular tutorial to complete the illustrating, and also use materials to enrich the whole view(trees). Before the whole landscape built, I developed my ideas from a very unlike start. At the origin, I had an idea to present the rebellion of a “city” concept, A fillet travelling through the street, so I built those buildings in my experiment, then I realised compared to show a fillet “swim” through the city, colours more intuitive to show “irrational”, so I decide to play my creation on colours. On the other hand, to better present a city view, I found out the isometric vision style instead of a normal 3-dimension perspective view, it better to show the shape of buildings. The 3-dimension perspective looks like showing a part of the city, isometric shows a whole city landscape.
I just illustrated black and white illustrations in illustrator, for colouring I use the tool in photoshop called Gradient Map. The Gradient Maps tool has a serious side in creating custom black and white conversions and a more frivolous one in adding colour to an image. So there are many creative colours can be edited via gradient map, hence I played on different colours then added to my final work.
According to my concept, “irrational city”, I chose a rainbow tone to built the landscape, and a pink & warm tone as the main tone of the whole project. The biggest component is the city, the city is bright coloured, and it fainted and distorted looks irregular. Not only shows irrational on colour but also on shape. Other buildings were floating above the city that exacerbates the concept “irrational”. The background colour also used the gradient map, that provides an atmosphere of illusion.
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