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Scale & Proportions

The image above shows the a limestone statue of the mythical creature the sphinx called the Great Sphinx of Giza. It is one of the oldest and largest monuments in the world. The Sphinx is a very large statue with the aspect ratio of  66′x62′x240′. When you scale the Sphinx in comparison to Mount Rushmore it is quite smaller in height with Mount Rushmore being 5,725′. The height ratio between Mount Rushmore and the Sphinx is about 87 to 1.

Scale & Proportions Glossary

Scale ​is the size of one object in relation to other objects in a design.

— a certain relative or proportionate size or extent (A human is 7.5 heads tall.)

— a standard of measurement or estimation (The UFO was as big as a football field.)

— point of reference by which to gauge or rate (My puppy is twice as big as your chihuahua.)

Aspect Ratio​ refers to the proportions of the height and width of an image. It defines its overall shape, and it is usually shown as W:H (W is the width and H is the height).

Geometry ​- spheres, cubes, cylinders can be used to build more complex objects

Hierarchy ​- Arranged according to importance or power. What’s bigger or taller is often more important or harder to kill.

Human scale​ - sets the stage for the story happening to human-sized characters

Proportions​ - The size of the parts compared to the whole. Relativity.

Ratio ​- a ratio tells us what proportions mean to each other. Measuring one thing in terms of another. That monster is twice the size of the human. Their ratio is 2 to 1.

Relative ​- how objects appear in context with each other

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Scale and Proportion

In the game Superliminal, scale and proportion are bent to the whims of the player’s perspectives to create a new and amazing gameplay. The concept is simple, the size of an object that you see what you see relative to your position assumes the size of the illusion that of which you perceive. Certain segments of a pattern like a checkerboard when viewed in a way that fits them into a geometric shape like a cube causes that to actually become a cube. A door when pulled towards you looses its common ratio of 1:1 with the human scale and become a tall monstrosity.

Glossary

Scale ​- the size of one object in relation to other objects in a design; a certain relative or proportionate size or extent (A human is 7.5 heads tall.); a standard of measurement or estimation (The UFO was as big as a football field.); point of reference by which to gauge or rate (My puppy is twice as big as your chihuahua.)

Aspect Ratio​ - refers to the proportions of the height and width of an image. It defines its overall shape, and it is usually shown as W:H (W is the width and H is the height).

Geometry ​- spheres, cubes, cylinders can be used to build more complex objects

Hierarchy ​- Arranged according to importance or power. What’s bigger or taller is often more important or harder to kill.

Human scale​ - sets the stage for the story happening to human-sized characters

Proportions ​- The size of the parts compared to the whole. Relativity.

Ratio ​- a ratio tells us what proportions mean to each other. Measuring one thing in terms of another. That monster is twice the size of the human. Their ratio is 2 to 1.

Relative ​- how objects appear in context with each other

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Scale and Proportion

Scale and Proportion: When referring to an artwork's size we use the term scale; the size of the art object in relation to another object, most commonly to the human body (life-sized, miniature, enormous).       Proportion refers to the size of parts of a whole or elements within the object relative to each other. Ex: proportions in terms of size relationships within the human body.

Michelangelo’s David demonstrates both scale and proportion. Scale, in its size relative to the people viewing it (larger than life). Proportion, in the relative size of human characteristics within the body.

Contrast: “the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement and drama.”

Both images contrast between shadows/dark areas and well-lit/light areas (value).

(http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1348826)

Internal references: Using an object (most commonly the human) that is familiar (know the size of) to put into perspective the relative size of an artwork and/or its component.

We get a sense of how small the tree house by comparing to broccoli, which is easy to imagine the size of.

Golden Mean: The perfect combination of balance and harmony based on the ratio 1:1.618.

The theory suggests that humans are naturally trained to recognize this pattern, so it is an effective tool to determine relative sizes, where to place detail, or how to organize a layout or scene. The eye is naturally drawn to the center of the spiral, for example. It can relate to the entire scene or just components, however some argue that the golden ratio is naturally produced regardless of its acknowledgement.

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Shining

Scale and Proportion Project

Digital Media

11 x 17 inches

In this fictional poster, I’m advertising my exhibition at the London Design Museum. When first thinking about my gallery options, I knew for sure that it had to be at a museum that specialized in design, as the bulk of my work would be graphic design based. The first museum that came to mind was the Cooper Hewitt in New York. However, after a bit of research on their exhibitions, I realized that they were really more web and technology based, and I’m more interested in the print side of design. After searching through various design museums in the US, such as the Chicago Design Museum and the MAD (Museum of Arts and Design), I still didn’t really feel a connection to any of them. But if this was my depiction of my dream exhibition anyway, why not go bigger? Where was somewhere I had always wanted to travel to? London.

It seemed like fate when I clicked the link to the website for the London Design Museum and a bold yellow page appeared. I have been in tune with a yellow aesthetic lately, so I decided to base my initial background for the poster off the color scheme of the website. I also incorporated the faded gray grid design to reference the design of the page on the designers in residence at the museum. I then added the girl to almost represent myself as if I was the current designer in residence there. 

Finally, I named the exhibition shining to go with the yellow theme, and it dated it in summer months.

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Stumble Street. August 20, 2017.

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A UFO Party. November 11, 2016.

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My competencies in Fundamentals of Art 1 (Lesson 1, 2, and 3).

(First three pictures are Lesson 1) For lesson 1 competency was to draw five objections; Negating the Edge (ignoring all boundaries), Centralized Image (image frontally, no diagonals), Emphasize the Edges (use edges as a part of the image), Crowding the Picture Plane (crowd the composition, but make it interesting), and finally Filling the Picture Plane (use single image to completely fill the picture plane). I would have to say either Crowding the Picture Plane and Negating the Edge were a bit difficult because of sketching the whole image in the thumbnails completely. As well with getting some details. Trying to draw a bag of chips with an IPhone on top of it was difficult to do Crowding the Image, getting each crease in the bag was a little challenging. Then choose one of those five thumbnails and redraw it using either Rule of Thirds or The Golden Mean. Since my thumbnails consists the Rule of Thirds, I chose that using Negating the Edge image I drew.

Next is Lesson 2; Still Life on medium bristol. Our instructors ordered us to pick at least 6 object (simple because I’m a beginner) and draw what we see for 3 minutes then rotate to a different side. Repeat for another 5 times then pick which one we like best. This lesson helps us with proportion and scale using the techniques we learned that week. Basically draw each and if every line, meaning drawing in “3D” in a way. My challenge was drawing the octagon in the background behind the sphere. Getting that proportion right.

Finally is Lesson 3! :D Which is Proportion and Scale with shading. We use the same image from Lesson 3 but proportion/scale it better then shade it. My difficulty was getting the lower half shaded right due to the lines from the B4 and B6 pencils. Other than that I think I did pretty good.