final updates, thoughts and notes…..
One of my main reasons for wanting to do this project was so i could understand more aspects of art and digital media for myself, i have looked into many techniques and have come up with a lot of ideas along the way to use for my final major project, which was the plan. My latest test of turning the square pixels in to dots has worked really well and i would love to see this in real time, the main reasons why my images are not to big, are simply because they take a long time to create! Everything i am handing in is from my own production, alot of the pixel tests from scratch!
I do really like how the dots come out and would like to see this in real time, some of the ideas i have had for my FMP include colour mapping and looking at some languages for colour that i can use to represent live art, i have some great examples, especially a really nice piece of work from Christian Faur. He is an artist who like myself, is facinated with the history of colour and the use of natural science in his work, he has developed a colour alphabet!! I really like the work he has produced and is great research in my area. All the tests i have done for this project, and the reading and research i have put in will make a big contribution to my final major project, i havent said to much about it yet but there will be a new blog just for it, so keep an eye out for the link! i will say i am looking a lot into colour harmonies and musical tones, inspired from a 17th century scientist!
I will be handing in a folder with all printed work, learning agreement and report for this project, also a usb stick with all my work on and latest video pixel tests. I am really excited about part two of this big project…
explanations
The main ideas behind my specialist project, has been from inspiration in my passion of art. I have wanted to look at and understand colour theory behind digital media, and use techniques such as pixelating or dithering to create absrtact pieces of digital art. For me it has been enjoyable as the history and learning part is always important. The next pieces of work i am going to add to my project is created from a process of reducing the colours in my selected photo and also changing the dithering from 0% to 100% comparing the 2 to see what outcomes i get. I also want to look at changing the square pixels in an image to circles to get a pop art style affect picture on a larger scale.
Dithering is a technique used in computer graphics to create the illusion of color depth in images with a limited color palette, here is an example of dithering;
From the first picture, you can clearly see each colour pixel, but as they pixels get smaller you can gradually see the picture coming together, using the illusion of colour depth.
From my next example you can see the difference between 100% dithering in picture and 0% dithering, with 0% giving you colour banding and 100% more detail. Both pictures have been reduced down to 2 colours from the original picture, both producing nice effects.
Can you see and guess which one is which!?
New Year!
After a long break and a lot of reading i have come back into the new year with lots of ideas and lots to do!! for my specialist project i am going to keep looking at colours of pixel, seeing if i can explain why they go the colours they do when i compress images, also start looking at real time and how i can slow it down, turning it into live pixelated art for my fmp. Here is a very nice interactive installation piece i came across over the winter,
Expect a lot more blogs in description!
compression tests
This is another compression test i did on the sunset image to see what abstract effect i was left with, i have now done my main pictures and had these printed professionally for my hand in, these will be shown on my presentation along with new video pixel tests.
Projection tests with my work
Here are some pictures from projection tests i took, i wanted to see my work on a large scale so you could appreciate the pixels i have blown up.
More research :)
As i explained earlier i have been studying the work of Roy Lichtenstein and Georges-Pierre Seurat, but another artist i have also been researching on and influenced by is Piet Mondrian. I realised the work in which he has produced is very similar in what i am trying to achieve. Mondrian drew his abstract forms from landscape, reducing a picture to its bare essentials, by doing this we gain a spiritual experience unhampered by the associations with the natural world. He said “The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty”.
I have done a couple of digital art pictures in a Mondrian style, all the work i produce i want to show my influences but also my own techniques and the subjects they represent are from my life experiences and relate to my identity. Here are the 2 pictures i created, both travelling pictures, one from Bali and one from London. I want to show how you can appreciate beautiful colours in a picture and turn these in to blocks to represent the whole picture.
This is a great way to create an abstract image with good results, our eyes and brain use the solid colours an shapes to construct the image into one we recognize.
Compression test
This was a test i did in photoshop where i compressed the same image 10 times to see what abstract effect i was left with, you can see with the last 3 or 4 results that the pixels become very clear and like in my previous test uses one dominate colour in the pixel to cover a certain area, but from a distant you can still make out the absract image.
The process of my picture
For my first test i thought i would try it in black and white, i wanted to construct a picture of my face from a grid system in a digital format. I evaluated each square on the grid for the most dominate colour and used this colour to fill each square, from a distance it will create the image of my face in a more abstract way.
This is the original photo in black and white.
This is a screen shot showing me selecting the square that represents a pixel and then picking the most dominate colour within the square to fill it.
latest pixel test
This is how far i have got with a image of my face made up of different toned colour square pixels, in the shades of white, grey and black. I have produced these with vector images so they are bold and clear. I want to use a modern day style of Pointillism and Pop Art, inspired by Lichtenstein and Seurat to create still images and short films that are made up of blown up pixels.
