Design Principles Task 3

 Design Principles Task 3 - Development and Design

03.03.2025 - 19.03.2025 
Week 5 - Week 7
Jolin Ceria (0363784)
Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media

Table of Contents

Lecture Notes

  • Lecture Notes from Task 1
  • Lecture Notes from Task 2

    • Instructions

    Task

    Fig 1.1 Departure of the Winged Ship

    Information

    Title: Departure of the Winged Ship
    Year: 2000
    Artist: Vladimir Kush
    Size: 80” x 100”
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Online Source: Here

    We were to make our own designs based on one of the designs in Task 2 from our own choosing and a 200-word rationale detailing our choices.

    Design Process

    Fig 1.2 Sketch I'm using (I decided to use this concept but I used a composition similar to my third sketch)

    Fig 1.3 Progress report - 03/10/2025

    This was the image I had initially given to Mr. Vinod to critique; While I was absent for that particular class I managed to contact him during class hours but after the zoom session was over.


    Fig 1.4 Progress report - 03/14/2025



    Fig 1.5 Progress report - 03/16/2025

    Link for this ^ image

    Fig 1.6 Final Design (Setting off the Winged Ship, 210 x 297 mm) - 03/19/2025

    Fig 1.7 Final Design (Setting off the Winged Ship, 210 x 297 mm, PDF version) - 03/19/2025

    Rationale

    The initial artwork I used was quite tranquil, with calmer seas and wind. However, my interpretation was that this painting symbolizes the start of someone's journey in order to achieve their freedom and to leave things previously in their lives behind while taking that next step. And as such I wanted to take a different approach to interpret this painting, and with that, I decided to make the environment of the painting harsher to give a different feeling.

    Making the sky darker and grayer gives the impression of a stormy sky, befitting my interpretation of struggling to achieve freedom, along with the wind shaped clouds making the stormy weather more convincing. The harsh ocean waves convey the struggles and obstacles that come along the way of reaching for said freedom. 

    As for the composition, I utilized the golden ratio for the shape of the clouds and sea waves, along with the placements of the elements of the artwork to hopefully make something visually interesting. I also decided to move the figures close to the camera, as if seeing the ship from their perspective. This makes it seem like the ship was departing from their perspective, as if they were sending the ship off, thus the title of the artwork.

    And as for the butterflies, I tried to make them resemble the ones in the original artwork with my own changes, and added a new red one because I noticed there weren't any red butterflies.

    Feedback

    Week 6 (03.10.2025):

    • There is a lack of focus in the artwork
    • Composition looks very tight
    • The figures are too rudimentary and probably require more detail because they are so big.

    Week 7 (03.17.2025):

    • It looks better now that I've made more progress and added more things in the background.
    • The figures still look rough-ish, they're a bit too big but it's still acceptable. One side of the painting  is too dark. Instead of black, use another color for the sky/background (Dark blue maybe)
    • The yellow wingnet looks too overwhelming (I desaturated it)

    Reflection

    I was honestly extremely strapped for time, mainly because while I had been working on the artwork non-stop, I spent way too much time on one element (Particularly the water and the clouds, along with the butterfly net shading) which gave me very little time to work on other elements of the artwork. In the end, I had to rush to finish my work on time, and all in all I feel like I could have done better, although I am happy with the result.

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