Environment Design Exercises

 Environment Design

23.09.2025 - 08.01.2026
Jolin Ceria (0363784)
Environment Design
Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media

Perspective


 

Some brief perspective practices; I figured I could take a shot at doing a five point perspective, I'd say I did an okay job, but I definitely do need to practice more, especially using human figures instead of just boxes/houses.

Silhouette sketches


Not technically an exercise; These sketches didn't really have any direction, as I made them before figuring out what I wanted exactly. I decided to take these and combine them into an exterior later on.

Values Practice

Mr. Kanaan said that the house blends in too much with the grass and flowers and I should hold them, and I agree; I did that because I did not want the house to be too light, but it ended up making the house almost hidden I feel like. I drew the waterfall white to emphasize the presence of water, although I probably could have used a different method rather than just using white. 

Color management and ambiance


 
I combined both of these together because I was going for both of those things at once at the time; I tried to give a melancholic yet peaceful atmosphere in the first picture and a gloomy and mysterious, yet mystical atmosphere in the second. Mr. Kanaan suggested that I figure out the story for the glowing spots (They were meant to be berries) in the second, but I didn't really do anything with it because I ended up straying away from that idea.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Design Principles Task 1

Image
Design Principles Task 1 - Exploration 03.02.2025 - 21.02.2025 Week 1 - Week 3 Jolin Ceria (0363784) Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media Table of Contents Lecture Notes Instructions Task Principles Gestalt Theory Contrast Emphasis Balance Repetition Movement Harmony Symbol Words and images Exploration Feedback Reflection Lecture Notes Elements of Design: Point: Simplest element of design, used as a repetitive mark forms a line and will create two/three dimensional figures and forms as it moves in space Line:  Can be active or static, aggressive or passive, sensual or mechanical to indicate directions, define boundaries of shapes and spaces, imply volumes or solid masses, and suggest motion or emotion and can be used to depict qualities of light and shadow and to form patterns and textures by grouping them together. Shape: Refers to the expanse within the outline of two dimensional area or within the three dimensional  object. Form : A three dimensiona...
Read more

Design Principles Task 3

Image
  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 Instructions Task Design Process Rationale Feedback Reflection 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...
Read more

Design Principles Task 2

Image
Design Principles Task 2 - Visual Analysis 21.02.2025 - 07.03.2025  Week 3 - Week 5 Jolin Ceria (0363784) Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media Table of Contents Lecture Notes Instructions Task Visual Analysis Sketches Feedback Reflection Lecture Notes Visual Analysis is a method of understanding design that focuses on the visual elements and principles. Part of it's process involves describing and explaining a visual structure and recognize how a designer chooses to communicate their ideas and implement things in their design. It's an important part of developing one's visual literacy, as it trains your ability to read and critically interpret images. There are three main steps in visual analysis: To observe  by closely looking and identifying the visual elements in a design and describing them in your own words, preferably without prior information about the design beforehand. Observing a design without prior information will help you look, think, and find goo...
Read more