Cave Paintings | 35k years ago

What are cave paintings?beautiful detailed and colorful representations found in caves

Name several common themes found in cave paintings?
large animals, tracings of hands, and abstract patterns

How were these paintings created (tools, pigments)?water, plant juice, animal blood soil, charcoal, and hematite

What is the most famous cave painting site? When was it discovered and by whom?
lascaux.  in 1940 by four teenage boys

Post an example of cave painting(s) from this cave.

Why did this cave have to be closed? What was done to satisfy public curiosity?Carbon dioxide from visitors were damaging the paintings. France created a man made replica next to it


Post an example of cave painting(s) from Altamira cave.

In Altamira cave, why do most of the paintings have a red hue?It was caused by the red clay in the soil

Who discovered this site? How old are the paintings confirmed to be?Marceline Sanz de Sautuola

What is the oldest known cave painting site? When was it discovered and by whom?
Chauvet point arc

Post an example of cave painting(s) from this cave.

What was different about the painting techniques at this site? The walls were made smoother, and etching was used to create a three dimensional effect

What is "speleology"? the study of caves

What three reasons do archeologists and historians believe prehistoric man created cave paintings?
TO tella story, as a visual aid, or for magical purposes

Assignment 13: Research and Inspiration

Research

• Exquisite corpse was made as a parlor game
• Wikipedia defines it as is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.  
• Created in the early 1900s by surrealists
• Surrealsim was a movement away from strict reality, and focused on dreams, accidents, and suprise 

Brainstorm

Adjectives- dreams, surprising, old fashioned, crazy

Who? Me

What am I trying to do? Convey surrealism, make it fun

-Inspiration- 

I like this piece because of its blending of dream and reality.  Its also interesting how many things you can see in one picture: an eye with a fish, just an eye, just a pond, someones eye with a pond for the ball etc.

I particularly like this exquisite corpse because nothing is what you expect. Its not just a normal head on a different body on a different pair of legs.  Each piece is surreal on its own, bar the torso, and when they come together it makes something really cool.

The Creative Process

Definition- a series of steps repeated every time you design something

Why do we need this?

1. Improves consistency

2. Ability to plan and time your work

3. Raise quality of your work

4. Communicate more effectively and in a more professional manner

The Steps

1. Research- client, competition, audience

2. Brainstorm/ inspiration- be innovative. think of what describes your client.  Questions to ask:

                      What kind of message am I trying to communicate?

                      Who is my audience?

                      What am I trying to tell them?

                      What kind of visuals will work for my particular audience?

3. Sketch- get your ideas out of your head and onto paper

4. Execute- create your developed composition, try techniques and utilize principles

5. Critique & Revise- take a (literal) step back, look with an objective eye.  Get other objective eyes as weyull. 

Composition Strat

Snapshot= a quick picture, often taken spontaneously, that captures a moment
photograph= an image taken with care and thought

Rule of Thirds- imaginary lines dividing your camera into thirds, both horizontally and vertically

• place important elements where these lines intersect
• place horizon line at the top or bottom horizontal divider
• fill up your frame for a close up image
• create leading lines of the composition to lead the viewer's eye through the photo

Point of view= change the way your subject is perceived by changing the camera position

• if you want an image to seem tall, compose so the shot is upward
• small shoot downward
• keep your background simple fool
• mood is affected by the background
• chaotic= bad bad bad
• original point of view adds interest

Semester Reflection

I truly have learned a lot this semester, more than I thought there was even to learn about Graphic Design.  I came into this class thinking that by the end I might just be able to become adept at Photoshop and Illustrator, and that might help me for other classes.  But I was quite pleasantly suprised to actually (at least I think) significantly progress in my skills in them.  My favorite thing to learn, though, are the theories and principles of design.  I love to find out how the juxtaposition of two colors can completely change the meaning and feeling of a design.  I think this stems from my enjoyment of writing music; Design and music are somewhat intertwined in that way, even if you have the skill, if you do not know the theories to really evoke the emotion or thought that you want to, be it excitement by using complementary colors in a propaganda poster, or dwelling on a melancholy feeling by changing to a C6 chord and slowing down in a fast song in the key of F, you are not left with a truly meaningful or effective creation.  That is what i would like to learn more about next semester, the principles that you can apply to a design to augment its effectiveness.   

Review Week 17

Yes.  I thought how serifs were originated was pretty cool, never thought they just kind of came about like that.  Also, even though I already knew that there were different kinds of serifs, I did not think hat thye were so structurally classified, I just thought that they were just designed to look good.  Cool article

"Review Week 16"

Of the seven classifications, which classification(s) would best work as body type? Why?
I believe Sans Serif would work best as a body type.  This is because it is the most basic, as it has no embellishments like serifs, and would be the easiest to read for extended times

Identify the lowercase characters that have ascenders?
i, f, h,k, l, b

Identify the lowercase characters that have descenders?

q,y,p,g,j,
 

Slab Serif.  Process of elimination/ its thick flat serifs.

 
Script. very flowy with loops and lots of curves, looks like cursive hand writing
Decorative.  The sketching look makes it themed.

Sans Serif.  It has 0 serifs
Blackletter. very ornamental with varying thick and thin strokes

Old Style.  While this is like others in the way that it has low contrast between thick and thin strokes, its angled and wedged serifs gave it away big time for sure. 

  

Modern.  Its thin and flat serifs are how i knew.