Ki Ko Jah: 2013

Thursday, 11 April 2013

Final project HAA102 Intro to Design

This art was inspired by a tree I always saw outside of my house . The theme here is about social media addiction . The glowing human bodies generate the energy to power up the social media ( the PC monitor , phone and tablets ) . In my opinion humans rely much on social media until they become socially numbed . The tree represent life and these are the lives of those that got socially addicted .

Central Market Trip

We went for a trip the other day to Central Market in KL to check out and to get inspired for our final project .

One of few heritage buildings around Central Market . This one here is one of the oldest restaurant .

One of the artist is doing a potrait . I think his name is Ali . He is quite friendly and gave us the permission to take his picture .

A statue located at the upper floor of the anexxe gallery .

The buddha statue there is very beautiful and also the painting on the right hand corner .

Pop Art step by step

Get all of the image files and open it up in Photoshop CS6

Unlock layers to enable cropping of the body image

Using the Lasso Tool , cut the body precisely and copy it .

Paste the cropped body to the vintage paper background

Resize the body image to the size that you want . Cropped the animal head using the same step 2 process

Paste and allign carefully to the image of the body . Now you have a "werepig" . Lets move on to add some spice to the background .

Select the image and copy it to the vintage paper

Put the sun burst image under the body layer and adjust the opacity . Now you have a japanese "werepig" .

Miss Suzanne here looks suprised . Crop her image using the same lasso tool and copy it . (Remember always unlock the background before cropping)

Paste Miss Suzanne image and put the layer before the sunburst and adjust the opacity . Now she looks more suprised ! Next , let's put some layer mask into this image . Copy paste (The same process over and over again) the image and paste it to the background . Resize it and it will look like this ....

Again , adjust the opacity and add a layer mask .

Change the content colour to black and click ok .

Now use a brush and brush it off .

Since miss suzanne is no longer suprised lets add an effect to it .

Add a few wording and its done . Behold , the "werepig" .

Art gallery trip

The art trip to The National Art Gallery was very inspiring . Although we can't take any pictures in there but most of the art was really amazing indeed . There was 1 of A.Samad Said that intrigued me . Although it looks simple but there must be a meaning to it . What is the meaning is a mystery . Only the artist or painter knows . Viewer can only judge and make their own assumption . The main exhibition on that day is by a malaysian painter , Latiff Mohidin . Most of his "arca" titled langkawi occupies the top floor of the gallery .

These are some picture of us !

Monday, 18 February 2013

Art movement

Symbolic symbolism art

My prefered art movement that i choose are symbolism , abstract and minimalism . The reason I choose both of the movement are mainly because of most of my style of art are associated with them . Symbolism is my most favourite art movement . Symbolism art is all about the message that the artist or painter is trying to send . Sometimes the artist would add hidden message in their arts . Symbolism is not only on paintings but in music and philopsophy as well . Poem also is one of many mediums where artist can express symbolism in it . Indirect meaning , metaphor and symbolic meanings are symbolism .

A brief concept of what is minimalism

Minimalism art

Minimalism movement simplify any design or style into a single and comprise of few elements to create maximum effect . The concept of minimalism is very good because it can help someone expand their creativity . It proves that you dont need much to do something creative .

An example of an abstract art

The abstract art movement uses much of the visual language , colour and lines to composes art with non figurative . It is an alternate way of describing an art by an artist . Abstract is a survived since prehistoric times where cavemen drew symbols to the 19th century where abstract art is developed from romanticism , impressionism and expressionism .

Friday, 8 February 2013

Colouring exercise

Mr.Horse

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Colours

There are lots of colour revolving in our everyday life . Colours can be a symbol or also can perseive a person mood . The colour of my choice are green , black , and red .

The colour green plays many role in my life . It can be most associate as the colour of nature , the colour of birth or life . From the first moment I woke up , till the time i doze off , the colour green is a very common colour for me . For me , green is peaceful , the colour of meditation and the colour of one's inner Zen .

Black resembles mystery to me . Its a symbol of darkness and emptiness . Many thought the colour black is evil but it depends on how one can think . Black can also symbolize force or power . It is used as a emblematic colour for the punk and goth subculture in the 20th century . Black is also the colour of simplicity and ellegance , said by the world renowned Italian designer Gianni Versace . In Japanese culture , black symbolize nobility , age and experience . One prime example are the acceptance of the black belt as a higher level rank in most martial arts .

Red signifies courage for me . It symbolize the blood of the warrior that has been poured in the battlefield to protect his or her family , pride and honour . In Chinese culture , they believes that the colour red brings prosperity and good fortune thus every Chinese New Year , special red packets are used for giving monetary gifts to young children or adults .