Design 3.2

 BRIEF

 NEXA is a video game company that is well known for its high quality visually appealing video games that is inquired me to create concepts and ideas for an upcoming video game that is visually appealing and mysterious that targets a young adult audience. 

 The design brief requires me to create a character design, a world concept and equipment concepts. It is required for me to add certain elements in my designs such as keeping a horror-esc element to the characters I am designing for the atmosphere of the game to be consistent with the genre. The art style of the characters is to be in semi-realism style.

I have been asked for production to include splash art and a character turnaround. 

Company logo references:

Field Notes

Painting Art 3.2

 

   

Subject: This illustration is what appears to be a humanoid creature with a masculine figure. He has long straight black hair and an earring. The creature is wearing a goat's skull on its head which cover's the subject's face and hides his facial expressions. This helps him appear to be quite mysterious which contrasts with the background which is very pastel and vibrant. 

Narrative: "Personification" of a dream 

ESOL Reflection Blog 20/03/23

In the past term in ESOL, we have been working on our reading log assessments. We are to read 5 texts plus a novel. The novel I am reading is The Cementary Boys which is a horror fiction novel about a boy who moved into a new town called Spencer where his father used to live. He meets this group of boys and a girl called Cara which changes his life.

Also, I learnt a lot of new vocabulary that I haven't heard or seen before in the texts such as the novel I am reading that. Like “Incredulous” which is a word that I have not seen before. It means unwilling or unable to believe in something. I could use this word in my future sentences as it is quite a big word and it could make me sound intelligent.




I would like to be able to learn more words in the future and be able to use them in future texts I will write.

Design - Series and Sequences

 

The designer came up with the mountain design from the roof-like design. Then they had a black dot first and then slowly develops their logo designer then applied it onto the pamphlet or poster once they were satisfied with their design. 

Design | Rua; Waihanga Ngohe | Blog post two:

 My choice of artists are:

Contemporary - Konstantin Maystrenko

Traditional - Disney (Les Clark)

Aotearoa - Jamie Ro

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oDr-kv61WLzJ_HuD05QIQmMK97ZyJ-hoc5SdLW-LcOk/edit?usp=sharing

Painting | Rua; Waihanga Ngohe | Blog post two:

 My selection of Artists are:

1. Traditional - Vincent Van Gogh

2. Contemporary - Odilin Redon

3. Aotearoa - Bill Hammod

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BkTzUdbDNq7qTZHpY-HlGb2B800NOHiWdZqOIXgq_aI/edit?usp=sharing

Painting | Tahi; Waihanga Ngohe| Blog post one:

I have the same mind map as my Design subject

Here are some of my previous works before choosing a Kaupapa, Which are drastically different from the construct I chose. 

The construct I decided to do is Post-Impressionism. Post-impressionism is what Roger Fry - an English artist- in 1906 called this genre of painting that builds from impressionism. This means that brighter and bold colours are used and everything is stylized and expressive, unlike impressionism which focuses on naturalism. Post - Impressionists tend to use thicker paint and distinct brush strokes while impressionists used thin brush strokes that were still visible and unblended but accurately depicts light. This can be observed in artists like Van Gogh, who first imitated impressionist artists and he wasn't successful so, he then developed a post-impressionist art style by adapting elements from his peer's paintings instead. Post-impressionism then paved the way for modern art which completely departs from traditional art and its philosophies during that time. 

Post-Impressionism also mostly focuses and emphasizes on feelings and symbolism

Paul Cezanne is the father of Post Impressionism. He is known for reducing objects to their distinct shape than painting them with extreme detail while still keeping the saturated colours of impressionism. He then had a very unique brush stroke technique that is oriented rather than consecutive. Paul Cezanne then influenced Cubism through his use of perspective and geometric shapes in painting that predicted the cubist movement. 

 I wanted to do something different this year rather than doing things like naturalism, I would love to go for a more abstract and dynamic route and have more saturated and warm colours in my portfolio to extend my skills and try something new that I was not comfortable with. 

my annotated bibliography