2015-05-15
concepts images ZINES
could be nice if we can make the imagery historical and mysterious
Print booklet
I printed my book in LCC digital media suite today. it was a laser printer. The quality was brilliant. I waited for 4.5 hours to get it done. (queue) The only thing is this inkjet paper(120gm) is too SILKY. It looks very luxurious which didn't quite match with my drawings. I hope I can print again in thicker, rougher paper(?!). Will go to camberwell digital media suite tmr. If i can't, will do it in LIBRARY HAHAH
2015-05-14
UNICORN
legendary animal that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodlandcreature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin. In the encyclopedias its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness. In medieval and Renaissance times, the horn of the narwhal was sometimes sold as unicorn horn.
HAPPY volunteering @Officially first day HOI
Saturday morning was great. I like being int the shop and main gallery room one. A lot more people on and off these two spots. I watched people walking around. Most of them were families and tourists and lovely old ladies. The elderlys always sent more time in the gallery. They had much more to chat about the works. Some embarrassing things happened as well. I caught a girl taking photos of the work which she forgot to keep it silent. When I turned my back to her, she tried to sneak out of the gallery very very quickly. So much fun. Plus at least 3 people compliment my banana socks. HAPPY
-May 9 2015
-May 9 2015
Volunteering @House of Illustration
My first day was a special event for David Gentleman and Chris Beetles last thursday evening. Colleagues were friendly and nice. I saw Queentin Blake! like a super star.
Me , Quite shy
-MAY 7 2015
Me , Quite shy
-MAY 7 2015
Biography project feedback
Okay I got to be honest. This is not my favorite project. I got quite demotivated during the end of the course. Homesick, long nothing-to-do-no-one-to-meet holiday, exchange and stuffs.
Yah Joe Meek. Joe Meek was kind of a legendary person in experimental electric/pop music. He didn't do rock but pop music. He died too soon and haven't showed everyone else what he has got. "The genius always dies soon." the old chinese sayings are right. He had a tough life, gone over amazing success and then depression then went low and low and then "BOOM" to the bottom.
Even til now, I don't feel confident about the project, I can't tell which part is good enough to show or to work with. I don't find a particular exciting bit. I felt quite disappointed of myself cause nothing exciting came out. I thought of big stuffs, big ceramic scupltures. I didn't like it at the end.
P.S. I can't deal with stop-frame now. Not sure about the storyboard. I don't like the idea of creating a story from him for him. Sounds totally fake.
Okay so i didn't realize i can't do big drawings. I thought of making big oil pastel drawings. I love oil pastels and it looks vibrant in big scale. It was quite hard to manage in small scale (the details particularly!) In my first drawing, Meek was sweet and happy, working in his studio, with rosy cheeks and bright eyes.
Yah I wanted to talk about the workshop. As mentioned, my original plan was to make 3D objects. I was to make Joe Meek's doll. Its height is about held a human ( toe to hip) and/or a box of miniatures /stuffs related to Joe Meek's life. It's like a treasure box or a living habitat.
I got these plans then I wen to the object workshop. Michelle was there. We were asked to work with paper tubes and make something out. I didn't feel comfortable working in this way.
We talked about my plans and my focus in Joe Meek's depression and inspiration. She didn't like it. You have to shoe the whole broad view of his life. plus don't include too much despair but success. Make the happy ones.
SIGH
I am only attracted to the despair in his life to be honest.
A SHOCK
A BIG SHOCK
so i was very demotivated after the workshop. I knew it sounds like an excuse but it really wasn't. I felt lost.
I realised I was very weak to defeat and disappointment. Not a good thing.
After that, I started to draw Joe Meek and his inspirations. Tutorials was great. I need guidelines and suggestions.
Dreams and Joe Meek's inspirations for his songs. These are the only thing that I am interested in. Dreams : communication with Buddy Holly
Inspirations: space , telstar, satellite, the there world.
I like the drawings. But some looks very different from some others so it doesn't quite form an obvious flow/connection. I would not want a STORY (beginning, climax, end etc). The book shouldn't be a obvious ongoing storyline. There shouldn't be a story. Story is only one part of the life from one particular person\s perspective. There should be some connections between drawings while being quite loose.
so I made more drawings to fit into the main one I like. I turned to charcoal + oil pastels + crayons drawings. They look like sketches. They got more mood than the better finished pieces.
Indesign.
sounds difficult but it wasn't. I tried to make the book double sided. The pagination was quite complicated.
First trial : I thought i have to include the blank page for my hardback binding but no wasn't needed. Plus i used RGB instead of CMYK. Plus my 3mm bleed missing. So I have to this all over again.
Second trial: seems nice. There's some difference between RGB and CMYK. The colours went pale but more neon. The level and curve options gone. the images are less dramatic. i like it this way, more depressing.
I am printing in LCC. So many people on the queue. I am number 95 and it's now 78 i guess.
HOPE I CAN MAKE IT WITHIN TODAY PRAY
Yah Joe Meek. Joe Meek was kind of a legendary person in experimental electric/pop music. He didn't do rock but pop music. He died too soon and haven't showed everyone else what he has got. "The genius always dies soon." the old chinese sayings are right. He had a tough life, gone over amazing success and then depression then went low and low and then "BOOM" to the bottom.
Even til now, I don't feel confident about the project, I can't tell which part is good enough to show or to work with. I don't find a particular exciting bit. I felt quite disappointed of myself cause nothing exciting came out. I thought of big stuffs, big ceramic scupltures. I didn't like it at the end.
P.S. I can't deal with stop-frame now. Not sure about the storyboard. I don't like the idea of creating a story from him for him. Sounds totally fake.
Okay so i didn't realize i can't do big drawings. I thought of making big oil pastel drawings. I love oil pastels and it looks vibrant in big scale. It was quite hard to manage in small scale (the details particularly!) In my first drawing, Meek was sweet and happy, working in his studio, with rosy cheeks and bright eyes.
Yah I wanted to talk about the workshop. As mentioned, my original plan was to make 3D objects. I was to make Joe Meek's doll. Its height is about held a human ( toe to hip) and/or a box of miniatures /stuffs related to Joe Meek's life. It's like a treasure box or a living habitat.
I got these plans then I wen to the object workshop. Michelle was there. We were asked to work with paper tubes and make something out. I didn't feel comfortable working in this way.
We talked about my plans and my focus in Joe Meek's depression and inspiration. She didn't like it. You have to shoe the whole broad view of his life. plus don't include too much despair but success. Make the happy ones.
SIGH
I am only attracted to the despair in his life to be honest.
A SHOCK
A BIG SHOCK
so i was very demotivated after the workshop. I knew it sounds like an excuse but it really wasn't. I felt lost.
I realised I was very weak to defeat and disappointment. Not a good thing.
After that, I started to draw Joe Meek and his inspirations. Tutorials was great. I need guidelines and suggestions.
Dreams and Joe Meek's inspirations for his songs. These are the only thing that I am interested in. Dreams : communication with Buddy Holly
Inspirations: space , telstar, satellite, the there world.
I like the drawings. But some looks very different from some others so it doesn't quite form an obvious flow/connection. I would not want a STORY (beginning, climax, end etc). The book shouldn't be a obvious ongoing storyline. There shouldn't be a story. Story is only one part of the life from one particular person\s perspective. There should be some connections between drawings while being quite loose.
so I made more drawings to fit into the main one I like. I turned to charcoal + oil pastels + crayons drawings. They look like sketches. They got more mood than the better finished pieces.
sounds difficult but it wasn't. I tried to make the book double sided. The pagination was quite complicated.
First trial : I thought i have to include the blank page for my hardback binding but no wasn't needed. Plus i used RGB instead of CMYK. Plus my 3mm bleed missing. So I have to this all over again.
Second trial: seems nice. There's some difference between RGB and CMYK. The colours went pale but more neon. The level and curve options gone. the images are less dramatic. i like it this way, more depressing.
I am printing in LCC. So many people on the queue. I am number 95 and it's now 78 i guess.
HOPE I CAN MAKE IT WITHIN TODAY PRAY
Ellie Denwood : Mood in Monoprints
Ellie Denwood's mono prints were so atmospheric. Love the mood.
-2 May 2015
本草綱目 Chinese Materia Medica
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/bencaogangmu.html
China's most important traditional book on pharmaceuticals.
This is so complicated. This chinese material medica does not only include the classification and use of plants and species. it also includes other medical treatments and working methods, such as some system-oriented stretching exercises (similar to kungfu) and medical use of needles onto human body.
- April 11 2015
It is a thorough and systematic compendium on Chinese parmacology until the mid-16th century. The book is arranged as guidelines (gang 綱) surrounding "meshes" (mu 目), the drug and its direct description constituting the guidelines, and its specifics corresponding to the "meshes". Other explanations see the 16 basic categories as "guidelines" and the subcategories of drugs as "meshes". Similarly, "genera" (like liang 粱 "millet") can be seen as guidelines, while "species" (like chiliang 赤粱 "red sorghum" and huangliang 黄粱 "yellow sorghum") are the "meshes". The description of individual drugs includes the origin of the materia, the place where it grows, lives or can be found, its appearance and collection method, as well as the preparation method of the required drug. Li Shizhen also explains experiences with the drug made by earlier physicians, and his own experiments. The entry of each drug is enriched by an appendix on treatment (fufang 附方), in which Li Shizhen explains 8,161 different recipes and treatment methods.
Li Shizheng's text is so comprehensive that the Bencao gangmu is not only a pharmaceutical book but can be used for informations on botany, zoology, chemistry and mineralogy. In the field of biology, for instance, Li Shizhen describes many details on lotus. He says that wild lotus has a red flowers, many stalks, but few roots, while the cultivated white lotus has precious roots. The species or kind of hehuan 合歡 has great heads, yeshuhua 野舒荷 opens at day and rolls in the petals at night, while shuilian 睡蓮 submerges during the night. The kind of jinlian 金蓮 has golden flowers, that of bilian 碧蓮 green flowers, and xiulian 繡蓮 flowers look like embroideries. In the field of geology or mineralogy he lists the places where petrol (shiyou 石油) is to be found in China, and explains that the local population stores the oil in jars and uses it as a fuel for lamps. The water lever in course terracotta jars can say a lot about the moisture of the air, as he explains, and can eventually predict rainfall. Li Shizhen gives an example to test the identity of chalcantithe (shidan 石膽, today called danfan膽礬). He also believed that the brain was the organ of the "primordial spirit" (yuanshen zhi fu 元神之府), and not, as traditionally believed, the heart.
Li Shizheng's text is so comprehensive that the Bencao gangmu is not only a pharmaceutical book but can be used for informations on botany, zoology, chemistry and mineralogy. In the field of biology, for instance, Li Shizhen describes many details on lotus. He says that wild lotus has a red flowers, many stalks, but few roots, while the cultivated white lotus has precious roots. The species or kind of hehuan 合歡 has great heads, yeshuhua 野舒荷 opens at day and rolls in the petals at night, while shuilian 睡蓮 submerges during the night. The kind of jinlian 金蓮 has golden flowers, that of bilian 碧蓮 green flowers, and xiulian 繡蓮 flowers look like embroideries. In the field of geology or mineralogy he lists the places where petrol (shiyou 石油) is to be found in China, and explains that the local population stores the oil in jars and uses it as a fuel for lamps. The water lever in course terracotta jars can say a lot about the moisture of the air, as he explains, and can eventually predict rainfall. Li Shizhen gives an example to test the identity of chalcantithe (shidan 石膽, today called danfan膽礬). He also believed that the brain was the organ of the "primordial spirit" (yuanshen zhi fu 元神之府), and not, as traditionally believed, the heart.
RESEARCH : scientific classification and illustration(2)
http://bluelabyrinths.com/2015/04/01/calvino-and-the-codex-seraphinianus-a-psychedelic-mystery/
Calvino and the Codex Seraphinianus: A Psychedelic Mystery
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RESEARCH : Scientific classification and Illustration (1)
Representative and individual specimens
So scientific illustrations, most likely, have something in common. To decide whether to render a specimen with all its individual idiosyncrasies and peculiarities or to draw a representative specimen with the typical common characteristics of its species. Some illustrations illustrates a unique prototype, the special must be drawn with every eccentricity in place. On the other side, if the subject is a typical specimen which is well known with the audience , let’s say water lily, then the illustration could be simplified. This was to show the priority and significance of all subject matters.
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