Concept Based Digital Imagery

Finally got my video working for CBDI. Produced many more outcomes but felt like these were the best of them all.

Concept Based Digital Imagery

Here's the video I made showing the work I did for our latest project....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMPO3Nh1Ug

Suprematism

Suprematism is an art movement founded by Kasimir Malevich, a Russian painter and art theoretician in 1915. In Malevich's own words the movement means 'supremacy of forms' and is formed with the compilation of various geometric shapes.

Kasimir Malevich (1879-1935) was born in what is now Ukraine, he was a pioneer in abstract art and he is the founder of this Avant-garde movement.

Below are some examples of Malevich's Suprematism artwork:



Playing around in Photoshop

Looked at a tutorial for creating a torn paper effect, this could be an idea that can be developed further for an image portraying nostalgia. Just trying to learn different things as I'm not exactly a expert in Photoshop.

If I was going to develop this idea further I would probably add some sort of 'coffee stain' and 'crumpled' effect to the paper.

Seduction

After having lectures from Mr. Halliwell about 'how we see' and the theories behind colour, I think that seduction will be an interesting concept to portray within imagery - red being the main colour which we associate with it (in basic terms because this colour stands out more than any other colour - it has the longest wave length). I've found some images that I think relate to this word as part of my research and hopefully they will be a stimulus for more ideas, here they are:

This image metaphorically has seduction written all over it. The fact that these red lips are shiny giving a moist and 'sexy' look to them, as does the way this person is almost pouting with their mouth open.

Still looking at how red lips symbolize seduction, I took this image as an example. This is the image used on the cover of the True Blood Season 1 DVD, it has similar effects as the image above (shiny red lips and an open mouth pout). The exception is that this is a vampire, a being which was once portrayed as a monstrous 'creature of the night' but nowadays seems to be the latest 'sexy' trend. This shows an obvious change in times.

Yet again, looking at red lips but this image in my opinion gives off a great amount of 'sex appeal'.. the way that the smoke is drifting out of the mouth is alluring and I think that even someone who doesn't agree with smoking would also think so. 

  

 

Long legs and high heels seem to convey a large amount of sex appeal, especially with the way this women has one leg raised against the other, after collecting these images I have found that poses can be critical in order to achieve the desired effect. 

When brainstorming my ideas I remembered the sweets I used to eat when I was younger, lovehearts.. They could be used to make a digital image of sweets spelling out a 'seductive' message. 

Whilst I was still on the thought of food I came to think about strawberries, which are also red in colour (keeping in with the theme here). They are not the most exotic of fruits but still, there is something about them whether it be the colour or shape that makes them more appealing than say just an apple or a banana.. both the strawberry and the red lips together overall add a great deal of sex appeal to this image.

Concept Based Digital Imagery

So for this project we've been given a list of words and we have to choose 4 of them, of which we need to make images using digital and vector based imagery. I've done a massive brainstorm of ideas and at the moment I think I'm going to go for these as my words: Seduction, Rage, Isolation and Nostalgia.

Just getting used to this....

I've been sat playing around with the background for ages then it went dodgy.. I'm more of a Tumblr kinda girl I must say. Anyway after all this procrastinating I'll just get on with posting some of the ideas I have for my latest project.