Assignment 2: Making Needy Images: First draft
Monday, September 17, 2007
This assignment requires us to showcase the process of abstraction. Abstraction means to reduce the number of details till the remaining image is simple but yet still contains the meaning of the actual picture.
As I am the kind of person who always seek challenges, I did not pick simple or common objects to do the abstraction on. I immediately thought of creating an abstraction of my beloved dog at home. So I sketched a picture of my dog, Lucky, on a piece of paper and prepared it for presentation in class.
One of the hardest part about sketching an animal and doing it's abstraction is proportion. I did quite a good sketch of Lucky at the beginning but slowly, the proportion started to go off. This is the full sketch that I made for the abstraction presentation in class.
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As part of the design process, I tried abstraction on a simpler design, the television.
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The television was easier to abstract because it had many features that are 'removable'. What I mean is, many parts of the television can be removed easily without changing the original message of what the object is. This is very different from the dog as the dog will always look funny without certain features and some features are essential for it to be interpreted as a dog.
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