Martina’s Arts

 Reminder: My project is to create 6 illustrations looking as movie posters. Visually they will be based on posters created during the period of Expressionism. Movie posters that I want create will be based on movie that I will invent. Movie will be based on my great-grandmas’ life and posters will be present 6 stage of her life.  In this post I want to summarise interview with my grandma that I did and add comments of my idea on posters.  My grandma started with her childhood. She was born in Warsaw which is capital city of Poland. She was born a short time before the second war. My grandma love Warsaw and she always want to visit this city. When war started, she moved on the countryside to her family to be safe. She has 3 siblings. To brothers and sister. They all lived on this countryside with their mom. They usually play inside the house because they were scared to go outside. However they like to go to the nearest road and collect various treasures such as blackberri...

 In today’s session we learned about basic proportion in the figure. The method that we were looking at can be modified to create a unique character. We looked at proportion measured in heads. About 8 heads is a full body.  The “8 heads’ measurement breaks down like this: Going from first section to the last one we have: Head Chin to chest Chest to navel Navel to bottom of hips or crotch Bottom of hips to mid-thigh  Mid-tight to knees  Knees to mid-shin Mid-shin to bottom heel of foot To create my sketch I used he pencil. First I tried to create sections of same size, then I started drawing the figure starting with head.  After this exercise we had 40 minutes to create our own character. I decided to draw my character digitally.  First I find my reference photo. Using this photo I draw my very first sketch.  Then I added details such as hair and face. Here I just used my imagination. To make sure that everything is in the good place I used my knowledge...

  The Homepage   1.  Is the homepage pleasing to look at? I like the home page the most. Everything is aesthetic and keeping in the same colour pallet. However, I miss very important information - full name of artist. We can see name in left, top corner, however i think it should also be included on the homepage itself. It should be more visible. 2.  Does the homepage clearly show both visually and with text what the website is about (i.e represent the students progression route?)? It surely does. We can see on this page name of progression route. We can also observe photo that show artists’ progress and design process. I think photo is taken very good. I like lighting and orange pages matches with whole website.  3.  Is there a navigation menu on the homepage? Yes, it is.  4.  Is the navigation menu clear and easy to use?  Navigation is easy to use. Everything is located in visible and intuitional place. I didn’t have any problems to find wh...

In my project I will be creating characters for my movie. In this research I want focus on style of creating characters. I chose Erich Heckel to look at.  Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker born in 1883 in Dobeln. He was a member of the German Expressionist group Die Brucke. He was known for his painting and woodcuts of nudes and landscapes, however I want to focus on his hand printed characters. He started create portraits in 1910 after he met his cuter wife. During the war his works featured spiritual isolation and melancholy. He made a lot of prints in time of his career. Most of them were self-printed.  My major project is related to life of my grandmother. That’s why I choose this picture first. Head of Violinist by E. Heckel is a woodcut portrait. As we can see artist used only basic shapes to get us an idea of character. For example, we associate old face with wrinkles on whole face, however Heckel decided to put wrinkles only on forehead to get us idea of...

 What should I be doing in my subject area? When we talk about graphic designers we usually imagine a person who sits all day in front of the computer and don’t have to even go out. It is wrong idea about what graphic design is. As a graphic designer you should be familiar with skills you need to know but also know what is going on on the market and on the world. I should know the trends, know art and design history, take part in events and be active. Before pandemic I suggest to visit art galleries, museums and go on graphic exhibitions (because they are interesting, enjoyable and inspirational). Also as a graphic I think  it is important to become a part of some groups and know people with same profession just to learn from the other. I think I also should be practice a lot. Drawing skills and illustration skills are skills that we can improve all the time. As a graphic designer I should practice, be creative and organize and I should try to know as much as I can about this ...

 On today’s lecture we were researching ourselves. We were trying to answer questions like “who am I?, “why am I?”, “how did I become myself?”. We began with draw outline  of body. I decided to draw girl with dress, become I always liked to wear this kind of clothes. Also folk costumes of women in my country looks very similar. Then we started to answer the simple questions about our whole life.  On my drawing we can see a lot of white and red combinations. I used this colours because they are colours of my country- Poland. On the bottom of dress I drew my closest family members - my mom, my sister, my grandmother and great-grandmother. They are the most important people in my life. Then I added another layer in dress. This my early teens years. The most important thing for this period of my life was theatre. People who I met there and values that I learned was very important for me than. Also theatre changed me as a parson. Before it I was shy and I didn’t believe in mys...

In thi research I want to focus on Expressionism movie posters from German Expressionism period. The first movie poster I want talk about is design to movie “Metropolis”. It is silent movie from 1927 directed by Fritz Lang. It is about son of the city’s mastermind, who falls in love with a working-class prophet. The City where they live is a futuristic city divided between the working class and the city planners which makes things harder. It is a film where we can watch the robot, cityscape and machines   The poster is designed by German graphic artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm. This work is three-sheet image. In the forground we can see the robot which is starring straight a t the viewer. In the background are high skyscrapers. Everything is keeps in dark black and yellow colours. At the top of the poster we can observe veery interesting typography with title. Background and title are created from ease, sharp shapes. Heinz Schulz-Neudamm was a graphic designer and painter. His real nam...

 Background: Born 2 December 1891, Untermhaus He created  surrealistic portrait paintings and he is known for scary vision of war.  He experimented with etching, lithography and woodcut.  New Objectivity movement. The Great War - in August 1914, he volunteered to the army and in 1915 he was a NCO in machine gun unit. (Diary and sketchbook) 1926 - Dix became a professor  "I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness." In this research I want to focus on Otto Dix’s scary vision of war. Dix’s war experiences affected him deeply. He said: “F or years, constantly had these dreams in which I was forced to crawl through destroyed buildings, through corridors through which I couldn’t pass. The rubble was always there in my dreams.” I chose this theme, because in my project I will be create it few works related to a war time. Otto Dix in his paintings, drawing and prints showed corruption and socia...

 After today’s lectures we should create smart objective for our projects.  What do you want to do? I want to create 6 illustration inspired by German Expressionism. I want them to be similar to movie posters created that time. I want dedicated one poster to one person. It could be my friend or family member. Every poster will be created in expressionism style. I wanted that every poster tells the story. Like when we see at movie poster we know about what will be movie. I want my posters have characteristic features and story connected with parson about poster will be. For example: my great-grandmother had very hard childhood, she lived in times of war and she was school director. I want that every of this information people could see on illustration.  https://fitsmallbusiness.com/smart-goals-examples/

 In this task we were asked for chose one of the methods for ideas development and use it to our own work. I chose first one: the meditative approach.  I had to clear my mind and think about theme that I chosen. Then I had to describe everything I saw in my mind.  My theme is  “Expressionism look deeply into expressionism and incorporate this style into your art and design project”.  For my project I want to create 6 movie posters. My first idea was to recreate the most famous movie posters in expressionism style. But after this exercise and my feedback from my tutor I end up with few different versions of this idea.  I can create my own movie and then create 6 posters for it.  I can ask my friends and family and create advertising posters for theirs movies.  I can create one movie with six main characters and create separate poster for every character.  I can make one advertising poster for movie and 5 different outcomes for this project lik...