Fourth exercise: Color’s meaning, my beloved color

Purple represent powerful, leader, royalty, nobility, luxury, mystery. This few representative of purple could be found out at any website, normally purple are mystery, a symbol of power in my personal view.

Purple normally is use for meditation, seeking inspiration, to give people calm down and start thinking, is kind of spiritual fulfillment. As we can see, from the past purple has been used as a symbol of power, also in most of the magic performance purple had been used as a symbol of mystery.

How purple form? Normally is a combination between blue and red, from the research I learned that red is a focus point, represent active and dynamic, while blue can be function as a calming process, cooling down people feeling, expansive as well (here might be saying that blue color can also make people express their feeling ).

Purple can remove our worry, to calm people down or even can affect depression, most of the gemstones is made by using purple color, it’s associated with mysticism and purification, most of the meditation also using lots of purple color as a support tool.

I found some similarity between purple’s meaning and my personal characteristic, those online research said that people who likes purple are sensitive and compassionate, understanding and supportive, think of others before us. My personal view for why I chose purple as my favorite color, not only it’s mystery and powerful, as the research said that sometimes I was like so sensitive, so care about how people think of me, compassionate will be like when I saw those beggar my rational and emotional will argue whether I should donate some money to them or not.

At the last, purple I think that it is a quite controversial color compare to others, it could be good for express also can be affect depression, but I like it, mystery and royalty, like a batman(he should turn the black into purple…).

photo resources from:http://www.google.com.my/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=681&tbm=isch&tbnid=Wx_5gCUMyJxODM:&imgrefurl=http://kauppinen90.deviantart.com/art/Black-Purple-Batman-Desk-2012-Win7-281158447&docid=8YXBcg_6a8xVwM&imgurl=http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/025/d/0/black_purple_batman_desk_2012_win7_by_kauppinen90-d4ne78v.png&w=1191&h=670&ei=rvqtUbLNM8PmrAeWqoCAAg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:3,s:0,i:86&iact=rc&dur=1099&page=1&tbnh=158&tbnw=281&start=0&ndsp=21&tx=65&ty=84

photo resources from:http://ifreex.deviantart.com/art/Purple-Breath-171007051

Here are the references:

http://crystal-cure.com/purple.html

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/communication/color_effect.htm

http://www.the-wisdom-of-wicca.com/spiritual-meaning-of-colors.html

http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/personality-color-purple.html

Second exercise: Design principles and design elements

Design principles, which mean that a concept, a main theme or stereotypes to lead out the elements, to arrange the structure of elements, and mix it together to become a design, an art.

 It also could affects the art performance, or maybe bring out some message through the art.

There are some principles that I get it from website and I will explain some of it.

-Center of interest: an area that might be straight away attract people attention. It is the most important part, by using some contrast color or the place it express itself.

-Balance: feeling of what we see on the art, shapes, colors, values, forms, which can be used to present, also it could be evenly balanced and also un-evenly balanced.

-Contrast: It used to create an area of emphasis, it shows the differences between each shapes or color as well, also to lead out the main object.

Harmony, direction movement, rhythm, these are also including in design principles.

Design elements, we can say that the things to build up a painting, an art. It is just like tools, line, color, texture, shape, form, value and size, these seven elements are the most popular or the most important tools that can never forget to design.

-Line: It can create texture, to describe the outline or a shape, it can be like thin or thick lines, actual, vertical or horizontal and contour lines.

-Color: Have three properties (Chroma, intensity and value) , color also can be refer to the hues.

The most popular thing about that is color wheel, to show how the color works compare to others or it will become when you mix it, also to show a contrast between them.

-Texture: To show the roughness or smoothness in objects, it can be real or even implied by using different medium.

-Shape: Two dimensional line but no any form or thickness, is flat, in two categories (geometric and organic)

-Form: Three dimensional object, have volume and thickness. It also can be say that a 3-D effect by using light and shading techniques, it can be viewed from different angle.

-Value: Contrast normally is the extreme changes in values, normally white and black two color will be using, also refer to light and dark in a design.

-Size: Objects, lines or shapes’ variations in the proportions. It is also simply the relationship of the area occupied by one shape to that of another.

In the conclusion, design principles can be said that what we can do to the design elements, but design elements are to create the design principles, so this two options must be there while doing design...they can't just separate.

These are the website/ references that I search and get the meaning from there:

http://www.incredibleart.org/files/elements2.htm

http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm

First work-Abstract design

Abstract design

Firstly, I'm not that good at drawing so please be patient with my drawing for my design class lecturer and those viewers.

This is my first drawing, first time using Photoshop, actually this is an Universe, at the first time i tried to do the normal one like those dark color of the background and some rocks and some aerolite, but then my girlfriend inspired me to turn it in others contrast colors.The white things are rocks and aerolite, and those are  nine planets and the sun. Try to imagine it and enjoy it.THX