Line of Sight

LINE OF SIGHT

>What is it? - Direction in which our eye moves as we look at the image

>What does L.O.S do for your composition? - strengthen and clarified by more thoughtful use of line

-moves eye to main focus

>Movement?- curves, follow the curves

>Relationship with frame? - Can lead you in and out of the picture

>Make it a simple thing

>Colour effects L.O.S - creates a path

>Roughs!

CHOSEN IMAGE FOR LINE OF SIGHT:

Henri-Cartier Bresson

>Line of sight was a bit confusing to me when I had to look for an image depicting such. I knew it was about how your eye moves across an image, so I found a photograph that I could feel my eyes starting at one point and finishing at another and hoped it would be correct.

Everyone's images - arrow showing direction of line of sight

>During the session after I understood L.O.S a bit more, I could analyse my image a lot easier. The bought being the starting point and leading the eye onto the main focus which (I'm assuming) is the girl running over the bridge. Where is she going? Who is she? Why is she running? It starts to create questions and makes you think a lot more about the photograph instead of thinking "Oh that's a nice boat". 

TASK

>Transport illustration

-ROUGHS-

>Must include line of sight

>Any media - but must be B/W with one colour

initial roughs

>Transport is definitely up there in my least favourite things to draw. Making things look 3D and needing to make sure each element is in proportion and looks like what it actually is supposed to look like - terrifies me. However, I gave it my best shot and decided that a simple rowing boat would be best as I can make the shape fairly simple.

>With my roughs I first experimented with frame size and viewpoint, seeing which ones created the best L.O.S. 

roughs

>I decided to go with this rough, because I like how it is clear where your eye starts and where it leads to, which fits the means of the brief. The L.O.S is achieved mainly by the guy in the front of the boat pointing, as it makes you follow his arm then hand and then make you look to where he is pointing and makes you wonder what he's looking at. The curiosity is also added by his fellow boat friends, one being shocked at what they are looking at and the other trying to see what the others are seeing.

roughs
arrow showing line of sight

>I also started using blue ink, blue because very simply I really like the cool chilled feel that comes off it, as well as it being an image about the sea. I used ink because I wanted my image to be texture based, as I had noticed in the visual communication GIF brief that this works really well for me, so thought it would be a good idea to use the same process in this module too. 

RECYCLING OLD WORK

RECYCLING OLD WORK

RECYCLING OLD WORK

>When I started making my image, I thought it would be an economic idea to use textures and shapes that I have already used in previous modules. Especially, as these worked well in the first place I didn't see why they couldn't have a second appearance! 

>I also wanted to have a handmade feel to it with the textures, but just speeded up the process by using Photoshop. Another reason why I chose photoshop, is because I really want to get better at it. I can already see how much I've improved from my first photoshop induction work and so will try to use this whenever I can so I can become a photoshop wizard!

FINAL LINE OF SIGHT IMAGE

>I'm not too sure how strong the line of sight actually is, I do find myself starting from the left then leading to the right, but it needs a focal point. The arm is also a bit more like an inappropriate salute rather than just pointing... But I think it has potential and I did use frame and negative space when thinking about the composition as a whole.

>I think this is definitely one of the strangest things I've made, not even I'm quite sure what's going on...  But it's weird because part of me doesn't think that just because I'm not sure what I've created, doesn't mean it didn't work out for me. I think that this piece really shows how much I've learnt about how to create artwork, doing something I never would have created this in the first few weeks of being here. Experimenting with textures and shape, putting together busy patterns with block white - it strangely works.