Visual Arts and Basic Design Portfolio - Jayesh More

Larger than life in Pop Art

Faculty-Satyakam Saha ( VF )

Brief :

To make a ‘Work of Art’ which portrays your Object of Affection or Affliction. An Object which you love or hate at your home or habitat.Whether you use IT or IT just sits in a corner like a decorative piece. It can be any useful or useless OBJECT. An OBJECT you carefully chose as a medium to convey your story.

Learnings:

• Understanding Pop Art.

• Understanding the principles of Scaling in Sculptural works.

• Create a Work of Art which is larger thanlife in size or a cut-out in 3D

Object choose: Stapler

What isstapler?

Stapleris a mechanicalobject thatwe in our day to day lifewithoutrealizingits importance.

Iteasilyhelps to pin up sheets in just one press. It helps in organizing our papers which may become chaotic if not managedproperly.

Why I choosestapler?

Itis a may look simple from outside but is made of complex mechanism.The way it works is very fascinating.It also resembles a crocodile’s mouth.

Quick Technical drawings/ Analytical sketches in pencil

Side Elevation PlanView

Front and Back Elevation IsometricView

StillLife Drawing of Object

A stilllife capturingthetextureand shadow casted by theform of the object.

Photographs of Work in Progress -

Final Artwork - Bite

A stapler metaphorically represents a mouth with teeth as it resembles to bite the papers to fix them together.

So, I named it BITE

Final Artwork and Chosen object

To get an idea about the scale of the artwork, both the artwork and the object are place together.

Still Life

Faculty-Pavan Buragohain (VF)

Brief :

Perception of objects in 3D space and its accuratedepiction in 2 Dimensions. Students will be required to make a simple table top still life composition of 2 objects ,one object should be manmade and the other should be a naturalorganic form. An accurate drawing in terms of proportion and perspective will be made and rendered on an A3 sheet of white cartridge paper using 2h,hb,2b, 4b pencils.

Learnings:

• Composition of objects ( organic and manmade) in space.

• Accuracy in Perspective and proportions.

• Learning about different deferent styles or –isms such as pop art, surrealism, modern art,cubism, etc.

Composition of objects in space

Trials

I choose cup and plate as a manmadeobjects and honey as an organic substance.

For the composition , I poured in some honey into the cup and allowed it to fall into the plate.

I then captured this moment and it came out very well.

Blackand White Render

Progress Sketch

I used HB, 2B, 4B, 8B to render this drawing. I smudged the pencil to give the effect of depth and smooth surface.

Blackand White Render

Brief

Human perception vs. Machine Perception

Faculty-VandanaKothari

:

Introduction to the idea of Style in the history of Art. How individual style is at the core of most creative professions and how one can develop their own individual style of visual representation. By looking atdifferent examples from Art and Design one can compare the difference between each individual artist's /designer's wayof perceiving the reality which is unique and based on one's own experiences and understanding.

Learnings:

• - understanding the difference between 'machine perception' and 'humanperception.'

• - learning that they are capable of a wide variety of advanced representational techniques.

• - learning that the same object is always viewed differently when different people are involved

Referenceimage

Progress Sheet

Used Ear buds to paint this artwork after painting light coat of blue poster color over the cardboard sheet.

Used Ear buds to paint this artwork after painting light coat of brown poster color over the cardboard sheet. And then later adding the final details.

Referenceimage Progress Sheet2

MahatmaGandhi Ji

Progress Sheet

We had to paint Gandhiji in a more unconventional way, a wayin which we memorize him and this was to be drawn without looking at the actual picture of him.

The first thing that came to my mind was the wheel and the stick that was alwayspresent with him.

Also I tried to depict his lean body and only wearing white dhoti.

04.

Appropriation in Art

Faculty-Vandana Kothari

Brief :

1.Take anyone painting as a reference

2. Try to create a composition in line depicting life inside and outside your home using the vocabulary of two different art stylesIndian Miniature + Realistic Style.

3. Thecomposition should be your interpretation of the work your select as a reference.

Learnings:

• Understanding Art forms of different eras.

• Understanding vocabulary in India miniatures Art

• Ways to identify art forms.

Indian Miniature

Used B VJoshi’s art work as reference. To create an artwork of my own representing my house and its surrounding areasusing poster colours.

Image

Image of my House

05.

Transformation of Cube

Faculty-Ramneet Kaur (CF)

Brief :

Introduction to humanperception and its parameters. Translatinghumanperception of a space using language of visual and showcasing variousemotions. This process is carried awayusing a cube and its deformation to variousabstract forms that have a meaning.

Learnings:

• Understanding how deformation ofshapes can contribute in change of

• perception.

• Comprehending form transformations.

• How intangibles such as emotions can be translated in simplest of forms using colours, textures, proportions, placements etc.

Imaginationbased Transformation

Referenceimage

Aim was to convert a simple 3d cube into a chosen object (bottle) using the process of elongation , addition and subtraction without changing the original position of the objects on the paper

Direct Imitation

In this module,we were asked to representcubein thefollowing scenarios-

• Jumping

• Giraffe view

• Blurry vision

• Driving Past

• Ant View

• Insidea cube

The aim was to look for innovativeideasto representdifferent scenarios withsame object.

Jumping

Giraffe View

Blurry Vision

Driving Past Ant View

Inside a Cube

Inspirationbased transformation

In this module,the objectivewas to representa simplecube in such a way thatit shows thehumanemotions .

06.

Narratives

Faculty-Ramneet Kaur (CF)

Brief :

Narratives-Narrative can be verbal, textual or graphical. A narrativeis a wayof presenting connected events in order to tell a good story. Commontypes of narrativesnormally contain a beginning, middle, and anend. Narratives have been around since the beginning of storytelling, from folk tales to ancient poetry.

Learnings:

• Exercises aimed at developing a visually acute eye for detail and discrepancy in visual

• media.

• Understanding of minimalist philosophies through simplification exercises.

• Unique interpretation design theory in projects created by each student.

• Discussions centered on 3- dimensional design and creative ideas to help foster artistic

• awareness, proportions and tonal value will be explored in the observational study of drapery, still life objects and live models.

CharacterDevelopmentand MoodBoard

Development

The module started with selectinga story from our past experience.

Forming thecharacters for our story

Making of a mood board for thecomic strip to getan idea about the basic colour scheme and textformat.

Thestory talksabout megetting late for my jury duringmy first semester.

I usedsubtlecolors to show the seriousnessof the situation. And focusingmore on thefacial expressionrather then bodily details as face playsan important role in conveying emotion.

Thetake away from this module are

• Framinga story to convey in its best possibleway

• Usingmood board to bring in ideas on paper

• Choosingcolor palette

• Bringemotions to a object.

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Alphatecture

Faculty-Abha Kohli (VF)

Brief :

Capture photos of alphabets that get forms through different objects or shadows in our surroundingCreate a poster with composition of alphabets by creating a grid and make its visual impressive by adjusting color grading.

Learnings:

• Principles of photography

• Principles of composition

• To create a pop-art poster by even using black and white images.

• Learning photoshop

CapturingAlphabets

Aim was to find objects , shadows,surfaces, buildingsinour surrounding that forms analphabet.Thisexercise helpedto increase our visualobservation from smallerdetailsto larger ones andalsoenhancingourcreative skills.

Gridsand composition

Trials

FinalGrid Layout

Different grid patternswere created usingPhotoshopsoftware. And the best one was selected. Space for nameand headingwas alsoto be included.

Iterations

Colored

Different iterations were tried to understandhow colored andmonochrome imageswork indifferent scenarios andto make themwork well with each other , contrast andbrightnesswas changedof individualphotos to form a well composed collage.

Pop Art Style Poster

Trial 2

Trial 1 Final Poster

Theaboveedits are done on Photoshop Software.

I choose this as the final poster as this clearly depicts the popular culture. I tried to show the Television effect that was famous duringthis art movementand this effect alsobringsout two sides of sameimagecreating a negativeandpositive effect within.