Elena's 2D Design Blog

Last Wednesday, I attended Joyce Yu-Jean Lee's artist talk from 5-6 pm. I really enjoyed her story and I was interested to learn about her style of art, because it is one that I have never had that much previous exposure to. Growing up in a very traditional family, she shared with us that being an artist was not a responsible or practical thing to do. She was supposed to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. I really respected her honesty when telling us about her family because sometimes that can be a hard thing to open up about. In her case, everything that happened to her in her life and how she grew up affected and influenced her path to where she is today. I made a personal connection with something that she spoke about when figuring out what she wanted to do in her life. She discussed all of the jobs and internships she had in fashion, realizing that she hated them and loved shadowing the Japanese artist. She mentioned how knowing something that you don't like is just as im...

I honestly had no idea what data visualization was until I watched this video. I realize that data visualization is everywhere, and just didn't know it was a thing . I had no idea that it had a name or that people make a career out of it. I didn't know that people came up with creative, beautiful, and artistic ways to convey information with an intended plan behind it. I am really glad that this new type of artistic talent was brought to my attention, because looking at the examples in the video was really fascinating because I realized the amount of effort and thought goes into these data visualizations. We live i n a world with so much complex data that we constantly have to process. I see now how visualization of data has become an crucial tool not only to convey ideas and content, but to help people make sense of it and as the video says: "to learn something, and not to confirm something". I liked how one man in the video talked about how a successf...

The Jean Baudrillard quote that I began with to create my composition was: "It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are". The denotative components to the piece come from the different mixed media that were used to tie it all together. The photo shopped face of the woman combines different pictures to create her face. The thumbprint fills in the shape of her face and the prison bars make up her blank eyes and mouth. Photo shopped eyes were added on top of the bars; one has a reflection of prison bars within them, and one has a tear dripping down. The extension of her hair was first done by using the graphite pencil as well as paint. Then it continues to ink which goes from watered down to saturated ink. There are ink splatters as well covering the extension of the woman's hair. The focal point is the woman's face, and your eye path follows her hair down to the bottom of the piece. The composition is fairly symmetrical, however ...