The FINAL Design: For Photo Print

World in our Hands

My Final 3 Designs: The AFTER Picture

Below are the final three designs after they were photo-shopped.

Cross Environment

As said in the previous sketch, this design represent different cultures who come together at one point to share their thoughts and ideas. Basically, what was done with the sketch was that in the filter function, the image was liquefied, and the vanishing point was distorted. Afterward, I used different kind of blurring effects, the Gaussian, the lens, and the motion, which makes the picture glowy like it is now. The image has been distorted as well, with diffused glow and with some lens correction and some added noise with dust, the brick image was created. 

Perfect House

This design was not much work. Here, the color of the image was contrasted to a certain level and and in some areas, I replaces the color. So the floor is darker, and the sides of the house has been sharpened for contrast so that the image will appear to have negative space. All the lines and form in the image was darkened as well, as to give it some emphasis on what the images represent.

World in our Hands

The whole concept of this design was to show that the world can appear cultured and sophisticated in some parts, where as in other parts, the world is just dull, pale and sinking in so many ways. So, after clipping the image to create a reflection, I replaced the colors on cultured part of the image so that it will look more optimistic. The edges of the reflection were softened to give a duller image and the liquefy function was used to create a melting image entirely.  

My Final 3 Designs: The BEFORE Picture

Below are the three designs before it was Photo-shopped. The theme of each of the design are explained as well.

Cross Environment

This sketch basically talks about how four people meet at one point. The four brown roads are indication of four different viewpoint while the blue and green point in the middle represents a staring points where all people come together. It is supposed to be a deep well, where all thoughts and opinions are stocked. 

Perfect House

This is the perfect house with all the colors of the world. The perfect picture on the background, the instruments from all over the world, the flooring, the carpet and most ornaments that are expansive and perfect in nature. But in reality, the house is skewed, in the sense that the occupants are not normal. They are under the illusion that they are in the perfect world, but they are in their own world. 

World in our Hands

This world is cultured, with all the culture drawn into the hands, and the hands holding the world. This may not necessarily mean that the world is a perfect place to live in. Wait for the photo-shopped design in order to gauge how much this world is really not cultured. 

My Sketches

These sketches were created for the Intercultural HELP Campaign. They are loosely based on Sir Peter Paul Rubens's Baroque style. Certain elements and principle of design such as space, dimension and color have been considered while creating these design pieces. I am no artist, with minimal creativity, so these artwork are some of my best work. So lets take a look.

Cross Environment

Gasing Malaysia

Hand Together

HELP House

Jimbi African Drums

Merry Flowers

The Smoking Nyonya

One Vision

Peacock

Religions

Fashion Noted

World in our Hands

Lets move the continents

Yin Yang-Putty in my palm!

Baroque Style: Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Films, television, novels, and music are works of art. Everything that employs design or style can interpreted as work of art. Style, design, and expression are evident even in documentary films and television programs that endeavor to place their messages above art. Photography and cinematography, while showing an unbiased, realistic element, are both art forms. The philosophy of art (aesthetics), is a broad subject which includes realism, expressionism, formalism, and contextualism. Design, as a subject of its own, is derived from the art factory. In the subject Graphic Design I, it is understood that inspirations for our design will come from numerous art forms, and artists who have manipulated the perspective of art forms and graphic designing. One such artist that inspires me is Sir Peter Paul Rubens. His creations are zestful recreations of the physical world. Following will be a short description of his painting style and some of his 
masterpieces. 

Baroque Style
This style uses exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted details that creates drama, tension, and grandeur in the produced painting. This style started in Italy during the 1600s. It is not just used in painting but also sculptures, literature, dance and music.


Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens is a Baroque painter whose art emphasizes sensuality, dark colors and movement. Most of his paintings emphasizes emotions and his colors which are dark and crude. 

Honeysuckle Bower

Honeysuckle Bower is a depiction of Rubens and his wife, and it shows the love and affection between them. The colors, dark red, blue and very dark green are done with oil painting, and it shows very beautiful movement between the husband and wife.

The Massacre of Innocents

This paintings shows a lot of Baroque style, mainly the dynamic emotions, the drama and the vivid colors. 

The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt

This large painting is shows the hunt on hippopotamus and crocodile using the dogs. In this painting, it can be seen that the painting was painted in dramatic diagonals that increases movement and makes the rich colors seem vivid.