2010年12月8日水曜日

Term 1 Scale Reproduction

In term 1 we learned about scale reproduction.

Scale reproduction is when you take some pictures/photos and resize and mix it into one image.

To do scale reproduction you have to print some image in black and white
Then draw a grid over it
Get the paper that you want your final project to be on then draw a square of the size you want your image to be
Then calculate the ratio(you can simplify it if it is too hard)
Then draw the grid in the square that you drew
Then just draw the picture

So for this project we had to choose one Global Issue that we want to talk about and a painting with that topic. I chose to make my painting about Diseases. Diseases are a big problem in the human society and many peolpe are suffering from it because there are not enough medicines or it is an incurable disease. So in my painting I focus on the incurable disease more than the medicines. 
This is my painting (drawing the image in the grid)[It may be hard to see]:

So I put drew the viruses on top of my image. I made it big because I wanted it to look like it is a big problem. I also wanted to make it look like the virus is invading the city.
Nest I drew some soldiers escaping from the virus. I am trying to show that humans can not counterattack the incurable disease.
Beside the escaping soldiers I drew a big soldier trying to shoot down the virus. This is to show that some people are trying to fight back to the incurable disease. In the picture its a guy shooting down the virus but in reality its scientists making new medicines.
The background is a city in the night. I made it the night because I thought that the viruses will look more scary in the night with a dark blue background. I have some buildings in my background to show that it is a city.
In reality diseases are not that much of a problem in cities but they are a big problem in rural areas. I made it the city because I wanted to warn people that the diseases can spread to the city too.

I was not able to express my theme very clearly because the virus that I painted does not look like a virus so the people can not get the main point. Viruses were hard to draw because of their texture shape. There were 2 kinds of virus I drew. 1 of them is the one that looks like a long watermelon and the other one looks like a spiky ball. The spiky ball was hard to draw because I had to paint in many different colors.

If I can do this project again then I will choose a easier photo/picture to draw and make the size of the picture in my work bigger because it is hard to paint when it is small and I will probably choose another topic because I do not want to draw viruses again. I think I would choose "Smoking" as my theme if I can do it again because I am making a animation of "Smoking" in IT class so it will be easier to research and to think of what I should draw.