Reflective Visual Journal

Drawing

It’s your personality your own character. It’s your creative imagination your physical connection with your hands and what you see with your own eyes. This is then expressed through work of art. This can be on paper, cardboard, painting or canvas but mainly drawing. When we was younger drawing seemed to be the only thing that was easy, enjoyable and fun to do and one of the first practical activities you would come across, you don’t think am I doing it wrong is this the write composition, am I using the correct colours. Now we carry this negative relations about drawing ad let our self conscience have a lot uncertainty as a result that’s why having a reflective diary sketchbook it lets us over come those boundaries in a safe environment to take possibility and get over ourselves. It’s just generally ideas when your young an now from when your mature drawing gets your ideas out of your head so you can develop.

Drawing from your own ideas is very important you wouldn’t want to copy someone else’s work or ideas it wouldn’t be original having your own is unique. You can look and research others ideas to make yours develop in to better ones.

Exploring anyone can do this there’s no barrier or restrictions, it’s your own mark making using that right brain wisely.

Lizzie Finn – Drawing with Fabric. “I couldn’t draw very well, so I had to stick stuff down.” Lizzie Finn’s unique and stylistically sophisticated artwork a love of materials and visual informal expression within a language of contemporary design. She brings attention to detail; Lizzie Finn directs every step of the process guiding the artwork to a subtle and meaningful conclusion.  

Cultivate Reflective practice       

RVJ is like your journey through life but this one is journey through life of ideas and development creatively like your own personal diary. Engage become apart of what your doing, ask yourself questions ask other people questions that’s the only way you’ll get answers. It’s important every step on your way you are making brief notes on literally everything you do at all stages of the process this way you understand how you going about things also the viewers will get the same understanding.

There are two types of languages that you can use but you got to be careful with the advantage and disadvantages of both visual and textual but they work powerful when both together. I prefer visual, it’s a visual world tends to get attention a lot quicker. There’s always time to take a moment and think, ask yourself certain questions about your work ask: what if? What it is useful? Why? This is a learning rollercoaster whilst doing this you’re engaging and making improvements, developing thinking of different ways, methods basically evaluating planning all work seamlessly together.        

Visual Hierarchy

What do we see or read first? We tend to always look that the most obvious in front of our a face our eyes are focused on things that stand out, Big and Bright just like signs or symbols, shop fronts etc. later they pick up the least obvious in front of our faces that are smaller and less noticeable. These say to be low on the hierarchy.  Graphic designers create visual hierarchy using size, colour, contrast, texture, shape, position, and orientation.

IPod 4G this poster is simple, some text one image the text got me first bold and catchy you want to know more by then looking at the image. Just like the burger king advert the black bold outline is the first you see then the burger ad everything else with it.

Have words and images got a tone of voice?

Tone of voice is a bit like a visual identity, but in words. Some images and words know how to communicate with us through tone of voice; this is how they become appealing in order to stand out from the crowd. Using the correct type of tone will help connect to others with the correct information put across. If the incorrect type of tone is used this will cause a misunderstanding sending of varied messages which can baffle the audience that’s being aimed at, or feeling that the speaker or writer wants to convey to the intended audience, for example, the tone of voice used by a speaker could be angry, friendly or serious.

Typeface styles express different levels of tone within different words/texts. Typefaces can convey meaning for example if something is sharp the font can’t be small and Baskerville typed it has to be bold and big, whereas if something was soft it would have to be small and visual plus it all depending on the message.

Theses to sites I think majority people are signed up with and use on a regular basis or on the other hand just identify them with a blink of an eye. Facebook and twitter attract all viewers attention because of there larger bold font which is appropriate for websites. The tone of voice comes across easily because its precise, simple and helpful connects you to the right information and less confusion. Colour is important and the right use of colour is within text. It has to be eye catchy and attract the appropriate audience this will also help the audience to find there way much quicker to there designated part showing its importance.

Images are very essential being a picture, photo or sign or logo, this will help alongside with the text to convey what is trying to be said. A good example of tone of voice within image is everyday day signs that we come across our day to day routine being signs instructions showing us what to do, how to do it or even what’s right or wrong. Also front page of a magazine it wouldn’t tell us anything if there was just lots of text it always needs a image at least to make it complete.