Portfolio of: Zen Doodle Experiment by Sehee Park

Experiment 1 - 1: Exploring Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 09:58:54 UTC

Many of the patterns I created weren't actually patterns, but simple compositions. They did not have repeating shapes, and I did not quite understand what patterns were, and how to create them.

Experiment 1 - 2: Exploring Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:01:08 UTC

The ones created after a short comment from Mr. Stanford started to have some elements of patterns such as repeating shapes. However, they did not have some crucial elements that would help create a 'better' pattern(creating space, contrast, etc.). I also didn't make good use of the resources I gathered before the experiment.

Experiment 1 - 3: Exploring Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:03:47 UTC

Many of the experiments I did continuously still were not patterns, but images that included patterns. However, I started referring to the resources I gathered, and started applying organic shapes - which I like - into my patterns.

Experiment 1 - 4: Exploring Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:06:10 UTC

The three are the ones I thought were the most successful of all patterns I have created. They contained organic shapes, and gave an illusion of complexity even though they were all composed of simple lines. I also made good use of thick and thin lines that gave the properties of 3 dimensional space to the patterns. However, despite some elements I added, I still lacked at creating contrast.

Experiment 2 - 1: Developing Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:09:34 UTC

I started to apply more thick and thin lines that would give the illusion of space, by making the thick lines seem as if they were shades. I explored with both static and organic shapes, but I figured out that I prefer organic shapes over static shapes, as they granted movement and rhythm in my patterns. I figured some of the patterns started to reflect my personality, which I think is not suppressible, and quite free. I felt that the movement that my patterns had in common displayed the characteristics written above.

Experiment 2 - 2: Developing Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:15:26 UTC

I explored more with organic shapes by developing the patterns I had created in the first few experimentation (Refer to Experiment 1 - 4). I enlarged them to focus on the details I could possibly insert later on in the final project.

Experiment 2 - 3: Developing Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:18:19 UTC

Although I was in love with organic shapes, I still didn't give up experimenting with static shapes. I tried to present movement through static shapes by positioning them in various places, by sizing them differently, and giving them shadows.

Experiment 1 - 5: Exploring Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:25:32 UTC

Below are additional experiments I have done to get a better understanding of creating patterns. Because I had realized that I lacked at understanding a real definition of 'pattern,' I put aside all the complex elements that would effect the quality of the pattern so that I can get a better understanding of the properties of patterns.

Experiment 3 - 1: Creating a Composition with Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:29:49 UTC

Using patterns I had been creating, I created a composition. It surely was composed of patterns, and I was commented that I had great movement in the composition. I Also considered balance and unity while drawing the piece. To do so, I positioned identical patterns on the opposite sides of the paper. However, my biggest problem was that my piece lacked contrast. Furthermore, my balance, although I have been considering the element while drawing, wasn't strong enough. Self assessment written in class is posted above.

Experiment 3 - 2: Creating a Composition with Patterns (Self Assessment)

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:35:36 UTC

Experiment 3 - 3: Creating a Composition with Patterns

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:36:19 UTC

The piece contained more contrast than the previous piece, and I felt that the piece, out of all the experiments that I have done, caught people's attention the most because of the contrast and emphasis added to the movement that I originally had in all my experiments. Mr. Stanford's comments was a crucial factor that devoted greatly to my development. As I started to overlap different(contrasting) patterns, my composition started to get filled up of elements that I had been missing out.

The piece is currently displayed in the art show.

Experiment 4 - 1: Creating a Design

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:38:49 UTC

To get ourselves ready for the final project, we started to create designs that our sculptures are going to have. Many of my primary designs had geometric shapes piercing each other. The reason is probably because I was affected by the example Mr. Stanford had showed us, and Frank Stella's Sculpture.

Artist Research 1 - 1

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:45:02 UTC

As we began to create our patterns, we were told to research on different artists. The artist I chose to research on was Jackson Pollock, as I was astonished by his artworks the moment I saw them.

Artist Research 1 - 2

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:46:57 UTC

We were required to write an essay about the artist we researched on. After gathering the basic information, we had to develop our thoughts on how we can apply them on our own pieces.

Artist Research 1 - 3

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:48:47 UTC

After we were done with essays, we started to brainstorm individually about how we can apply our learning, inspirations and etc. for real in our designs. Influenced greatly by Jackson Pollock's piece #1, I started focusing on organic shapes like dribbles - or dribbles like organic shapes - and colors. I was truly amazed by how we could create such contrast using solely colors.

Experiment 5 - 1: Artist Influenced Designs

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:53:06 UTC

My designs, after artist research (Jackson Pollock, in may case), began to contain more organic shapes. More of my lines were overlapping than impaling

Experiment 5 - 2: Artist Influenced Designs

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 10:56:45 UTC

Based on the Designs on Experiment 5 - 1, I started to develop my pieces into more complex and dynamic forms. However, I started to get the feeling that my designs did not involve any meanings in them. My designs had to contain messages that it could deliver to the audience.

Experiment 5 - 3: Artist Influenced Designs

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 11:01:46 UTC

After the thought I had while doing the experiment 5 - 2(that my designs did not contain any message), I looked back on the experiments that I had done in the past. While skimming through the patterns, designs, researches and annotations that I made, something caught my sight. I looked at what I had done in experiment 1 - 1, which I thought reflected my personality. So I combined the factors that I had in the designs of experiment 1 - 1 with the factors that Jackson Pollock's art contained. They surprisingly blended into each other, because patterns that represented my personality had great movement in them, and Jackson Pollock's piece had a sense of explosion. I started to create a design that symbolized 'volcanic eruption,' and worked on developing the idea.

Experiment 6 - 1: Finalized Artist Influenced Designs

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 11:09:16 UTC

To emphasize the movement more than eruption to include more of my own idea into the sculpture, I tried changing the design from volcanic eruption into waves. I though that way I would be able to include more organic shapes that I have been practicing the whole time. However, I had to rethink about the design as soon as I sketched it out because it only seemed to be composed of a single pattern. Besides, it didn't have the complexity that I expected it to have. It lacked contrast.

Experiment 6 - 2: Finalized Artist Influenced Designs

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 11:13:53 UTC

To give more meaning into my design, I thought of focusing on a social issue that I could satirize. The theme that this design contained was women's right. In an artist's perspective, I loved to draw female body. However, as a female, drawings of naked female body being drawn by many artists over and over made me feel as if female at the time were no more than a subject that artists would use as a source to create a better piece. I wanted to express the irony throughout the piece, but I figured that it didn't reflect my personality as much as I expected it to. Besides, I was clueless about how I could develop the design any further from a messy sketch. So I decided to bring back the artist research - the factors I discovered as I researched Jackson Pollock's piece - to my design, and get back on track.

Experiment 6 - 3: Finalized Artist Influenced Designs

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 11:24:39 UTC

After failing to create a design out of vacuum, I looked back on annotations I had made while writing an essay about Jackson Pollock, and the factors I could apply in my designs that his artwork(s) had. Meanwhile, I figured out that his drawings, with naked eye, seemed not only like an eruption, but also like a bloom of flowers. As soon as I figured that out, I knew what I should do. I started applying the idea of blossoms into my original plan of design - of representing myself. I wanted to show how the burdens i get as student were tangled up inside my mind, although it may not be seen on the surface.

Experiment 7 - 1: Patterns and Color Scheme

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 11:33:01 UTC

Color scheme that I ended up having for my sculpture was highly affected by Jackson Pollock's artwork. I tried to show contrast in my piece using cold and warm colors, just like how Jackson Pollock did. Cold colors that the face - myself - contained represented the burdens that I had in my mind. The warm colors were the things shown to other people, which were bright and enthusiastic parts of myself. However, warm colors were mixed into the face as I did not want to deny the positive parts of myself although they were often times buried by my worries and concerns, and cold colors were mixed into the flowers - the surface - , because I oftentimes shared my inner concerns with other people, dragging them out to the surface. In artistic perspective, I created contrast using colors as previously mentioned, as well as unity and balance by mixing little bits of cold colors into warm, and warm colors into cold. The movement, I thought, were included in the design itself.

Experiment 7 - 2: Patterns and Color Scheme

s2park2018 — 2015-03-19 11:40:16 UTC

I inserted the patterns I had created in experiment 1 - 4, as they were the ones I thought reflected my personality the most. I also applied the dribbling patterns that Jackson pollock had in his drawing, as they seemed to go along with the patterns themselves, and the meanings they had.

Resources 1

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Resources 2

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Resources 3

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Resources 4

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Resources 5

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Resources 6

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zendoodle e portfolio - Google Search

s2park2018 — 2015-05-20 04:34:10 UTC

zendoodle e portfolio - Google Search

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