Jian Li

task：2

Reflection.
I did this TASK and I actually didn’t understand what my teacher meant at first. Through talking to my classmates, I understood the detailed requirements of the task. This caused me to waste a lot of time because what I did upfront did not meet the teacher’s requirements.

In the future I will make sure to watch the recorded content carefully and also to solve problems in time.
Through this learning, I have made new discoveries and I feel that I was particularly lacking in exploring new patterns before. Pattern exploration is not only about the shape of the object itself, but also about new developments through superimposing, copying, rotating, twisting and distorting, which can be very rewarding. This is very important for design.

For this assignment, I tried a pattern layout that I had not tried before, by changing the size of the pattern and copying and pasting to get a new shape. The colours of the original patterns were changed through computer software. These new methods helped me to think and feel in a new way. It gives me more possibilities to develop my designs in the future.

In order to make these ten paintings different from the previous ten paintings, so I combined different images. The colour and shape possibilities have also become more varied. New patterns can also be unlocked.

For example, in the one with the different faces, I just tried the technique of distorting the faces to express different human emotions and used wool felt for the eye part. The new pattern was obtained by copying and pasting.

Figuring out how to go about this task. Things went smoothly too.

Task1：

Reflection.
At the very beginning, most of my colour choices were very monochromatic and poorly saturated, and then the patterns were more line oriented. There were very few colour blocks. I reflect that this made my designs, less selective and more limited. So later on I added more colour block extractions. The choice of colours also became more varied. This has advanced my drawing a lot since then.

I had a new way of thinking about the choice of materials and expressions. So I experimented with the expression of tie-dye prints. This gave me good colour extraction. I found that there are actually a lot of colours in life that I can use to get new inspiration.

I reflected on how little first-hand research I used to do, which limited my imagination, so in future I still need to learn to get out more and get new inspiration. This is so important for design. By observing and touching reality can bring more inspiration and feelings.

Through this assignment, I found that crayons are great tools, they are great for creating new colours and getting new colours by overlaying different colours. Compared to watercolour, I would find the use of crayons would be simpler to mix colours. Also white crayons work really well and this discovery has really helped me a lot at this stage of learning.