Project 2: RODCHENKO/ROBOTS

The artist I was looking to for inspiration was Alexander Rodchenko. More than his photography, I was interested in his propaganda poster work. A lot of my work in my other studio classes has been/is about the future and his work looks very science fictional to me. Going with my interest in science fiction, I decided to chose robots as my theme.

Emphasis/Economy:

Of the four pieces I made, this was the one I had the hardest time with. I'm not super happy with it and I think I could have pushed the design more. Originally, I was going to use the composition for movement but since it was pretty static, I thought emphasis and economy would work better for it. I think I should have added more detail to the face so the eye had a place to rest after being pointed toward looking at the face by all the lines.






Movement:

This piece is my favorite of the four. I liked the angle at which the robot girl was drawn. Though I was hesitant to divide the background of the image diagonally, in the end I was glad that I did. I think the image would have been a little less interesting if the background was all one solid color.








Repetition:

With this piece, I didn't want the repetition to just be a bunch of pattern. I wanted the repetition to be in the content of the design. The image to copied my original thumbnail design from was a bunch of robotic ball-looking objects. I'm glad I made one of the four pieces not have an anthropomorphic figure in it. I think it breaks up the flow of the group a little bit, but in a good way. I think the group would have been less interesting if all four pieces had female looking robot-mannequins in them.





Balance:

This design was originally supposed to be my repetition design but Sherin and I decided that the balance in the image was more interesting than the repetition. Someone mentioned during the critique that the figure recedes back into the design a bit but that was intentional. I thought it would have been less interesting if the figure popped forward. For me, I think it was about doing some unexpected. I thought that people would expect a design that pops but I wanted a design that didn't.