Reading the image:
The image shown is an illustration by Mark Oliver. Looking at the image, it is a delightful children's book illustration, bold and colourful. Looking it up on line, I find that the book is called Tom's Clockwork Dragon. My project is to look carefully and find out what it is saying.
The main character is the evil dragon laying on the ground with his eyes shut, along with two children who are standing firm in front of him. It appears to be night as it is dark but there is a blazing red light or fire which appears to be coming from the torch the girl is holding. She is also holding a type of sword or lance which signifies that either they have slain the dragon or the dragon is sleeping. There are pieces of armour all around which I must assume were the parts of the clockwork dragon either discarded or broken up. The boy is pointing away, as if to say 'let's go or leave.
There appears to be a throne or an ornate chair that the dragon is wrapped around and some gold coins on the ground, but I cannot make it out so don't know the significance.
The palette of red and blue are very bold, red for the dragon and fire, blue for the ground and lastly a deep purple for the sky, indicating either night or darkness inside a cave.
It's interesting that he has made the fire or red light almost dripping as though it's a cloak protecting the children. There is a lot of texture on the side of the dragon, but unfortunately the image is not clear enough to make out what it is or means.
The connection between the hot colour and the story is the visual attention it projects, the red fire/light with the glowing yellow centre if stronger and bolder than the red dragon despite both of them being the same colour value. The hierarchy is the red colour, the ground being blue highlighted by the light, and the deep purple the background or night.
Project Visual Properties
Exercise: Image Development
This project is to take an image with a lot of visual content and break it down into its individual subjects. I should choose a word for each subject and to see how breaking it down could alter its original interpretation.
One of these images should be then made up into a poster with added colour and texture and a title with the appropriate typeface.
Each clip tells a different story. I am reluctant to write up descriptions on each one as I feel the purpose of the exercise is to extend the narrative through the single word description of how I interpret each image.
The main character is the evil dragon laying on the ground with his eyes shut, along with two children who are standing firm in front of him. It appears to be night as it is dark but there is a blazing red light or fire which appears to be coming from the torch the girl is holding. She is also holding a type of sword or lance which signifies that either they have slain the dragon or the dragon is sleeping. There are pieces of armour all around which I must assume were the parts of the clockwork dragon either discarded or broken up. The boy is pointing away, as if to say 'let's go or leave.
There appears to be a throne or an ornate chair that the dragon is wrapped around and some gold coins on the ground, but I cannot make it out so don't know the significance.
The palette of red and blue are very bold, red for the dragon and fire, blue for the ground and lastly a deep purple for the sky, indicating either night or darkness inside a cave.
It's interesting that he has made the fire or red light almost dripping as though it's a cloak protecting the children. There is a lot of texture on the side of the dragon, but unfortunately the image is not clear enough to make out what it is or means.
The connection between the hot colour and the story is the visual attention it projects, the red fire/light with the glowing yellow centre if stronger and bolder than the red dragon despite both of them being the same colour value. The hierarchy is the red colour, the ground being blue highlighted by the light, and the deep purple the background or night.
Project Visual Properties
Exercise: Image Development
This project is to take an image with a lot of visual content and break it down into its individual subjects. I should choose a word for each subject and to see how breaking it down could alter its original interpretation.
One of these images should be then made up into a poster with added colour and texture and a title with the appropriate typeface.
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| This is my original photo. I feel there is a lot of energy happening here |
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