The Journey by Francesco Metoyer
A look back on a artist’s blood, sweat and tears.
Tabel of Contents Dot/Line................................... expresive text........................ object iterations.................. tutorials................................. children’s book.....................
Dot/Line
Dot/Line
The Assignment The first stop on my journey was a dot/line project. The project introduced a term called gestalt. What gestalt means something that abstract but is perceived as something a lot bigger. For this assignment we had to create four abstract compositions with very little material. We had to use a combination of dots and lines for this project. With the dots and lines we were to choose four of the following words and create an abstract composition. The following words were stability, terror, joy, rejection, chaotic, freedom, energetic, exhaustion, oppression, desire, abundance, and scarcity. We were suppose to cut out dots and lines from black and gray paper and place them on a 4X4 square sheet of white paper with a black background.
My Task In preparation for this part of my journey, I was to create five thumbnails of the words we chose. After giving a rough draft of the one of each thumbnail, I was given the opportunity to choose the ones I liked the best and make five more thumbnails with the materials I had used for those ones. I have chosen the words terror, freedom, rejection, and chaotic. Can you guess from the thumbnails which ones they are? On the right are my final compositions. These are to show what the reader what think when they see them.
Terror
Rejection
Freedom
Chaos
Looking Back When this part of my journey ended, my understanding of gestalt was that it is more of thinking outside of the back than being literal. I was told of my compositions that I was being literal with them. I don’t find making a well-crafted object very difficult, it mostly depends on if you are trying something that is completely new which it was for me. This project made me realize that abstraction can mean something that is a whole lot bigger and perceive it as something that we can see from my perspective. For me it was a little difficult to understand because I took the project literally. I could exercise ideas of gestalt by reading peoples body language and can perceive of what they could be feeling and what they are thinking.
Expresive Text
The Assignment The next stop on my journey was to create four variations of a word that would be associated with. The words that we could choose from were whole, dash, dive, drift, melt, and tear. For the assignment we were to brainstorm ideas that remind us of the word we have chosen. The word that I have chosen for the assignment was DASH.
The Task
The first thing to do was to think of words that reminded me or are associated with the word DASH. When I would think of DASH I think of running, when I think of running, I think of track and field, when I thought of track and field I thought of track spikes. I really thought of things that were related to running like legs, shoes and track lanes. I also thought of a dash of seasoning like on a dessert. I decided to use the following materials for my word; pine needles, salt, running shoes, and my legs in work-out clothes. I got the pine needles from pine trees that have fallen off and gathered a good amount. I used pine needles because they were spiky like the spikes people wear for track. I shaped the needles into the letters that I needed to create the word dash. After making the word I took a photo of it. The next thing I did was get a bunch of salt from the Campus Center and poured it into a zip-lock bag. The next thing I did was pour the salt onto a sheet of black paper and then I used a paintbrush to softly sweep the salt to form the word DASH then took a photo. For the shoes I took a pair of my running shoes and basketball shoes and went over Schuldes’ indoor track and used the lanes. I used the shoes to form the letters in the track lanes. For the A and H I used the laces to connect the shoes. I took one picture of each letter I formed in the lane and when I uploaded them to my laptop, I lined them up and printed them as if they were separate lanes in and track event. The last thing I did was kind difficult to accomplish. I dressed myself as if I were going out for a run and used my legs to form the letters. I took photos of each of my poses and lined them up next to each other like I did with the shoes.
Looking Back Looking back on this stop on my journey, I found that hand lettering can express the persons personality while digital lettering is more default and are used for more of the digital type of projects. What I learned about my hand lettering was very surprising. I learned that I could do more of this and that it was a lot of fun doing this project. I like to keep my hand lettering small for doodling and stuff that I just draw things for the fun of it. I could do this as something in my spare time now because there is a whole variety of things I could do with hand lettering and expressive text.
Object
Iterations
The Assignment My third stop on my journey was to create object iterations. For the assignment we had to choose an animal or an object and make a grid of that animal or object in different variations in media and to show creativity with our objects. It is also for us to create something that is unexpected but recognizable at the same time. The renditions we had to do were a continuous line, geometric, word collage, two master artists, and a collage. This assignment was also was the first time of using Photoshop. The final project was for the iterations to be in black and white and in a grid formation
Continuous Line
Type Collage
Fruit Collage
Drawn Geometric
Paper Geometric
My Task The goal was to make six or more different iterations on my animal. The animal that I have chosen was a fruit bat which is a very large, harmless bat. For the continuous line iteration I had used a technique that I used in a previous class which was ink blocking meaning that you kept drawing without lifting the pen. For my collage iteration I cut out a bunch of pictures of fruit from various magazines and shaped all of them into a bat. Get it? Fruit bat? The next iterations were a geometric, which I made my bat into basic shapes such as circles, triangles and squares. One of them I had drawn and the other I cut in black and gray paper and used them to make the bat. The type iteration took some time to find the right color with text. I found the texts from magazines and shaped them into a bat. For the two master artists, I have chosen Andy Warhol and Fredrick Church. For the Andy Warhol iteration, I used Photoshop to make it. What I did was I copied the same bat image four times and changed the color scheme for each one so that they were different colors. I have also done a drawing of an Andy Warhol iteration. I used three different colored pencils, one for dark, light and background color. For the Fredrick Church, I sketched my bat with graphite pencils. When I was done with all of the iterations, I used Photoshop to make them all in black and white and added them to a grid on InDesign.
Fredrick Church
Drawn Andy Warhol
Digital Andy Warhol
Looking Back After leaving this part of my journey, I learned that this bat was not only big but also very cute when you look at it. It may look intimidating when seen, but up close it is very harmless and innocent looking. The most challenging thing of media for me was working with was to go about doing a variation of Andy Warhol. The most enjoyable part of the project was the trying different things because it gave you so many choices to choose from. What I learned from Photoshop is that there so much you can do with it. It took some time for me to get used to but I think it is a pretty cool to use. I think I it use it to mess around so that I could see how many things I could work with on it. If I were to work on this object for another year, I would definitely use outside sources like oil pastels or paint or something in 3D. I would also make my bat a symbol that not all bats are annoying or frightening but very interesting animals.
Tutorials
The Assignment
This was the second to last stop on my journey. The assignment was to create a poster that of a step by step tutorial of something that we would teach to a group of people. The assignment is to express the knowledge of what you know how to do and teaching it to a group of people. The tutorial could be something simple like how to make a ham sandwich or it could have been something that you were taught at a job.
My Task For this assignment I have chosen to do a tutorial on to do CPR and Rescue Breathing. I chose this because I have recently been certified as a lifeguard and wanted to show people the proper way to do it. While going through all the steps, I have decided to use photographs to show a demonstration of the maneuver. I decided to have two of my friends Adam and Noah to mock the demonstrations and I would take a photo of them. After taking all the photos, I changed them to black and white. I used a red background and yellow lettering to make the poster pop out more. I placed the photographs in the appropriate steps.
Looking Back This is one of the last stops on my journey. If I were to teach to this to a group of peope want the proper training for CRP I would do so. This will give me an opportunity to teach someone how to save a life and not to take it as a joke. A persons life is very prescious and it could be taken away very quickly.
First Draft Step 1) Be cautious with your surroundings. We don’t want to slip or step on a sharp object.
Step 2) Take universal precaution. Make sure that your hands are clean or if at the pool, ALWAYS use latex gloves.
Step 3) Check to see if they have a pulse and see if they are breathing. If the patient has a pulse but is not breathing, begin rescue breathing. If they do not have a pulse, begin CPR.
Performering
CPR/Rescue Breathing Step 4) Before beginning CPR or rescue breathing, tell the nearest person to call 911. They will come back and tell that paramedics are on their way.
Step 5b) Begin rescue breathing by giving them one breath every 5 seconds. It is every 3 seconds for kids and infants. Step 5a) Begin CPR by doing 30 chest compressions. After every 30 chest compressions, give them 2 breaths and do another 30 compressions. It is 15 compressions for kids and infants. For adults, compressions are given with two hands in the middle of their ribcage. For kids it is one hand and for babies it is two fingers.
Step 6) If the patient were to start coughing or gaging, turn them over to their side. If there is solid food in their mouth, use your pinkie to scoop out the food.
Step 7) Continue doing chest compressions until the paramedics arrive. They will take over once they are ready.
Step 8) Tell one of the paramedics of how many rounds of chest compressions you gave the patient until they have arrived.
Final Draft Step 1) Be cautious with
your surroundings. We don’t want to slip or step on a sharp object.
Step 3) Check to see if they have a pulse and see if they are breathing. If the patient has a pulse but is not breathing, begin rescue breathing. If they do not have a pulse, begin CPR.
Step 6) If the patient were to start coughing or gaging, turn them over to their side. If there is solid food in their mouth, use your pinkie to scoop out the food.
Performing CPR/Rescue Breathing Step 4) Before beginning CPR or rescue breathing, tell the nearest person to call 911. They will come back and tell that paramedics are on their way.
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Step 5a) Begin CPR by doing 30 chest compressions. After every 30 chest compressions, give them 2 breaths and do another 30 compressions. It is 15 compressions for kids and infants. For adults, compressions are given with two hands in the middle of their ribcage. For kids it is one hand and for babies it is two fingers.
Step 7) Continue doing chest compressions until the paramedics arrive. They will take over once they are ready.
Step 2) Take universal precaution. Make sure that your hands are clean or if at the pool, ALWAYS use latex gloves. Step 5b) Begin rescue breathing by giving them one breath every 5 seconds. It is every 3 seconds for kids and infants.
Step 8) Tell one of the paramedics of how many rounds of chest compressions you gave the patient until they have arrived.
Childrens Book
The Assignment My last stop was my most favorite part of my jouney. The assignment was to work with a partner from an education class and illustrate a children’s book that they have written. We were to meet with them and to read their text and illustrate the characters and the scenery of the book.
My Task My author gave a story all about dogs and the different kinds there are. When reading the text I came up with ideas for dogs that I can draw that represent big, small, long, fat, short, and tall. I decided to draw a German Shepherd for big, Yorkie for small, Dachshund for long, Bulldog for fat, Boston Terrier for short, and a Great Dane for tall. I looked on the internet to find references that I could use to draw the dogs. I drew them with graphite and colored pencils then I edited them on Photoshopto bring out the colors more. The words that belong to the kind of dog I found different fonts to make the word represent it’s meaning. I also created tennis balls, dog bones and pawprints and added them as details in the story. The title of the book is Dogs Can Be...
Dogs Can Be... Written by: Elle Armstrong Illustrated by: Francesco Metoyer
This book was published by an St. Norbert College art class called ART 130 Introduction to Design. This book was illustrated by Francesco Metoyer, a sophomore who is currently taking the class and was written by Elle Armstrong. This book uses a variety fonts including chalkduster, DIN condensed, Blackoak Std., Wide Latin and Cooper Std. The illustrations were created with grahite pencils and colored with colored pencils. The minor details were created in Photoshop. This book was completed on November 19th, 2014
Dogs Can Be... Written by: Elle Armstrong Illustrated by: Francesco Metoyer
Dogs can be...
Dogs can be...
small
Dogs can be...
L O
Dogs can be...
FAT
N G
Dogs can be...
SHORT
Dogs can be...
Looking Back Working with my parter I thought was gonna be a challenge because I thought they micro-manage my work and cause some conflicts but none of that happened. The strengths that my partner brought was that the book was short and simple and was not like a full story so there were less things tofocus on. There was nothing really challenging for this project. The only thing I would have done differently was the coloring of the pages and narrowed it down to two or three different colors. What inspired me was my love of dogs because I have one myself at home and it made really made me happy and I really enjoy doing this project.
ART 130 2014 Published by SNC Print Center