Visual Evaluation Mary Chu
At the beginning of the visual journal,I didn’t know what to explore,so I started with makeup and costumes. But I didn’t like it because they looked a bit too plain. So I decided to add some colours in another piece to see how’s the colouring affect the piece. <<Before colouring
After colouring. Definitely the colours made the image looks better,also because of the colours you can tell which is the focus point on the image.
Then I tried to tape the faces on, and see which one is better, the let the face blank one or the tape one. I personally think the blank face one works better because the tape one looks too busy, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to tell do I want to focus on the face or the body, or poses.
I have also tried the ink method, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they worked,I have tried to put more focus on the costumes, but I think the lines are a bit to rough, and unclear. The line experiment is simple, but lack of details.
Comparison with 2 different tone of voice.I had some useful feedbacks said the comparison image itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good, because they tell how different culture focus on what things,for example: the Asian one focus on details,whereas the Western one focus on playful tone of voice.
These pencil studies look a bit rough again, which I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like this. But as an experiment, I think this has developed a faster and less details on the image.
This picture I took in 2009, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that is actually helping me to write an essay about cosplay.
I have tried to scale up to a double page spread, to create a different effect from the small scales.
Besides drawing female cosplayers, I have drawn some male cosplayers as well. But the number of photographers were a lot less than the female cosplayers. I think the black lines with colours is the best way to explore in the visual journal.Simple and colourful context could catch peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye, also people will understand which and where are the focus point that I want to communicate with.