Pratishruti Eswarary
Colour 1
Science and Liberal arts Drawing and illustration Department elective : Identitity and Beyond
Courses History of Arts Photography Workshop Typography : Calligraphy
Colour 1 Faculty: Anil Sinha
3W course This course offered both group based and final individual assignments. Importance was given to solid research to reach a state of understanding that helped us better reach a final form. I walked away with experience and better understanding about softwares like "Pages", "Keynote" and "Photoshop". my experience with working in a group also became richer. There was a sense of some freedom, even while working under some guidelines.
"Choose your favourite colour." we were asked to choose our favourite colour and join in a group of people sharing the same colour combined with one other colour to research and find out basic and interesting facts about them.
Above is the presentation chart our group came up with. Purple being mine and Anannya's pick while Blue was chosen by Anirudha and Saumya
Sectors: the big assignment. We were told to choose a sector as a group, upon which we were to research and study the pattern of colour palette used in that perticular sector.
Education in Ahmedabad was the sector we took.
This entire assignment was dealt with in the following manner: *Research, along with fieldtrips and Documenting. *Choosing a smaller sector within Education as it is a vast field. (Pre-School) *Making of mindmap, moodboard, deriving colour palette. *Thumbnails of Forms, Experimenting with the form incorporating the colour palette derived with digital media. *Final form and concept, documenting the entire course in ppt presentations.
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Following pages are a few extracts from my original presentations
Study
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Work Progress The digital work was mainly done in photoshop and compiling was done in Keynotes
Explorations
The Breakthrough! finally I chose this form to depict personality traits of different children through the combination of two colours and their shades.
The following palettes are the combinations I worked with:
The Quiet and Introvert child The Active Intelligent child
The Calm and Intelligent child
The Hyperactive Mischievious child
The Jack of All Trades child
Science and Liberal arts Faculty: Madhusudan Mukerjee
1W course
This course took place through intensively interesting lectures and a movie appriciation. These lectures covered several topics based on semiotics, phylosophy of the society and human mind. A vast range of interesting topics were covered in just a short week. I had a good revisit to my writing skills while going through my assignments.
Assignment: Documenting my understanding of the entire course
Glimpses of my notes
Drawing and Illustration Faculty: Tarun Deep Girdher and Siddhartha Tripathi
5W course Over a span of five weeks, this course was quiet hectic and a vast amount of assignments were covered around this duration. Intensive sketching exercises to studying illustration styles and finally coming up with your own style of illustration was covered during this time period. This course was quiet exhaustive and demanded a lot of energy and observation. There were a lot of interesting things learnt and self learning, curiosity and good observation was promoted during this course. Somewhere down the line I wish there was more positivity in the feel of the course, however there has been good exposure and a learning experience.
Productive Daydreaming!
Self Portrait:
As we can see in my sketch, I have depicted a pencil, expressing my fondness towards sketching, and headphones that expresses my love for music, specially the ones that touches my heart.
here we were asked to incorporate two manmade objects close to us and draw a self portrait representing our persona.
Watching for negetive spaces and several other still life exercises with a "twist" free hand with time limit
contour of the chair structure on the same sheet, different positions.
Object Drawing: different angles and positions
Parallel Assignment: Friend's portrait
We were told to illustrate a friend depicting his character or persona in this assignment. The pose here is a parody of "the thinker" depicting Neal's lost in thought personality. The other elements depict the The pen and diary epresses his habit of general things he usually constantly recording thinks about. his thoughts.
Still Life Composition:
Clear line:
See through:
Rendered: (study of light and shade on different surface)
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Roy Lichtenstein
during our course, I had to study Roy Lichtenstein's work and try and replicate his style. His works were deeply appreciated as American pop culture. He is known for taking a part of a comic or advertisement and making a bigger version of it on canvas, replicating the style,sometimes adding a small twist to it, to match his humor and sarcasm. He worked mainly with acrylic, flat colours, benday dots and was keen on precision. The distinct uniqueness of his work is his use of perfectly hand drawn Ben-day dots.
My version of Lichtenstein artwork. the bensday dots have been derived through stamp marking with the back of a pencil.
Ahmedabad assignment: We started this assignment by exploring the city and observing elements that reflect the essence of Ahmedabad. Rough illustrations were made based on the size of sheet we chose and final concepts were chosen. Much exploration of the city and understanding was experienced during this time.
few illustration ideas:
Chosen concept after the concept was chosen, changes were made based on discussion and examination of a few elements.
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the second part of this assignment included using colour in our illustration based on screen printing, which meant I was restricted to only three basic colours.
Process, option and trials
Final illustration
Recipe Illustration
We were each given a Gujarati snack item to explore and find out how it is made. Fieldtrips to shops and interracting with the shopkeepers was very insightful.
My illustration of the recipe to make sev khamani was made within a folder in foldable polaroid style illustrations. (as shown in the image)
Final assignment: Our Final assignment incllude the making of a fully illustrated book in seven spreads. We were each given a story that we were to rewrite keeping the moral and feel of the story the same.
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Treat for Life
John was vexed, his account was zero his wallet had a hundred rupees, 1.23 Euro. To some how manage with the money, he had to spend a weak But when itc came to jimjams, he grew very weak. So he sat at the chai gate, his money half spent. On jimjams, warm tea and smokes it went. As he opened the pack of jimjams, along came a dog woofs, whimpers, wagging and all. As he took a bit off the jimjam with the dog staring wide there came a passer by, who pointed in snide. "Look at how selfish this man can be. Cant give the dog a biscuit, sorry sight to see."
{Rewritten version} taken aback, John sat still. gave the dog a biscuit, against his will. "Stop! Stop! What are you? Blind? Dogs can't eat sweet things, it unfurs their hinds." Frustrated John sat, his head hung low. The man went on and on, he just wouldn't go. "I love dogs", said that man to his right. "I own ten of them", boasted he with pride. Finally the man stood upright, "I must go now, I must take flight." As the man walked forward, he turned to say goodbye "Thank you for the jimjams, sir, it's been a pleasure of mine"
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Department Elective : Identitity and Beyond Faculty: Anil Sinha
4Days course This workshop offered a similar experience as colour. With better understanding and experience it was easier for me to go about the task smoothly. The motive was to find an Identity for National Institute id Design Hyderabad. Rough thumbnails on tracing paper based on Key words were made after some research on the city and it's environment. Assignment was distributed in two people groups, each group working on different identities.
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Rough Trials
Basic concept approved edit.
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History of Arts Faculty: Tanishka Kachru
1W course
This course was mainly dealt with lectures and a group ppt on different topics for each group. The course covered a vast amout of information regarding industrial revelution, it's relation with art etc.
As a group we were given phonetics as our topic of research and presentation. Following ar some extracts from the ppt we made asca group.
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We were mainly asked to come up with examples and uses, and how it's changed over the years. Phonetics has always been there around us in a vast variety.
Photography Faculty: Shiho Kito and Rishi Singhal
2W course
This course has been a great experience at testing my sense in composition and experimenting with the camera, specially insights about SLR has been a very fulfilling experience. We were briefed on the workings of the SLR at the beginning, and were allowed to explore on our own. Most of us have come up with very satisfying explorations and experiments. The assignments were simple, yet helped us learn with experience. Finding out about how and what goes about during development of the reel film to learning new things about the equipment was a great experience.
Black and white beginnings: After a brief introduction and arrangements of routine for the entire course, we started off with a group photo. Our first assignment was "black and white portraits individually of each group member and concept photography as a group together.", we were separated in groups and given a SLR per group, after an introduction to the technicalaties and functions of the camera. Using the SLR was quiet an experience, I remember being overly cautious and careful because once the reel has been used, it can't be undone. The beauty and subtlety of SLR was uncovered the day the prints came out.
Anirudha wanted a fun personality shot. It wasn't hard because of his natural expressions.
Anannya wanted a sad and mysterious portrait. No doubt her hair played the perfect role.
Neal wanted a Grungy shot, when we found these broken pair of sunglasses lying around in the premises. One of the best on spot quick decisions made.
the following pages display some of our Colour Photography assignment (SLR)
Our assignment included capturing the colour of Ahmedabad. This wasn't my first time travelling around the city with a camera, so I was aware of the "over welcoming" nature of people around us. However with an SLR it was all the more 'exciting' specially when people try and give their inputs of shots and asking for their picture to be taken. I had a hard time explaining how I can't waste my reel on several trial shots. Patience was of utter importance.
the following pages display Four Frames of my life (DSLR)
This individual assignment involved us capturing our daily life in ten frames. This was the first assignment that we recieved after we started working with a DSLR. Following pages show four out of thos ten frames that I had short listed.
the following pages display few chosen frames from Colour of Udaipur assignment (DSLR)
This individual assignment involved us exploring the streets of Udaipur, were we had gone for a short field trip, and capturing the colour and mood of Udaipur.
Workshop: Calligraphy Faculty: Amit Kharsani
1W course This course was a lot about free exploration and learning of many methodes and ideas for illustration along with the training of hand at calligraphy to an introduction level. We got to try our hands at many kind of equipments and brushes. We were taught the basic of handling reeds and also were made to practice with it a lot until we got a hang of it, after which we were left free to explore with several materials like bleach and transparent photo colour.
The steadyness of the hand no matter what medium is constant. We were introduced to several styles and had the freedom to venture out to any medium or style eventually. Here Amit has used reed calligraphy pens that we cut out ourselves to write in the letters.
As we were exposed to many medium, here I'm practicing Japanese Hiragana using chinese brushes and chinese stick ink made with charcoal and camphor. Amit let me use his korean ink making stone, where I manually made the ink using a little water and rubbing the chinese stick on the stone case.
Rough sheets from practice sessions. We had several exercises as such. the seven reed pen marks on the edge of the paper determines the uniform x- height of the letters.
as soon as we learnt a few letters that could make some basic words, we started exploring. along side practice.
Explorations
Bleach and transparent photocolour exploration
Exploration with Chinese brushes
(Bengali script)
(Bengali script) written: Bengali letter "AA" "akash bhora pakhi" translation: sky full of birds
(Japanese script) top: reads left to right: "watashiwa indo jin desu" centre: reads left top to downwards and towards right: "watashiwa indo jin desu" translation: "I am an Indian"
(Japanese script) top to bottom" reads: "yakusoku" translation: "Promise" {the meaning of my name "Pratishruti"}
Typography Faculty: Jonny Pinhorn
3W course This course was a very helpful introduction to the technology and software and method involved in making a digital font. starting from manually making them keeping in mind the basic characteristic of letters to digitally converting them into a font that can be used. we worked with both Latin and Devnagri scripts and were made familiar with every step involved in a typeface making process. Softwares like "Glyphs", "illustrator" and "Fontlab" were intensively used.
Sketching Words we started the class by sketching out our letters (basic: "adhesion" ) in our hand drawn x height and photo copying them in smaller version. We tried this in Latin first and quickly moved on to Devnagri script. The purpose of this was to understand the importance of the character of ther letters and the need to be neat and sharp about it so that it can be "legible" even when made smaller.
Latin s cript: h an drawn and te d st photo copy
Devna gri Photo c script: op and tria ys ls
Signage, Clarity and Legibility: our next assignment was to make a sign or signage infusing both devnagri and latin script. This assigment was to reach a state of understading of the importance of letter shape and spacing so that there is clarity when you read it from a distance.
the uniformity in each letter or charachter is also important.
The big step towards digitising: in our next assignment we were to first practice digitising our letter, we were to digitise the Latin and devnagri script we had hand drawn. After being familiar with the most dreaded "pen tool" we moved on to a bigger assignment.
That final big assignment: In out final assignment, we had to choose a non-latin language and were to make a working font derived or inspired by an existing latin typeface that has been made within the last five years. a lot of studying of the typeface and technical understanding ensued.required. This entire process had a new learning in every step, as we were getting used to the software. NeoSans was the type face I chose to incorporate in Bngali. Because of it's simple "roundish on the rectangle edge" I didn't have to draw all the characters in sketch and it was easy for me to do directly in digital form.
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working Pr ocess and Glyphs sof tware
st of my fonts were directly made digitally. These are the few basic trials on per, after which i shifted directly on screen, considering the basic aesthetic atures of the latin Neo Sans font.
ক ছ ড ধ ম ষ উ ও
খ জ ঢ ন য স ঊ ঔ
গ ঝ ণ প র অ ঋ
ঘ ঞ ত ফ ল আ ঌ
ঙ ট থ ব হ ই এ
চ ঠ দ ভ শ ঈ ঐ
রানিঙ টেসট
(Running test)
আকাশ ভরা সাদা বাদল আবল তাবল ছারা গরু কাল আবার আসা সহজ কাজ না এটা ভাই আকাশ ভরা সাদা বাদল আবল তাবল ছারা গরু কাল আবার আসা সহজ কাজ না এটা ভাই আকাশ ভরা সাদা বাদল কাল আবার আসা সহজ কাজ না এটা ভাই আকাশ ভরা সাদা বাদল আবল তাবল ছারা গরু কাল আবার আসা সহজ কাজ না এটা ভাই আকাশ ভরা সাদা বাদল কাল আবার আসা সহজ কাজ না এটা ভাই
আবল তাবল ছারা গরু
আবল তাবল ছারা গরু
And that brings us to the end of Graphic Design Semester 3. A lot of experiences, both good and bad took place. But there was constant learning and self realisations. Over all it's been a great journey.