Brief 7: Analogue/Digital

Select one excerpt from a poem by one of the follow-ing three poets: Pablo Neruda; Walt Whitman; Edna St. Vincent Millay. You can find these at http://www.poem-hunter.com/poets

Use this poem ex-cerpt :

1) to inspire a ‘style sheet’ of images/textures

2) as a starting point to embark upon a creative process.

Try to be as imagi-native as possible when designing the process that you will travel through

to create the work; combine methods and activities that you haven’t tried before with other methods and activi-ties that you have tried before.

Use both analogue and digital proc-esses.

ProcessesDigital Analogue

Photograph Print Draw

TraceScan

colour correction

Layer

Select

Transform

The poem i picked for my illustrationis called “invoca-tion of the muses” which is written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. When creat-

ing my style sheets i mainly draw to the way the poem describes the hu-man body and the use of sound. I decided to

focus on these as-pects when creating my style sheet for the project. It was also the aspect i wanted to focus on when

creating my final illustration which i decided to base on the feeling of shouting/sound leaving your body.

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Through layering the images which i created the effect of after images, similar to those left when things vibrate at speed i created an feeling of move-ment. I then combined this by creating a distorted circular pattern to give across the idea of sound eminating from the centre im-age

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