Visual fictions

I quite enjoy this image if only due to its sheer irreverence and intricate randomosity found at the center of it.

And indeed, perhaps what I am looking for in my Visual Fictions is randomosity - to a degree. I want to hear people say "what the hell?" when they see my brief. Not an annoyed "what the hell" but one with fascination, intrigue or simply confusion.

So far I've been gathering images of beaches, mountains, buildings, cities. All of these will make up my final composition somehow. I'm trying to figure out the story behind this image, but I doubt I could ever honestly make it sensible or believable. I want to portray a disaster - or many disasters - occuring in one part of my image. These will probably occur in the background, while the foreground will be composed of observers. Possibly people on a beach looking out to sea, only to find the sea is on fire or asteroids are crashing into it, etc.

I do not want to make an image that exists merely as parody or ironic humour. I want to produce something artistic, bizarre and realistic - to a degree.

Some ideas for visual fictions and awesome images

The next brief is "Visual Fictions", one that is photoshop-based. I enjoy using photoshop much more than illustrator so I believe I will enjoy this project perhaps more than I did the last.

There is a photographer named Joshua Hoffine who takes some truly frightening images of childhood fears manifested in reality (monster under bed/closet etc.) but they are not digitally manipulated in any way, all of his photos feature actual sets and models with subjects wearing makeup. Images of his works can be found here. This is one particularly awesome piece:



Though these pieces may not have been constructed in photoshop, I have no doubt that they could have been. After all, there are some amazing photoshop works out there (especially on a site like Worth1000.com) like, for example, this:


(Passengers by bpkelsey of Worth1000)


For the purposes of this brief, it isn't necessarily our goal to set up elaborate photographic scenes of advanced set design and modeling. But we can emulate it using Photoshop and a variety of images.

I have decided to go for a kind of surrealistic collage for my Visual Fictions brief. But I will not focus so much on complete realism but rather hyperrealism.

Processing and some great art

I just found this on the net:



I really enjoy the folds and wood-like patterning of the disjointed and somewhat impressionistic "waves". Its a piece of generative art by abstract digital artist San Base with more of their works here. Some really nice textures, tones and shapes at work here; kind of what I am trying to achieve for my brief one but in a more minimalist and flowing sense.






These are some of my latest Processing experiments. I quite like the dripping stick aesthetic and I am trying to implement it into illustrator for Brief one. Again, I am looking in creating a flowing, but almost geometric design.

More Processing

So far I've been working with Processing to try and make a generative aesthetic for my Brief One. The programming language is relatively easy to learn (quite like java) and you can do some amazing things when you add 3D capabilities to it, allowing you to manipulate many shapes in 3 dimensions.

I've come up with the likes of:






I'm still working out how to export out as vector (to use in illustrator) but I am quite enjoying Processing and if I still can't find a way of exporting out to vector I might just try live tracing png images of what I generate.