Portraying Emotion
Graphic Design
Fall, 2019
Study of Point and Line
This was a short exploration in the use of point and line to portray an emotional pair. First, without the use of color and digital aid, strictly relying on hand tools to create a pair of drawings that displayed emotion. Then, bringing the pair into the digital the introduction of color and slight manipulation was used to bring new meaning to the pair.
Initial Design Concept
Through the challenge of displaying emotion without color or symbols and only using a pen the solution seemed far and difficult. The final outcome ultimately came through contemplation of what hope and despair meant to me, and how one could not exist without the other. To hope is to know despair and understand the loneliness it leans, to have despair is to know hope and the joy that comes from it, they are mirrors.
Hope Hand
Despair Hand
Despair Digital Iteration #5
Hope Digital Iteration #3
Through the digital exploration and introduction of color, despair became this dark space where these dots of hope and joy in life appear out of the darkness around you as a viewer, the circles, but ultimately on the inside you block them out and do not allow them in.
The introduction of color to hope brought the light colors of blue and yellow to give a lightness to the drawing that did not exist when presented in only black and white. The yellow lines around the circles are to represent how in life you can never have your hope limited as they are not complete.