WK15- Visual Techniques

Spontaneity        Exaggeration        Depth        Contrast

Accent       Juxtaposition       Activeness       Brightness

The first image shows a relationship a person can have with the book they are reading. Depth is utilized to help emphasize the book coming to life and being the other "human" hugging the actual person. The book being so personal to the point where it actually hugs the reader is definitely exaggeration. The human qualities are contrasting the tangible object (the book). 

The second image shows activeness through juxtaposition. The way the images are lined up gives us a sequence of event that go in order from left to right. It starts with the "gun" pointing at SpongeBobs head and if the trigger is pulled his brains would "pop" and explode everywhere. The bright colors  and accents add to the discomfort this image gives the view.

The first image is very calming and warm while the second is creepy and discomforting. The two combinations of visual techniques give you different images completely. They have different feelings and messages. 

WK13- Contrast

This poster is a great example of contrast. First off, there's a contrast in letter size. There are three different sizes: large writing that says "contrast", medium writing behind that, and small writing that look like scribbles behind that. There's also contrast in color. It uses a grey, black, and white to form the words and space. There's a contrast in space regard positive and negative space as well. For example, the vowels in the word "contrast" are positive space surrounded by negative space to help emphasize the letters. The rest of the letters are negative space. You can tell this is a good use of contrast because you're still able to read the poster and the word "contrast."

This is a good example of the poor use of contrast. The first thing you may notice is you're eyes bounce around and don't fixate on one thing. This is because everything is bland and almost blended looking. Nothing pops out because there's no detail to allow your eyes to explore and analyze. I didn't even notice there was a blue line around the whipped cream can until I really looked for detail. The color use has no pop and enough distinction to help emphasize the outline/skeleton of this ad. The background color makes it hard to read the print as well. Having the color red as the color of the print takes away from the red/importance of the product being advertised. 

WK 12- movement/motion

(http://aliciajpoole.blogspot.com/2011/04/implied-motion.html)

This drawing is a good example of implied motion.  It allows us to imagine the girl actually spinning. The shading strokes gives you a sense of what space the girl has covered while turning. The way the lines aren't sharp also adds to the implied motion. The way there are lines smeared in ares like the back of her head helps with that as well. The lack of sharp detail really helps to enhance the implied motion.

(http://aphantomdisease.blogspot.com/2008/07/implied-motion-preferably-food-to-my.html)

This is another great drawing of implied motion. The different faded wrenches around the main wrench allows us to see in what way the wrench moves. The color use also helps. The way that the color blue gets darker and dark as you moves your eye closer to the main wrench (the darkest blue). The way the lines aren't sharp again show the implied motion. The background being out of focus also enhances the implied motion.