Artist: Jia Wen Lin. Music & Singer: Reverse by CORSAK
The song I chose is a type of electronic song. It starts off calm and soothing and towards the middle, it gets more upbeat and exciting. The gestalt theory that I used here are similarity, symmetry, continuation, and proximity. One of the black square activities had given me inspiration. In my black square, I was using stripes. This ended up giving me an idea where I tried using the brush to draw a Z and placed it all over the black object in the middle. I think it somehow did successfully create an affect.
At first, I was just playing round with the letter O and I realized I can change the shape of the O. That is how the middle looking black O came to be. In my first draft, I used an uncommon Chinese character as the background, but for my final draft, I changed it to a squiggly line. From my first draft, the critiques that I got was that the outer part looks very empty, and it feels like it’s missing something. I ended up adding two big thick black lines on each side of the page as if it’s slowly closing together, compressing the objects in the middle. I made the big thick line continuation where it looks like it’s continuing after the page.
If I had more time, I really want to create a 3D effect to it because whenever I listen to electronic type of song, it always gives me this feeling like I’m there and the person is standing next to. I think 3D affect would really fit the vibe of the song.