Julia Margaret Cameron is one of the most significant photographers in Victorian, with her unique aesthetic perception, handmade photographs, and illusion blurry images. In this reflective journal, I am going to focus on Cameron’s photograph“Pomona’’. Firstly, I am going to introducing the connection with the V&A museum and Cameron, about the description with the display and the exhibition. Secondly, I will write my first encounter with the visual analysis about“Pomona’’, then with the further analysis of the artworks, in the last two sections, I am going to discuss Lewis Carroll’s “The Beggar Maid”, and make the comparison with“Pomona’’ in the conclusion.

 

“Pomona’’ is located in The Photography Centre in the V&A museum on the right-hand side of the wall when you come in. It is organized by The Royal Photographic Society Collection at V&A, acquired with the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund. The Photography Centre was originally beginning with the first director Henry Cole, as an amateur photographer, he devoted himself to be a pioneer in the art of photography. He created the photography collection in 1856 which called the South Kensington Museum, now V&A. During that time period, many photographs from Cameron were exhibited and obtained at the South Kensington Museum. After 12 years later, Julia Margret got her first artist community with two rooms as her portrait studio in V&A, became the first artist and resident.

When I first walked into the Photography Centre in the V&A museum, I found the lighting seemed a bit darker than the other exhibition, all of the walls are painted with dark blue, which shows a big contrast with all of the white frame photographs. Then I appealed by Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph “Pomona’’ with a beautiful woman portrait. In the photograph, there is a lady who looks youth standing in front of some plants with her right arm akimbo, and left hand with a piece of plants, both of her eyes are staring at the camera which make the viewers feel she is actually staring at you. The plants in the background don’t feel just like a background, it seems to embrace her, all surrounded by this lady.” Pomona” It’s a portrait scale photograph in black and white color on Albumen silver print from glass negative, in a size 36.4cm times 26.3cm took in 1872. Rather than demonstrating a strong contrast of the black and white images, it makes viewers feel in a tender way due to its soft texture with the grey tone, furthermore, the image is not a full clear image. It focuses on Alice’s face and makes the front scene blurry, so the photograph has less sharpness. The model in this photograph is Alice Liddell, Cameron pictured her as the goddess of the Roman chards and gardens, brings up fruitful abundance, standing in front of foliage with one hand holding a pruning. (Pomona | Cameron, Julia Margaret | V&A Search the Collections, 2020)

 

The blurry soft, tender with the smudge portraits illustrate the main feature of Cameron photographs, she processed her pictures out-of-focus in purpose, and it usually came with the scratches, smudges, and sometimes even came out with her fingerprints. (V&A · Julia Margaret Cameron – an introduction, 2020)

In the mid 19 century, she refused the hyperfine way of processing photographs, compared to other artists that try to avoid all of the flaws, Cameron embracing them as part of her photography. (Julia Margaret Cameron’s working methods, 2015) In that time period, the camera was created for illustrating impartial reality, photography seemed to be utensil for artists, and often produced images with a serious sharp focus. (Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2020). Instead of using the dark room, she produced the images in nature photochemistry, processing each step by hand from exposing, washing, toning, drying to mounting, and it took lots of time than using the machine. (Cox, Ford, Lukitsh and Wright, 2003 p.8) Marta Weiss- the curator of photography in V&A once spoke in the video, she said: “When you look at her photograph, you can feel the energy of she expressing herself artistically, those imperfection are very attractive to the contemporary audience, we can see there are handmade projects, but not cold precise result from the machine.” (Julia Margaret Cameron’s working methods, 2015) Due to that method of making, her photographs with the irregular dark spots and soft texture become the distinguishing characteristic in her photography lifetime.

 

Cameron liked to depict the photographs with the theme of beauty with high moral intention. She said, “My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty” (Cox, Ford, Lukitsh and Wright, 2003 p.41) In “Pomona” she set up a scene for 20-year old Liddell as the goodness of chard. In her photographs she often gave her models to act as a model character from the literature, Shakespeare or poet, and so did Liddell. (Cox, Ford, Lukitsh and Wright, 2003 p.176) It is all due to her perspectives of women portraits, for example, bringing some ideas of divine, love, grace, beauty…and so on in her photographs. (Cameron and Howard, 1990, p.10) The inspiration for Cameron photography was organed from Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian genre painting, she used the same composition and poses to reflect with the old master painting in her early period. (Cameron and Howard, 1990, p.15) She reflected the key constituents in Victorian, with passion, certitude, belief, religion, and culture to be regraded in her photographs. (Cameron and Howard, 1990, p.10) Furthermore, she wanted her photographs to be High art, just like the old master paintings. Cameron insisted with her sensuousness in her photographs, created lots of good look, mythical, artistic, dreamlike photographs. From those perspectives, Cameron brought her good aspect of capturing the models and giving her aim of aesthetic High art to the audience.

 

Liddell, the model of the photograph in “Pomona” is also pictured by another photographer, Lewis Carroll. He is well known from his fiction-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and that little girl in the fiction is depicted, Alice Liddell. He often pictured her in his photography lifetime, especially in her childhood. “The Beggar Maid” was taken in 1858 when Liddell was at the age between seven and eight, dressing up with ragged clothe leaning on the wall full of moss, her expression with both eyes staring at the camera really catch the viewer’s attention. Compare to Cameron’s“Pomona” and Carroll’s “The Beggar Maid”, both of the images made Liddell dressed up with the specific character rather than acting themselves, “Pomona” (1987) was taken around thirteen years later than “The Beggar Maid” (1858), so in“Pomona” Liddell was already a grown-up lady, and according to the technique and aesthetics from Cameron, she really likes goodness in the photograph with the reverie and unfocused length. But in Carroll’s photograph, it is focused on the whole scene, so it creates a steady feeling atmosphere, with a stronger black and white contrast. Both

 

To sum up, Julia Margaret Cameron’s

Gustav Klimt’s artworks made a huge impact in the socio-political atmosphere and it made lots of dedication to the intellectual and cultural life at the changing point of the twentieth century in Vienna society. His artworks were affected by art movements, his mental state, family as well as his private life with women. In this reflective journal, I am going to focus on his most notable work The Kiss, research Klimt as a person and the history in the late 19 to 20 century in Vienna. The purpose of this reflective journal is firstly demonstrating the first encounter when I saw The Kiss from both Klimt and Radon, and further make the visual and historical analysis with the artworks. The final section will make a conclusion with both Klimt and Rodin’s The Kiss with further discussion.

 

The first time when I knew Gustav Klimt’s works were in high school, the teacher introduced him to the lecture. During the lesson, I had a huge impression and fell in love with all of the works by him. Then in 2017, I went to Vienna to see his real works in the Belvedere palace and Leopold Museum. In the palace, I could see there were crowded people pushing forward and towards in one certain place when I upper my head I saw the most notable work from him The Kiss. It was a great piece of a painting hanging on the black wall, the glaring and shining colors showed a huge contrast with the black background. When I tried to look at the painting, in some certain distance because of the gold colors, you couldn’t clearly see due to the reflection, so you should move in a certain distance. In this image, there is a couple kissing in the middle position, their bodies are fully enriched with different kinds of shapes and decorations, the composition and the visual effect make you feel the bodies of the man and woman are almost combining together. The man whose body is covered with straight-line patterns bending to the kneeling woman whose eyes are closed faced to the viewer and seems to wait to be kissed by the man in a passive way. The woman’s body filled up with the circle patterns, her bare feet hanging on the edge of an abyss, it visualizes the deep relationship and the dangerously close distance with the lover. (Partsch, P.88) It cannot be found out the proper answer in books for the symbolic ideas of why the man’s body contained with the rectangle shapes and the woman with the circle shapes, but there is some information on the website analysis those ideas. (Artsper Magazine, 2020) states that the geometric black and white rectangles emblems the man’s strength, so it demonstrates the power of the man with the virility and masculinity imagines, and the colorful discs illustrates the imagines of felinity and maternity. Thorough that description, it is kinds of apparent for me to make a mental association with the organ of man and woman that represents the shapes of rectangle and circle. Not only the way of how the couple’s position places, the colors also seem to be a part of elements of showing strong intense love. In this image using lots of warm colors and gold that you can feel the heat and the strong emotion of this couple’s love, in the background with the thick brown color with some gold color embellished.

 

For the two main characters in this painting, (Partsch, P.87-88) suggested that The Kiss was depicted Emile and Klimt himself, some experts pointed out that Emile’s facial feature resemble with the woman in The Kiss, but it can be also claimed to be one of the lovers from Klimt. Emile Floge the only woman devoted herself to Klimt in the love relationship and supported his art career. During Klimt’s lifetime, his private life with women always gave the society in a negative image on him, however, Emile accepted it understood as a part of the artistic nature of Klimt, became an irreplaceable woman in Klimt’s lifetime. Although Klimt had a lot of affairs with women, a statement from his sister Hermine said: “He was not a person in the companion, he was more like a loner.” (Partsch, P.17) Klimt negated with his self-worth, but he emphasized the state of women which brought him stratification in art and life. In addition, he was not being interested in himself, so he didn’t paint any self-portraits. His focus was just “particularly women”. (Brockman, P.24) This can probably illustrate the reason why in the image of The Kiss just conceals the man’s face, but more focus on the woman’s face feature.

 

In Klimt’s paintings it concludes with lots of ornaments and shapes, it can be influenced by society during the late 19th century to the early 20^th century. In 1897, even though the society in Vienna was prosperous, the way of people viewing the art still tended to be in a conservative way. Klimt and several artists made a determination not to tolerate the reactionary policies of Vienna semi-official society of artists, they rejecting Vienna’s traditionally art scene, and created their idea by forming a platform to share their works in their own independent exhibiting society which called Vienna Secession. (Vergo p.23) They had their aim by bringing up the vibrant colors in a livelier way to communicate with the new development of art aboard. (Partsch, P.8) Furthermore they emphasized the theory about an artist’s own style with their unique personality, made the combination with the modern lifestyle in Vienna. Art Nouveau which organed from Paris around 1900 quickly spread out in Europe, Austrian art got in touch with new international tendency, it got the attention of the public to this decorative art. Klimt got deeply influence by this, he widely used his paintings by applying the feature of art nouveau in a richly ornamental style. He inspired by Art Nouveau, experiment his art with symbolist style, Expressionism, and Arts and Crafts movement. This can be one of the evidence of why he widely used the ornamental style and shapes in his paintings to feature the figures of women’s bodies, clothes and background. The way of applying gold in his artworks- Family can be as the main factor in Klimt’s enlightenment, Klimt’s father was an engraver, so Klimt affected by his father, followed his footsteps to be as a craftsman, entered the school of Arts and Crafts when he was fourteen. He used complex mix materials in his works, with using casein paint, applying stucco and gilding on his artworks, it can’t be straightforward to say that was the cause of him to widely used gold leaf in his paintings, but it can get close to the reason that went upstream to his childhood and family. Klimt is well known as a gold painter, but he didn’t use gold leaf in his whole art life, during his later years, he started to paint scenery and didn’t apply gold that much. The Kiss and the paintings with the shining glistening gold leaf were the time period which now the people called the “Golden phase” was the time slot that people mostly get to know about him.

 

Compare to The Kiss from Klimt, the sculpture The Kiss from Rodin gives a really strong visual imagine with a three-dimensional field of view, you can firstly and directly see the couple hugging and kissing with each other very intensely, one of the man’s hand put on the woman’s back part, the other hand just naturally placed in the back of rock. For the woman one of her hand hanging on the man’s neck, the other hand can’t see very clearly in the image, but it looks like she is holding the man’s arm. It demonstrates the lover kissing in a selflessness situation with the strong atmosphere of love, with both the man and the woman in the naked figures. This Kiss from Rodin which is depicted the adulterous love story of Lancelot and Guinevere. Lancelot which is the most faithful knight from King Arthur fell in love with his wife, caused the dangerous and strong love. (Jenkins, May, Folic, p.44) In 1900, Rodin got a bad reputation as the sensual drawings and over nudity sculptures. But it’s no doubt that Rodin’s work and the significance of the sexual identity became the gist of his sculptural practice and understanding and conveying the metaphor through his way of making sculpture. Rodin as the pioneer of the modern sculptor, immerge spread out his artistic practice, did not state against the traditional skill, trained traditionally with an elaborate approach to his works, but turned it into his modern sculpture aesthetics. (Getty p.13)

 

To sum up, Although The Kiss from Klimt and Rodin gives different feelings and stories behind, both the artworks depict the intense love of the couple. The way of Klimt illustrated with using ornamental shapes on the lovers’ bodies, and the usage of the gold leaf applied makes you feel the love in a more aesthetics expression, the sculpture from Rodin in a way gives you in a more direct feeling of the kiss. Both of The Kiss has been created in the late 19 to the early 20 century. (Klimt’s The Kiss,1907; Rodin’s The Kiss,1882/1898-1902) They both received negative comments in the public with the exposed and erotic body feature, but there is no doubt that they made a milestone in the characteristic style of painting and modern sculptor.,with, but the

The first time when I knew Gustav Klimt’s works were in high school, the teacher introduced him then after the lesson, I had a huge impression and fell in love with all of the works by him.
Then two years ago, I went to Vienna which is the capital city in Austria to see his real works in the Belvedere palace and Leopold Museum.
In the palace, I could see there were crowded people pushing forward and towards when I tried to upper my head, I saw the most notable work from him The Kiss. It was a huge piece of work hanging on the black wall, the glaring and shining colors showed a huge contrast with the black background, in some certain distance because of the golden colors, you couldn’t see really clear of the image due to the reflection, and also there was a line to keep the distance between the painting and the viewers, I couldn’t have a very details observation of his works. There is a couple kissing in the middle of the image, on their bodies there are fully enriched with different shapes and decorations, the composition makes you feel the bodies of the man and woman are almost combining together, in the background is the thick brown color with some gold color embellished. In the image mostly using warmth colors that you can feel the heat and the strong emotion of this couple’s love

Klimt was influenced by cultural changes, in particular, the permissive society. Even though Viennese society at that time was prosperous, which had a huge technological, psychological and political changes and also with a polyglot population. The view of art was still in a conservative way. Art at that time almost became a religion, it represented the food of the soul which artists were liked to express their true emotion on paintings. Lots of young men went to brothels to fulfilled their sexual satisfaction in order to get some inspirations. (Dean 2008) In Vienna, where art and literature became as in life itself was the whole subject which Freud called “misunderstood and much-maligned erotic”. During that time period that was strict, sexuality topics in art were viewed as much for symbolism as for religious reason as a battling. (Vergo 1975) Klimt’s works showed a huge connection with the cultural ideas at that moment, so lots of critics from conservative society were alarmed by his paintings like overt natural nudity. Klimt against the society, and he thought his works were the addition of symbolic dream, a decorative overlay that linked the conscious and unconscious life, which revealed the images to the latent satisfaction of ego or world cycle. (Alessandra 1975) He wanted society to accept his overt nudity paintings. During the first year of the twentieth century, political and cultural events as well as the particular environment was unique and played a definitive role in determined the bizarre, extraordinary character of the new art. (Vergo 1975) The personality of sexuality in the development of the connotation and the changes in sexuality transformed the culture and affected Vienna’s aesthetics, it began to accept boldly art topics. Klimt’s art revolution was significantly influenced and affected the changes in this culture. (Dean 2008)

Viennese society was undergoing many changes during Klimt’s lifetime and this was related in the art movements which Klimt was part of those, he was influenced by art movements like Art novena, symbolism and he also created his own movement, Vienna Secession which was the biggest art movement that connected with him. In the foundation of the secession, Klimt and several artists made up a group which stood the same thought: against the conservative and classicists, to make innovation in art. This group sought for pragmatism and rationality, emphasized the theory of your own style with your unique personality, and also made the combination with the modern lifestyle. Although Klimt was the person who was already appearing as a member of the establishment, his superiority, and his personality brought him on to the peak of secession, and also appeared as a leader of young revolutionaries in the Vienna Secession. (Vergo 1975) Klimt strongly illustrated his determined in the sanctity of art. The essence of the revolution in Vienna Secession for Klimt was not to create a new technique or particular style of painting but created a new attitude for this time period of art. (Thames and Hudson 1994) Art Nouveau, the rich of oriental art and the three-dimensional space, that organed from Paris quickly spread out in Europe and the United States. (George Braziller,1975) Austrian art got in touch with new international tendency, which got the attention of the public to the decorative art. Klimt was deeply affected by this, he polished decoratively ornamental paintings, using small patches in the background and glistening tints as jewelry repeated in the decorative composition(S.Tschudi 1967), art nouveau gave Klimt with a large inspiration in his works, got the trademark and reorganization. (George Braziller 1975) Klimt’s works and Vienna Secession made a significant connection with the same philosophy, he added the oriental art which he influenced by Art Nouveau, widely in his paintings. It verified that he was deeply affected by these art movements.

However, his paintings weren’t just a reflection of culture. Klimt’s mental state influenced his idea and works very much. Klimt’s paintings often depicted females. It was due to he was not interested in himself, so there didn’t exist any self-portrait related with him, but “particularly women”. (Dean 2008) (George Braziller,1975) After a childhood and the early life that he suffered, his personality became isolated and depressive. He started to paint nudes using very tantalizing poses, his works revolved around heterosexual, lesbian and autoerotic themes. (Dean 2008) Klimt was very secretive about his private life. He didn’t want to give too much away about himself but just concentrated on women. Klimt received lots of negative comments with too exposed paintings, so he hid his private life then had a depressive predilection focused on sex, sex symbols, couples kissing, and death. These were the subjects that he painted, made him a voyeur of his basic desires. He also had a deep impression of the inner lives with women and it made a lethal determination to let him wanted to capture it on the canvas. (Dean 2008) It straight away gives the viewers as his work presented. (George Braziller,1975) Klimt’s conquer his own suffering, the compatibility of his sex drive and his decadence. This struggle helped him a lot in his paintings, it produced creative talented, and also expressed free and unconstrained. (David 2008) His mental desire gave him lots of inspiration on depicting women, and not just affected by the culture, this factor gave him motivation in his artistic spirit.

During Klimt’s lifetime, he influenced by art movements like Art novena and symbolism, he also performed his own movement, Vienna Secession which was the biggest art movement that connected with him. In the foundation of the secession, although Klimt was the person who was already appearing as a member of the establishment, his superiority, and his personality brought him on to the peak of secession, and also appeared as a leader of young revolutionaries in the Kunstlerhaus. (Vergo 1975) Klimt expressed his position as an elected president of the new association in a letter to the committee, it wrote that the artistic life in Vienna got recognition of fundamental views, exhibitions were in a completely artistic foothold, It could be freely like commercial considerations, It clarified the modern view of art. (Vergo 1975) Klimt strongly illustrated his determined in the sanctity of art. The essence of the revolution for Klimt was not to create a new technic or particular style of painting but created a new attitude for this time period of art. (Thames and Hudson 1994) Klimt is also well-known as a symbolist painter, Vienna secession heavily brought out the renovate of applied arts, it resembled with symbolist movement. The spread surged of Art nouveau all over Europe tended to concur with a definite slacking of the Symbolist motivation in painting. (Thames and Hudson. London 1972) Art Nouveau, the rich of oriental art and the three-dimensional space, (George Braziller,1975) Austrian art got in touch with new international tendency, this straight forward got the attention of the public to genuine art. Klimt had a deeply affected by this, he polished decoratively ornamental paintings, with using small patches in the background, with glistening tints as jewelry repeated in the decorative composition(S.Tschudi 1967), art nouveau gave Klimt with a large inspiration in his work, got the trademark and reorganization. (George Braziller 1975)

The paintings topic about Gustav Klimt were all surrounded by female and sexual. He made a statement to conclude with his idea with his point of view about female-directed aesthetic according to his life and artworks. “It can be shown that there was no self-portrait existed by me. “(George Braziller,1975)” I am not interested in myself”, but “particularly women”. After a childhood and the early life that he was suffered, his personality became isolated and depressive. He started to break away from his originally conservative classicism and began to evolve the style which was totally a revolutionary than he used to do. With started to paint nudes with using very tantalizing poses, and revolve around heterosexual, lesbian and autoerotic. (David 2008) Klimt was very secretive with his private life. He didn’t want to demonstrate too many about himself. The only comment that he released was “For the people whoever had interested about me, as for me as an artist, to look at my works detailed, tried to discover me through my works, to see who I am and what I want to do.”(Dean, 1996, P.6)(David 2008) Klimt’s reversion and depressive fixations focusing on sex, sex symbols, couples kissing, and death. These were the factors that he was fulfilled voyeur of his basic desire. (David 2008) He had a deep impression with the inner life with women and it has a fatal determination to capture it on the canvas. Klimt starts to express the proof view of his world into sexual symbolism, with a shining facade of sensual decoration, with using gold and silver overlay to let the shapes, rectangles, circles to be precisely pointed out the superlative implication of the title of the painting. It straight away gives the viewers as his work presented. (George Braziller,1975) Klimt’s conquer his own suffering, the despicable of his sexual desires and his debauchery. This struggle helped him a lot in his paintings, it produced creative talented, and also expressed free and unconstrained. (David 2008)

Graphics and illustrations 03.06.2019-06.06.2019

This week is the last week for hanging the final piece, so I am going to analyze my sketchbook, write the page that I miss it. Before I have the ideas of the handbags that can contain different cups. So I draw it on the sketchbook.

Sometimes you want to carry it not only for one cups, but you also want to carry two at the same time or four at the same time, so I think this design will be more convenient.

The last one is the shop design, actually, I finished the shop design several weeks before but I didn’t put it on the sketchbook and talk about it.

There is a sign and the counter for the shop assistant, on the wall there is digital signage. On the table, there is a box that contains straws, in front of it here is a box that contains the loyalty cards so that customers can take it if they want to collect the stamps for the free drink. There are also three sample cups to illustrate the different sizes- Hit drink, Cold drink. Besides the computer, there is a cupboard which displays all of the creative products- the first floor is selling the stickers, the second floor is selling the handbags. On the third floor are the washi tapes.

Then I look at my sketchbook I find that I haven’t finished the third artist research, so I quickly draw it, for the artist response, I am going to do the package for the chocolate brand. So I draw many cocoa trees, with a similar composition like the artist, and also using the bright colors.

Then the rest of the works are writing an evaluation, bibliography, modify the timetable. It’s a busy week.

Graphics and illustrations evaluation

In this bubble tea project, I am going to do the package design for the branding. In the first week, I very hesitate like whether I should do the storybook or to do the branding. Then I think about I had done a similar thing like a storybook in the last project, so I decided to do the bubble tea project. I know it will be a challenge for me because due to my computer skill, but I think I will learn a lot during this project.

On the Easter Holiday, while traveling I went to lots of different kinds of bubble tea shops, some cafes, and bars. I really enjoyed the moment when I sketched, I felt very satisfied when I drew it, recorded it down. Some shops really gave me inspiration, and I can see that lots of coffee shops have transformed combined with creative and culture.

During the making process in the project, I occurred many problems with the computer, even the easiest thing like cmd+T is to make the shape bigger, I need to ask my classmate. After classmates, friends and teacher help, I think I am more practical when I operate the photoshop. One day Joe came and told me to make some lines to make the standard spaces in each category in the menu, and I think it’s really helped me a lot. When I making the drink with the logo, I spent lots of time asking Alex, which I think it’s a bit sorry to him that occupying his time, so when he taught me I wrote the steps of it which won’t let me forget next time.

Another problem that happens in my project is making the shapes of the product before I am thinking about just using mockup, but the pixels are low, so I decided to make it by myself. For making shapes it is better to make in Ai, so I tried really hard to make it. It needs to use several shapes to create one thing, so every element is using like circles, squares to build up, afterward you select the lines you want. For the building up process, I think I am really practical about it, but every time when I want to select the outline, or just selecting several lines, I am always confused and ask for other people’s help. It will be very important to learn Ai because it can help you to make the shapes you want easily, although it takes time to make one product, I think it is really useful for designing, especially graphic design.

To sum up, the bubble tea project is in more graphics design way than illustration. I think it’s always good to try so something new, learning new things. Although I occurred many problems with computer skills, I enjoyed a lot of doing my favorite drink- bubble tea in my project, and realize how important computer skill is when you are designing. Before I am just thinking about just hand painted in my projects, then I learn that even you are studying illustration, the technics of the computer is so important, so I enriched my self a lot in this project.

 

 

 

Graphics and illustrations 27.06.2019-31.06.2019

This week I am going to make more completed on my drink package. There are two types if hit drink and two types of cold drink. The first one is the hot drink with the cup lid, it is set up for the drinks without toppings, and also suits for the hot drink with the mouse on it with the cover, it won’t able to mix it together. The second package of hot drink is the one with the plastic cover, it suits for the drink with the toppings, so that they can use a straw to drink it. The cold drink version, I make like a transparent cup, so that you can see the color and the toppings in it. I make the stickers for the drink cup, generally, the assistant in the shop will stick it on your cup, which writes the information of your order, ice level, sugar level, calling number. So I make it to that the package more completed.Afterward, I am going to do the package of straw and Thermos cups. For the idea of the Thermos cup I think is quite good to operate in the bubble tea shop, it can contain both hot drink and cold and keep temperate.In the project, in order to make the shapes of the products, I use Ai very frequently, although I am very new in this software I try to make by myself. Firstly, I make the cup lid by myself, it uses different shapes to make the outlines, then you can decide which lines you should keep it and put the color in. I am fine with building up the shapes of it but for me, the most confusing thing is how to keep the lines that I want to remove the lines that I don’t want, so this time I will see Alex for help when I look at the operating, I always make notes, because I think I will forget it very easily.The next thing is the creative product I am going to make stickers and washi tapes. I draw different facial expressions because my logo is a happy face, so I think I am going to make stickers in different facial expressions.Washi tapes I will include the experiment of alcohol and ink patterns, facial expressions, and the drinks I draw.This week on Saturday will be the exhibition, however, I will take IELTS so I couldn’t attend.So this is the picture that took on Thursday, when we are preparing to hang the poster on the wall.

Graphics and illustration 20.05.2019-24.05.2019

In this week I will focus more on the package design. First of all, I will reproduce the napkin and the cup sleeves, due to the low pixels, so I make it again.

For these two designs because of the shape are easier compared to other products, so I make them by myself without Alex helping. I find myself is more skillful than before, and I can do it faster.

By the way, the loyalty card is also made by me without help. At the beginning I seek for help from Alex to do bubble tea cups, he used AI to make them, I look at the way he makes it and write note on the paper to remind me of the steps, otherwise I always forget the which way to make or what kinds of tools that I should use. Then the handbag is also the tough problem for me, I find the picture on the website and I want to replace my logo on the cup bag, firstly Alex told me that I can use the function of the patch, circle the pattern that I want and copy it on my drink. It is a very good way to do it. However I find it doesn’t look very natural then Joe comes and teaches me to use another way to do it, so I with using the same function patch, but using another type of it, which generally use it if you dip some color on your drawings and you want to go to keep it as the same tone on the drawings or pictures, so at the I solve the problem in a proper way, and the image looks naturally with ho’ lin logo.

My loyalty card has changed a bit with my first version, Joe gives me some advice on my card, she says more simple and easy to look will be better for the customers, so I change the words on the bottom of the card.

Then I am going to do the poster for the exhibition.

This is my exhibition poster, with the logo, cup sleeves, handbags, loyalty card, napkin, and menu.

I make the world map of my bubble tea, the concept of my bubble tea shop will be like a chain brand so it is important to that the customer knows where is the place that we are going to sell. The main customers will be Asians, so it will be set in Asain countries and the Chinatown in the world.

The location of the cities.