Paperfection continued. And a finding.

This is following a post I did all the way back in November, entitled 'Paperfection'. I was wanting to create a 2D digital image of a 3D piece. Sort of like a representation/optical illusion if you will. The '3D' piece is creased paper I obtained. I played around with some shades of grey and white and below is the result.

It's turned out okay in my opinion, there's a lot of potential for it but I'm finding it quite hard to fully capture it at the moment if I'm honest. One part of this I'm not convinced about is the textured marks from the paper itself that you can see in some areas, like the bottom right of the piece.
I think I don't like it.
Mainly because I don't want this to have any other aesthetic than the '3D-ish' look that I'm going for, so I'm concerned that this may go against it. But that could be me thinking too much into it. I would like to develop this further when I have some more free time. But yeah, looks alright really.


I re - found this the other day:

It's a t - shirt that my buddy Adam Grant made when we were all leaving our first ever house we lived in, in New Cross. Really funny as it brings back so many memories. It's a nice fact that myself (in the middle) Adam (with the green hair) and Mikee (with the console controller) are still friends and see each other. Haven't seen the 3 girls for a good while, think they just went their own paths, nothing personal (I hope not anyway) But yeah, nostalgia! Sigh!




Jamie

Paper fun.

Paper update! I did this a while ago but you know how much of a silly billy I am, I forgot to upload it. 
The concept behind this one was, well, nothing. I intentionally forced myself to not concentrate or be inspired by anything and be distracted as I drew this (If this sounds like a contradictory idea, that's up to you). I just wanted it to be a complete random mess and see what the result would be.

I don't think it represents anything.
Maybe I really crave Spirographs.
Probably that.
Actually, yes!
Ha I dunno, if this does in fact represent my sub-conscious, and you are a budding psycho-analyst, I would be really interested to hear from you. Even if you're not one for that matter, I would be interested to hear an interpretation all the same.
Saying that, I'm expecting someone to message me with "Well, with the evidence provided it means you have issu-GAAAAAAAAAAAY!" 


Hur hur hur.


Toodles.


Jamie

Paperfection.

My Mother came across these rather creased pieces of paper and asked if I wanted them. Being quite a paper nerd, I was all like "Oh yah" so I took them and have them proudly on the floor of my room.

I noticed something, now, to the normal eye, creased paper is often coined as bad, ruined paper. 

Not at all in my opinion. It's better if anything. Creases get bad press (ba dum der tish). You know the term 'There's no such thing as perfection' well surely it must work the other way round, binary opposites and all, so there's no such thing as imperfection either. Zing! Take that, logic! 

So basically, I wanted to develop on this crease logic. Creases, even though they are imperfection on a smooth sheet of paper, you wouldn't actually notice them. Look on your desk for example, there's bound to be a piece of paper there, does it have at least one crease in it? I bet it does. And I bet you didn't notice it until now. I know, I know, I'm showing you the light! But there's more..

I wanted to make these creases more obvious. So, quite simply, I drew over them. It looked like this:

Looks cool doesn't it? (I think so). The way it's positioned on my desk compliments it by how the light is catching it, giving different tones of white and grey.

I then thought what would be really good is if I could replicate the above look, but in a 2D digital form, so it's almost like an optical illusion. 3D paper captured on 2D! I do believe this is quite possibly the most Post Modern piece of work I have ever worked on. Go me.

I started on the digital version, but it's proving to be a tad more difficult than I originally thought. More to follow. I hope this has quenched your paper philosophy for the day.

Jamie