Week 14 Blog Exercise - Visual Techniques

“Untitled” by Judy Chu

The image above is a picture of my niece, which I created, based off of a photograph of her and was given to her family as a Christmas present. The visual techniques that it’s move evident of are:

Depth/Flatness

Sharpness/Diffusion

Neutrality/Accent

Consistency/Variation

“Asian sunset – commission” by bw-inc

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The above image is another style of art, which I admire because of its simplicity and use of bright colors. To me, I thought it resembled pop-art due to the use of some abstract shapes to create a beautiful piece of artwork. Some visual techniques used in this image are:

Flatness/Depth

Accent/Neutrality

Sharpness/Diffusion

Boldness/Subtlety

Variation/Consistency

I included the opposites of each technique but bolded what I thought was most represented in the image. The first image contains more depth, making it look more realistic while the second image was more flat due to having less variation in its colors, causing it look more impractical. At the same time, the first image also contained some flatness, shown in the ladybug outfit and the background due to the use of single colors versus the face and arms, which had multiple hues of color. Both images have sharp lines, separating one color from the next, creating a crispy-clean feeling. However, in the first image, diffusion is present where the shadows hit the face and the arm, creating blurred lines between the colors. It also generates the image to look more realistic while looking from afar, unlike the second image where the viewer, no matter how far they are from the image, will always see it as unrealistic. Both images embody a visual technique opposite of each other, neutrality and accent. The first image contains more neutral colors, creating consistency where if the viewer saw one section of the image, will be able to predict the how the rest of the image will look like. On the other hand, the second image is accent due to its variations of color from burgundy to bright yellow. The bold colors “jump” out at the viewer, causing them to not know what will come next. With these bright colors, the overall tone or mood of the image projects an energetic feeling despite it being stasis.