Grace-Murphy-Art116-f18

For this project, I chose a grapefruit. I thought it would look interesting doing a fruit that is cut open for this low poly art project. I tried to create some depth by using a darker orange in the bottom right corner, to portray the light coming from the top left, but it was actually a lot more difficult to figure out the lighting than I had thought, since I had to use so many different colors to show distinction between triangles and those around it.

For my fruit poster, I decided on the colors blue and orange because they are contrasting colors and I thought they would make the poster pop off the page. I created a "L" shape to put the fruit in and replicated it on the top to show some symmetry within the work. I set up my fruit in a specific order where there would be a rhythm to it: a pattern of red and yellow. To modify my poster, I changed the tint of the blue background so the lettering contrasts more to the background. In addition to this, I changed the grey to a lighter shade to contrast more, so the background of the fruit icons did not blend in. I took the advice of the professor and went along with the chalkboard/grocery store idea, so I added a few components to the paragraph box (or chalkboard). I played around with the opacity of some white rectangles to replicate eraser marks and give the appearance that it is, in fact, a chalkboard that is being used.

For my fruit project, I tried to make the fruit look realistic, but not too realistic. I kept the shaves quite simple, and added highlighting and shadowing to show more shape and depth within each fruit. For my background, I chose a circle because I wanted to keep it pretty simple since it is an icon, and I chose black because I think it really emphasizes the color of each fruit. I put these fruit in a particular order to portray rhythm within each row-There is a red-yellow pattern within the piece.