Pictured above are my latest pieces created in Visual Studies. We’ve been working on collages for a week now, and these are part of the digital round. The goal of the project was to explore design principles and the concept of harmony, in addition to exploring digital and analog mediums.

In the pieces I created, I mainly addressed the principles of shape and hue, while sprinkling in a little bit of texture into the image. I think it really captured the medium well, as I made an effort to try and use a few editing techniques to make the image more interesting. In fact, the green collage is a completely different color (purple, I think), just with an overall saturation change.

I think my strongest aspects are the concentration on circular shapes and hue, as well as the uniqueness of both pieces; they aren’t just copies of each other.

I feel that the green collage is pretty strong, but maybe a bit too cluttered. Conversely, the orange collage seems to be missing something. I also feel the orange collage is a bit unstructured, but not in a good way. It’s abstract, yes, but there’s something too formulaic and formal about it.

Conceptually, I think both images could benefit from the use of something more interesting, like how the clouds in the green collage stand out, the orange collage could use something like that, too.

Technically, I think the project could be improved by making the elements more clearly defined, such as the symmetry in the green collage, and the vanishing point in the orange collage.