Annie Feng Portfolio

Observation Drawings

Some sketches I have done through the years of doing art in school.

Mystery and Imagination Sketchbook

Inspired by artists such as  Luis Gonzalez Palma ( http://www.gonzalezpalma.com/) and Pakayla Biehn ( http://www.youshouldtakecare.com/) I took on the vintage effect and double exposure towards my photographs.
My sketchbook itself is created to look like an old journal, creating a sense of mystery of Who? What? Where? and Why? Withing the pages you will find portrait shots in cooperated with the techniques the artists used.

29cm width x 24cm length

 Throughout the pages you will find different ways in representing each photograph using a whole range of materials, such as coffee,paint,varnish, glass beads and tracing paper. Experimenting in different aspects and    using my imagination to combine them with my photographs.

Exploration & Discovery Sketchbook

I am studying portraits in photography, where I will be experimenting with light and exposure. I have picked portraits as I believe that every individual face has a beauty within. Every unique feature on their faces highlights their difference between one another. I have picked the age of the old as they are more interesting and bold, with their wrinkles and lifeless eyes. I combined old people with nature in order to display a relation between them. We see that old people naturally grow old through time. As they grow older their young ages fades away and their energy seems to slow down and slowly they become weak. I comparison to nature, we see that a tree or a flower grows naturally from the ground and develops through time to a wonderful unique plant. Unfortunately, like humans their life and appearance start to change and crumble down,as the nature itself cannot hold out to be beautiful constantly. They are comparable to human beings, they will grow and they will fade.

34cm width x 28cm length

Started off by using a ring binder folder to hold my pieces together, then covering the folder with brown envelopes to disguise it like stack of papers and envelopes after I start to develop my pieces and fill in the binder. Using coffee to stain the papers in order to create a texture which also gave a vintage effect towards it as well.

Starting off when you open the sketchbook you will find that I have began with a detailed explanation of four major artists that influenced me. ( Mark Story, Andrzej Dragan, Gregory Heisler, Arnold Newman)

Again you can see I have used tracing paper, coffee to stain the papers again and pieces of the envelopes to merge them together.

Here is a close up of the artists page.

Then started to add my photographs in, that I have edited. Started with a page with the title 'Portraits' and the opposite page runs you through how I got from taking a picture to my final outcome of Photoshoping. Showing different angles and perspectives of the same subject giving you the visual idea of my procedure.

Moreover, developing through the pages with step-by-step of how I got my final pieces of editing. Showing the final outcome and the making-of on the other side, as seen as on these pages of the old man sitting on his stool with his cane.

Further more, added some nature into my project, as seen as I have talked about how I am combining Old age to Nature to explore the similarities of them and for each and individual to discover how common nature and human life are.

Envelopes used to write about how I am combining old age with nature with my own handwriting, creating a personal effect and the envelopes and coffee stained papers gives a vintage appeal towards my project.

Some A4 sized images of my nature shots being shown here. Simply showing them on individual papers with using again coffee to stain the papers and tape to create a texture for the background.

Stencil writing to highlight each word that is important towards my project. Leaving some white space for it to be easy on the eyes then portraying an image of a tree with color codes of brown and green showing you nature colors.

Some more heavily edited images here of nature at the Salt Lake Park. I never use to use Photoshop to over-exaggerate the images but in this case I thought of experimenting and pushing my abilities to see if I am able to capture that style and explore my talents in heavy photoshoping.

Some Of The Things I Like

Pieces that I have done independently, with no school influences.
Some of my photography photographs I have been doing.

 Warehouse Photo Session.

 Skins Series Vibe.

 Long Exposure.

 Extreme Macro Of A Dragonfly.

 Smoking Kills Photo Session.

 Journey.

 Rain in July.

 Northampton Street.

 China Town.

 The Rush In The Streets.

 Gone In A Second.

 Spring Photo Session.

Emphasis On Water.

Entry Project: 24

24 quotes in typography that inspires and motivates me .

The Making

 Started off by scribbling down ideas of what I thought I wanted to do for my 24 Project. Starting it off was a bit confusing as I had a lot of ideas rolling in but had to eliminate them since I did not have the right equipment to be doing them.
As I developed further on I stumbled across quotes and found that It was rather a good idea to do something related to 24 quotes that motives me and  reflects my character. I then thought of doing typography, I have never done before but thought it would be rather fun to try something new, so as I researched some typography samples I got the hang of it on how to present them and decided to do typography to present 24 of my quotes.

 Researching quotes that really reflect who I am and what motives me took awhile because each and individual one had to move me than just picking 24 random ones that I find good. This took 2 days  to do since I wanted the full 24 to be 100% who I am. I copy pasted them on to word to save them and also have the original person who quoted them so you would know that I did not make them as I got them off the internet.

 Going on to dafont.com I downloaded some eye catching fonts that are not common as what you find on Microsoft word in order to move away from typical fonts.

 Here you can see some samples of the fonts I have been using in my pieces. Trying to range a whole different types of fonts to capture essence of specific words.

Saving all my photoshop works also as jpeg in case I needed to go back and change some errors.

Downloaded some images that represent some words to use as an outline for my quotes to be portrayed. 

24 of my Photoshop works of the quotes that took me about 5 hard days of working to be completed and run over. Showing them to other people in order to get feedbacks on what they thought of my work, mostly positive feedbacks which made me more confident in my attempt in typography.

Complete Pieces

 Bellow you will find the complete making of what I have been trying to produce. Here are 24 quotes that motives me to do what I do and emphasize my character, I hope you enjoy them and really get a good sense of who I am with the use of quotes.

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