Graphic Design 1 SKY
By Timothy Hwangbo
Graphic Design Research Information
Name of Artist: Sailor Jerry/Norman Keith Collins
Dates of Artist's Life: Born January 14, 1911- Died June 12, 1973
Personal Background: Sailor Jerry was a prominent american tattoo artist famous for his tattooing of sailors. Collins left home during his teenage years to travel the country by hitchhiking and train hopping. When he landed in Chicago he hooked up with a local tattoo legend Gib 'Tatts' Thomas who taught him how to use a tattoo machine. Collins traveled to Asia in order to perfect his tattoo technique.
Style: Sailor Jerry combined vivid colors, bold iconography, and sheer artistic ambition to create a new type of tattooing. He used an innovative idea to implement sterilization techniques, pioneering modern tattoo machine configurations, and purple ink. Instead of paintings ignoring the background and focusing on one area Sailor Jerry instead used very dark gradients on the edges to make the entire tattoo one whole piece of art rather than one area.
Philosophy: Jerry believed every tattoo is a personal statement, but ther are common meanings and associations in his designs. A couple examples are when a sailor has sailed 5,000 miles that would represent a swallow with the idea to return. Jerry loved ships because it was a meaning for adventure.
Influences: Sailor Jerry inspired me with his tattoo style where he can make a simple design much more than what it seems. I have made a design that was tattoo style however revised his and reversed his idea where I would make the inside dark and the edges light. He can put the background and the simple image as one whole picture rather than just one or the other standing out.
Sources for the picture: Sailorjerry.com/en/tattoos/flash-meanings/ Under the picture (Ships).
Compare and Contrast: My final image was a tattoo styled image like Sailor Jerry's while flipping his shadings. Sailor Jerry used light gradients that drastically got darker at the edges while I put hard dark colors to fill the design and a lighter color on the edges. My image didn't have a meaning such as Sailor Jerry's which was based on the sea and the men that return or leave, mine was based on religion where the snake (satan) hit the cross showing that religion was unfairly judged similar to Jesus.
Personal Artist Statement: I innovated my design to fit in with modern designs for the cross rather than the original holy cross. I used the "Shape" of a cross and used the "Direction" to move from top to bottom where as the snake and the arrows go from top to bottom. I implemented a hard "Contrast" for black and white similar to Yin and Yang.
Name of Artist: Sailor Jerry/Norman Keith Collins
Dates of Artist's Life: Born January 14, 1911- Died June 12, 1973
Personal Background: Sailor Jerry was a prominent american tattoo artist famous for his tattooing of sailors. Collins left home during his teenage years to travel the country by hitchhiking and train hopping. When he landed in Chicago he hooked up with a local tattoo legend Gib 'Tatts' Thomas who taught him how to use a tattoo machine. Collins traveled to Asia in order to perfect his tattoo technique.
Style: Sailor Jerry combined vivid colors, bold iconography, and sheer artistic ambition to create a new type of tattooing. He used an innovative idea to implement sterilization techniques, pioneering modern tattoo machine configurations, and purple ink. Instead of paintings ignoring the background and focusing on one area Sailor Jerry instead used very dark gradients on the edges to make the entire tattoo one whole piece of art rather than one area.
Philosophy: Jerry believed every tattoo is a personal statement, but ther are common meanings and associations in his designs. A couple examples are when a sailor has sailed 5,000 miles that would represent a swallow with the idea to return. Jerry loved ships because it was a meaning for adventure.
Influences: Sailor Jerry inspired me with his tattoo style where he can make a simple design much more than what it seems. I have made a design that was tattoo style however revised his and reversed his idea where I would make the inside dark and the edges light. He can put the background and the simple image as one whole picture rather than just one or the other standing out.
Sources for the picture: Sailorjerry.com/en/tattoos/flash-meanings/ Under the picture (Ships).
Compare and Contrast: My final image was a tattoo styled image like Sailor Jerry's while flipping his shadings. Sailor Jerry used light gradients that drastically got darker at the edges while I put hard dark colors to fill the design and a lighter color on the edges. My image didn't have a meaning such as Sailor Jerry's which was based on the sea and the men that return or leave, mine was based on religion where the snake (satan) hit the cross showing that religion was unfairly judged similar to Jesus.
Personal Artist Statement: I innovated my design to fit in with modern designs for the cross rather than the original holy cross. I used the "Shape" of a cross and used the "Direction" to move from top to bottom where as the snake and the arrows go from top to bottom. I implemented a hard "Contrast" for black and white similar to Yin and Yang.
3D monster Story
Taro was an electric pet that got shocked by a lightning bolt. He turned into a fierce monster that ate all the other animals in the rainforest. He feeds off of lightning from the sky during rainy days. He has no family members and he is the only one of his species and he has no predators. He is the top of the food chain and he eats all meat animals. |