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For the second assignment, we had to think of a situation or picture, so as to abstract it into a symbol, which everyone can understand at just one look. It had to be done such that no words were used to communicate the idea across, hence we needed to have good representational techniques in conveying our idea across in just one symbol.

For my part, I decided to do a symbol which depicts a dance studio, which can be placed in the campus compound, perhaps at the Centre for the Arts (CFA) or the University Cultural Centre (UCC). So first off, I had to start by taking a photo of my friend from Dance Synergy!

I requested for her to pose for me at the bars, and then vectorized the photo using Adobe Photoshop, changing it to a black and white vector image.



I actually did a pictogram that was pretty much abstract in the sense that, it made it more difficult to further do an abstraction all the way to the 5th frame.

The second frame consisted the dancer, the bars, as well as the mirror. However, her reflection was removed so as to simplify the entire orientation of the pictogram as it looked far too cluttered to convey an idea across simplistically.

From there, I removed the mirror as well as the reflection of the bar..

Then the fourth pictogram was of the dancer herself, which I found was pretty much sufficient enough.

Lastly, I simplified it to just a pair of ballet slippers.

Some comments I received during tutorial was that, my abstraction process was not consistent enough as the ballet slippers suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and that I might want to add it in. I think it really made sense, as to how I shouldn't be adding new things to a process of reduction and abstraction.

Thus, judging from the comments that I received in class, I would have to re-think my first abstraction.

Hence I will update when I'm done editing!!

EDIT:

I'm done with the edits! now you can check out my new abstraction process and compare it to the previous one!