Visual Research视觉研究

For your assignments in this course I am asking you to select a single subject you’d like to work with. To help you, you'll need to prepare a substantial amount of visual reference material.
对于这门课程中的作业，我要求你选择一个你想要工作的主题。为了帮助你，你需要准备大量的视觉参考资料。

There's no set way to conduct this visual research, but here are a few guidelines:
没有固定的方式进行这项视觉研究，但以下是一些指导方针：

1. Choose a subject you’ll enjoy working with and can find a lot of images and reference material. I suggest choosing an animal, as an animal is something concrete and tangible (for example, I selected "giraffe" as my imagemaking topic, as you might have already observed). Save abstract ideas like “friendly” for a different project. Similarly, a broad subject like "dogs" is a lot more work; restricting your subject to "pointed-eared dogs" or "poodles" will help you. But if you choose something with a wider scope make sure you really scrutinize all aspects of that subject.
   选择一个你喜欢的主题，并且可以找到很多图片和参考资料。我建议选择一个动物，因为动物是具体和有形的（例如，我选择了“长颈鹿”作为我的图像制作主题，正如你可能已经观察到的）。将像“友好”这样的抽象概念留到不同的项目。同样，像“狗”这样的广泛主题工作量很大；将你的主题限制在“尖耳朵狗”或“贵宾犬”将有助于你。但如果你选择一个范围更广的主题，确保你真正审查该主题的所有方面。
2. Research your subject: become as familiar and knowledgeable as possible about it. If you picked an animal, what are its habits, habitat, and attributes? Look at the structure or construction or skeleton; its coat or skin; the shape of its eyes and ears. Does it make sounds or give off certain odors? How does it move? Is it smooth or rough? Furry or scaled or feathery? Search for a video of its movements. What are the gravitational pulls on your animal? How does the creature move? How does weather affect it? What are its most distinguishing features?
   研究你的主题：尽可能熟悉和了解它。如果你选择了一种动物，它的习性、栖息地和属性是什么？观察它的结构或构造或骨骼；它的毛皮或皮肤；眼睛和耳朵的形状。它发出声音或散发出特定的气味吗？它是如何移动的？表面是光滑的还是粗糙的？是毛茸茸的还是鳞片状或羽毛状的？搜索它的运动视频。你的动物受到的引力作用是什么？生物是如何移动的？天气如何影响它？它的最显著特征是什么？
3. Gather source images and screen grabs to refer to for imagemaking and put them in a folder. If you decide to select an animal as a topic, attempt to find images of the animal that clearly show the whole body as well as close-ups of its head and face, maybe its feet, or any images that establish it as distinct from other living beings. Try to find images that are from a distance too, or from a variety of vantage points. You may find it helpful to get a realistic scale model of your animal so you can observe its form more closely, and draw or photograph it from different angles. If you select an object, something with an interesting shape may lend itself better to making a lot of iterations; a very simple shape can be kind of challenging.
   收集用于图像制作的源图像和屏幕截图，并将它们放入文件夹中。如果你决定选择动物作为主题，尝试找到能够清晰展示动物全身以及头部和面部特写，也许还有脚部，或者任何能够将其与其他生物区分开来的图像。尝试寻找从远处或不同视角拍摄的图像。获取你动物的逼真比例模型可能会有所帮助，这样你可以更仔细地观察其形态，并从不同角度绘制或拍摄它。如果你选择物体，具有有趣形状的物体可能更适合进行多次迭代；非常简单的形状可能有点具有挑战性。
4. Present your research in a way that makes sense to your practice. In this course, I am asking you to collect and assemble your research into a standalone mood board, but depending on the project you could also use an online tool. Pinterest is a great platform for this; Tumblr and Instagram can also work. You could also paste images into a sketchbook, or sketch your images from select source material. Try different approaches and find what works best for you and your practice.
   将您的研究以对您的实践有意义的方式进行展示。在本课程中，我要求您收集并整理您的研究成果，制作一个独立的情绪板，但根据项目需要，您也可以使用在线工具。Pinterest 是一个非常适合的平台；Tumblr 和 Instagram 也可以使用。您还可以将图片粘贴到速写本中，或者从精选素材中绘制您的图像。尝试不同的方法，找到最适合您和实践的方法。

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