Concept
In this assignment, I decided to come up with a simple work of art that represents in some way a great board game that I like to play. Whenever I play chess, I feel that I get detached from this world and find myself in a completely different place. In that new place, I try to find the best strategies to win the game and while doing so I get drowned in my thought. Therefore, I believe that this drawing would show part of the experience I face while playing chess.
In the above drawing, I used squares of a repeating nature to be able to design a chessboard. On top of this board, I added a series of circles with a common center across the different parts of the chessboard. I wanted through these circles to visualize the kind of thought process and confusion that a chess player faces during the game. These circles form a whirlpool which is like what happens to me when my opponent plays a strong move in the game that puts me into a whirlpool of confusion.
Furthermore, I added these wavy-looking lines to the drawing to make it more appealing. I believe that these lines represent the line of thought of a chess player who tries to think about his next five moves before playing his current move. In addition, these lines look like a sound wave that is usually used as a means of communication between two people. This is because I find chess as a way for people’s minds to communicate without them even talking. I was very happy to be able to come up with these wavy lines, you can find the code for these lines attached below.
To draw the lines in this way I used two nested for loops and I began by drawing a point, the x-coordinate of this point increments by a value of 5 each iteration. While the y-coordinate is dependent on the x value as I used a sin function to control the position of the points in the next iterations. Using only one for loop I would have been able to come up with only one wavy line. However, to come up with these lines along the whole canvas I decided to use another for loop that controls the vertical translation of the sin function.
Possible Improvements
I was so satisfied to come up with this artwork and was not expecting it to look this way when I first thought about it. However, I believe that this drawing needs a bit more work to look better and more satisfying for the viewer. I feel that by looking at the drawing for a long time the viewer might find it confusing. Therefore, to make it look better to the eye I might decrease the number of lines intersecting each other in the drawing. In addition, by adding animation to the waving lines and being able to come up with spiral-looking whirlpools instead of circles I might be able to deliver my message in a better way.