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09 October 2008 @ 11:12 pm
08 October 2008 @ 10:57 pm
so our assignment for this week was to do a poster for any cause, with the words "save", "prevent", "stop", "kill" etc.
i chose to do on child prostitution, and
( this is my sketch! and poster )
i chose to do on child prostitution, and
( this is my sketch! and poster )
23 September 2008 @ 03:14 pm
for this 3rd assignment, we were supposed to come up with a visual narrative - telling a story with just 8 photos. there must be a clear plot, and a clear twist in the plot. i presented the photos in class last tuesday, just a week ago, and i think everyone was able to understand the story - i'd been afraid that it would be hard to understand.
so here are my painstakingly taken and photoshopped pictures! the subject is angie, one of my bestest and dearest friends, who so graciously helped me out when i was desperate and about to die of high blood pressure.
please try to figure out what my story is about before clicking on the explanation 1 entry below (: comments are totally welcome!
( ready, get set,go! )
so here are my painstakingly taken and photoshopped pictures! the subject is angie, one of my bestest and dearest friends, who so graciously helped me out when i was desperate and about to die of high blood pressure.
please try to figure out what my story is about before clicking on the explanation 1 entry below (: comments are totally welcome!
( ready, get set,go! )
23 September 2008 @ 12:22 pm
please go to the above entry to look at my visual story and try to figure out what i'm trying to portray, before you click on this entry(:
( the meaning behind the photos! )
( title and my motivation )
( the meaning behind the photos! )
( title and my motivation )
22 September 2008 @ 10:04 am
okay this is long overdue, so i'm using the recess week to catch up on all my postings here. during tutorial 2 weeks ago, we had to present our abstraction process and pictograph to the class. my classmates suggested that i make some changes, namely to the 4th abstraction (which i used as a base for my final pictograph). the originals that i presented in class can be see in the previous entry, and here are the changed ones!
( abstraction 4 edited! )( the final product edited! )
the whole idea of reducing the number of buttons was because 12 buttons looked a bit too much, and 9 would look simpler and better. so i changed my final pictograph, and in turn had to change the 4th abstraction in my abstraction process.
okay so now this assignment is finally edited and completed(:
( abstraction 4 edited! )( the final product edited! )
the whole idea of reducing the number of buttons was because 12 buttons looked a bit too much, and 9 would look simpler and better. so i changed my final pictograph, and in turn had to change the 4th abstraction in my abstraction process.
okay so now this assignment is finally edited and completed(:
08 September 2008 @ 11:36 pm
for this 2nd assignment we're supposed to design a pictogram that can be used within the nus community - i chose to do a "handphones on silent mode" one, because i think we really need it stuck on lt doors! at every single lecture and almost every tutorial you'll hear someone's handphone go off.
we had to do an abstraction process, with the first diagram as the original picture of the handphone, and then the next 5 being graphics with increasing levels of abstraction. i really LOVE this assignment because i didn't have to use the dreaded pen tool, and all i had to use was the shape and text tools, and play around with the stroke and bevel and contour levels (:
( the abstraction process )
( the final pictogram! )
04 September 2008 @ 11:47 am
so the final stage was to complete the final pieces on photoshop - tracing them out on the programme, filling in the colour etc. to be completely honest, when i opened up the new document on photoshop, i just sat there for quite a while, not know where to start or what to do (despite the fact that i did attend the workshops). i think it took me quite a lot of courage and time to actually officially start on the work haha.
( i love jewelry! final )
( i hate snakes! final )
i decided to stick with a white background for both, because i felt that white makes both graphics stand out more. at the end of this assignment:
1. i almost became blind from staring too hard at the computer
2. my right index finger almost cramped from holding the mouse and clicking too much
3. i had a very bad headache and backache
4. i feel a bit more confident in my ability to use photoshop
5. i heaved a sigh of relief
6. i've decided that i like the i love jewelry one better than the snakes.
at tutorial it was said that i didn't need to change any of my finals (yay!), but perhaps if i do think of some way to improve them, and if i have the time, i will change them, before the final submission of our portfolio.
( i love jewelry! final )
( i hate snakes! final )
i decided to stick with a white background for both, because i felt that white makes both graphics stand out more. at the end of this assignment:
1. i almost became blind from staring too hard at the computer
2. my right index finger almost cramped from holding the mouse and clicking too much
3. i had a very bad headache and backache
4. i feel a bit more confident in my ability to use photoshop
5. i heaved a sigh of relief
6. i've decided that i like the i love jewelry one better than the snakes.
at tutorial it was said that i didn't need to change any of my finals (yay!), but perhaps if i do think of some way to improve them, and if i have the time, i will change them, before the final submission of our portfolio.
04 September 2008 @ 10:09 am
hello(: after presenting the roughs for both i love jewelry and i hate snakes in class, i had to make some improvements:
1. putting letter charms that spell our "char" is in the grey area, and so i had to search for charms (of other things like animals) that were shaped like each letter. so that the design will be more subtle, and there won't be a blatent spelling out of my name, because that's not the point of the assignment.
2. my snakes turned out too cheery and happy after i filled in the colour, and i had to make changes so that i would convey my HATE of snakes (though actually i don't really hate them, i just couldn't think of anything else). like making the snakes fiercer looking etc.
so i resketched by hand them before i starting doing the finals on photoshop, and
( here they are! )
sketching them by hand is real easy..but here comes the daunting task of doing them on photoshop :/
1. putting letter charms that spell our "char" is in the grey area, and so i had to search for charms (of other things like animals) that were shaped like each letter. so that the design will be more subtle, and there won't be a blatent spelling out of my name, because that's not the point of the assignment.
2. my snakes turned out too cheery and happy after i filled in the colour, and i had to make changes so that i would convey my HATE of snakes (though actually i don't really hate them, i just couldn't think of anything else). like making the snakes fiercer looking etc.
so i resketched by hand them before i starting doing the finals on photoshop, and
( here they are! )
sketching them by hand is real easy..but here comes the daunting task of doing them on photoshop :/
25 August 2008 @ 11:09 pm
25 August 2008 @ 09:20 pm
for this first assignment, we have to think of one thing that we love, and one thing that we hate - and manipulate the letters of our names to fit the things we've chosen. well, my name is 9 letters long, and i would surely have problems fitting that into an a5 size final product! the lecturer said we could shorten our names..my friends call me "charm" or "maine" or "charmie" or "mainey", but i couldn't possibly put any down for the assignment. so i decided to use "char" instead, which is what people used to call me - i wonder what made them stop.
we had to draw 4 design concepts for each thing.
my thumbnail sketches: i really hope you can figure out what i was trying to draw!
for the jewelry, i like the 2nd(beaded necklace) and the 3rd (charm bracelet) ideas and
for the snakes..i like the 1st and the 3rd ones, even though the snake charmer is cute haha.
and sorry for the bad scanning! the spirals of the sketch book were getting in the way, and i had to adjust the lighting and contrast and shadows on photoshop before it became like that. the sketches are done entirely in pencil (:
it was really hard coming up with 4 concepts for each theme - i really had to crack my brains and squeeze out every last drop of creativity in me. and even if the idea seemed stupid in my head, sometimes it isn't that bad after i've drawn it out.
