Week 8: Update 2

First version.
Second version(with a smaller beam)

Jo commented the colours for the (supposedly) pink one were too cold, so I used orange, a warmer colour. Now I'm indecisive. -.-|||

Week 8: Updates

Finally done with my card!

I felt that the background was too plain and didn't give off a romantic enough feeling.. so I played around with the gradients and made a beam of light shining from above to focus on the centre where the hands are about to meet. I added the words just so that it would fit the theme nicely, but after consideration I guess it wasn't that nice after all. People have their own impressions of the card and it's best to let them express the words they want themselves; just like when you source for wallpaper and skins, you tend to not like those with words cause you don't think they fit it nicely and you could have done it better.

So removing the words, it turned out like this! I adjusted the beam angle so that the picture wld have a better sense of equilibrium.


I'm planning to print the card and gloss it for submission :)

Week 4: Updates

Taking Jo's suggestion into consideration,i tried the idea of merging the speakers with the stereo set and it turned out pretty ok. I also made the play/pause button the focus which is quite symbolic for a music player. Therefore, final symbol is:

Week 9: Presentation on Poster

Today was all about critque on two different kinds of posters, one good and one bad using the principles that we had learned throughout the course. Here's the presentation!

The good one chosen:

The poster gives off a good sense of equilibrium, which can be seen by the dividing lines. The weight on both sides of the poster are the same when divided by the middle red line and the curving lines which shape the middle are almost similar.

The figure in this poster would be the light in the middle as it attracts attention with the strong intensity given off. From there, you would probably look upwards, as if you were following the path of the snowy road, into the forest and finally up to look at the dreamcatcher at the very top. A sense of continuity is displayed.
Rule of Thirds: I tried experimenting how the dreamcatcher would have looked like if enlarged on the poster, and it does seem to give off a not as great effect, which actually shows that the rule of third is actually being practised and should be maintained.

4 main colours were used: black, grayish-green, gray and white. All together, they blend in well to make an overall sense of ominence and dreaded feeling, which can be seen as a good sense of unity. Furthermore the grayish-green is depicted as a stormy and cold feeling and fits well with the snowy landscape.

Words were contrasted against the dark background but did not rob the attention of the light in the middle.


Next is the bad one:

There is a lack in unity sense because of the cluttering of objects. No figure nor ground could be established properly because the audience will not know where to look first.

There is a bad clashing of the three primary colours as well as a few secondary ones. Mulitple usage of red and yellow everywhere which is supposed to be attention grabbing makes it hard to focus on which object to start off.
Suggestions to be made were to group the colours together to make it easier on the eyes, or change the colour for some objects. For example, maybe the heads could be grouped into a line at the middle of the poster since they are supposed to the focal point.

Week 8: Greeting card

This week's was supposed to be on creating greeting cards and the theme was LOVEEEEEEEEEE. We were supposed to make 2 and get the class to pick the better one.

1st design:

2nd design:

To tell the truth, the 2nd one was done really hastily cause I spent too much time on the first. (and also because of the my laziness). But still it was pretty ok. But if I'm the customer, I wouldn't buy that card. Too plain for my taste ah ha.

Luckily the class chose the first one. Imagine the time I spent on the first, and if they picked the 2nd one, I think I will faint or something. Another lucky thing was that I didn't know that we could choose to turn the card into a normal postcard instead of a greeting card. Cause I didn't print the cupid love pte ltd thingy for the first one lol. But yeah, I would agree the first design suits more for a postcard.

Loads of comments given for the card because I don’t know why, the darn pink heart came out a deeper shade pink than expected and everyone thought my focus was on the heart instead of the hands. Had to explain the entire concept to them which had the hands on focus before they got the idea. -.-||| The heart wasn't supposed to be very visible, cause I was trying to create the shape of the heart using the fingers, and the viewer is supposed to visualize the rest of the heart himself/herself. Btw, the colour came out bad also for the background, so I have to tweak it or something.

Anyway, I’m considering including a few words in the center in cursive font for my selected piece. Let’s see how it goes.

Week 7: Update

Final version for Week 7's assignment.

-changed the words to become horizontal
-instead of saying "save them"(pretty general), changed it to "save the victims"
- made the words look very static-like, like some kind of rural texture to it if you get what I mean

-lastly, repositioned "WAR" on top and made it especially staticly(it's just static, i duno how to say it properly lol), so that it would catch the viewers' eye. You are supposed to look at the poster from top to bottom anyways.

Week 7- Save, Stop, Prevent or Kill

Some unknown person *coughs* ivan *coughs* was complaining that I didn't update my blog. Well have been reallly busy with some other stuff so....yeah.

Anyways, to update on my previous works (which I forgot totally also):

Btw I'm skipping like, 1 week ahead. Cuz for the previous week I have to redo the photos(urgh).

Anyway, the theme this time round is save, stop, prevent or/and kill, and we have to do it on A3 size paper, and as a poster. What got me really troubled was that A3, cuz I usually print stuff on my own printer, and it definitely can't accomodate an A3 paper! (plus I'm lazy to go print in specially from somewhere else.. >.>) Luckily I found a solution in the end, phew.

After working from 2am to 4am, I finally produced THIS(really last minute I know):

Basically, this poster focuses on stopping or preventing war. If you see the picture magnified enough, the lines of the drawing is actually rather rough. I purposely made it so that it would give off the sense of violence, as with the impact that war gives. Also, I choose the main colours white, black and red, cause they stood out very significantly against each other especially in a dark background(espeically e blood). The person who is actually lying down is a little kid. Why didn't I draw an adult? Well people know that towards a child who faces abuse, most people will feel more guilt over their expected innocence and vulnerability, and hence it will give off a greated effect than that of a normal adult. White was chosen for her, so that she would give off a ghostly image.

Words wise, I was browsing through the fonts, and I felt they were rather "army like" kind of fonts. Primitive, practical. I didn't want to give great emphasis on the words cause I wanted the girl and blood to attract attention, so I went for a pale yellow. I thought of giving some kind of balance for my picture, that's why I made the word "WAR" big and put it at the bottom to give it some kind of balance to the other side comprising of vertical words.

From here, it looks pretty Ok. But for those who attended the tutorial, it looked pretty crap cause I printed it on sub quality paper and sub quality ink. -.-|||(not to mention my crappy voice that accompanied the explanation due to sore throat) And I had to join it up with 2 pieces of paper to make it into one A3 and our tutor was like going so you see such tiny details(quality and paper) make a huge difference in our work. So I think I have to really go all the way to print it out on A3, with GOOD ink, GOOD paper. Darn. T.T

Comments:
- most of the class (those at the back) squinted pretty hard at my poster. Words might be a tad too small, but REALLY, that's why I made the word "WAR" and "save them" big to attract attention so they can come closer

- some commented on how the words were laid out. i.e. vertical words make it hard to tell what I'm writing. So okayyyyyyyyyyyy, point taken.

-I have to take note of the colour when it's printed out and on the comp. Different effects.

-some girl liked the way I drew the blood. Um, yay? =D

- I think I'm going to do some major realignment with the words, since the entire class was harping on it so much.

Last thing to say, I will never put this poster up in my room. I'll scream if I wake up to see it first thing in the morning.