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Finally, for the last post, I'll be talking more about my final group project with 4 other girls, Shu Hsien, Karimah, Min Jie and Sharon. We decided to illustrate and write a storybook catered to children aged 6 to 9.

We went ot the library and to our horror, the storybooks were quite advanced for children in the 6 to 9 year old section, so we had to think of a better and more interesting storyline to grasp the children's attention.

We decided to split the work and I was in charge of all the landscapes and background, as I cannot draw human facial expressions as well as the rest of my groupmembers.

Our story had the moral of "don't judge a book by its cover" and we decided to have animals as well as humans in the storybook.

Here're some of my sketches for some of the landscapes (do click on the pictures):



My very first initial draft of what the forest should look like. It was supposed to be scary so I shaded it with a gradient to make it look scarier as the male lead enters the forest. However, I realised that the pathway should narrow gradually instead of broaden gradually and I came up with the rest of the drawings below, which are the final ones to be used for the storybook!
( Click here for the rest of the pictures! )

Finally, our last assignment, the postcard.

The theme this semester was "Colourful Asia", and we were supposed to use the colour theory we learnt in lecture and apply it to our postcard, giving it a few colour schemes with meaning.

For me, I decided to have the title of my work as "Asia: The Melting Pot".

( Click here to see my thought process!!! )



The above is how the card will look like.

For this assignment, we had to choose 2 adjectives from a given list and draw 2 picture related to this. Due to time constraints, here's what my partner, Shu Hsien, and I came up with.



Our first one was "Crash". So we depicted a vehicle crashing into a wall, leaving some tyre marks and having the "boom" sound effect.



The next adjective was "power" and we decided to use this muscular arm with a fist to show the power. If we had time, we'd draw a table and show the fist banging on the table to indicate authority, which is also a form of power.

To me, this was one of the toughest assighments that I've done because by hook or by crook, I needed to use photoshop and I haven't completely made friends with this software yet (except to whiten teeth and blemishes in editing photos using dodge). So I seeked help from Eng Chye, who's going to take this module next sem and score and A!!!

The theme was to save something, and I chose to save the abused, and came up with an idea of a poster to stop domestic abuse. Domestic abuse is something very difficult to define, as there's a thin line between punishing and abuse. So I decided to define them by taking pictures of the "weapons" commonly used in cases of abuse.

( More details under cut. Click on the link to see! )


I removed the gun and placed it with a feather duster. Wanted to look for the traditional chicken feather one and the cane that our parents and teachers used to use on us but I couldn't find it at my boyfriend's house. Yes, that's his hand although the skin tones are different in different lightings (camera trick LOL).

I've also decided to make the two sides more balanced by introducing another spotlight, as well as shifting two hands to the other side. The double spotlight is to make it a more convict feel, where in movies, such spotlights shine everywhere and two of them meets at random to create a stronger light effect.

The tagline was also changed and the main message was to stop domestic abuse. I've targetted this poster at not only those who are abused, but also to those who abuse, so if they realised that it's them holding those "weapons", reality might hit them that they've got violent tendencies etc. and seek help from my hotline.

I'm sure this can be further improved given more time to find those traditional "weapons" to make it more Singaporean.

And here's my favourite assignment, the photo story!!!

I really had a lot of fun taking the pictures and without furthur ado, I present to you, "Hrmph, Guys!"

( Click here for the photo process!!! )
Special thanks to my subjects for this assignment, Kian Wee (who let me splash water on him), Xueyi (who poured water many times to let me capture the right shot) and Yuejia (for tolerating me as I experimented with her having different poses)! We did this in really a short time because we need to study for our mid term tests. You guys were great!!!

So now for the final placement and stuff...

I put everything together, added numbers (hopefully you all can see here). And did the vignette effect!!!

To make it look like a photo within photos, and decorate it minimally so it won't be too plain!</div>

I put everything together, added numbers (hopefully you all can see here). And did the vignette effect!!!

To make it look like a photo within photos, and decorate it minimally so it won't be too plain!

 Next up would be my pictogram, which is a small 15cm by 15cm sign that we can hang around the NUS community. So I decided to have one on the CCTV, since NUS has many of those, albeit small and not usually noticed. 

This could be put anywhere near offices, or even places where students smoke (which is in front of the "No Smoking" signboard). It can be seen as a warning sign, hence I have it in a bright yellow background.

( First draft under cut! )



Yup, it's not entirely the same as the one in the abstraction as I removed the 3-D CCTV from the third part of the abstraction and replaced it with the simpler 2-D one, taken from the 4th part of the abstraction.

Hope this one's better!

 This is our very first assignment, which was much easier than the previous sems. Nonetheless, it really got me thinking of what to do because what really represents me is erratic unpredictability and OMG, a sudden brainwave struck me only now!!! Suddenly I thought of using weather but duh, I've just like done the second draft of my final CG.

Yay finally moved from blogger, which is kinda sucky to livejournal. Wonder why I didn't do that in the first place since my personal blog is also at LJ.

Anyways, we were supposed to draw out something in like 15 minutes, a machine that will enhance creativity so here we go...