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Assignment 1 : Design Process
Theme: Me, Myself and I

I brainstormed several ideas for my loves and hates.

My Loves includes : Mushrooms, sceneries, pillows, soft toys, sun, flowers

My Hates includes: cigarettes, insects, raining , housework, flies, huge chunk of words

Final shortlisted ideas are MUSHROOMS and CIGARETTES.

I will present my works for MUSHROOMS first.

Pictures of the 4 design concepts. All hand drawn.

After I have presented to the class, majority like the mushroom pic from sample 1.
Comments I received from the class are the letter I is too fat and basically it looks fine and cute. After using photoshop to apply colours onto MUSHROOMS, this is the outcome for my tentative product.

Mistakes Made:
1. Alignment and framing wrong. Picture is more to the left.
2. Colour Scheme: All types of colour. Analogous, complementary, tertiary colours.
3. No focal point.
4. New to the photoshop software: Being curious, I tried several effects and colours.

During consultation, Siti enlightened me by saying that sometimes simplicity works best.
The previous picture was too hard to revamp entirely and the outlines were hard to form on photoshop.So I decided to use the 3rd sketch. Simple and easy to outline.

I used simpler colours and effects.

And it turns out to be nicer and organized than the previous one. =)

1st Draft

2nd Draft

Some grass were removed, background added, and outline effects on the mushrooms.

Next, My hate is cigarettes. These are the 4 sketches.
Pictures for 4 sketches


Finally, I chose sample 1. as i want to bring the addictive feeling of smoking and the idea of cigarettes imprisoning the smoker. Not on the detest of cigarette. I drew handcuffs on the cigarettes and hopefully they look like TT. And the Letter “Y” is actually a stick of cig surrounded by a rope and being nailed. In all, I just want to express the feeling of addiction of the cigarette that actually tied a smoker down. And yes, I hate the feeling of addiction to cigarettes and not the smell or people smoking.
Last of all, I use photoshop to colour my drawing. Comments were that it seems messy and complicated. There were also good comments saying that it looked nice, however a little complicated though.

My final decision is to keep it the way it is as the idea of the picture is to show the messliness, smoky and complexity of the cigarettes effect on humans.
Colour scheme: mostly monochromatic, different shades of brown