Assignment 5

Assignment-5
Theme: Love - Inspirational card

My love greeting cards, one hand drawn and one using photoshop.

Card 1 (hand drawn)
Front of the card

Back of the card

Card 2 (Photoshopped) Front page of card.

I chose the jigsaw love card as its response was better.
After using photoshop to apply colour, this is how it looks like below.
I chose complementary and harmonious colours on the card.


Comments said that the colours of the jigsaw are not balanced. Therefore I improved on it and this is the final one of my love greeting card. To add on, I tried to maintain a balance of the negative space so that it does not look too crowded and messy with the jigsaws, flowers, bees and words.
The texture of my card is rough as the background is using rough pastels.

Assignment 4

Assignment 4
Theme: Save this/that- Poster design

I decided on a rather difficult poster to design as I thought it might be challenging to do something different.
I planned to design on a poster to send the message to bikers that instead of speeding on the roads and hence wasting their tyres’ (wear and tear), they should go to the track to speed.
This is my 1st draft of my poster.
Comments were not very good as the class felt that the poster did not bring out the idea I wanted to push forward.
Fonts type and colours are not appropriate as sepia represents sadness or memories.

I did another poster, hoping that it will be better. I wanted to bring emphasis on SPEED ON TRACKS thus the words’ size are ascending. In order to fulfil principles of Balance, the bigger words are on the right, and the bike is on the left. The bike is blue colour to emphasize on the coolness instead of warm.

However, i felt that the poster looks wrong and it did not bring the the ‘cool’ feeling of playing bikes on track. I realized that I often chose colours that are harmonious and the effects I put on it is not strong enough for such an extreme sport.

Therefore, I made a final decision to shift the idea of "STOP" poster onto the picture below. What I am looking at is a motivational type of poster that gives people hope. Therefore the choice of colours are

harmonious, complimentary. The attention of viewer is brought to the words "Be a singer" by the position of the microphone and the downward position of the smaller words "stop dreaming...".

Draft


Final piece

Pictures tell a thousand word...

Theme: U C what I C

Main characters : My friends , Hongwei and Chottoh

Thanks to them for their funny poses.

After comments from Siti and friends, I decided to take out photo no. 1. as it seems redundant. I will also be re-taking photo No. 2 in landscape version... because all my photos are in landscape.

So basically, this is how the story goes...

Photo 2 and 3: The guy in white is taking out his money and counting in the lift.

Photo 4 and 5: As he reaches the void deck, somone is looking from a distance at the $$$.

Photo 6: The guy in helmet snatches the money.

Photo 7 and 8: He was beaten by the white shirt guy with his umbrella.

Photo 9: The 'robber' surrender and unveil his face as he took out his helmet.

Photo 10: The white shirt guy realized the 'robber' was his friend, and laughed at him. He helped him up and walked off together.

To admit, this is a simple story plot and getting the guys to act out naturally was already a task! *laughs*