Assignment one - My Name is/LOVE/HATE

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i really don't understand why the colours are SO off!

SERIOUSLY. the red in spongebob is in theory, and in my portfolio DARK BLUE. WTF.

anyway, i hope the amendments i made to my work are clear enough!=D

i basically redrew the entire thing, made spongebob and patrick smaller, 

so my name would stand out.

THANK YOU ANDY for voluntarily lending me your wacom tablet!

seriously things were made so much easier, and i could hand draw and write.

used my terrible handwriting to write for spongebob, figuring that the ugliness would accurately convey my hate of spongebob and friends.

hoped the literal metaphors was clear, that spongebob was getting burned,

had a python wrapped around him, and the snake in mention was about to bite patrick and so on.

and for the phoenix, i just altered the outline a bit, made it bolder and stronger,

and made the entire name smaller, a border,

and the wings for 'L' opaque!' =)

=( gosh, but the colours..

thank goodness the colours weren't altered when i printed everything out though.

if not i would faint on the spot.

haha rushed all my changes when i realized we had to hand everything in the z drive,

and that we couldn't make further changes.

sigh, gosh i hate deadlines, but without them i wouldn't do anything.

stagnation.

-Lisaa

OMG HOW COME THE COLOURS LOOK SO DIFFERENT WHEN I PUT THEM UP!!

ESP FOR THE TWO PHOENIX!!

no seriously it's a 500 degree change!

the colours i used were so much softer and prettier and adorable!!

they were fine when i printed them out though...-frowns- 

i wonder how come..seriously.

okay that only applies for the second phoenix though.

the first phoenix is a bit dark and angst-filled, the colours for that piece isn't showing...

i still had time before tutorial and just sort of anyhow-ed did another phoenix.

haha extra time's good. just took a while. but nah, i still like the second phoenix, which is the first i did. sentimental value!

HAHA I WAS SO TEMPTED TO PUT 'LIZ' INSTEAD OF LISA. 

=D

but FINE that'll be way too lazy of it. i was thanking my lucky stars right from the beginning that my name is simply, Lisa. four letters! 

and large jpeg files take FOREVER TO UPLOAD ZZZZZZZZZZZ.

oh and feedback from the classmates + tutor -

-nix the first phoenix,

-the colours used for the second phoenix is nice =D HOW WASTED IT CAN'T BE SEEN HERE

- THE WORST THING IS THAT THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT MY NAME.

about that i was superfied and horrified, but yeah now that i think about it, it makes sense.

i wasn't exactly keeping this whole issue of my name being clear while i was doing it.

oh well, amendments. 

haha and MY TUTOR is, how do i put it...

cuttingly nice. she isn't the sort of tutor which i thought all tutors for this mod would be.

you know, being nice, and going ' good effort.' 

she's direct, to the point, and critiques. ah but i think overall in this mod,

there's too much emphasis given to the focus of the work, 

and not to overall aesthetics.

oh and quite a few classmates picked spongebob as the design which they remembered the most, one picked the phoenix =)

that's my aim, actually.

as in, marks are one thing, but i rather much create something which people remember.

sigh. honestly, i can see myself struggling with this module in the future.

pride, and all that lol. 

-Lisaa

Assignment 1 - I HATE/SPONGEBOB ( part one)

SPONGEBOB!=D

haha another sketch i'm not changing.

i like it, after i sketched a few variations, with spongebob getting 'steamboated' and etc.

but yeah, added patrick to represent the 'A'. looked around the other (retarded) characters such as the bacteria ( WTF) and some female fish,

but yeah patrick seems the easiest to manipulate.

drawing now is fine, i predict all the problems will come when i photoshop though.

and i'm really bloody clueless about illustrator,

despite going for the workshop. -___-||

okay my photoshop is no better.

but according to my friends and lecturer, it supposed to be simple.

live trace or something, then add in colour. 

hmm, having vaguely mixed feelings about reflection now.

i mean, it's silly to force someone to have to reflect, for the sake of grades.

but of course, there's always a point in encouraging people to think critically about their work.

but yeah, but this, but that.