Christmas card - scans

GINGERBOY SKETCHES =D

scans which i used to construct my card!

haha, a gingerbread family celebrating christmas. how christmassy. =D

-Lisaa

PICTURE STORY- draft and final

nine photos used!
my story -

outline -

there's chocolate,

two kids want it,

they fight OVER IT, but TADAAA A MONSTER COMES

AND STEALS IT FROM THEM MUAHAHAHA.

lol, yea, seriously that's the plot.

IT'S SO CUTE LOL.

thanks to amanda for lending me her plushies!

people are hard to manipulate,

and it's difficult getting the facial expression you want.

so i thought i'll be different, and try using plushies instead.
=) and i'm glad i did heh. only thing im worried about is that there's not enough of a twist...

as what my tutorial mates pointed out..

but amanda and her plushies are in london now. X_X

so won't be re-doing, i have my hands full with assignments as well!

-Lisaa

Assignment two - Abstraction final

again, the colours of my works on this blog is messed up sheesh. annoys the hell out of me.

haha looked at the last picture till i got a clear idea of what was a pictogram.

was a tad confused for a while.

sigh, but yeah i don't know why i seem to keep complicating things for myself.

my work tends to be more complicated = hell lot of work,

while i see others breeze through with simplistic, pretty designs.

anyway, the colour problem is still, as always persisting.

i wonder if it's a safari problem. hmmm...

anyway, this is my final piece for assignment two! 

didn't make much changes to the piece i presented, really. cause it was fine.

i just changed the final stage of the abstraction to make it even more 'abstract',

got rid of the butt and breasts and some stuff.

i kept zooming in and out, and finally decided on that.

picked the second one! it was abstract, but not overly so,

and the point is conveyed. the colours i used i think accurately conveyed the point, which was red.

beware of molesters! 

but yeah the picture was complicated, so what i saw others do zzzzz.

oh and i'm glad that my piece was interesting!=) like assignment one.

i do sincerely like my works lol. but yeah, being completely biased as usual.

-Lisaa

Poster -draft

haha i honestly hope you think i don't have such bad colour coordination.

colour problem courtsey of blogger. i wish i knew how to fix it geh. =

anyway, reflections - i think this is a badly done poster. esp in relation to others.

i had no ideas whatsoever, and time was running out. sigh.

basically this is to prevent colon cancer - this is damn direct -

using healthy students to promote drinking more h2o and vegetables,

to prevent the disease.

sigh, this assignment has so much potenial.

i just wish i could maximise it. thank god i can redo it in the future,

once ideas hit me.

in tutorial i told siti i had full intention of changing it,

so feedback wasn't needed lol.

then surprisingly she became really encouraging and went ' this poster isn't so bad!, see, you must have put in thought into the colour coordination, that blue represents water, red for colon cancer...' and etc.

laugh how sweet! =)

but yeah, it's bad.

-Lisaa

Assignment two!

inspired by the recent molestation incident in nus! =))

i was seriously stuck for a while, came up with ideas in the library,

such as lappie charger here,

napping area here,

and a couple of others, but they were SO COMMON ZZZZZ.

i was still mulling over what to do at home, day before tutorial,

and i flipped the newpaper page!=D

and etc etc etc i went to work on it asap heh.

finished product! note- again the colour is off due to unknown technical glitches in blogger.

it looks way better in tutorial heh. colours used - red for warning, and black and white.

picked the second last one cause i thought it was clearest,

any more detail and it'll become damn gay/ look like a dance scene.

this assignment was surprisingly easy to do, just slowly remove detail.

hmm but i was worried for a while cause most people in tutorial didn't even bother much with the picture, and jumped straight to black/white/another colour and a clear pictogram,

I tried to keep the removing of detail consistent instead. oh well. still, not bad. =)

comments in tutorial by siti were that perhaps the last stage could be more abstract,

as supposedly the last piece is not even supposed to make sense. -.-

sometimes the requirements in our course is honestly a tad weird.

anyway so i'll just make changes to the last picture,

and leave it at that. next assignment!

-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.