Personal Diary,
T H E J O U R N E Y
Day #1, 9th December 2031.
The last thing I remember was falling
Then a loud resounding thud through my head
Sickly red pooled around me.
Its warmth comforted me
as the darkness I wished for finally came.
The next time I opened my eyes, I found myself sprawled on red.
But this time, it wasn’t warm- it was cool and damp.
As I slowly sat up, I realised that I was surrounded by rolling hills of crimson red.
A dark sea of mis-colored grass, as if mocking me.
Even the sky was a deep shade of red…
The sun was setting, but the unsettling thing was that there were two moons.
One of the moons, so small it was barely noticeable in the presence of the other–
why, do I understand how that feels like?
However, they both radiated the same cold blue.
A reflection of the isolation I was feeling in this foreign place–
where is this?
I stood up.
Legs as heavy as lead, I trudged through the tall grass,
my head pulsating.
It felt as if an invisible string was pulling me, because I kept moving forward aimlessly.
As it got darker, I realised that a path began to reveal itself-
blue illumination that didnt sit well amongst the sea of red
led me down the mountain and towards a small town nestled in the valley
The night was deathly silent as the two moons hung at their highest and brightest now.
The trail of light finally led me to an effulgent house.
It was the only thing in the whole town that was illuminated.
It felt so out of place. It beckoned to me —
have I seen this building somewhere else before?
I felt it now, even harder. An invisible tug.
The nearer I got to the house, the more I felt my head clearing up.
By the time I reached the front door, my head was no longer hurting.
As I opened the door,
A) it gave out a loud creaking sound and I cautiously stepped into the dark house.
B) a flood of emotions/memories coursed through me, physically knocking me off my feet.
ANSWER: Typography assignment, so the typo should be obvious and the main focus. The typography should be fonts that adopt the characteristic/elements of another thing, instead of being a direct image of the warped thing.
After consult, I realised that my design ideas were not exactly what was expected. They were
too illustrative, and not all elements of my job would be encompassed in the font itself.
Or it was placing things ontop of my typeface/ placing it in things.
Now that I better understood what I was supposed to do, I identified the elements related to the job and
tried synthesizing them onto the font. Brainstorming composition of elements to present my final font design.
Tried using Photoshop 3D extrusion, but I think self drawn typeface was nicer in the end
choosing an appropriate background. Perspective of font on plates would fit
the second bg better, but I decided to go with the first as the swimming pool
tiles are more subtle than the pool itself. Suggestion from Shirley: make the
tiles smaller, so its less distracting
Playing around with the composition of the objects in the jelly, and then
editing it so they look like they are inside the jelly. Finally, adding highlights
to the jelly to make it more shiny and smooth, important elements of jello.
Final design's (2nd image) background slightly darker to bring more emphasis to the words.
Trying out different ways to position the alphabets and make them interact with each other.
Last image is me realizing that I didn't leave enough breathing room for my font, and it
was just an awkward slight crop, so I decided to zoom out a bit
Trying out different backgrounds
Playing around with the composition of the side cages to
find a more balanced composition to reach my final (2nd one)
Initial background idea- silhouettes of snakeskin products, mainly shoes and bags. Last image is trying out a darker bg instead of white
Printed the grey NS then drew scales over it (Letter S), and
scanned. Then redraw digitally. Or could just do a masking
(Letter N)
Okay, this isn't really artist ref, but I was kinda inspired
by peel to reveal stickers. So my presentation would be peel
to reveal more snake layers under.
Initially wanted to use a crumpled/folded and torn piece of tracing paper as snake shed, but scrapped the idea as there was too many layers
Bought like mounting tape, so that I could make the first layer
popped out from the last layer, but in the end I didnt really like
the effect it gave. So I stuck to just sticking the papers directly
onto each other without any elevation
Physical cut out product and the individual digital layers (flesh and bone)
Thinking back now, I'm uncertain if Shirley will accept my element of peel
(action) as being part of the typeface. But I would personally think it is
acceptable as if I didnt present it as such in the different layers, I would
have just combined the peeling and layers into one plane/frame, and just like
digitally draw the first image. So its the same thing? Like showing multiple
photoshop layers versus merging them into one ahahahah
Finals (first image physical presentation). Second image is
just to clearly show the different layers.
I liked how Z and N can be used interchangeably, so I was trying to incorporate that into my composition
(some experiments when my original idea was driftwood mushroom shaker)
Initially wanted a more subtle show of the element mushroom
by using the gills of a mushroom,and trying to tie it to
urban planning as the gills also looked like the lines on town
plans, but to be honest, due to time constrains I was unable to
develop this route more, and I thought that it might be a bit
too forceful and too abstract for people to guess my job.
Adopted 
ZQ and Nat
Trying out a background. I think the first image, my gif
is not working, but its supposed to show how I made the wood
have a yellowy hue, so the last background matches with my
colour palette more. But I thought it was a bit too
distracting there, so I shifted the colored part to the top
left (Final below).
Masato_tsuchiya
esrarois
Akutmaykut
Kittisak Thapkoa
STAIRS
A section of prepwork I did on stairs in my prev coursework. MC Eschers famous stairs!!
Illusionistic stairs could be part of my work...
sry
vv messy (and ugly) rough ideas you probably wont be able to get hahaha
Charcoal + Graphite tests
Trying to compose 5 fragments [rejected ugly composition: 
yikes]
elfandiary
Very stylistic organic lines, play with positive and negative space. Depth !!!
Started with the face first, and because the space around was white, the shading of the face looked okay. But then I later on coloured 8B for the hair (which i didnt take a picture), and the hair was so flat it just looked like a hole + it was so dark it made the face look like I didnt shade it at all CRIES ;n; So I had to lighten the hair a lottt, and add highlights + shadows 
