Sketches

Some of the sketches that I did for the progress of the project.

My initial ideas were mainly using human characters to represent me. However, after consultation, I felt that I need find other objects/things to represent me.

Most of the ideas still remain the same except for some which I changed the subject representing me from a human character to animals.

At first, I wanted to do digital illustrations. However, due to the lack of time and experience, I found out that I may not achieve what I want by the deadline. The drawing below is a digital illustration which I did halfway for my first equation.

Hence, I changed my medium to mainly watercolors and color pencils instead.

My EGO

 

 

This represents the introvert side of me and sometime I like to be alone in my room. The character representing me is placed at the 1/3 of the drawing and tiles on the floor form perspective lines toward my character. The character is covered in cloth to show that I’m trying to escape from the outside world. While the social world outside is represented by the bright yellow window, a contrasting color to the dark blue room. The room is dark blue and black in color to show the loneliness and sadness in me. Despite the bright yellow color trying to shine through the room, the room still remain dark, showing how I’m unaffected and away from the world outside. There are eyes on the wall represents those views from the outside.

This represents my addiction to the internet. I tend to face my phone or laptop for a long time. I wanted to draw a face of me looking at the internet. The focus of the drawing would be the spectacles which has the reflection of the computer screen, hence the colors on it. I used plastic cover and black papers to create the spectacles, and I used markers to smudge the inks over the plastic cover.

Alone + Internet may sound like bad things for most people, however it is a oasis to me. In the background, I used brown to represent the desert. While my character is seated on a patch of grass and flowers to represent the oasis. I chose red and green because red means energy and green would contrast against the brown background. The house that my character is sitting under is in fact a Chinese word, 宅 (zhai). 宅 means house in Chinese. In modern meaning, it often use to describe people that love to stay at home. My character is holding a phone, hence relating back to my addiction to internet. There are also books in the house, showing my interests in reading books. However, I’m only interested in reading Chinese novels, thus I used a Chinese word instead to represent me in this drawing.

 

This picture shows that I have a lot of dreams. The “dream cloud” is done using cotton wool to create a fluffy texture of the cloud. There are many images on the cloud, each representing my different dreams. There is a picture of a shelves of books to show my dreams to publish my own book. A camera to show my hope to improve my photography skill. A performing theater and my instrument to show that I hope to perform solo in a concert. Dresses to show my desire to slim down so that I can fit into dresses that I like. Lastly, drawing materials to represents my desire to improve my drawing skills. The dream cloud extended out of the box hence showing that my dreams does not stop there and that I have even greater dreams.

Despite having dreams, I am very lazy. I drew a sloth to represent my laziness. A sloth tends to sleep a lot and so do I. I used cut out calendar dates and arranged them to show a movement of how the days just flew passed me without noticing. Due to my laziness, I’m unable to attain my dreams. “Z”s just represent the time I have wasted from sleeping.

Without my laziness, I will be able achieve my dream. I dream a sloth holding a camera and a pen to show that it is diligently practicing its photography skill and drawing to be a better photographer or illustrator. There are rays coming out from the sloth’s back. I chose yellow and red as they signify something happiness, achievements and successes. I used nail paint to paint the rays to give it a shiny effect and glitters.

 

 

 

 

 

The lion represents the current me. My friends in secondary school called me “lion” due to the hair I had. Lion may sounds majestic, however, I felt that lion is an animal that people would be afraid of and do not dare to approach. This is also how I felt about myself. Hence, the drawing of the lion is grey to show the unhappiness and the lion is confine within such a small box to represent its lack of interactions.

 

The cat represents something that I wish to strive for, which is being more sociable. I felt that most people are cats lovers and would be approach cats. Hence, I drew a cat breaking out of the box, which is the box that previously confine the lion above. The color still remain grey as this is only a dream and it still not yet achieved.

A lion x friendly cat = friendly lion. This will be an ideal me. I will still be a lion since it is what representing me. However, I will be a more approachable person. Since it is a ideal me, I added yellow to represents happiness, thus there is a transition from the grey to yellow.

 

This drawing represents the journey to earn money. Since I hope to further study/ work in Japan 5 years later, I would need to earn some money first. The money is represents as a treasure box filled with golden coins. On the other hand, the background is dull blue in color to represents the tough journey that I need to go through in order to get the money. Hence, there are sharp rocks and a creature drawn at the back.

Beside money, I would need to study too. I drew repeated characters which are arranged in a manner as shown in the picture to represents that I always need to study to improve myself in order to attain my dream. I felt that studying is important and one should not stop studying/gain of knowledge. In order to travel in Japan, I would need to learn the Japanese language, hence there are small Japanese characters written on some of the books. The color scheme for this drawing is blue and black as study maybe boring and tiring, hence I used dull and cool color.

This is what I hope I will be in 5 years. I hope to further study/work in Japan since I love the Japanese culture in general. The drawing is just some architectures and things that represent Japan.  The left side of the drawing represents the ancient Japanese architecture, and the right side of the drawing represents the modern Japan. The whole drawing is in bright orange as I felt orange is the color of success and even brighter future. However, the character representing me is in green color so as to simply differentiate me in the drawing since green is almost a complementary color of orange. My character is also placed at the 1/3 of the drawing to attract attention.

Overall, I would say that I enjoyed doing Project 3 since I’m able to draw for all of my equations and I simply enjoy drawing.

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