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Locale – Zine Research

After my first research around Telok Ayer, I felt that I was still lacking information, hence I went back down a second time to get more pictures for my zine, and did more research on my own. I studied the map of Telok Ayer, and decided to expand my area to Chinatown, since Telok Ayer is a subset of it.

Hence, the second time I went, I decided to explore further up into the OG People’s park area, which I did not cover the other time. In addition, I went online to do a little more research and I found out about this 3 places in Chinatown – Jalan Kukoh, Jalan Minyak, and York Hill. These 3 places are nested in the same area, however, it is commonly overlooked due to its location. It is in between Chinatown and Outram, but no where near both. However, based on the map, these 3 places are counted as Chinatown. Hence, I decided to cover the area too.

When I went there, I came to realized that the area was heavily populated with elderly and the flats are mostly rental flats, or one-room flats. The picture above was an elderly man that I met while I was there. He is deaf and mute, but he had this positive energy shining through him. He kept smiling, and even though we could not communicate verbally, we managed to do so through body language. Aside from this elderly uncle, I met his neighbours, which reminds me of the kampong spirit that I read very often from my textbook.

With the initial idea of using colours, I scrapped it off after a consultation session with Mimi, as she mentioned that it should be more personal rather than editorial. Hence, I decided to go with create social awareness as my overarching theme, since it is something that resonates well with me.

Initial research on colour:

Before editing all the pictures, and deciding on the layout, I started off by grouping them into the various colours that I see around Chinatown. As mentioned, it appeared too editorial, hence I decided scrap it off.

Ego – Research III

After researching about the basics of colour theory, I proceeded further by searching up on different mediums that I can utilize to create my panels. I had in mind a few types of medium that I am interested in, namely:
– Embroidery
– Digital Illustration
– Photo Collage
– Illustration w/ watercolour

these mediums that I have considered are largely influenced by the artists that I have been following, and felt that it would be interesting to adapt it into my work.

Embroidery

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cr: https://www.instagram.com/tessa_perlow/

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I studied mainly the line work, and how different stitching will produce different texture.

Digital Illustration

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cr: https://www.instagram.com/mr.paul_tw/

For digital illustration, I tried to reference how are certain things drawn, and how individual style could be input into a drawing to distinguish one’s illustration from another.

Photo collagecr: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/417357090459560433/

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I felt that this medium was very similar to the previous assignment – Forest Gump, but this time it allows me to explore into different colours to better portray my idea.

Illustration w/ watercolour

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cr: https://www.instagram.com/bodiljane/

With regards to illustration and watercolour, I was studying the colour usage and the illustration. How certain colours blends in better with certain style of illustration.

Ego – Research II

Colours is interesting and exciting and it is alive! We see it in our everyday life, and how it is applied in different aspects (e.g. make up, food, household items, furnitures etc). Colours are generally separated into two different tones – Warm & Cool.

It can be seen easily with the colour wheel. Warm tones colours are like red, orange, yellow etc. It makes you associate with warm things such as sunlight, which will evoke feeling of coziness. Cool tones are usually blue, purple, purple etc. Cool colours are associated with calming and soothing effect like the sea or water.

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Some juxtapose examples of cool tones and warm tones:

The second image which has a warmer lighting (orange) evokes feeling of closeness and warmth more than the first image does with white bright lights and blue furnitures.

Cool and warm tones are also applied to make up applications, such as skin tone, hair colour, lipsticks etc.

However, when it comes to make up, the make up product used depends on whether one has a cool tone or warm tone skin colour. Hence, bringing it back to how the colour wheel works, it shows how certain colours are better suited for each other. The mixing of colour will affect the final look of the product.