Now here I present to you, my final 4 composition of the Typography Portraits project! Plus some short description of the chosen 4.

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The first idea I chose was the I am a Mahjong Tile. It seemed like a really good time to be presenting one with mahjong, especially since it was still around the Chinese New Year period. But not only that, there’s also just a short description of meaning behind it.

Mahjong was actually a weekly thing that happened at home when I was younger. And as a young kid, one will always be curious as to what’s happening on and around. Being that curious young boy, I’ve always sat and watched how my family members played the game, and I picked up how to play along the way as well! And until now, even though I might not be that good at it, I still enjoy the occasional mahjong sessions. It brings a little reminiscence of the past and how i’ve always enjoyed playing mahjong.

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As for my second chosen idea, I chose I am a Superhero. Even until now, I still have the kid inside of me that is still in love with all the superhero stuff. And I really do adore Spiderman.

But other than that, the reason why I chose this idea was that everyone, or at least most people, when they were young, would fancy or look up to a certain superhero or heroine. It’s kind of our childhood, and then there’s a few that carries it on until adulthood. And that’s where I come in, telling the story of how i’ve come to love spiderman as a superhero.

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And as for my third idea, I chose I am a Comicbook Artist. In this case, it kind of links to the second idea a little more, other than stories of when I was younger. I’ve always liked drawing, ever since I was about 4 or 5 when my mum and my uncle showed me how awesome and truly amazing drawing is. From then on, i’ve always practiced, treating it a lot like a hobby, only realising after that it could be something of what I want to pursue as a career in the future.

From then, too, I started to like comics. The way they’re drawn, how the stories are told, each panel shows the different characters and stories. And each one always played so well in my head. And from there, it links to the amazing styles of drawing that is seen in the Spiderman comics. Hopefully one day, i’ll be an amazing comic artist enjoying the illustration of each panel!

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And last but not least, my last idea i’ve chosen is I am finding my way. I chose this idea also to show that, at a very young age, people start to discover what they love to do. From there, they choose whether or not to pursue what they love as career, or to choose the other option of getting a stable job and keeping the thing they love as a hobby.

Until now, i’ve always loved to draw, and it’s what I hope to be doing in the future as a career too. But just recently, I was in a dilemma of what I really wanted to major in. I wasn’t sure of what I wanted to do, and even with the benefit of both having drawing which is what i loved to do, I still wasn’t sure. Even though i’ve chosen animation in the end, but I still am not sure what the future holds for me. Which is why, in this idea of finding my way, I decided to show that there will be obstacles along the way, and paths that might lead me to a dead end. But by persevering and taking each task a step at a time, one day eventually, i’ll end up at where I wanna be, and to know what I wanna achieve. As no matter how many paths there are, there’ll always be that one path that will lead you straight to what you’re looking for, and you just have to persevere and not give up.

 

Thanks for taking some time off to read my not so short description! But I do hope you enjoyed it! Enjoy the rest of your awesome day!

Finally, we head on to the last project of 2D for this semester!

And, we’re working on colors. Honestly, I’m really bad at working with colors for any sort, and I always end up leaving my works just in black and white.

So this time round, in a way I had less of a choice, but yet it’s a good challenge for me too, to work with colors.

Initially I had no ideas at all, the picture below is just a random sketch of somewhat an idea I was trying to go for which didn’t really work out that well.

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It also felt pretty good that we were allowed to do anything we want for this project. I wanted to do something related to comics and to also implemented a way of using colors.

After some researching, I came across some pop art style illustrations! Especially those involving Marvel comic characters.

These are the few pop art style characters that I came across! I really liked the way the characters are framed in each composition, and also the way the colors are used. So from here, I started to come up with ideas for my project, while implementing this Pop art style.

I searched more on the different classic styles of pop art, the way they used colors and how it compliments each other really well.

That’s when I first came up with my idea. Since the project Ego was about ourselves, so why not take it more literally and really just do about myself, about what’s been going in my life, and what I want to happen in the future too! And of course, why not use my own face in the project itself! Also, each composition that I was going to do, was to be drawn from scratch digitally in photoshop/illustrator!

So here’s one! The start of the illustration begins straight from drawing a portrait of my own digitally!

So basically this is more or less the process of how I digitally draw each and every template of my composition! Also, most of the characters in the composition is actually me that’s in it, just that I take a picture of myself, and then vectorize the image. The process of vectorizing and drawing digitally wasn’t too hard, but was quite fun actually. A good practice for digital drawing!

The part after that brought about the difficulties, and that was the input of colors.

For starters, the background. I searched about the styles pop art has for their back are polka dots.

So i found a template online and started putting together different backgrounds that I could use for my compositions.

These are the many colors schemes that I played around with, and colors was a huge problem for me, so these naturally took quite a while to get done. But still, I played around with the colors, by following the color wheel, I found which colors complimented which and used them.

And from there, it just came down to inputting the colors into my composition!

So far you’ve noticed I have not talked about my idea yet, but don’t worry, it’s a simple idea, and I’ll explain just right below here along with my final compositions!

For starters, this is my first line! ME + Eating Junk Food = FAT.

Basically, it’s a story that I have used for my foundation 4D project as well. It’s about my issues with weight gain. As of now, me eating junk food can easily make me put on weight, so it’s a current issue that i’m always facing.

And from there, we move on to my second line! Exercising – Junk food = Getting Fit (A better me).

We now move on to the second part, which is something which I want to achieve to make a better me, to make myself feel better. So it is about me exercising, and from there, restraining myself from consuming junk food of any sorts. Only then, would I be able to maintain a healthy and fit body. Getting physically fit!

From there, we move on to my third line. Being Fit x Intelligence = An Ideal Me.

I’m pretty sure many of us have heard of the phrase All brawn and no brains. So as to achieve and ideal me, combining and multiplying both a physically healthy and fit body, plus a mind of outstanding intelligence, we can probably achieve that. Bringing the phrase to being, All brawn and brains!  Why not right? Haha!

Last but not least, my fourth line! Career + Love = Family (Me in 10 years).

Moving on from an ideal me, something that I do hope to achieve in 10 years or so. To be able to get a good job that I really love, to finding true love with my better half, and from there, building a nice and simple family and living happily ever after! Like straight out of a fairy tale.

But why not! That is what I hope to achieve, and i’m glad I get to express myself well for this final project. Some might say I’ve taken it a little too literal, but that’s just the way i’m expressing myself! And also, I’ve learned so much from the use of colors, and the use of a new style of drawing and framing my compositions.

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Here’s a picture of my final piece all framed up! (Taken after presentation)

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Though a little difficult at the start, but I had so much more fun towards the end.

The end to a great semester, and yet another project, but already looking forward to what’s to come next, til then!