My final Point of View object, I chose a Rubberband. Its an object that many people use and is still being used everywhere almost everyday. From young the Rubberband has proved to be useful in so many ways, from playing games with it, to storing items with it.

And thus, I really wanted to focus on the different use of a Rubberband for my project. Also, in this project, I stuck with keeping every composition to a hand drawn illustration.

 

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Thank you so much for spending some time to read this! Hope you enjoyed the Rubberband! 

The moment I heard what this project was about, I immediately wanted to go straight into doing hand drawn illustrations for this project! The first project was all about going digital, so I thought it’ll be good to show something new, yet comfortable for me, for the 2nd project. It was probably a first for me doing hand drawn illustration for 2D, definitely a fun experience.

 

From there I went about brainstorming for ideas, of what object to use for the Point of View. Below are a few ideas I tried to come up with:

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In the end, I kind of stuck with Rubberband. Probably because its more or less an object that many people use everyday, but honestly i’d think some people don’t really know how much use of a rubberband is.

Following with a few ideas of what point of views I wanted in terms of a Rubberband. Definitely wasn’t easy thinking up ideas.

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From the list, I consulted Shirley, and she advised me to try out a selected few. (The ones with the orange ticks were the selected few). So I came up with a few sketches of what I thought I’d show the Point of View as.

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For starters, this initial sketch was supposed to be Rubberband in the point of view of a girl, is a Fashion statement.

I wanted to put a little more character into the illustrations. Which is why I added a little cartoon-ish features like the eyes and hands, to portray the Rubberband to be more life-like.

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The main sentence for this picture was, Rubberband in the point of view of a kid is toy gun/pain. This one came off a little harder than I thought. I initially wanted to pose it off as a kid aiming the rubber band with a gun like pose using his hands. But I thought it’d be more realistic with kids always typically taking the pose as i’ve drawn above. As you can see, I added a little bit of character into the Rubberband, providing emotions of how the rubberband would seem based on human reactions.

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Here are a few more sketched out ideas! The one on the left being, Rubberband in the point of view of money is Protection. And on the right, it didn’t really work out that well, but, its Rubberband in the point of view of an Artist is an Artwork.

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For this sketch, the one on the left is Rubberband in the point of view of a remote control is Friction. Its a pretty neat trick of tying rubberband at the front and back of the remote to keep it from falling off the sofa!

And as for the one on the right, it was Rubberband in the point of view of a plastic bag is a Chokehold. I had to test out a few drawing of a plastic bag, it was pretty hard to get the proper texture!

 

So after consulting Shirley, she told me, “Why not make the rubberband itself into a character? Not just the face, but a whole character!”. And I thought that was really interesting! and something really fun that I could work with. So, I just came up with a simple sketch of how I’d think it’d look like.

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More or less the Rubberband character was going to look something like that! I gave it a round blobby look, and a hollow middle, just like a normal rubberband.

With the new rubberband character, I went on further to properly sketch out the sentence I had picked.

So this were the new sketches I came up with! I really liked how I could use a rubberband character to interact with the other object in the composition.

Then I went on to consult Shirley for my new sketches, and she approved everything! She told me to try and stick to one type of composition. One being like the Rubberband in the point of view of a paper, whereby its really just the two objects being in focus, without any background. Or to put it like the Rubberband in the point of view of a remote control, whereby there’s a background like the sofa.

From there I decided to choose one without background, to bring more focus towards the two objects! And I went on to work on my final few pieces!