Final Project

2D II-(Project 2-Part 2) “ ZINE ” (2) – FINAL

Front Cover
Khong Guan biscuit tin represent treasure/something precious to grandmother. Choosing this as my cover page symbolizes this zine as a little important diary my character grandmother(onion head) want to pass down to her future generation. Adding the two colored character give a connection between my cover page and my content inside.

P.s why I choose onion head is because that is my grandmother favorite food.

Spread 1
Linking back to my infographic of zhu ba jie, the onion head as a young child going to the famous food in pasir ris. ordering her favorite dishes every time she visited the market. As well as Tampines IKEA with their iconic dishes.
Since the onion head is still young she did sprout yet. also the little character at the top corners are the characters at different stages of life. I had this idea because it was suggested during my group consultation that I could have something throughout the spreads that link them together and also telling the audience who the main focus character are.

Spread 2
Spread 2 as well as the middle spread. is the development of the two character relationship. Meeting her husband (my grandpa favorite food: Garlic) at downtown east chalet because they attended other people 21st birthday. And also them growing up in their relationship they have to face the two years of boys army life. Linking back to my infographic, tang seng who travel to the east for chalet and sun wu kong who travel to pasir ris for meeting point at the interchange to tekong.
Since this is a spread about them in their teenage years, on the left page the onion sprout first because people always say girls hit puberty earlier than guys and on the right both grew up and sprout. The top comer character also change from individual onion (she have boobs now cause is teenage puberty age) to them as a couple on the right top corner. I also receive very helpful feedbacks that I could use normal people instead of food character to make the main lead pop out as the focus! THANK YOU!

Spread 3
This last spread was inspire by my own grandparents story. Back in the days, Changi prison was also a drug rehabilitation center. In kampong time, many people take the drug-opium. Including my grandfather. When my mom was young my grandmother receive a call from the police saying my grandfather was caught as was lock inside. So my grandmother had to wake up 4am in the morning to cook breakfast and lunch for my mother and uncle before she head to work. Because now she is the only source of income. Also on the table is what they always eat. Simple meal such as porridge with salted egg and fried fish. On the left is a hand-written letter (I actually got my grandmother to help me write-old people Chinese word SUPER NICE!) that the onion head wrote in the zine to pass down, words she want to say to her future generation. The yellow sleeve onion is like her younger generation reading.
Now the onion have grew old and starting to dry up.

Back Cover
This back cover is the funeral table of the onion head symbolizing the end of her life. On the desk the zine was place there.
P.s my grandmother is still alive and healthy:)

My Infographic🙂

I had a really fun time doing this zine and also understand many fundamental that we need to take note when creating a zine and would definitely help us when we create brochure, magazine, book etc in the future. Most importantly, on the first day of foundation 2D II I said that my goal this time round was to improve my graphic. And I think I really did improve, I can do many more type of style compared and also I learn a new software. (I did learn Indesign in poly-but “you know~~ HAHA”) Also I am so grateful for this group of wonderful classmate. Always giving their best attention when someone is presenting and helping as much as they can during consultation. Also Thank You Joy for making my year 1 in 2D class fill with so much precious memories. From the post-it note that filled with so much encouragement, the consultations that you always put in so much effort in helping us despite so many students, the pizza! and also always saying “please feel free to email me if you have any problem:)”. I really appreciate your passion in trying to teach us as much as you can and always pushing us. THANK YOU THANK YOU!

2D II-(Project 2-Part 2) “ ZINE ” (1) – RESEARCH AND CONCEPT

When we were told to create a zine link to the same location from our previous project. I was a little worry because like before, there isn’t much I could extract from Pasir Ris apart from it having alot of parks. Looking back at my infographic, I find it a little too (老人ISH-too old people like). Firstly, it contains so many heavy informations and would usually fit the like of older adult or basically elderly. So, I was thinking if I should continue with the same concept but work with a different style. But something new that I want to incorporate into this zine would be the idea of “Kong Guan Biscuit Tin”. Why “Khong Guan Biscuit Tin” is because grandmother likes to wrap their money inside a handkerchief or towel and then place them inside the biscuit tin, so the biscuit tin became something really important and precious to them.

But the problem is I have no idea how to link them to Pasir Ris:( So thankful for the consultation with Joy, she gave me a wonderful suggestion that I could create a zine like a diary style. Inside containing all the different stage of her(grandmother) life. Linking back to my previous infographic, Food, Chalet, Army and Changi Prison. They could actually fits into a grandmothers different stages and age or her life. Before the consultation, I have also look into different style my zine could be. Like previously Chinese? minimal? newspaper? cartoon? vintage? Searching through Pinterest I cam acrosss some Japanese magazine. I really love the clean and simple line work Japanese illustration looks and personally I am also a fan or Taiwanese comic illustration artist (台湾插画), no actually I really like Taiwan, Korea and Malaysia comic illustration. There are similarities between some of these artist is that even though they are from diffrent coutry. There is definitely a group of them uses very simple lines to create stories about their daily life. Some example are Cheeming Boey from Malaysia & WanWan from Taiwan

JAPANESE STYLE:

CHEEMING BOEY & WANWAN 彎彎

Confirming my style and concept I want, I went on to create a mini zine to help me understand how the booklet pages suppose to be print and also to draft out the layout of my zine. (As shown in my sketch book). After consulting with Joy and approving the layout design, Its time to draw, draw, draw…… (You may click on hem to view it larger:))



WATER COLOR

COLOR PENCIL

COLORS & CHARACTERS

FONTS & TEXT

COVER

I had to to create many drawings also making sure it doesn’t have any broken lines so I could fill in the color when i work with vector on illustrator. Appreciate sooo much that my grandma re-write the letter so many times for me because she keep insists old people handwriting messy:) HAHA. BUT AFTER ALL OF THIS I FINALLY HAD THE VERY FIRST ZINE I CREATED IN MY LIFE!!

2D II-(Project 2-Part 1) “ ZINE: NEIGHBOURHOOD EXPLORER” (3) – INFOGRAPHIC

東遊記 Journey to the East

It is a set of four piece of Infographic form by the two traditional red and green pick out from the Calendar and each containing different character from Journey to the West with Characters fitted on to them. It is in both English and Chinese for difference races. I separated the four into individual because different people would want different information when then visit east. Depending on what they are heading there for.

First : 唐生 Tang Sheng

Tang Sheng = People travel happily to Pasir Ris for Chalet

Among the characters traveling to the west , Tang Sheng is the most willing one. Similar to people going for chalet because they are heading there for fun just like people traveling there for chalet/for fun they are willing to travel all the way to Pasir Ris. Therefore in the infographic Tang Sheng is seen bringing a backpack and a lotus to chalet.

In the middle, ” Orh, Downtown East Uh ” is the kind of reply locals always give when seomone told them they are heading for chalet. Everyone would definitely assume you’re heading to Downtown East Chalet.

At the bottom, just like Chinese calendar it contains all the informations. In this infographic it have informations like what does the chalet provides and what you need to know and bring before hands. P.s One bar Wifi = No Wifi!!!

Second : 孙悟空 Sun Wu Kong

Wu Kong = Army boys reluctant to travel to the East

Wu Kong was the most reluctant and unwilling person to go on the Journey to the West. Similar to the army boys, traveling to Pasir Ris means booking in to tekong and they are reluctant traveling all the way to Pasir Ris. Therefore in the infographic, Wu Kong is seen wearing his wushu shirt but in print of the camou patterns.

In the middle, ” Pasir Ris Chalet ” is locals army boys way of referring to booking in to tekong:)

At the bottom, it contains all the informations regarding the things to prepare and bring for tekong camp. These are informations and tips provided by other army boys that have been to tekong.

Third : 猪悟能 Zhu Wu Neng

Wu Neng = People travel to the east for food

Wu Neng (aka: 猪八戒 Zhu Ba Jie) is well-known for being constantly greedy for food. It definitely represent people traveling to the east for food. Therefore, in the infographic, Wu Neng is seen bringing along all the “da bao” food and “Yuan Bao” with him.

In the middle, ” We Go Pasir Ris Eat Loh ” is locals singlish way of suggesting or telling the place we’re gonna eat.

At the bottom, it contains all the informations and address of the famous and popular food found in the East. The red box are icons of different ingredient needed to create that dish

Fourth : 沙悟净 Sha Wu Jing

Wu Jing = Prisoners on the way to Changi Prison

I fell like Wu Jing is the most useless guy throughout the whole journey to the West. Throughout the Journey he old get caught and needed people to save him, pretty meaningless. Just like Wu Jing prisoners going to the Changi Prison have a very meaningless Journey there. Therefore in the infographic Wu Jing is shown guarded by many police dogs on his journey.

In the middle, ” Changi Chalet ” is locals term for Changi Prison:)

At the bottom, it contains all the information and history of the Changi Prison. Why I’ve decided to put these informations was because firstly, I don’t think there is a need to prepare anything when you’re own your way to the prison. Secondly, I believe like me, other than knowing it as a prison in general many locals actually do not know anything about how the prison runs, how many times do caning session occurs, when? And ofcourse the history behind this prison.

谢谢:) SEH SEH:)