Yay! Done with project 2. Personally I’m pretty much satisfied looking at the final printed version of my best four nursery rhymes composition.

Overall, I find this project really fun and interesting. It reminded me a lot of my childhood time. This project not only taught me on the basic
design principles of creating creative design, but through this project, it developed my sensitivity on looking at composition and understand the layout and aspect of the design principles better. Besides that, I managed to pick up some Photoshop skills, which are rather quite new to me, this enables me to be much more proficient in using software such as
Photoshop and illustrator.

Apart from that, choosing the right format, in terms of the resolution and the art board size is the most crucial step before starting on any
design work.

Hence for my final four work, it all came down to an idea of using the basic design principles. Keeping my artwork simple yet it still retained the original meaning and some on the other hand had a sense of
symbolism.

If you could notice, most of my artwork, I left a lot of white space and this is one of my main key elements to my design that is what I would generally like to achieve. By doing so, it added a contrast and focuses
entirely on the the main subject or the foreground. This set of principles I picked up from the book of Using Design Basic – To Get Creative Result by Bryan L. Peterson. I also used a lot of perspective to create depth and forming the shapes into symmetry line to make the whole composition balance.

Okay I think I shall stop saying much and let my composition do the
talking instead. Enjoy!

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

What i wanted to achieve in this composition was the use of repetition to create a sense of abundance, I particularly like how I had placed the horses that seems to be flying out from the chessboard in the “sky”. This really draws the attention as I had arranged them in a rule of third. And also having the illusion of depth.

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

I felt this was pretty cool, I used the crown to be a standing platform for the king and all his mens who are suppose to be guarding him. This was supposed to be some fun composition and added a bit of symbolism, by using the crown. The king is place in a rule of third position to address his importance and status. You could see there are some elements below that was scaled down to show the crown in a 3-Dimensional form.

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

This composition is generally straight forward. I used lines to show the movement of the horses. Besides that it shows some rhythm going on.  Notice that I’m using little military soldiers to make the horizontal line, like a walkway for the horses. I left the white spaces as it is because i don’t want it to look too heavy. Well less is more.

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

I pretty much like the perspective here. It has a great balance to the whole composition. with the military soldiers arranged in a form of “V” if you could notice the arrangement. I added a wall texture on the background and foreground to give a little details, showing some characteristics of the place in this composition.

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

 

All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men

 

There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe

 

She Had So Many Children She Didn’t Know What To Do

The Cat & The Fiddle

The Cat & The Fiddle

The Cow Jumped Over The Moon