Category: DV2002-ILLUSTRATION FR DESIGNERS (TUT)

Applied illustrations- Process & Ideation

IDEA Introduction

Express Yourself is a mental health/stress management awareness event for tertiary students. An event filled with fun activities, consultation booths, talks given by professional student counsellors and also sharing session from students experiencing stress with school, on how they overcome it. This event is to spread positivity and ensure students know that expressing themselves at the right platform may help them ease their education journey.

Target Audience

Tertiary/ART Students [age 18 – 25]

– Polytechnics & Universities

User Persona:

4 Illustrated Collaterals

  • EVENT POSTER
  • INVITATION CARD
  • INFORMATION BROCHURE
  • DOORGIFT CHOCOLATE:

– Do nut[not] worry (Nuts flavour)

– Enough to milk[make] you happy (Milk flavour)

– The raisin[reason] to make you smile (Raisin flavour)

– The raisin[reason] not to go nuts[crazy]!(Raisin&Nuts flavour)

– Bitter[Better] make you feel good! (Dark Choco flavour)

Visual inspiration

 

PROGRESS sketches

EXPRESSION SKETCHES

Expression Sketches

 

FINAL WORK: Applied Illustration- Express Yourself

EXPRESS YOURSELF

Final collaterals design.

Express yourself event poster
Invitation Card for students
Mini Information Card with tips and helpline contacts on one side. On the other side are tearable cards with motivation quotes
Doorgift Chocolate with expression input – Different chocolate flavours that comes with its own puns.

 

Express Yourself is a mental health/stress management awareness event for tertiary students. An event filled with fun activities, consultation booths, talks given by professional student counsellors and also sharing session from students experiencing stress with school, on how they overcome it.

VAROOM-Sketches & Final work

I decided to work on an article “Facebook censoring a 30 000 years old Willendorf statue” and I think it would be fun to play with the censorship issue for uncovered historic statues that also faces censorship issues. With the theme “PLAY” chosen, I tried giving this statues a moment of life similar to humans! Making David the mischievous one and Venus de milo telling him to shut up. Here my sketches towards the final product!

SKETCHES:

 

FINAL WORK:

 

MOCKUP:

Assignment 1: Inanimate Portrait – Final work

Self-Portrait

A foodie rider represented by a vrooming BURGER Bike. Going on a trippy road trip juggling my favourite snack and noodle cup! As we know, life ain’t a smooth road. Holes designed with white paint splatter presenting the tough side in my journey.

Portrait(Vanessa)

A portrait of a very talented lady who is really into crafting. Not forgetting her love for Japan and Washi tapes presented by pen, marker and paper cutting art. Using non digital medium to really represents her love for craft. Origami of Sakura flowers to emphasise on who she would love to visit Japan again during spring!

 

Assignment 1: Research and Process

Bringing forward the Interview answers here my research process for both Portraits.

Self-Portrait

  • Eating: Maggie, snacks, fast food
  • Love how food sparks Happiness, a ‘guilty pleasure’, balancing food intake.
  • Riding is a dream came true. Love my cute scooter! 
Supersize Them: Fast Food Illustrations by Mr. Misang

Portrait (Vanessa)

  • Crafting: Resin crafting, Polymer clay, Origami
  • Journalling: travel journalling or bullet journalling
  • Spending time with family(Games/Card Games)
  • Love Japan! Want to visit Japan during Spring.

 

Japanese Papercut Street. Dotonbori Osaka

Illustration For Designer : Class Activity

WEEK 1:

Entopic Graphomania

For our first lesson we had an activity called Entopic Graphomania. It was my first time doing it. It really challenges the ‘perfectionist’ side of me wanting my work to be perfect and not defects. However, this activity focuses on the imperfection in a work that can be turned into something perfect! And also input from others could change the outcome of something.

The final outcome of my Entopic Graphomania drawing surprised me when it turned out looking like a BAT.

WEEK 2:

Draw the shapes!

The first activity we did in class for the second week. Forming shapes based instructions given. It is interesting to see how everyone has a different outcome and understanding of the questions.

15 mins Portrait 

The second activity we did was a 15 mins portrait of a partner in class. It is to really focus on our partner, look them in The Eye and sketch them out based on what we see. I was lucky that I had 2 person drawing my portrait. It was really interesting the different illustrations produced by every single one of my classmates.

 

WEEK 3:

Assignment 1 research and ideation

For Assignment 1, I started with an Interview with Vanessa and understanding more about her likings and fear. Here are my questions for her:

  • What sparks happiness in you?(can be more than 1 object/activities/moments)
  • How would you describe yourself in a word? And why.
  • What is your biggest fear/what are you afraid of?

Based on the interview I decide to focus on things that sparks happiness in us.