2D Project 3: Color Research + Work in Progress (・∀・*)

Project 3: So Far

I’ve made the final changes to the concepts behind the four designs! They’re now:

1. Me, An Atheist -> Cult of Corgi Butts -> Suddenly Religious

2. Acrophobic Me -> Room of Roaches -> Up, Up and Away!

3. Fearless Me -> KFC – A Horror Movie -> Cowardly Me

4. Me, Out of Shape -> Bus Leaving from the Stop -> Suddenly Ripped

Work-In-Progress

Other than the final concept changes, I’ve also worked on quite a few of the frames today. (‘u’)

My progress over the weekends went somewhat like this in the middle:

I know I photoshopped Colonel Sanders to look creepy but I couldn’t stand to look at his face at night so I had to cover up his face with some leftover pieces of gold foil because black, red with “October Crow” font is too much for me. (;u;) I can’t see KFC the same way again.

(This is terrifying to look at; I get a scare every time I step out for water and come back to see this on the floor)

But aside from that, I started work on the traditional pieces at my own pace after finishing up the digital pieces and printing them at Jurong Point.

Corgi butt is love, corgi butt is life (‘u’)

I also took a break (procrastination ;u;) and found out that pushing the color filter for my traditional mediums make them look so much better – especially analogous colors – for some odd reason. I was also wondering if the 3D element looked cheap, and I tried to filter and testing with Instagram’s filters.

The colors turned out super crisp and I liked the feel of it. It was really difficult when I was deciding if to scan, push colors and print it or to go with the original piece though. I decided to go with the original piece in the end for the presentation, since the organic feel of the drawing grew on me. I like original copies!

Also, here are some of the other panels!

I was inspired by some stratosphere pics! I really wanted to recreate the clouds so I decided to make this into a 3D panel, and make the clouds out of wool!

Drawing macho chicken

Generally for this project, there was more doing, rather than design changes, since doing my panels traditionally meant that my sketches had to count. I had alot of fun. I hope things turn out well! (‘v’)

Color Research

Last month when I worked on Project 2, it was Inktober.

This month, while we’re working on colors, it’s Huevember!

Rather than looking up old masters or famous designs, I’ve been wading through a bunch of amazing Huevember art and they’re absolutely gorgeous.

There are traditional and digital artists participating in Huevember, and alot of them apply color theories in very interesting manners, or select specific colors to focus on.

Huevember Challenge by Cylindric

There are those who use colors as a connecting factor in narrative (e.g. colored objects) and also those who use colors as an emotion (e.g. red as anger, blue as sadness, etc). I really enjoyed looking at some of these art, especially ones that look like tarot cards or card game art – because they look extremely well thought-out. They seem to carry an entire message or narrative within one image – I probably want to go for that style for some of my images too!

Other than Huevember, I did some research on Shepard Fairey too. He’s a contemporary street artist and graphic designer, and the founder of OBEY clothing. He works alot with black, white and reds, and dabbles alot in art regarding politics. I found this super cool since informative or propaganda always focuses alot on narratives! It was fun going onto TeeFury for ideas too. (‘u’)

2D Project 3: 2nd Consultation (・∀・)ノ

Conceptualization
I previously got 3 out of 4 of the concepts approved, but I still wasn’t quite happy with them so I revamped them and came up with a different set – but I decided to keep the corgi one!

I’m still not quite sure if the new concepts will be solid at the moment, but here’s the list:

1) Atheist -> Cult of Corgi Butts -> Suddenly Religious

2) Big chicken goes “cluck cluck cluck” -> KFC Horrors -> A tiny chick goes “pi pi pi”

3) Fear of heights -> Room of roaches -> Outer Space

4) Happy birdy -> Zombie Apocalypse -> Happy Meal

I might still tweak some stuff, but there’s that for now! And also the paired sketches:

Layout Drafting and Sketches

“Atheist” panel;

I chose to depict myself as a chicken after gathering some feedback from friends – it’s probably my hair and how I whisper chicken into my friends’ ears all the time. (;u;)

But anyway – I chose to pair myself as a chicken zoomorph with the concept of the planets and galaxy around me. I’m hoping that it will show my appreciation of the beauty of, and the belief in, science and nature.

I’m planning to most likely ink this image after correction.

I quickly composed a digital draft as well for “Cult of Corgi Butts” as well. I’d most likely be drawing and inking this traditionally but I had a boat load of fun doing this panel – I LOVE CORGI BUTTS SO MUCH.

But anyway, I’ll be trying to work on more drafts over the next week or so. I’m really looking forward to working on them!

2D Project 2: Photoshop Session and Recess Week ヾ(・ω・)メ(・ω・)ノ

27th September 2016: Photoshop Tutorial in PC Lab (‘u’)
The session today started off with a quick tutorial by Shirley on pen tool, path, masking, half-tones, etc!

Before this, I’ve never used the pen tool, path and converted my images to smart objects. I abused the polygonal lasso tool and the transform tool to make images, and I end up having to lasso the same areas over and over again. (;u;)

I feel this this session has taught me alot about retaining my image information and quality – I’m super stoked!

Screenshot of my first practice with the pen tool and paths/masking.

I tried it out on a few more objects as well like skulls, and proceeded to try out the different filters on them – half-tone, posterize, threshold, etc.

On another note, I’ve also learned something pretty incredible.

I’m pretty sure that I still can’t tell the difference between these three even if they were shown to me right now. I’ll have to go take another look at them. To people who can see the difference: YOU ARE INCREDIBLE.

ALSO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO THANK JOYCE FOR BEING INCREDIBLY PATIENT AND SUPER COOL DURING THE SESSION.

THANK YOU JOYCE!!!

1st October 2016: Drafts for Consultation

I dedicated my Saturday completely to working on the four drafts for Sunday’s consultation!

The prototype for the first draft turned out absolutely terrifying.

Abandoned working file for “No music!”
this is terrifyingggg noooooo :'(

I felt like by trying to make too much sense and trying to forcibly use a quote that I already set my heart on, I wound up spending hours on something that didn’t work at all.

I previously had quotes (from Rise of the Guardians, How to Train Your Dragon and Mad Max) from different movies, but I changed them to look for quotes that I could interpret better, instead of something that was a little bit too open-ended, such as “No Music!”.

I was trying to work out posterize as well, and it retained some greys – not good!

So I tried working the other way instead – finding objects that I liked, and finding quotes and looking at how to arranging the elements instead. I quickly wound up with 4 designs!

1. Crow

Draft that was sent in on Sunday.

From a blurry image of someone’s crow artwork!
Thank you so much for the beautiful work >—>(c’:)

The first one, I worked on it from a tattoo of a crow I liked – then I found a movie quote pertaining to crows, and remembered an old movie that had a really nice quote about them: “People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead.”

I chose to interpret:
-people as ‘hands’
-souls as ‘eyes’
-picket fences as ‘mortality’ or ‘burden’
-a circular door as a ‘portal’ or ‘border’
-an image of a crow made of other different animals as the ‘crow’ and the meaning of human/animal ‘actions’

2. Milky Way

I worked on a quote from Alpha and Omega right after this one: “I’ll see you on Mars, right after I eat the Milky Way”.

It’s pretty hard to break down this one in my head since I started running away with my gut/instincts with this one, but it went along the lines of:

-mouth and the solar system in mouth, as quite literally “eat the Milky Way”
-fork and knife pictogram and lace as the idea of feasting, or eating
-hands as the idea of “meeting”

For this one, I only had a couple of minor decisions – like the conscious decision to give the mouth fangs instead of normal teeth so that it looks more aggressive, and also I didn’t give in to temptation do this ridiculous thing and end up overusing/abusing the fork and knife pictogram:

…well things could have turned out much south aaahahahaha-

3. Baskin Robbins

I SHOULD HAVE DONE “BASKING ROBINS”.

I really should have…!

But anyway, this design wound up kinda circular as well. I showed it to my dad and he said it looked like some kind of design with political agenda. (thanks dad)

This one was based on the quote “Baskin-Robbins always finds out”.

I wanted to make a nod to Baskin Robbins by placing a cherry on top of the robin’s head as a hat. I also made the robin look extremely judgmental to give off the feeling of being far superior – along with a halo and light rays, and also that the robin is constantly watching everything you do.

The little humans and vectors are to show a ‘checkpoint’ – the feeling like you can run, but you can never hide from the robin.

4. Burn Bacon!

I had a ton of fun with this one! I was exploring how satanic I could push it.

I’m kinda terrified of googling for satanic magic circles and will probably never print this.

I found a great quality engraving image of a pig, and decided to get some image of yarn pins and combine it with the magic circle element to imply the “curse”. I kinda wound up combining two magic circles to create the image of having something intricate behind the pig as well – it was strangely empty and it wasn’t complimenting the pork well previously. 🙁

Also to show burn, I had used fire pictograms!

2nd October 2016: Sunday Consultation – Compilation of first drafts

Baskin-Robbins always finds out – Dale, Ant-Man, 2015

Here’s another curse for you – may all your bacon burn – Calcifer, Howl’s Moving Castle, 2004

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead – Sarah, The Crow, 1994

I’ll see you on Mars, right after I eat the Milky Way – Kate, Alpha and Omega, 2010