2D – Project 3 Ego

Draft Ideas

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Final

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I wanted to portray myself as a potato because I am a short and stubby person who has a round face. I just sat down in class to think about 2 settings/ scenarios that I like and dislike. 

Buffet 

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Buffets are the best creation in the world, and I get really excited especially while eating food. I tend to take an overflowing amount of food such that I end up becoming fat which is a really awful habit. The background colours chosen were mainly to represent my feelings. Thus for the first box, I wanted to express a calm me, where as in the 2nd box the yellow shows my excitement when I see a feast in front of my eyes. For the 3rd box, the pinkish colour scheme shows a sweet, yet energetic kind of happiness as I gobble up all of the food. 

Deadlines for Assignments

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The layout starts off with a resting potato as I tend laze around and sleep. I used green as the background as it shows serenity and growth as the days in life pass by. As the deadline approaches, I tend to do my homework last minute such that it adds on to the unnecessary stress and gloominess that I already have which explains the usage of blues. As the stress keeps adding on, I would start to fall sick and feel frustrated with myself for not starting on my work earlier, hence I used red to express my anger. 

Wealthy Relatives

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The reason for using a green box is the same as the one I used above where it gives a more serene feeling. As for the next box, I used purple as it has a luxurious connotation to it which suits my wealthy and well-groomed relatives and then there is me, at the other corner, being an anti-social and country plain potato, being overshadowed by my relatives. Thus, I used the purple from the other box to loom over the calming blue.

Arcade

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Another hobby that I like is playing video games, and I used to like to go to arcades to play games. At arcades they have zombie shooting and rhythmic games which was why the potato is wearing a headset and carrying a gun. In addition, that gun, the AK47, is my favourite weapon in a first-person shooting game called Left 4 Dead 2. 

The light blue background for the first box evokes a calm and peaceful feeling with the playful upside down potato. Bright, saturated colours were used for the arcade machines like in actual arcade because of its extremely dark setting. Lastly, a pinkish-purple background is used for the last box because it gives a sci-fi mood, which matches the arcade and gaming mood. 


This project was very enjoyable to it allowed me to explore digital painting and this is one of my first few attempts to so which I am very interested in, since I am aiming to go into animation. However, I faced difficulties in trying to pick the right colour combination and trying to apply the colour theory.