I was really excited when we got to use colours for this assignment. I was quite bored from using black and white only for the last 2 assignments already. Nothing against it, but I just felt “adventurous” and wanted explore and try something new/different. So there was a lot of anticipation.

I guess I did hype myself up a bit too much. :/

I soon became to realize that it was not as easy as I first thought it was. It proved create additional layers of complexity. As unlike before, where my problem was figuring out how to use the black and whites as positive and negative space or even as texture to bring across my ideas or mood, now I have to worry about what each colour represents or signifies, and how multiple colours placed in assortment of ways can affect ever so subtly the meaning and mood within each frame. It definitely was challenging, I don’t think I pulled off some or even most of the colour combinations, but I feel that it was interesting to learn and quite an experience to try matching them.

I’m quite grateful we also got to chose our own mediums. I am now a convert of Faber-Castell’s Polychromos colour pencils!! Bye bye lousy Derwent Studio colour pencils. (Although very heart pain to buy the polychromos, they cost me a bomb D: ) I love how silky and easy to apply the colour pencils are. They have strong pigments that made colouring easy and also the image vibrant and bright. I felt that the blending was a lot easier than my earlier set of Derwent pencils. Especially when I used the white colour pencil to blend with other colours, they mix very well, which greatly surprised me. Overall, it was fun to play around with colour pencils as a medium, reminded me of when I was a child, when colour pencils are your only colouring art materials.

I still got lots more to learn in terms of digital mediums. I wanted to do something vector-ish too. But I completely do not know how, so I felt that it will take me too much time to learn it all hence I decided to not try this(and learn during the holidays instead). As mentioned in the first OSS post for EGO, I decided to go with the methods used in assignment 2, as a form of continued exploration. I think as I progressed through assignment 2, I better understood how to use found images from the internet to represent me(for instance the metaphors of animals). I felt that it was rather apt to continue learning and exploring this sector.

All in all, there are definitely regrets and of course rewards. I’m super happy that I’ve learnt so much through the 3 projects, and more about the different components of 2D. I’ll strive to be better at it. ((: