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Ego – Final

Here are my final designs for this final assignment.

Me, a pear + when someone is shouting at me = I stay alone and keep the anger to myself 

The style I used for this row is magazine collage because the designs are quite simple and don’t have many details inside, which suit to the collage style.

For the color theme I choose the primary colors because the contract between each other is high. The main problem for this style is that I need to choose the color carefully so the elements can stand out instead of merge together. Base on that, the brightness of the color between each other is very different as well. For detail like the mouth of the pear I use pen to draw it.

 

Me, a bird + when I’m back to hall = I’m addicted to social media

The style I’m using for this one is paper craft. This is very close to digital vector illustration because the color is plain and the outline is sharp and clear, but also it has the problem that the image will be too flat. In order to solve this, I use multiple layers and between each layer I add one piece of foam to create the distance and shadow.

For the colors I choose triacial colors so I have different shadow of blue, which can create a gradient effect and a bright yellow as contrast. And the blue fit to the twitter logo color as well, to help deliver the message of this design.

 

Me, a pair of glasses + when I’m shopping in Daiso = I enjoy it and spend a lot of time inside

The style I’m using for this one is digital painting. Adding texture inside make it more interesting and friendly feeling. It becomes more lively also.

The color I use is complemetary colors, which can create a high contrast to help my main object stands out from the background. Complementary colors are very dramatic and can catch people’s eyes very fast.

 

Me, a robot + when I’m traveling with my friends = I become multi-function

The style I’m using for this row is vector illustration. This style is very common in industry, it’s clean and simple, and vector illustrations are easy to fit different printing size without getting blur.

The colors I choose to use are monochromatic colors plus the yellow as highlight. All the colors are quite dull so the highlight can stands out, and dull colors fit the impression of robot also.

 

The difficulty I have during this project is choosing the colors since there are too much choices. And time management also since every module is rushing for the final assignments. But I’m very happy that I can try different type of traditional style to make the designs.

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Ego – Process

———————————– WEEK 1 —————————————

This week our task is to generate some ideas for this project. And below are the ideas I prepared for this assignment.

Me:

Pear / Bird / Pink glass / Hamster / Squirrel / Robert

Situation:

Hall / Daiso Store / When I’m angry / On flight /

Here are my ideas:

1.Bird + Hall = I hang my wings on the wall and sit in front of my laptop.

Because I’m a in-door person, so in this one I want to show that even I have the ability to go out (or fly away) I would still choose to stay in my room.

2. Pear + Someone shouting at me = i cut a piece of pear and eat it.

Well, this is not so positive. I got the idea of “self-digest”. Usually when I feel angry or pressure I’m tend to keep the emotion inside and digest it, and it also hit about automutilation because in face this habit  is harmful to ourselves.

3. Pink glasses + Daiso = The symbol “$2” shows on the glasses.

This is because I really like shop in Daiso!

———————————– WEEK 2 —————————————

After the consultation, the biggest problem for me now is the idea not out of except enough. So I modify some of my ideas and come up with the 4th one as well.

1. Pear + Someone shouting at me = i cut a piece of pear and eat it.

2. Bird + Hall = I become a twitter bird (icon).

3. Pink glasses + Daiso = The pink is enjoy a holiday made by items that are sold in Daiso.

4. Robot + Travel with friends = Become multi-function.

And I draw the thumbnails for each panel. Also I make 2 mini panels to test out the paper cut style.

Thumbnails and 2 small test-outs for paper cut style.

———————————– WEEK 3 —————————————

After the discussion with Shirley and my classmates, I improve my sketches and start to work on the first panel.

This one in the 3rd picture if I’m using magazine collage style, I will make the pear bigger so it’s easier to see in the picture.

For this one Shirley suggested that can change the window shape to round corner which looks like the mobile app logo. I think this idea is really cool.

 

And the first row I’m working on is the Pear one and using magazine collage style.

Luckily i have many comic books (and some are FREE!!) in hall so finding material actually not so difficult for me.

And comic book has a lot colors inside, which made it easier to do the color collage.

The test one looks like this, I think it’s quite successful, the pear stands out from the blue background.

And this week I also work on the digital painting row.

The texture make the whole image looks quite retro so I redesign the logo for Daiso to fit the retro looking.

——————————–WEEK 4 & 5 ——————————

This two week I work on the 4th row and the paper cut one.

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Ego – Research

———————————– WEEK 1 —————————————

This week I focus on brainstorm of idea. With the help of my classmates I have list down some d

Me:

Pear / Bird / Pink glass / Hamster / Squirrel / Robert

Situation:

Hall / Daiso Store / When I’m angry / On flight /

Here are my ideas:

1.Bird + Hall = I hang my wings on the wall and sit in front of my laptop.

Because I’m a in-door person, so in this one I want to show that even I have the ability to go out (or fly away) I would still choose to stay in my room.

2. Pear + Someone shouting at me = i cut a piece of pear and eat it.

Well, this is not so positive. I got the idea of “self-digest”. Usually when I feel angry or pressure I’m tend to keep the emotion inside and digest it, and it also hit about automutilation because in face this habit  is harmful to ourselves.

3. Ping glasses + Daiso = The symbol “$2” shows on the glasses.

———————————– WEEK 2 —————————————

This week after consultation I continue on brainstorm. And start to do research on the art style that I want to apply in this project. In this project I want to explore with different types of art styles, including hand-made and digital.

The first one is paper cut illustration.

When talk about using colors, this art style is the first one that comes into my mind. I like how artists use the different tones of pure colors to make the illustrations. Even though the style is a bit like children’s books but people won’t think this is childish because the shadows of different layers make it look more delicate. Here are some art references that I found online.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/20/7a/58207ae447ebd88b8bf52bf2de3e9adc–water-illustration-cut-paper-illustration.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/84/a7/74/84a774513ecc97584b23a9957e2a5756.jpg

And I found out that the key point for this art style is color theme and the depth of layers, which create a 3D feel on the 2D illustration (We can find out this in the 2nd example picture). Since there is no or little texture involve, which color to choose is a really important question to think of at the start. For the depth of layer, I found a thick double sided tape which has a foam to create the distance between each layer. Without the distance the result will look very flat which is not what I want to see.

The second one is texture collage.

I want to try this style looooong times ago. I used to have a habit of writing techou and I have bought many washi tape as decoration, but usually I use the tapes as lines to divide the page space, so I aways want to find other usage of washi tape, until one day I saw this.

https://www.doodlersanonymous.com/images/entries/images/da-mall-04.png

And I realize washi tapes can also be used of collage. But here is the question: although I have many tapes, the colors are still very limited. Then I found out that I also have many texture paper, so now I have much wider choices, and the textures of different kind of papers will make the illustration more interesting.( I’m pretty sure that the texture of washi tape, normal paper and magazine paper are very different.)

The difficulty of this technique is that how to divide the area. It can be as simple as only one texture, or very complex that people can see the details from the montage. Below are the examples.

http://5b0988e595225.cdn.sohucs.com/images/20170917/a253498b5a1946eea10d00d8e7c260d8.jpeg
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/42/f8/94/42f89469f7a3264683ccf256b612234d.jpg

This is something I will take note in my design sketches.

The third one will be digital painting. I have some texture brushes in my Photoshop and I got digital painting experience before so that one shouldn’t be a big proble

Here are some reference I find for my color themes.