2D II Project 1 Research

This project was fun for me as I was able to research on my dream jobs which I have been fascinated all along. My main source of inspiration comes mainly from pinterest and tumblr as both sources have a huge datebase of pictures and artist works. I am more of a visual person hence, I have a lot of inspirations photos.

Before I embarked on my project, I researched abit about font types.

1) Serif: Serif fonts have little “feet” or lines attached the ends of their letters. They’re generally thought to look more serious or traditional.

2) Sans-Serif: “Sans-serif” literally means “without serif” — these fonts don’t have the extra lines on the ends of letters. For that reason, they’re generally thought to look more modern and streamlined.

Though this point is often debated, it’s commonly said that serifs make long passages (in print) easier to navigate visually, helping move your eyes along the lines of text. However, because serifs are usually small and thin, they often don’t display as well on pixel-based screens (looking distorted and “noisy” rather than clear and crisp), so many designers favor sans-serif fonts for web use, especially at small sizes.

3) Script: Scripts are what we might think of as cursive- or handwriting-style fonts. They generally have connecting letters. You’ll find that script fonts come in many different styles, from elegant, to fun and casual, to hand-drawn.

4) Decorative / Display: When you hear a font categorized as decorative, display, or novelty, it all means the same thing — that font is meant to get your attention. They’re often more unusual than practical and should only be used in small doses and for a specific effect or purpose.

BARISTA

Finding fonts related to coffee was abit challenging as people seldom relate to coffee or beans regarding fonts and I was able to find much inspiration as seen below.

Hence, I decided to just source anything that I could make out from being barista and collate them together later on.

I was deeply inspired by the milk stains in the coffee.

FLORIST

I really like the aesthetic of flowers hence I decided to go forth with florist as my job. My first thought for florist was to paste flowers on my work. Hence, I did some research regarding and surrounding flowers.

Some types using flowers

DOCTOR

Being a doctor is my lifelong aspiration hence I decided to go with being a doctor as my job.

I found this interesting overlay and it gives me an idea to do a layout print.

Watermelon Farmer

I really like watermelon hence I decided to go with a quirky job like watermelon farmer.

PLANT SCULPTURE ARTIST

From a florist, I developed the idea into a less generic job like plant sculpture artist.

2D Project 3- Ego Final

THEME: LIFESTYLE

I went with the idea of my lifestyle which forms the bits and pieces of my personality.

FASHION (PHOTOGRAPH)

For this strip, I am making a social commentary about how people conform to societal norms in order to fit in the society now.

1) The style here is what I have always wanted to walk on the streets with. I used a pink shade as it has a dreamy tone to it and the uniform colour here signifies the imposed conformity of the society. The stanza, “conformity fashion”, is a sarcastic remark here.

2) The city photo here I took is to show the society. Blue and yellow are complementary colours. Blue signifies a quaint environment and while yellow her signifies the potential danger in people. What I want to portray here is that in our society, although everything seems peaceful, people are bound to judge one another if we dress out of the norm.

3) The photo here is me in clothing deemed normal by people. Green is normally used as a grotesque colour. I used monochrome green here to emphasize the imposed conformity again.

Therefore, my style + society = society’s style

WORK (ILLUSTRATION)

For this strip, I wanted to show how school work is making me lost my sleep.

1) I am someone who does not really like to face reality and like to dream alot. I used pastel analogous colours here to represent the dreaming element and my wide spectrum of ideas.

2) Here I wanted to represent school work. Inspired by the starter pack trend. I created an anatomy of an art student. I used complementary colours, yellow and blue here as they are normally the few primary colours used by schools hence it can represent more of a school feeling.

3) The owl is to represent no sleep and the skull represents the haunting workload. >w< I used monochrome brown here to show my mundane life. 🙁

Me + School = No sleep

FRIENDS (PHOTOSHOP COLLAGE)

Life without friends for me is a sad thing for me.

1) This composition I want to represent life. Hence, I included different elements of life like earth and grass. I used triad colours here to show all elements of life like how the colours are at different spectrum of the colour wheel.

2) This composition I want to show friends. Carebears are the epitome of friendships and yellow roses meant friendship in flower language. I used RYB colours here to show different friends I have.

3) Here, I want to show the fear of not having friends in my life. Being an only child, I am grateful towards all my friends for their companion. Hence, I am afraid of not having friends in my life which is what I want to portray here. I used monochrome blue here as blue can mean sadness too and the red here is to signify the sense of wariness and danger I experience. The wilting flower also portray a sense of sadness too.

Life – Friends = Sadness

FOOD (WATERCOLOUR)

1) Here I used triad colours to show the wide variety and endless amount of food around the world.

2) I used mainly warm colours like brown and red here to represent my comfort food like fried chicken and bubble tea.

3) Cold colours like purple, green and blue, used here is to represent sadness without my favourite food or food in my life. The watermelon here represents me as it is one of my trademarks that I love watermelons. Basically, it signifies a sad me(watermelon).

If given more time, I would like to explore more on watercolour like joy suggested during critique and also try different styles like line art. I really want to explore further on one stroke painting too. Also, the regret for this project is that I wished I could have done the workmanship better this time.

2D Project 2- Process

This project proves to be quite tedious as I met alot of thinking blocks along the way. Initially, I wanted to use 4 different quotes to make a social commentary of how we pursue unlimited wants and they are:

1) Heavenly Forest

“I wonder if anybody’s nice enough to stop.”

2) Harry Potter

“After all this time?” “Always”

3) X-Men: Apocalypse

“Everyone fears that which they do not understand”

4) The Little Mermaid

“The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake”

For the little mermaid’s quote, I was pretty inspired by Hokusai’s great waves, hence, I decided to incorporate the waves in my collage. Initially, the plan was to have this “imaginary” cycle of how the fishes wanted to be like Arial- have a face and able to talk, and I will do the same vicious for the three other quotes. However, after I consulted Joy in my first consultation, she proposed a suggestion of having one quote and to expand my vicious cycle to a larger scale. Also, to have 4 collages come together to show a circle so that it resembles a cycle.

On my second consultation, I had my 4 collages done but after consultation, I realised that there were many problems like some collages being too dark and the hint for the circle being too strong. Hence, I decided to redo my collages.

The silkscreen printing process was another problem like my other classmates. When I tried silkscreen printing for the first time, it turns out well. However, when I wanted to print the design on the bag, the prints turn out to be either too dark or too light. After 5 trys and 2 tote bags, I was able to get the right tone I want on my 6th trys. YAYY!! Lesson learnt: Use ample ink and glide the ink on the screen with minimum strength.

Proceeding on with my collages, I went onto tumblr for inspirations as I was pretty much experiencing major blocks and couldn’t fork up any ideas. These are some of the artworks I took inspirations from. All in all, I managed to overcome the blocks and come up something.