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.
