Hands of Nature

Tees! We have to come up with some designs for 2D, used on t-shirts. The requirement was at least three and they must be of a theme. I tried brainstorming some ideas days ago, but the first one still shines out to me...



'Hands of Nature'... (yea, feel the force!!!) Initially inspired by Hokusai's Great Wave and some ancient artwork which depicted the sun with hands. Not exactly a 'wow' idea, striaght to the point (I hope)...



Wondering if the textured one looks a bit too messy...? The colors isn't settled... but I need to buy the t-shirt by this day, so just a rough gauge... I've never done silk screen printing before, and a little search up on the net seems to give more prints done on a lighter background... An article was written on the difficulty of using white paints for this printing, something that was hinted by my tutor's constant suggestion of using white tees.... Maybe I'll see how tough it is tomorrow.




Gotta think more about the colors... after I settled some 3D. Skipped the class today, partly cos of stomach pains, but more of the workload... Haiz... when did I become so last minute...? Really need to be confident with the ideas and go in straight to do the work. The thinking part dragged on too long for many of my assignments. Stuck maybe, sian to think... maybe...

Hall 8 Logo

Yeap, the assignment on logo design for Hall 8.... Should be youthful, energetic, community building kind of stuff... Quite lost touch with all these. The first one (which I'm sure Ms Amy's gonna blast at me...) is this:



Wanted to show four hands coming together, forming an 8. Quite amateurish there... Woke up in the morning to do it before showing it to Joyce. Guess I gotta find another way of working... Maybe find a strong coffee brew....



Second attempt using the phoenix adopted by the Hall many many years ago. The negative space formed four bird heads, with the shape of the positive space as a phoenix, forming 8... Burning burning burning! Ah well... Dissatisfied with the text, it's pretty redundant to put in the 'VIII' again, but I dunno how else to balance out the logo there... but gonna heck care for now. Time to do 3d and 4d, and finish up that old man drawing.

Poster again

Yeap, tried touching up the poster a bit, cos the competition is kinda still open :D Anyways, nothing much but color changes, and yes! Back to the old layout....

At least this weekend I get to breathe a bit....

Welcome back to Hellie~!

Yeap, new sem, new book for drawing!! (To think that it's left with a few pages.... -_-) Gonna call the front art 'First Page Freedom' tee heeee... Anyways, it's drawn out of sian-ness of art history. Gotta cram 60 pages of hardcore text in my head by tonight and here I am doodling away...... die die die....

With the recent playing around with watercolors, I finally tried out the brush pen I've bought from James before leaving Scrawls, and hey, it's really fun! While cleaning up my pencil case a few weeks ago, I suddenly thought of stuffing my old Daler and Rowney watercolor set inside it. As I'm now using tubes of holbein paint (a gift from Huiying!), the D&R set was kind of cast aside.... It was quite a waste seeing such a compact portable watercolor set collecting dust (and the colors are artists quality...), so now it's now travelling with me! XDXDXDXDXD



One of the pages of the drawing homework assigned, was painting Ping Ting >_< She has this habit of putting her left elbow on the table and the hand kind of stabling her hair from covering her face while she works on her drawings. Caught her with that pose in my sketchbook a few times XD Anyways, the brush tip isn't broad enough to do huge strokes, and I kinda need to work fast as the brush kind of dries up when I'm in the middle of painting a long stroke. However, that kind of creates a different style from what I usually do. Kind of interesting :D

And the 2D assignment that kind of got me back to the habit...



We were told to do a poster on some art trip to Japan (I think the lecturer is serious about the trip... cos she sort of made it a poster-making competition and is planning to print the winning piece out to be publicly shown). I had some hard time brainstorming, and did the piece in late night from 1am to 7am... At least I got some 3 hours sleep before that. However, the size was too big. I thought A2 is double the A3 size... so when the new document box came out in illustrator, I doubled both the height and width, making it A1 instead. Only realised my error at the print shop, forcing me to amend my poster on the spot, changing some stuff here and there. They was subtle changes, yet the impact was strong. I wasn't satisfied with it in the end, but heck, it's either that or dead-line. T_T Ah well.... learnt something new anyways... double size means double the height....

Blast again!

Yea, another submission of the same idea as before, just a change in the illustration and treatment. Somehow, i prefer this one XD

Yea, haven't been drawing much this week. Wondering what I'm busy with all these time..? Guess gotta start planning >_<

@ club Blasting off!!

Whew, tot the deadline is over, but they extended it! Ah well...... heh, the three nights of chionging is still worth the excitement, I suppose. XD Yeap, me decided to join the contest. Not for the prize (what the hell is the @ club anyways? The info was vague!), the thought of making the logo nudged my lazy brain when I read through the contest details... Got a simple idea in mind and decided to go ahead with it.



Yea..that's the first logo I thought of. Didn't quite look as good as I wanted it to be. It appeared more 'sunshine- beach- clubhousey' more than the 'exploded, surprise, young' sort... So...didn't expand on the idea to the card and tried to think of another one.



Quite like it, so went ahead with it to the card.



Ah well, that's about it :D (Hmm....I wonder if there's something wrong with my monitor.... The colors seem a bit too saturated >_< And when I uploaded it to blogger, it goes even more haywire....)