Colour Wheel Project

Right after our paper cutting assignment, it was our colour wheel project which is our only group project! First thing first, Ms Fu had briefed to us some colour theory back in Fundamental Drawing's class and this class as well like complimentary colours, analogous colours, split complimentary colours, triad colours and much more! In this project, we have have to make an art installation by using the Colour Wheel theory. It didn't suppose ti be a very fancy or expensive installation as Ms Fu said that this installation will not be kept for a long time. So, we are divided into a group of four and along with me, I have Iman as the leader, Abby and Wei Wen.

'Inspirations for Colour Wheel project'

Next,  we were given some time to brainstorm and come out with 40 ideas for installation and each of us need to come out 10 idea. We googled a lot of it and manage to come up some of own ideas as well but all of us knew that we wanted to make our project to be interactive so that all our classmates manage to bond with us! Right after a week, we choose to install a galaxy themed party with  and all of the 9 planets piñatas to play with. Right away, Ms Fu told us that we have to make mock up of the planes, the scales, details and much more which will cost us a lot of time and money too. If we still want to proceed the idea, we must make sure that the scale is right and also, make it fun as this kind of installation has been done by other people before..

We sat back, took a few days more to get some inspiration and FINALLY, we thought of one thing, FOOD. Since all of us likes food that much, why not food installation based on Colour Wheel? We googled how does this art installation thing works and after we spent several hours of research, we decided that we want to make a ' Hanging Food Art Installation'  which we use the Colour Wheel as the inspiration. We also design a game before someone take any of the food we hung at the back of the class and believe me, it was kinda hard and this is because Ms Fu wants us to make it hard to play!

First, we make some codes for the foods we hung on and later the decoder need to break it, but before breaking it, the decoder need to hung a pencil at his back into a tiny water bottle first! Later, he's going to decode it and pass the code the the ' deaf ' which their sense of hearing is blocked by loud musics. Once the ' deaf ' got it, he or she need to pass the code to the ' mute '. We have to make sure that their mouth is closed and later pass the code again to the ' blind '. Once the ' blind ' got it, he or she need to walk over to the finder, blindfolded and later the finder need to spin for about 10 times to look for the food which the' blind' has the given the code to. The motif we designed this game is to be cooperative, to bond each other and most of all, to heighten their senses which sometimes we take for granted everyday..

Ideations

Preparing the food!

  

This two nuts...

So it was presentation day and everyone got preped up! We've seen other's group presentation and it was also very nice!! Not long after, we presented our work and luckily, everyone had fun! It was worth the hustle and tough times coming out with this idea. I definitely learnt a lot from this project and it was not only about the colour wheel, its about team work that brings us together! I hope Ms Fu likes our presentation as well and really can't wait for our final project! Till then, see ya!!!!

Presentation Day!!!

Greeting Cards

Hey guys! After a week from our group Colour Wheel project, we are to submit our final project which is greeting cards! Ms Fu briefed to us about this project which is to make 5 cards with envelopes in it, and a folder to insert all the cards in it. And also, we have to make our cards based on a specific theme and luckily we are free to choose any theme! But before that, we were briefed about the history of greeting cards and brainstorming it later to produce 30 different ideation.

Definition of greeting cards

Based of Wikipedia, greeting cards is an illustrated piece of card or high quality paper featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment and the purpose of making a greeting card is to convey thanks or express feelings. 

History

The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year. Besides, the Egyptians covey their messages on papyrus scrolls and also, the Germans are known to have New Year's greetings from woodcuts.

Chinese  Cards

Egyptian Card

German Card

Types of Greeting Cards

1.Photo Greeting Cards: There are two types of photo greeting cards. The first type are photo insert cards in which a hole has been cut in the centre. A photo slides in just like a frame. The second type are printed photo cards in which the photo is combined with artwork and printed, usually on a high-end digital press, directly onto the face of the card. Both types are most popular for sending holiday greetings such as Christmas, Hanukkah& for baby showers.

2 Personalised Greeting Cards: Websites using special personalisation technology, such as Moonpig, allow consumers to personalise a card which is then printed and sent directly to the recipient.

3.Reusable Greeting Cards: These are greeting cards for the budget conscious. There are two common formats for reusable cards. Firstly there are cards with slits in them positioned to hold pages. Secondly there notepad style cards where pages stick to the back of the cards. 

4.Risqué Greeting Cards: Risqué greeting cards are cards contain adult-based humor and cartoons. The humor in these cards can sometimes be offensive too.

5.Musical Greeting Cards: Recently greeting cards have been made that play music or sound when they are opened. They are commonly 3D handmade birthday cards which play traditional celebration songs such as Happy Birthday To You.

6.Pop-Up Cards: Pop-Up Cards are normally cards that, once opened, have a picture coming outward, giving the reader a surprise. Pictures and printed messages in greeting cards come in various styles and colours. 

After doing some research, I choose the Risquè type of cards and also chose 'Happy National Orgasm Day' as my theme that is held on 31st of July. The main reason I choose this odd day as my theme is because of my intention to spread knowledge, humours, and also awareness  about orgasm to my classmates. As a result, I come up with 5 different metaphoric sex toys cards including a dildo, vibrators and butt plug.  Few days later, I met Ms Fu and asked her opinions as a designer's point of view. Surprisingly, Ms Fu asked me to proceed with it and also mention to make it as metaphoric as possible because a straight up sex toys cards looks boring and sometimes, very offensive to the public especially the country that I live in.

Not long after, I cut out the cards using only black coloured cards as a base and started decorating it with different types of papers with texture, colours, decorations and many more! I make a mock up of the cards and was told by Ms Fu to make it look cleaner and neater as there are some scratches and its kinda dirty also, thanks to the glues.

I took off some of the coloured paper, paste it again and make it look more refine as well. Also, I tried out some cards mechanism that contain greetings, facts, or jokes about orgasm to paste the back of my cards. The mechanism was kinda hard for me because I had never done any of it before and thus, I took a great amount of time to make some  mock ups and trails. It was a trial and error along the journey of making these cards! I did several types of mechanism which is the ' waterfall', 'push and pull', '3D pizza' and many more. Moreover, i added several decorations like wiggly eyes, synthetic hairs and thumbtacks to make it look eerie and at the same time, to try make it as metaphoric as possible.

After making the cards, I also designed envelopes for each card and a folder to insert the cards in. I use red coloured butter paper as an envelope. It looks kinda simple as it is just a simple wrapping and yarns to tie it and for the folder, I designed a book and the cover of the book  looks like a vintage Playboy magazine with a lady sprinkling water at her butt. The reason I used that photo is because my love for the pin-up eras and also to throw in some Risquè parts in it. I pasted my cards on a blank black paper only to make it look simple yet mysterious. The reason I make it blank is to make a surprise when one opened the envelope, from my point of view!

My Cards!

 The Folder

 First page of the book

My cards with its envelope 

So I presented my card yesterday and it is really a sigh of relief as we some time to concentrate on our other projects. Throughout this project, I did learn a lot about typography, cleanliness and also coming out a strong concept and I really want to thank Ms Fu for giving me tips even though she's being sarcastic sometimes.. Hahah. 

Paper Cutting!

Hi guys! Its been weeks since I've updated my recent post and voila! here I am now with our second assignment which is......(drum roll)... PAPER CUTTING...'meh'. Ms Fu briefed to us what is paper cutting all about and also the requirements, materials needed  for this assignment. BASICALLY, paper cutting is an  art of cutting paper into various designs! This form of art has been practised many years ago by the Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian etc. Let me show you guys some of the paper cuts done by this peoples.

Paper Cut by the Chinese 

Paper Cut by the Japanese 

Paper Cut by the Indonesian 

As you guys can tell, all of this paper cuts is very detailed and of course traditional. All of this art evolved uniquely to adapt to different cultural styles.  In the meantime, modern paper cutting art is all about details as well, graphics, and shapes. It was very inspiring for me as i looked through some of this remarkable deigns. Let me show you....

After looking at that, Ms Fu once again briefed to us about shapes sizes and whatnot. It can be regular shapes like squares, triangles etc and it can irregular shapes as well.We are free to create any design   we want. Not to mention we have to fill up 80% of the A2 size black sugar paper. Now that's a headache because first, I am not that good when it comes to cutting and second I have no PATIENCE! It is important for us to be patient because we will be cutting super FINE and NEAT lines because workmanship plays an important role in this assignment. It need to be extremely neat! No matter how good your design is, if its not neat then your point of doing paper cutting isWORTHLESS. LoL. We were also to buy materials like  an A2 size sugar paper, cutting mat, drawing paper, cutter and also an A2 size mounting board because w will mount em on.

Not long after,  I cut the mounting board into an inch thick to make it as a  boarder and also designed my very own paper cut. 

This was the first design I drew and cut. It was a mess because I've never done paper cut before and also, I have stiff hands. What the hell! I got no choice but to cut it as gently as I could because as Ms Fu said, WORKMANSHIP COUNTS! It took me hours to complete the head of the queen herself. It honestly makes my eye crossed.. LoL

First Paper Cut Design

I was quite pleased the way it turned out and also showed to Ms Fu. After looking at mine, it was a 'OKAY' job for me only. Wait what? An 'OKAY' job???????? I took some time for myself to look again my work and yea, it wasn't PERFECT  and also NEAT enough in order to get good grades but i try to be optimistic as I can, which is to cut a nicer background so that it'll stand out. Once again, try to cut it as gently as i could so that no torn out work is shown and once again, making me having crossed eye again and not long after, our POD class is dismissed, continuing into our Fundamental Drawing class. When the class almost ended, Ms Fu sort of told us what to do for the Fundamental Drawing's portfolio and out of a sudden, Bryan asked us whose paper is laying on the floor and surprisingly it's MINE. FML!!!! The paper is torn into almost half and so does my heart. NOO! My handwork! 

So, I try to brainstorm myself and figure out how to fix that but Ms Fu advice me its better for me to create a new design because she said I might improve my artwork from the previous one but I insisted. Ms Fu is fine with that because after all, its my work, not her's BUT after a while, I  changed my mind, listening to what Ms Fu said, which is coming out another design. After hours of brainstorming, I drew another paper cutting design. It turn up to be the same design which the queen herself with more refine details and a sun background. I designed the queen into an Egyptian queen, which consists of The Eye of Horus which symbolise royal power and good health.       

Here are some of my new paper cut designs.

The second design also took me some time because of the new details which consist of fine lines, geometrical shapes, curvy lines, circles and also semi-circles and yeah, once again this paper cutting is really testing my patience because of the fine details I drew on it. After a long process of paper cutting, Ms Fu asked me to add more details on the design which almost drives me crazy but I got no choice but to add details as what Ms Fu said. Going back home with the feelings of despair, I continue back my work and added more details and after few hours of cutting, I'm OFFICIALLY done with my second assignment. Not long after, I went to campus at about 8 pm again to mount the paper cut and also helped my other squads to mount their work. I presented my work the next day and finally pass it up to Ms Fu. The feeling of relief and satisfaction that flows around me is just so good. I personally kind of satisfied of my job and not also not screwing it up. ...Here are  the final design i presented with, hope you guys liked it!

'The Egyptian Queen'

Once again, I feel thankful and blessed as well because without the guide from Ms Fu and the help from my friends this paper cutting won't turned out. So, thanks guys! And seriously, I really mean it. So thats all about it and till we meet again for the next assignment.. Bye!!!

The Final Portrait

So I have been working my ass of and also shown the media explorations to Ms Fu and asked her opinions about my final portrait that I am going to execute in a A3 size. After taking a look of all of my media explorations, Ms Fu suggested to me that its good for me to use the painting technique for the final portrait on a water colour paper or in a canvas. I have come up to my mind to use the water colour paper and mount it on a mounting board because I am planning to use only poster colour instead of acrylic paint. The reason I am not painting in acrylic is because I there is too many shapes I need to paint which is kinda hard and moreover, I am not that good in mixing acrylic colours. So I have painted my face and the body as well by referring the previous A5 portrait I had painted before but with some touch ups. I also painted the background with poster colours as well but with a toned down colour on it to make sure that it is not complicated and overwhelmed. Toning the colour down is just very easy, mixing a lot of white ink into the particular paint to achieve pastel colour. Simple as that!

Here are some of the process of final portraits..

Halfway there!

After several hours of paintings and sketching patterns, the end product had came out and it was a relieving day! I had finally finished my first assignment!!! Here's the portrait! Hope u guys liked it!

The Final Portrait of Myself

I've presented it to the class last Tuesday and it was a sigh of relief! It was fun yet challenging during the process of making this portrait.

So here's to sum up my very first Principle of Design's assignment. It was a fun yet challenging week throughout the process of executing this assignment but none of this will work without Ms. Fu's help and suggestions.Thanks a lot Ms Fu! This won't work without you! I hope you guys enjoyed reading my blog and see you guys very soon!