Assignment for the e-learning week

Honestly, I was VERY lost for this assignment. Thankfully however, I got it right after staring at the slides that were uploaded for awhile.

My object is..
this:

This is the birthday present last year from an old friend.
She bought it when I was having this obsession over excavators. ._.

Some of the comments that were posted on the online forum were that I should choose the 5th level of abstraction, and the “teeth” of the excavator hand should be taken away. So it’d look like a spoon instead!

This is to be printed in A3. I’d make some changes and add some colours and see how it goes from here.

Tutorial Week 2

This is the coloured version of “I hate storms”.It’s basically almost like the sketch that I had, but I changed the “W” from my name from falling leaves to the tree branches.

Used illustrator to trace it out, with my sketch underneath (explains for the weird pencil marks for the clouds =\ ). After that, I used photoshop to fill in the colours. It was rather tedious, for this is the first time when I truly have to use a computer software to colour something.

The comments given were that my “anyu” isn’t too obvious, and it is quite crammed together. Miss Siti gave the suggestion that it could be in landscape instead of portrait, so it will be more spaced out.
Also, the picture looks slightly like, “I like leaves”. I have totally no idea how to do that but perhaps, I’d try to change the ground to a darker colour and add more “rain” to make it look more stormy and gloomy.

Here is the coloured version of “I love Chinese Dance”.

Like the above, I’ve used illustrator to draw out the details and photoshop for colouring.

One of the comments that were brought out to me was that the background was too dark, thus making the whole piece seemed too concentrated and messy. However, a few (lighter) variations that were done earlier on didn’t seem to work too.

Both of them seems too light.

For the final piece for portfolio, I will probably try something more simple for the background. Another thing that I will figure out will be how to make some “shadow” effects at the bends of the ribbons. The wording for “u” seems too unnatural also.