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Assignment 1 is out! I can feeling my excitement slowly seeping away.. The assignment seems difficult.. ok.. maybe people will think im exaggerating, but for my a person of my standard, I think im not. Well, the assignment requires us to come up with 4 rough sketches each of something we love, or hate, and try to incorporate it into our names. Once again, I find myselfstruggling for ideas. But i was very enthusiatic about it and came up with a few ideas during lecture that day.(puzzle)

My initial idea was to have one love theme and one hate theme because I wanted to challenge myself.But i had real difficulty in coming up with 4 designs each. For both themes, I could only come up with at most 3 designs each before I find myself coming back to very similar designs. Hmmm... I wonder if it's just me or...

In anycase, I went away from lecture and had various ideas popping into my head whenever i went. Be it walking around in sch, driving, eating, I was constantly on the look-out for potential ideas that might give me enough design drawings. But nothing really materialise in the following couple of days.

Then i realised I was on the wrong track. All along i was thinking of "cheating". In a sense, I wanted to have a theme that gives me enough designs and then I will just write that I "like" or "dislike" that particular thing. But what i should have been doing is really think about what I really like or dislike and play around with the elements or things related to it. So, on Sunday night, I brainstormed and came up with several things that i especially love or hate. In the end, I picked Christmas and Soccer as my love themes.

Suddenly, I was very excited about the prospects of this assignment. I feel that,"hey, mayb I can do well for this after all."I played with a few ideas and came up with a total of 6 designs for my Christmas. But because of time constraints, I could only draw 4, leaving out my best 2 designs... I guess it's my way of working.. I always like to leave my best to the last.. think in future I should draw my best designs first.

my first christmas design

the other 3 designs

Because I had to have something of the other theme too, that's why I left them out too and began drawing my Soccer theme. I got inspiration from one of the images Julian showed us during lecture. The image was a few stick figures skating around, forming the student's name. So I thought I could do something like that too, just that I would use real comic drawingsinstead of stick figures to make it more realistic. Immediately, I researched a few websites to find the best image I could find and trace them out. But there were only limited postures that i could use, so I felt it was abit "forced".

My only other design for the soccer theme is the one where my name is made up of several soccer balls. I spent a total of 5hrs just drawingthe balls to form my name. But even though i put in quite some effort, it didn't turn out well because I ran out of space on the page. On hindsight, I should have done it landscape instead of portrait, or mayb I should have draw the balls smaller. I wanted to redraw them but tutorial was looming in under 2hrs. Anyway, it was only part 1 of presentation.. it wasn't going tobe graded there and then, so I thought, "I have done my best I could, let's just go and see what are the feedbacks first before modifying anything ba"

the bad balls design.. = (

cute rite? hEe~

Upon see-ing other tutorial mates work, I feel that my work is really rubbish. But i was still one of the first few who presented because i fear that, if i don't present fast, I may lack the courage to present when the tutorial is going to end.

As expected, I had to abandon several designs because the concept wasn't right. I used many exernal objects for my Christmas theme and just write my name on the objects --- which is wrong! They said the letters in christmas hats were ok, but I was rather skeptical about it. I wasn't pleased with it.. I feel i can do better than that.

Our tutor pointed out to me that the design with all the soccer balls making up my name was very loud and too obvious. It should be more subtle and make whoever reading it think abit. He mentioned the need for variations. If i want to use a soccer ball, one is enough, there was no need to use so many of them. But by then i had already decided to use the comic figures design, so I guess i won't try to modify the design with soccer balls.

In anycase, I liked alot of my tutorial mates design. Ying's night and cat design was so natural and the drawing is very nice as well. I don't understand why when some people say they cant recognise her name. Wanting also had a night theme, which i think is very nice too, especially the cat which she used to illustrate the 'g' in her 'ting'.

The most cartoon-ish one was Chong's Batman. I think the wordings are very alike those used in Batman and he was able to integrate the theme well. Shuhui's reading figures were by far the most natural, with them in various reading positions and spelling out her name. But throughout the tutorial I had a hard time looking at the work of others, because I was sitting in the row they were standing up and presenting. I make a mental note not to sit in that row in futuer. I find that I cant contribute much in tutorial because if i cant even see their work, I cant comment right? and as what our tutor says, 20% is allocated to tutorial participation and I certainly don't want to do badly.