Assignment 5 Second Strike

Right. There weren't much changes needed so it was a quick job.



comments and eggs please.

Assignment 5: LOVE

It's done! I realised my sketch and the final are two worlds apart.



Explaination: A grey background with silhouettes to show the masses and monotonicity of the world, and a pink lady tied to a blue dude by a thread turns. There's a cultural reference here for the red string, as it's referring to Yue Lao, the matchmaker in Chinese folklore. So the jerk from the string halts the couple and their things fall off from their hands to show the shock and impact of the moment.

And as for the logo, well, no love is complete without some humour, no? Comments please!

Some I got was:
- The. Words. Are. Bad. i.e. the font needs to be a little more classy, and the colour is not complementary with the existing powder pair (pink and blue). The positioning of the words are not appropriate as well, but there's barely space for the words too, so I have no choice but to place the words where they are.
- The background is too dark, but its a necessity. The foreground elements are of a powder pink and powder blue. These colours are light and pale in nature. Should the background be any lighter, they will blend into the background, and the meaning in the card will be lost.
- The matchmaker's string needs to be more prominent. Possibly a brighter red or a little glow on it.

Assignment 5: LOVE - sketches

Finally I jumped onto a scanner, so i scanned in the sketches just to show people what went through my mind. =/ The assignment this time round is to make a card. A greeting card based off a theme of love (No killing this time round. Damn.) and so my mind churned out these two ideas:





So yeah. It's hard to see what ideas they are conveying so I'll probably stick to the top one, and see how it goes.

Assignment 4: Save/Kill/Prevent something.

Assignment 4 is about doing a poster to help or destroy something. So I wondered what idea to use when my girlfriend suggested rabbits. Turns out that her boss is born in the year of the Rabbit, so in exchange for taking up her challenge, she will be pinning a printout of this poster in her office, and preferably, take photos of her shocked boss staring at the poster.



The design layout was intended to draw attention to first "Kill the Rabbit!!", then subsequently, the rabbit in the crimson moon (I had no idea how to draw an illuminated moon though =/), then to the mountain of carrots, then the minions, then finally the small print, since the majority of the message would have been brought forward by the more prominent details. What are your views?

Some I received was:
1. The night sky can be crimson with a white moon, rather than a red moon with a deep blue night sky.
2. "Kill the Rabbit!" needs one exclaimation mark less and be of a bolder font, to be more prominent.

Overall this assignment is quite welcomed because its against the norm, which is relieving for me. =D

Assignment 3: You see what I see

After finishing this one, I got kinda worried because everyone who saw it couldn't understand the story. It might be because I used a story that requires a little of a twisted mind to comprehend. We'll have to see.

post war: Comments I received was -

- The final frame was nigh understandable. It was only when I pointed out that it was scythes on the floor did people go "Ohh..." That one needs editting.
- The twist is too shady, and more than one twist makes the story harder to comprehend. The original intention for the twist is that I beat the Reaper, and that more than one has tried to collect my soul, but I figured that this is not good: People cannot get the twist easily. The climax was also not very prominent as well. Might be changing the last few scenes totally.

Sigh...

The lack of a scanner is making my blog updating hard. The storyboard goes here once I get my hands on a scanner.