Henceforth concludes my academic pilgrim of NM2208. It has been a wonderful artistic experience even though I have yet to fully grasp the mystics of visual art. Nonetheless it was a fun learning class and I appreciate all that has been taught.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
End of the Journey - Final Portfolio
Before I submit my portfolio which sadly marks the end of this wonderful course, I have finalized some changes in my previous assignments. I hope they look better instead of worse!
Assignment 5 - Postcard "ColourAsia"
Changes: Composition, Colour schemes
Assignment 4 - Poster
Changes: Composition, Positioning
Assignment 3 - Photo Story "Tale of the Magical Pens"
Changes: Resizing, Positioning, Touch Up
Assignment 2 - Pictogram
Changes: Refinement
Assignment 5 - Postcard "ColourAsia"
Changes: Composition, Colour schemes
Assignment 4 - Poster
Changes: Composition, Positioning
Assignment 3 - Photo Story "Tale of the Magical Pens"
Changes: Resizing, Positioning, Touch Up
Assignment 2 - Pictogram
Changes: Refinement
Credits
Goes out to all my group members, especially to Alvin who has dedicated his life into mastering the illustration for the comic strip! Well done I'm so proud of you
The Comic
The back story mentioned earlier serves to give the readers a more comprehensive understanding of the story premise. The storyline of the comic itself is rather simple, involving the father and his son who resides in one of the roof top communities. Story begins with childish drawings depicting sceneries and animals hung on the wall, as a dark figure appears to be tearing up the pictures. He then approaches the boy and threatens him to stop his ‘nonsensical’ drawing, when suddenly the boy’s father appears from afar, beckoning the man to leave his son alone. They soon get into a quarrel which involved connotations of ‘nature’.
It is not revealed to the reader that the feud between the community and the father was actually due to the fact that he had come preaching about nature (which was non-existent to the people of that era) and has upset the people when they needlessly sacrificed their lives in search of a myth. The leader of the group deems the father a madman, and soon casts him into exile, away from the community. The father leaves with the son knowing that one day he will find his paradise of nature, where then the people will be freed from hazardous wastes and polluted lands.
Slumped into a corner on one of the stairways, the father sighed dejectedly. The little boy then beckons his dad over and shows him something that delighted him. It was a live sapling he had picked up while playing in one of the abandoned offices, proving his father’s theory of nature’s existence. The twist comes as they began to embark on their next journey. Preparing to leave the building, the sun began to rise, revealing the massive waves of man made structures that stretched across the land towards infinity, with no traces of organic life in sight. The sun symbolizes a glimmer of hope for them.
Here is the comic:
It is not revealed to the reader that the feud between the community and the father was actually due to the fact that he had come preaching about nature (which was non-existent to the people of that era) and has upset the people when they needlessly sacrificed their lives in search of a myth. The leader of the group deems the father a madman, and soon casts him into exile, away from the community. The father leaves with the son knowing that one day he will find his paradise of nature, where then the people will be freed from hazardous wastes and polluted lands.
Slumped into a corner on one of the stairways, the father sighed dejectedly. The little boy then beckons his dad over and shows him something that delighted him. It was a live sapling he had picked up while playing in one of the abandoned offices, proving his father’s theory of nature’s existence. The twist comes as they began to embark on their next journey. Preparing to leave the building, the sun began to rise, revealing the massive waves of man made structures that stretched across the land towards infinity, with no traces of organic life in sight. The sun symbolizes a glimmer of hope for them.
Here is the comic:
Omg First Comic Strip Ever
I wouldn't have guessed I'd be tasked to do a comic strip, but that got all excited for my final group project. It took us quite a long while to brainstorm a feasible and interesting story but we finally did anyway:
This story is a slight deviation from the previous one, but the general set and theme is very much similar. The cast however, in contrast to the previous two ideas, are finally humans. Also set in a post-apocalyptic Earth this story is more direct in its approach in addressing socio-environmental issues unlike the Evolution Story. In this distant future of diminished ozone layer, depleted natural resources and severe global warming, disasters are a plenty. Flood has consumed many coastal regions by force, and the monstrous rise in temperature turned forests into deserts. Nature bore its wrath upon itself.
On the side of the human civilizations, over-population spiralled out of control. Lands were massively urbanised for the increasing burden of housing the people and technology was widespread. Every single inhabitable piece of land was beaten into submission as Man quickly devoured nature for his shallow ambitions. Soon nature became myths and fairytales as the human cities stretched on forever.
The serious lack of nature sped up global warming which promptly threw the world into ice age again, known as the “second melt down” (the first being the ice age which let to the extinction of dinosaurs). Instead of rectifying their environmental mistakes, the governments of the world decided to escape the earth in search of a more inhabitable planet, hence intergalactic migratory technology was researched. The result was a mass exodus of humanity into outer-space, leaving the trail of rubbish and material on earth to suffer the wrath of nature. However not all were able to board the migratory spacecrafts due to over population and the situation became chaotic as the
rich and influential bought their way into the spacecrafts while those who had neither money nor power fought a brutal skirmish with each other in order to survive. Soon it became clear that the ultra poor and the uneducated were the true victims to the ploy as they were abandoned by their comrades who falsely promised to return.
Without much knowledge on how to operate the remnants of the technology, the uneducated could not continue life as it was before the mass exodus. Without the diverse skills that the society once owned, serious problems such as sanitation and waste disposal became common and currencies practically vanished. Their very existence threatened by the dwindling supplies of food left in the storages and supermarkets as they lack even the knowledge to make food. Much of nature was inexistent anyways for farming to be possible.
Over time, hazardous waste pile up on the grounds forced the remnants of humanity to move upwards into the skyscrapers or any buildings tall enough to hold them away from the toxins lurking the ground. Thus the significance of the ‘two hour rule’, literally warning people from lingering on the grounds for more than two hours in fears of detriments to health. Soon humans began reorganising themselves into societies known as ‘Roof top’ communities, who dwelled on the roof tops of skyscrapers and survived on nothing but whatever food they might find in these buildings.
This story is a slight deviation from the previous one, but the general set and theme is very much similar. The cast however, in contrast to the previous two ideas, are finally humans. Also set in a post-apocalyptic Earth this story is more direct in its approach in addressing socio-environmental issues unlike the Evolution Story. In this distant future of diminished ozone layer, depleted natural resources and severe global warming, disasters are a plenty. Flood has consumed many coastal regions by force, and the monstrous rise in temperature turned forests into deserts. Nature bore its wrath upon itself.
On the side of the human civilizations, over-population spiralled out of control. Lands were massively urbanised for the increasing burden of housing the people and technology was widespread. Every single inhabitable piece of land was beaten into submission as Man quickly devoured nature for his shallow ambitions. Soon nature became myths and fairytales as the human cities stretched on forever.
The serious lack of nature sped up global warming which promptly threw the world into ice age again, known as the “second melt down” (the first being the ice age which let to the extinction of dinosaurs). Instead of rectifying their environmental mistakes, the governments of the world decided to escape the earth in search of a more inhabitable planet, hence intergalactic migratory technology was researched. The result was a mass exodus of humanity into outer-space, leaving the trail of rubbish and material on earth to suffer the wrath of nature. However not all were able to board the migratory spacecrafts due to over population and the situation became chaotic as the
rich and influential bought their way into the spacecrafts while those who had neither money nor power fought a brutal skirmish with each other in order to survive. Soon it became clear that the ultra poor and the uneducated were the true victims to the ploy as they were abandoned by their comrades who falsely promised to return.
Without much knowledge on how to operate the remnants of the technology, the uneducated could not continue life as it was before the mass exodus. Without the diverse skills that the society once owned, serious problems such as sanitation and waste disposal became common and currencies practically vanished. Their very existence threatened by the dwindling supplies of food left in the storages and supermarkets as they lack even the knowledge to make food. Much of nature was inexistent anyways for farming to be possible.
Over time, hazardous waste pile up on the grounds forced the remnants of humanity to move upwards into the skyscrapers or any buildings tall enough to hold them away from the toxins lurking the ground. Thus the significance of the ‘two hour rule’, literally warning people from lingering on the grounds for more than two hours in fears of detriments to health. Soon humans began reorganising themselves into societies known as ‘Roof top’ communities, who dwelled on the roof tops of skyscrapers and survived on nothing but whatever food they might find in these buildings.
ColourAsia Postcard
Assignment 5! Woot that concludes the last of our personal assignments for this module. Personally, I found this assignment theme the hardest to cope with as compared to previous ones. The notion of a colourful Asia was indeed a tough nut to crack, especially when we have to convey our ideas within the tiny constraints of a postcard.
Running out of brilliant ideas, I took to the fact that one abstract symbolism of Asia is that the sun always rise from the East, so Asia is where the sun first appears, which signifies hope and strength. Thus I painted my postcard background with sun rays originating from a point on the right side of the card. I made the rays curve to the left to signify Asia trying to present its pride towards the West. I then took the most recognizable and common man made structure - the temple - and place it with the sun rays. The reason is that even though temples differ among nations and religions, they are pretty similar, especially that of the Chinese, Japanese and Korean temples. I also added some bamboo leaves, which plays a huge significance in Central Asia.
The other purpose of this assignment was to let us experiment with different colour schemes and eventually pick out the one that conveys the notion of a colourful Asia best. I wanted to portray Asia as a sunny place, thus I ended up with the yellow rendition of the postcard, shown below.
Postcard designs with varying colour schemes in A3:
Final Postcard design "Sunny" colour scheme in A4, including the back:
Running out of brilliant ideas, I took to the fact that one abstract symbolism of Asia is that the sun always rise from the East, so Asia is where the sun first appears, which signifies hope and strength. Thus I painted my postcard background with sun rays originating from a point on the right side of the card. I made the rays curve to the left to signify Asia trying to present its pride towards the West. I then took the most recognizable and common man made structure - the temple - and place it with the sun rays. The reason is that even though temples differ among nations and religions, they are pretty similar, especially that of the Chinese, Japanese and Korean temples. I also added some bamboo leaves, which plays a huge significance in Central Asia.
The other purpose of this assignment was to let us experiment with different colour schemes and eventually pick out the one that conveys the notion of a colourful Asia best. I wanted to portray Asia as a sunny place, thus I ended up with the yellow rendition of the postcard, shown below.
Postcard designs with varying colour schemes in A3:
Final Postcard design "Sunny" colour scheme in A4, including the back:
Class Ex 2
As our class exercise requires us to represent two of the given themes with simple shapes, we decided to take on Passage and Order. Passage is simply represented by a doorway while Order is being represented by the 9 dots that are so often associated with monks. Apparently, the more number of dots (max 9) on the heads of monk symbolizes a higher ranking, and monkhood as deemed by us, is a good representation of Order.
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