Filed under: 2D works, Designs | Tags: baked beans, cans, coursework, label design, posters, rack
Here’s my LENY label! It’s done on photoshop and illustrator.
LENY LABEL
I particularly like the texts and the nutrition information label. I manipulated a photo of myself such that it has a more graphic style. The complicated tones are even, and the overall picture is brightened by quite a bit. The baked beans in the background (heinz vegetarian baked beans) are adjusted to become more yellow to give in a golden, royal look. Mmmm. yum yum.
Next, my poster!
5 big words ‘BUY 2 GET 1 FREE!’ , Simple enough to grab the audiences’ attention. However, I feel that the beans should be much brighter. It doesn’t look very appetizing.
Lastly, my price label!
Price Label
It is very simple, but yet striking and bold. $1 per can of baked beans, so cheeeeap!
ADD THEM TOGETHER, AND YOU GET……
FINAL
3 cans in a row
I got the rack from serangoon road. Cool, right?
I’m satisfied with the overall look of my coursework. If I had extra time, I would definitely get more cans to fill this rack to its fullest. If it is possible, maybe a wider range of products from LENY brand and a larger scale installation.
Beijing Olympic torch
Beijing Olympics Fever! Here’s a my variation of the torch.
Filed under: 2D works | Tags: Jimmy Liao, lone man, painting, tree, watercolour, 几米
Lone man
The sky in the background is quite messily done. The brushstrokes are not blended enough, hus creating such a messy and unfinished look. I liked drawing the trees. This style of drawing trees with lines to create contours is Jimmy Liao’s famous trademark (probably). It’s fun to draw lines 
Man with Umbrella
Man with umbrellaHere’s another drawing from the same book. Pls ignore weird stick-on effect of the guy’s right hand and the lamppost on the right. I made a mistake and had to replace those areas with another piece of paper, which unfortunately turned out to be of diffeent texture. I feel that the use of colours in this painting is quite effective, it brings out the ‘aliveness’ of man and the lights as compared to the dead and still tree at night.
Here’s my attempt to draw a woman in a really simplified manner. This style is similar to that of Japanese woodblock prints- straight, varying thick and thin bold lines.
- simplified woman
I feel that it will be definitely better in colour.
This tree is inspired by HuiKin’s clouds. I drew this in pen and added water to create smudges here and there.
Now I realise how tiring it feels when drawing this sort of tree in HuiKin’s style, haha.
Filed under: 2D works | Tags: thailand, wat arun, wat sutat, bangkok, chao phraya, river
Here are some photos of the temples I visited during my June trip to Bangkok, Thailand.
These 2 photos show the front and the side view of Wat Arun, Tmple of Breaking Dawn. The steps were super steep. I went up, but took eons to come down.
This photo of Wat Sutat is slanted because I was taking this shot while riding in an express boat on the Chao Phraya River. The currents of the river was rather strong, to the extent that I felt a little nauseous after the ride D:
These are cross-hatching drawings of stationery. The first one is done as a practice in sec 1, I think. The second was done hastily out of boredom during the holidays. I personally prefer the one I did in sec 1, especially the pilot pen right in the center. But I did attempt to explore more in my second piece, trying out texts, cross-hatching other kinds of textures (e.g. highlighter), although I made some errors in the dimensions of the pens. They look slanted from the side.
Filed under: 2D works | Tags: acylic, brushstrokes, classic, coca cola, collage, donald duck, old dutch cleanser, pop art
I love pop art! It’s cool and very fun to look at. After being so inspired by Pop Art, and especially by the works of Andy Warhol, I decided to do some works of POP! art too:
Coca Cola Classic
Out of the three POP! art works here, I love this the MOST! It really looks like an advertisement for Coca cola. I did away with all the gassy bubbles forming at the sides of the glass (in the original picture) and simplified all forms as much as possible to create this effect.
- donald ducks in a row
This work looks super funny, haha! I played with only 3 colours (red, yellow-orange, blue) plus black and white, mix-and-matched here and there to get 3 POP! art looking donald duck stuffed toy. There is minimal or almost no modelling at all, but I included the shadows to make it look slighly more ‘realistic’. I could have improved on my messy brushwork though, which I think will make my painting much flatter and POP! art-ish.
- Old dutch cleanser poster
I feel so sad whenever I look at this collage. That’s because the top and bottom of this work is cut off accidentedly by I-dunno-who. That makes my work look quite unbalanced and tilted D: Anyway, I enjoyed creating textures with acrylic paint and cutting them up to fit the together. The hardest part was to carefully cut out the shapes without creating any big obvious gaps and destroying the overall outline of the subject matter.
AEP coursework – holidays (5/6/08)
I painted this picture with watercolours. Winstor and Newton’s pan watercolours are so cool and professional!!! (PS: ignore the antenna-thingy on top of the woman’s head Huikin told me that uneven lines are not nice, and Guo Shu said that I should BOLD all my lines.
Here’s another one done in watercolour:
It’s very light… Well, considering this is my first attempt using watercolours to paint people, I would think it is rather okay However, I do not really like the dark green apron outline (above the waistline) and the legs.
And I created this fella too
I made him out of Wei Ning’s unwanted clay bones, haha! Yup, i’m ridiculous!
Filed under: 2D works | Tags: acylic, cat, collage, pangolin, texture, toucan
These two pieces of collage was done last year.
This collage is done in collaboration with Guo Shu (who now has a deep passion for collage) and An-ning, but I did most of the work for this particular piece. It is part of our group’s 5 collage pieces done for the PEEK project, which aims at educating young kids about the importance of the environment. The collage was put together with different textures which are painted with acylic. I personally prefer the pangolin’s nice, shiny coat of scales. It was really hard work working on that section of the collage. But, I feel that the pattern of the cat’s body is rather weird and plain, and its hands are too short. Maybe I should have made the orange stripes on its body more distinct and bolder, as it looks rather ‘undecisive’.
Taa Daa! My most favourite and enjoyable art piece ever! It’s a toucan! I love all the textures that I have created. However, I feel that maybe I should add an eye/eyeball to ot. It looks rather blur and lost. Haha. And mybe I should have extended the beak to make it resemble more like a toucan.
