Playfull Shadows and Tracing

week 4
sem 1
"Shadows"

Shadows add depth to a hand drawn image giving a "real" effect on your work. We practised on shadows using the same pear we did the week before but this time, we'll add a little evil touch to it.



I used the same methods as before, by trcing out the pear shape and shadows but i added another feature. I aslo traced out the skull but the eyes area separate from the jaw so later i can give an open mouth effect.


I looked for an image of a skull which has an angle  to add perspective to the pear and with shadows, add depth. The colours i used dont resemble anything because the main idea is to obtain right shadow contrast in this situation.

There we go,  i flipped my pear around to give the skull more room, i angled the jaw slightly to show it opening up. different shades of yellow and orange were used here to cast multiple shadows. See how this gives a realisitc feel and depth, comic art at most.

Next we were given this image, the same concept was used whereby i would first make the opacity of the image less then trace out the man on the right. Adobe ilustrator has pre installed patterns which can be used for the fill which can be seen later. shadows can be put the same way, draw a line across the area in between where the shadow should be and the light colour. After selecting all the areas, i divided them and ungrouped them allowing me to select which areas i want darker and which i would want lighter.

TADA, my sweet bald devil. i added horns and a tail using the pen tool to draw out curves and shape tool to get the arrow. In this case, the orange coloured areas on the body are the shadows and the pattern i used was fish scales because of the colour resemblance.

CHOPCHOP & Pathfinder

week 3
sem 1
"Pathfinder & Fruits"

Here we go! the pathfinder tool but this time on fruits! lets allow the goats to rest for  a little bit from all that portal travel. We traced out a pear firstly by making the opacity of the image less, the shadow of the pear was made separately.

this is the pear we had used for tracing, as you can see the visibility on the left is rather bad but thats where imagination comes in. the shadow edge is where the line would be placed.

A few copies of this tiny pear was made. I filled in the pears shadows slightly darker coloured than the pears "original" colours. They suddenly don't look appetising, no?

I've also done a little something with my favourites, strawberries, for the chopchop exercise.

i first traced out the outline of the strawberry then seperately, the green leafy part.

Finally, we come to this point. On the strawberry  i added three shades including the leafy areas. using the pencil tool i drew out the seeds which i made darker on every shadow level.

The strawberry on the left is what you would see when it is chopped in half. I added a mix of colours you wouldn't find in an actual straw berry.

Pathfinder exercise

Week 3
sem 1
"Goats"

Yes indeed i mentioned.. Goats. This week we practised a tool in adobe illustrator know as the pathfinder tool. we were to outline a goat and use a method on pathfinder known as "divide" where multiple object outlines that are drawn, would be selected and then ungrouped, after dividing, every single interstion would not be connected and can be moved individually. :D magic like.

This image on the left is what we started from originally, as you can see, the goat on the far right was traced using a thick red outline and large bloopy eyes to add effect and signature design.

Next, i copied the goat several times and also traced out the rectangularto give this checker board effect. the yellow and green, internal affairs, were done coloured in using the swatch tool where multiple colours can be used for both the outline and fill.

This piece was done using a method in the pathfinder tool known as "divide". First i would make an elipse and slightly put the goat over the elipse object. then id select all, divide and ungroup. This allows me to remove unwanted parts of the goat making an illusion as if its going through the object (red goat). OR going through a portal (green goat). 

"Portal 3 - The High goats of time travel."

Lastly, i had a little fun with the direct selection tool which i had used for expanding the legs and horns, did 3 goats on one side then copied and fliped them and also changed the colour to give this full image and bam. Hi Goats.

CHOPCHOP sketches

Week 3
sem 1
"Chop Chop" 

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, chop chop? Well the most general would be 'time'. To hurry it up or complete something quickly. For me time was indeed running out as a fact, designers deadlines are really very important.

Here i have made a mindmap on basic definitions or phrases whereby "Chop Chop" can be used. For example, chopping bananas, a stamp, manslaughter.. etc. (:

This is an initial idea where i try to seperate or split faces into different directions to represent the many lives of a single person.

Stamp, chopchop on papers

These top two farely rough sketches i had put up have a knife involved, the first on the left is of a hand and the knife cutting through a fruit. This type of idea is where i would start going out of the box and add unicorns and things, from the basics to the extraordinary. 

On the left is a butcher knife where i used the same concept of splitting the knife in different directions. The irony.

..and finally i drew up the most common of what anyone would have thought of, a timepiece.

But this is no ordinary time piece, the falling numbers represent how time is running out and less hours, minutes, seconds are being posed.

HIDE AND SEEK? nope, its "Hide and Reveal"

Week 2
Sem 1
"Hide and Reveal"

          This class is based mostly on how we combine our visual narrative thinking skills from what is seen now and how we can transform a form into a visual perspective. Every week we get a word or phrase for example this week, Hide and reveal, we are to come up with an illustration based on this phrase. After a whole lot of experimenting and thinking we, especially myself, could not come up with much but as we got on with our classes, we started understanding what was expected.

These were my first few ideas

Basic ideas for Hide and Reveal assignment

Final idea and understanding

After a few ideas sketched out i had approached my lecturer where he had given me a greater understanding on how i could accomplish this assignment. What i did not realise was how much i was missing out, instead of exploring i was continuing on my basic ideas which could just lead me to less of a development.

My lecturer had presented me with some of the greatest visual artist who had worked with illusions in his paintings, Salvador Dali.

Dalis' work

One of my inspirations to my work above came from this painting by Salvador Dali, getting the object and foreground to be seen in different points of view messing tih your mind. Art.

After Finalising my work we moved on to complete it, for a cut out session this coming week, on illustrator.






I started out by using the pen tool and drawing out the basic outline to my idea, basically we would just do a breif idea on paper and develop it further on illustrator. On the left is how i started it out and the bottom it is the complete figure outline.

Latest alternative

This top figure is of a lady sitting between 2 trees with birds posing as the eyes. i later developed the idea by removing the birds outlines, adding ground and leaves for the hair(left).

Ofcourse we werent just expected to do this in illustration, it was the majority of us who did this for the first time. we were given an image to cut out and extract. heres how we did it with the respective image.

Image used

If you look close enough, the ice cream cones left descent has a blue outline with tiny boxes. Now this is done by using the pen tool, it basically alows the user to select wanted points and extract whatvere intended without any inequalities. With the pen tool we can even drag the line into a curve depending on the shape which allows us to select the curvy areas which can be barely succeeded with any other tool.

After 'Connecting the dots', i can change the interior colour which in this case is black, this informs me of which areas i had selected to be change or relocated.

TADA, finally completeing all three i could extract any single selected image and move it around as i like. There were a few other places i had tried this method out aswell!

Hipster Snowy

I had done  my personal work by extracting this hipster princess whereby i can later use for my own mac cover art. (:

Fin.