NY 95th anniversary card

My birthday card to celebrate Nanyang's 95th Anniversary! (: It turned out to look quite aesthetically pleasing despite the fact that it was rushed out within three days(well, the whole card project, inclusive of the prep work). Haha I must say that I am rather pleased with this little card.

 

I remember that the first AEPers who saw this card were Si Ting and Pang Xin. The first comment that Si Ting made was: "That is so you". I guess that she meant that the flowers kind of reflected my own personal style, which I have continuously developed ever since the kimono project last year. Those handcut, hand-dyed flowers have become my trademark now. (: And I like making those flowers, depite the fact that I will take like 1 hour for one flower(so tedious and tiring ><).

 Well, both sides of the card are tied together with the red ribbon, so one have to pull the ribbon loose in order to open the card(which is highly not recommended cos the inside is blank>.<). This is a concept which I have came up with a few years ago, and I have often used this concept with my cards - be it teacher's day cards or birthday cards. An example can be seen here: Mrs Soh's birthday card
It was inspired by the wrapping of gifts - opening the card would be like opening a present. (: Well, I stuck the on the silver gems one by one...it is supposed to give the card more detail and a more decorative, finished look! (: It also made the card look more pretty I guess (:

 MY PREP WORK(Arranged in order) :

Mindmap: The typical first page of my prep work for every assignment. -.- Well, it is to crack my brain for ideas and to sort out the ideas in a neater way. I realise that throughout these 4 years, I have developed a distinctive style for my mindmap! (:

 Research pics: The typical second page of my prep. -.- Haha, it is to source for images which I could refer to!

 Drawings, which is an attempt to fill up more space actually... I don't really see a need to draw so many things as my final piece is handcrafted with minimal drawings. But I guess it is an essential part of prep work for every assignment. Oh well...

 Experimenting with different fonts and text! And trying to decide if I should include English or Chinese words on my card...I believe that bold and impactful text is an important component of the cover page of cards!

Hands on experiment. Dying newspapers with expired tea so that they look old--> The one dyed piece of paper which I included on the final card is supposed to show the fact that Nanyang has a long history of 95 years...Artist influence is included on this page! (: I was really inspired by the handmade cards by Julia Stainton! (: Click on her website to view many more beautiful paper crafts and cards!!! :D

Haha, composition. It is also an essential part of every prep work.

 

 

 

Now, it is being displayed at the art gallery, on one of the walls. It is displayed along with the birthday cards of fellow AEPers! (: I feel that each card reflects one's individual style and even though the purpose of the cards are the same, it is the different styles that makes each and every card unique and special in their own way! :D It is somewhat like a reflection of our personal identity and artistic style, which we have developed throughout the 4 years in AEP. (:

Sec 3 lifeskills camp logo! (:

Designed in 2011.

This is not the final, only part of it.

Why didn't I scan in the final design? >:(

But I still like the ship anyway. :D

Character Design in Sec 1 (:

                                                Basketballie and Minton(2009)
                                               Medium: Poster Colour on A3 Drawing Block


Basketballie is the one whih looks like a basketball and Minton is the one that looks like a shuttlecock. I was a very very sporty person at that time so I based my character design on sports! (: This is for me to reminiscent the 2 very sporty years of my secondary school life.
Art is inspired by our very own lives, by what we believe in, by what we see, by what we feel and by what we love.

Oops, basketballie got smudged the day before the assignment is due... :/

Blogger decided to flip the image when I uploaded it... >< Urgh. Anyway this is a page that shows the emotions of these imaginary characters. Cartoons have feelings too!!

To tell the truth, I like basketballie more! (: Well, I was a basketballer so I would prefer this character. And the roundness of Basketballie makes her look so cute! Haha (:

 

Math Revision Booklet Cover Design (:

Yay! (: This was done with Small Shu Hui and Tze She during the december holidays! Well, Mrs Ng asked if I want to design the math revision book cover before EOYs so I said ok, then I dragged two AEP friends with me! :D Well, 3 brains are always better than one!

Well, actually we did one for upper and lower secondary, ok, it was just one design created and we just changed the words from "upper" to "lower". HAHA :D

This was inspired by foolscap paper. Like a typical type of tabletop scene when you are gonna do math. You have a piece of foolscap paper in front of you and math instruments on your table.

Hmm, just went to talk to Mrs Ng just now and got some feedback about it. Well she said that it issomewhat too cluttered. I agree. There are a lot of things going on and I do not detect a focal point of the design. Maybe we should have added something big and striking as a main focus of the design? Well, maybe we could have altered the instruments' size to create contrast in size?

Well, but I think that we produced quite a decent design in a short span of a few hours, cos we spent the rest of the day talking about random stuff. (: