Greeting Card

24.7.2014, week 16
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram (0320027)
Principles of Design
Final Assignment - Greeting Card

Right after we done presenting the colour wheel group assignment, Ms.Lisa had told us about our final assignment, making a greeting card. She said that we will have to design 3 theme based greeting cards and as for the theme, we are free to choose anything. As usual, we would need to think about 3 or more theme and sketch it out to Ms.Lisa via facebook(since next week is a holiday).
This assignment is due in 3 weeks.

Here are some of my sketches:

Feedback:

Ms. Lisa said that she like few of my themes but she wanted to see me explore my fashion illustration skills. She told me to make sure I embellish it with a lots of bling while keeping it simple and elegant. She wished me good luck.

7.8.2014, week 17
On the second week, we work on our cards while Ms.Lisa gave some comments and help with those who need she advice.
She told me she wanted to see some of the layouts I'm going to do for my cards. When I did, she suggested me to focus on painting instead. The idea was to keep it simple.

My progression:

The paper I'm using is a 300g watercolour paper.
I use everything with paints, except for the fonts. I choose those specific colours because I don't want it to be just my illustration but also part of my personalities, since its my favourite colour combination. I also put a little gold paint to make it more glamorous.

The hardest part of making this is to make sure the paint is neat and doesn't splat into the background. it was tricky, but I did my best trying to avoid it.

Making the envelope was tricky as well, I had to do it couple of times as prototype.

14.8.2014, week 18

My final work:

 First Greeting Card

Second Greeting Card

Third Greeting Card

Feedback:

Ms. Lisa was pleased with my cards. She was glad that I keep it simple in the end. She told me that even if it’s simple, it seem high class. She even asked me if I did the fonts myself, and I answered yes. She said I did a wonderful job. 

Thank you Ms.Lisa

I was quite shocked that she likes my cards because I thought my cards was not as great as other of my course mates. I think mine was pretty simple. But Ms.Lisa likes it, I'm glad. Even though, I'm still can't believe it myself what happened. It was really unexpected. 

This made me realize that my kind of style is simple yet elegant. Even if I feel insecure after seeing others amazing artwork, I need to tell myself that, it's ok, everyone have their own talents. It might not a bad thing if I try it out myself first beforehand, to see my own limitation but I would love to be adventurous and explore more into the world of art and designing. 

Colour Wheel

10.7.2014, week 14
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram(0320027)
Principles of Design
Assignment 3: Colour Wheel

On the previous week, Ms. Lisa had told us to formed a group of 5 people in one group. Since our class is 37, we divided ourselves into 5 group consisting of 5 people and 2 groups consisting of 6 people. However, there were a problem with splitting the groups, so we ended up randomize the whole class to make it fair.

My group members:
1.Katrina
2.Yasmin
3.Tia Nellisa(me)
4.Mahbuba
5.Jing bo


For today class, Ms. Lisa wanted to see the idea sketches, as usual.

Our sketches ideas:

In the end, Ms.Lisa choose our "Eye of Colours" using kolam technique.

Our progression:

(All of the photo are credits to Katrina)

Thanks you Katrina for arranging the colours for us to paint the rice

I'm teaching them how to do the colour rice technique

 Sticking the base together for the eye

 Added the sclera for the eye

Spraying the paper plates

 Arranging the eyelashes

 Jing Bo paste all the eyelashes together

 First attempt of melting the crayon technique : Fail

(By Katrina)

After I helped her, it finally worked out

 Arranging the crayons

Now for the fun part, melting the crayons!! 

We took turns melting the crayons as it was very tiring. 

Final work:

Materials used:
Eris= Coloured Rice

Sclera= Polystyrene(cut into chunks)

Eyelashes= Paper Plates spray with black paint and Feathers from a feather duster 

Tears= Crayons 

Extra= Black Tissue paper

The eye represent what we see around us. The world is not in black and white, it filled with so much colours and emotion. The tears on the the other hand was a symbol of happiness, because not all tears are related to sadness.  

After seeing others group work, I feel like it would be better if our work is in 3D as well.
However, I was quite satisfied with what it look like in the end.

Good work everyone and thank you Katrina for all the pictures!