Adobe Workshop - Illustrator for beginners, Intermediate I & II, Advance

The most frequently used tool in Illustrator is the pen tool which I used very often too for most of my NM2208 assignments

 For the intermediate workshop, we were taught how to customise the brush tool.

Assignment 5 - Climate Change

The critiques I received from the tutorial group:

• the cause of climate change is not shown on the infographic
• there are no measurement units to show the data of the graph
• the name of the organisation is not necessary to be included on the infographic

Suggestions for improvements:

• use the food to represent the line of the graph
• do a bar chart with the cause of climate from the bottom to the top of the chart with the effects of the climate change
• shows how climate affect crop as a result affecting food prices
• design the infographic like a stock report base on weather color

Assignment 4 - Color Coalition

Final Prototype of the postcard:

Back of the postcard:



The critiques I received from the tutorial group:

• too spread out, no interaction between the objects
• ezlink card seems like floating in the background by itself

Suggestions for improvements:

• overlap creates some interaction
• make the transports pop up from the background
• show a person's hand holding a map and holding a bus on the map
• use the SMRT route map as a board game platform

Class Exercise E

For this week class exercise, we were tasked to pick two words from the list and use basic elements to create two talking forms. The word I chose was "joy" while my groupmate chose "chaos". I used lines to form fireworks, the number of lines I used was even number because even numbers come in pair which are happy numbers. The colors I used for the lines were yellow and orange because both yellow and orange are colors associated with joy. I used a black background to bring out the fireworks look and using common sense; fireworks are usually launched during the night when the sky is dark. I added a few yellow dots in the background to enhance the overall look.

"JOY"

My groupmate for this exercise chose the word “Chaos” and his description is below:

I depict it by using earthquake and/or wall creaks and cracks as the basic design. The overall image shows ‘chaos-ness’ as the lines goes hay-wire. At the same time, the cracks were also random in terms of size and direction which ties in with the word, chaos.

"CHAOS"

Ex E Groupmate: Keng Kok

Assignment 3 - U C What I C

U C What I C



The critiques I received for this assignment:

• the concept of a female transform into a male is very hard to accept
• too many concepts within 9 photos is not advisable
• the rushing shots: staircase and corridor, are too static

Suggestions for improvements:

• maybe have a frame display the female took some kind of pills that caused the female-to-male transformation
• maybe manipulate or blur the rushing shots to create the rushing effects

Class Exercise D

For this week class exercise, we were tasked to take a few camera shots of a subject within or area just outside of the lecture theatre. I chose a can drink as my subject. For any human being, there is a head and body, whereas a can itself is just a cylinder. Hence, the types of shots I could take for a can is less compared to taking a human as the subject.

Long shot of the can



Full shot of the can

Low angle shot of the can

High angle shot of the can

Since this week Monday is Valentine's Day, I took a few shots of a bouquet of roses. I realised the types of shots for objects are ambiguous depend on how you define it.

Full shot of the bouquet

Medium shot of the bouquet

Close up shot of the bouquet



The first photo gives a close-up-eye level view of the object and gives a sense of ‘close-ness’ towards the object. More importantly, due to its eye level, it gives a feel of neutral and view of high details.

The second photograph is a close-bottom-up view of the same object. This gives a sense of ‘superiority’ to the object —> like being worshipped.

The third photograph shows the object from a long distance high angle view. This creates a feel directly opposite to that in photograph 2, a sense of lost and vulnerability.

The last photograph shows a general view of the object from a longer distance than that of photograph 3. This gives an overall neutral view of the environment the object resides in.

Ex D Groupmate: Keng Kok



Assignment 2 - Less Is More

For assignment 2, the task is to create one pictogram that comprises two celebrities or politicians. I chose Donnie Yen and Chuck Norris as the two celebrities. Donnie Yen is famous for his role as Ip Man in the two movies. Chuck Norris is famed for his roundhouse kick and the Internet phenomenon in 2005. Therefore, I chose the Ip Man photo and Chuck Norris in his kicking pose. The visual statement I want to present is two famous martial artists from the east and the west facing off.

After the class critique, the feedback I gotten was that there was no interaction between the two celebrities because the two were not in contact. The reduction process for the fifth and sixth was not much different. The suggestion I received was to add in a boxing ring as the background and bring the two characters close to each other.

*The new version will still be the same two celebrities but the photos used will be different. It is in the process of finishing.