Monkey Business

This is a poster that I did in June this year. We were taught how to use Photoshop to design a poster in my CCA (AV Club)'s June camp. The poster was supposed to be an advertisement for Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (because we went there for a photo field trip). I thought it was really coincidental because at that time I just decided to make posters for my coursework. It was really good practice for me as I was taught the basics of Photoshop.

Note: I didn't take the photograph, I found it on the Internet.

my prep boards

These are photos of my prep boards:

(1) my artist's statement, first mindmap, brainstorming etc

(2) my research on different children's activities. includes some sketches and photographs.

(3) continuation of my research + my inspiration

(4) my concept development. This board is very wordy because I changed my coursework idea a few times and I'm not very consize.

(5) this is a collage of a selection of the photos that I took. I wanted to explain each one (or at least some that have varied themes, subjects) of them initially but I realised they would not fit nicely into 1 board unless I overlap them!

(6) this is elaborating on the themes of my final pieces.

(7) continuing of the elaboration...

(8) some ideas I had for my slogan + my final works.

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my final final work!

These are the pictures of my final work, after I cut out the silhouettes. I took the posters at an angle to minimize the reflection of light on them. I pasted the posters on a transparent sheet of plastic, this is to allow me to stick back some parts (for some of the posters) that are not attached to the main piece.

^ This was the most time consuming one, because the bicycle spokes left a lot of little holes and I had to stick each one of them back manually. The glue didn't stick very well, hopefully they are still intact :/

my final pieces

It's Week 9 of Term 3 and I've finished editing the 5 photos that I'm using in my poster series! I also added in the text (slogan of some sort) to the pictures. The main links between the 5 photos are the silhouette (one in each) and the text ("WHERE ARE OUR CHILDREN? don't deprive them of their childhood").

However, I'm not completely done with my final work. I'm planning to cut out the silhouettes and leave this empty space in the picture. This is to better represent my idea of "missing children" and how children nowadays aren't doing the activities they should be doing, such as playing at playgrounds and flying a kite. To do that, I need to wait for the pictures to be printed. So right now I need to start working on my boards.

Long due: (B)ARMOS logo design

This is another assignment that we did quite a long while ago. Every year, we have to design logos for our Lifeskills Camp. This year our camp theme is: (Becoming) A Respected Member Of Society.

This is my mindmap, with some pictures that I found from the Internet. They act as research.

Below are my 3 initial designs:

This is my final design (outlined with black marker):

Long due: experimenting with different ways of drawing

A long time ago (it was so long ago that I can't even remember if we did it this year or last year), we did an drawing exercise where we were supposed to draw certain still items (placed on our tables) in different ways: gestural, close observation and contour. We were also supposed to doodle. Below are my drawings:

GESTURAL

I thought this (^) was pretty awful because I do not like to and can't really draw humans. I was trying to draw a Barbie doll. I think I just gave up drawing the face and thus it has no face :D

I think I used charcoal for this drawing (above). I like how the hat turned out because the smudged areas make the hat look coloured.

DOODLES

I don't really doodle because I can't multitask very well (so usually in class I'm either listening or stoning. but never both at the same time). However, when I do doodle (when I'm really bored or when I was younger), I tend to draw cartoons that came from nowhere.

CONTOUR

I don't like contour drawing, because when I draw I tend to sketch (and end up with very rough sketches with a lot of lines). It was quite a pain for me to complete the requirement of 5 contour drawings for this exercise.

CLOSE OBSERVATION

I shall explain why I am posting this only now, when even my coursework is almost completed. I actually scanned the drawings in quite a while ago (in March) but then due to my forgetfulness, my thumbdrive (with all my scans) ended up in the washing machine. Miraculously it survived, and being the kiasu person I am, I copied all the files in the thumbdrive to another thumbdrive. And luckily I did because the thumbdrive died soon afterwards. However for some reason, I completely forgotten about these scanned images. Until just now, when I was browsing through my thumbdrive. So yup this is why I posted this so late :)

silhouettes

I realised that I have not clearly explained the idea for my final work. It is basically going to be a couple of pictures (of activities such as kite flying, playing on the swings etc). I took the photos used in my posters on my own and then I super impose the silhouettes onto the edited photos. I am using silhouettes in my final work mainly to represent the feeling of missing and gone. As my photos are of children's activities, I hope that by using silhouettes to represent the playing children, I can show that children are missing from these activities.

Below are the silhouettes that I did. For some of them, I referred to photos of children that I took while for others I referred to photos I found on the Internet. I didn't directly outline the silhouettes completely, I also had to edit the silhouettes to fit my pictures.

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This is a silhouette of a kid climbing. The picture that I referred to was of children rock climbing. I had to edit some parts of the silhouette from scratch because the photo that I had in mind was not a picture of a rock wall.

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This is a silhouette of a girl. The picture that I referred to was from a photoshoot, so the little girl was actually posing for the camera. I used this silhouette as a kid peeking around a corner, like she was playing hide-and-seek.

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This is a silhouette of a child flying a kite. I had to refer to 2 different photos for this one, because for the one I had with the kid running, well, he wasn't flying a kite. It is not shown here but I also added in the kite string for this silhouette.

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This is a silhouette of a child cycling. I referred to one of the photos that I took when I was going around taking photos during the June holidays. I'm really proud of this silhouette because I spent the most time on it (the spokes of the wheel nearly killed me). Of course, I had to simplify the silhouette later because I'm planning to cut them out.

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This is a silhouette of a child on a swing. The 2 brown lines are supposed to be the ropes/chains of the swing but I think the silhouette still looks weird like that on its own (without a background picture).