Assignment 1: A finished Me

Well, upon showing my drawings to the class, I guess the general response could be said as... agreeable. Fantasy wasn't really that much different, so there wasn't much to comment on, while the Restrictions had 2 comments: to remove the cone and to perhaps, use the idea of the cage on what of the letters. And also to include that do not cross tape somewhere. Well, I'm truly glad someone appreciated my restriction design and said it was easy to see on first glance.

The final design of drawing first, and then sketching took a very long time to complete, partly due to my urge of wanting to be perfect, and partly due to my apparently (very) inadequate skills in photoshop. Well at least I learnt quite some things there. Drawing the roughs out took a long time, but the true problem came in scanning and photoshopping the entire image.

Fantasy Final

The Fantasy image felt simple until I realise the difficulty in trying to make a realistic colouring/shading combi for the scythe. And that was the beginning of my problems. The hat was ok, but the dragon was simply... Oh My God. I loved this dragon ( which I named aptly, Alucard for my favourite anime character) but illustrating him was a pain in the... In the end I had to redraw the entire dragon with mouse which was much harder than it looks without stylus or those tools. Rippling the effect came later with some online tutorials which I was pretty happy about, and I managed to curl a few of the letters together with the dragon tail. After that I went with a white background cause I loved the colour white and gave it some misty cloudy feel as background, and finished off the letters witha shading of blue. All these took incredibly long... maybe like 3 days? Mainly due to my lack of photoshopping skills. But the effect was nice... I liked the rippling effect especially.

Restriction Final Sketch and the completed edit

The restrictions part I finished faster because I learnt alot from working on Fantasy. Simply define each letter, then illustrate them all, and colour. The difficult part came in details again... I realised the chains which I added was extremely difficult to copy over... so bad news... back to.. mouse drawing again.. Each chain by chain... That was a painful process which still chills me, so I won't recount it. Needless to say, I endured through and ended up with a rather nice effect. (which sadly, I actually liked better than my Fantasy) I bordered it black to contrast with Fantasy, and filled the inner with smoke to give a very congested, choked feeling. Added a signboard with a no food and drinks sign ( no, I DONT HATE TRAFFIC SIGNS) and called it a day. The effort was excruciating, but at least, I guess the class appreciated my efforts ( I think). Still, Please comment on it if you think There's more places that could be changed.

Strange to say this, but I look forward to the next assignment.