Exercise:
- Select 2 words which best describes your character.
- Come up with 8 design concepts.
- Select 2 concepts which you like most and
- Produce and present your selected designs on A5 size papers.
This is what I have brainstormed and drawn in my sketch book during the lecture. Although we are encouraged to come up with one 'love' & 'hate' design, but after much considerations, I think I will have more 'love' stuffs which i want to share... The 2 'love' concept I chose is 'rainbow' & 'Lord of the Rings'. Rainbow is my favourite colour since young, and Lord of the Rings is my favourite movie/book!
For the rainbow design, I find it hard to come up with a design that's creative, since by just using the rainbow color in the final piece, the concept can be easily captured. Though I did come up with the 4 designs, but I knew that only by using the concept of a 'real' rainbow in the sky, that will make my design more presentable...
As for the LotR design, I am quite excited about the ideas, since i really loved it... 2 things I that I feel can really represent the concept will be the 'Ring', as well as the LotR title font design, which becomes my 1st & 2nd design. Also, counting the no. of letters of my name (which is 9), the image of the fellowship immediately came to my mind. So i have the ideas of making each of my letters into a individual character of the fellowship, namely Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Boromir, Gimli, & the 4 hobbits, Merry, Pippin, Frodo & Sam... (which is my 3rd design
I went back home to do some more online research on my ideas, managed to find some pictures that can help me to finalise the details of my rough...
For LotR, I thought it'll be very interesting if i can combine the ideas of M&M characters into the fellowship.
So i further searched for each individual character of the fellowship, hoping to identify some key features to represent them.
But after much consideration of the difficulties & time constraints, I decided to drop the 'big' idea and go back to the font design. That's the 2 rough sketches I have done.
The comments I get during the tutorial presentation:
Rainbow- design appealing
- the name didn't really make use of the concept, it's just a letter block being cut out
- possible solution will be to incorporate the letters with things like clouds, birds, etc...
Lord of the Rings- may have to deal with copyright issue
- should have something for the general mass to know (i.e. the ring)
- suggest to mix & combine the thumbnail ideas into a new design
So, for my final design, I used Macromedia Freehand to draw the design. (using the techniques taught in the lab) I still don't have Adobe Photoshop, so I not sure how to do image stuff with just Freehand. Thus, my LotR design ended up very plain & boring, again, due to time constraints. But I think I shall further develop it along the way, when i manage to learn more techniques in the program.
But through this assignment, I have learnt more about the proper process of design, and the need to sketch out the rough ideas instead of just brainstorming inside the head. Well, I am still new with visual design. Just hope that I can slowly learn this sem... =p