E-Assignment2!

It is really great when I am told that one of the weeks is e-learning week where all students do not have to attend face-to-face lecture and class. We will just have to log in online and do whatever we are told. As for tutorial, I am supposed to upload my assignment 2 which is on levels of abstraction to the forum one hr before the tutorial starts. After that, I will just be giving comments for my classmates' work, reading and replying to the comments by my classmates. What a wonderful thing to do at home :)

As for lecture, we are just to view a video showing us about what we are supposed to do for assignment 3. It's quite a short video and most importantly, I am viewing it at home! So basically for assignment 2, I am supposed to pick one object and then think of an icon for it. Then after that, I simplify it til it can't get simpler! Following that, I will have to pick one of the level which I think will still carry a meaning of the object for the viewer. The attached image was what I did that day.

Iconic & Indexical

Before the start of assignment 2, I was taught in lecture about some different ways of representating an object. The 3 types of representations taught are iconic, indexical and symbolic. Basically, it was about coding and decoding of a message by both the sender and the receiver.

The lecturer emphasized on the importance of coding the message. The reason is to allow the receiver to be able to get the right and intended message. After the introduction of the representations, he went on to talk about the levels of abstraction. On the whole, it was teaching us the steps for simplifying an object and an over-simplified one will evetually carry no meaning.

Soon after that, the students in the lecture were told to think and draw one iconic and indexical sign. The attached image was what I thought of that time. Basically, I was trying to use the iconic sign I drew to signify death. Whereas for my indexical sign, I was actually trying to draw a flask of poison which I used the green colour and the skull to further allow others to understand that it is something deadly and undrinkable. Thus by using this flask of poison, I tried to let it indicate and signify death.

The beginning of Me Myself And I

Although assignment 1(Me Myself And I) has its final design, alot of sketchings and work have been done before finalising the end product. I will put up my sketchings during those time in this post and hope they won't give you nightmares :)

Personally, I feel the idea of having more sketchings is actually trying to give us more choices for our final design. These sketches were brought to class and comments were given by my classmates and tutor. They were really helpful at that time because of these suggestive comments, I am able to decide which of the sketches I want to choose. Maybe if you didn't notice, my final design is not really from one sketch. I took the good ones from the respective sketch and joined them together. ^^

Me Myself And I

Its really a shock for me when I realised I have to do so many drawings ~_~ , I remember my mum brought me to a drawing class when I was young. I never really hate to draw and by following the teacher's instructions, I could more or less draw some decent pictures. But when I decided to stop going for the classes, I also returned what I had learned back to my teacher. Since then, I can't draw for nuts #_#

After the first lecture, I know the days are going to be real hard for me for this module because til now, it's more about drawing, drawing and more drawing. Left with no other choices, I try my best to draw as well as I could. There are alot of times while doing this assignment, there are quite a few ideas running through my mind, the different shapes make by objects, but I will always "cry for help" because so what I have the ideas, but I can't freaking draw!

Then I often will have to search here and there for sample drawings to have some ideas how other people draw. It is really tedious because it is not easy to find the one that matches with what's in my mind. However, by doing this really helps me alot at visualising. At times when I completed some of the letters, I got the sense of satisfaction :) Although it is not easy to think of the shapes to form my name and to draw it out, I feel really glad when I look at my "masterpiece".

Even I know my drawings are definitely not of high quality, it still feel good to look at it. Haha...... It gets more fun when I have to present my drawings in class. Presenting in class allows me to get constructive comments from both my tutor Ms Swati and classmates. Not only that, I still get to see the masterpieces of my classmates! Most of them did really great job. Their ideas and drawings are really fascinating. Furthermore, Ms Swati has also added quite alot of comments for our drawings. I feel that her comments really help me alot to further improve on my work.

My nm2208 tutorial starts at 8am in the morning. I , who live in Tampines, will have to wake up as early as 530am @_@ but at least I don't feel sick of this tutorial because each time I will surely learn new things and there will always be fun and laughter in class. It is really great that Ms Swati not only help us with constructive suggestions but also jokes around.

As for this assignment, I decided to draw one hate and one love. Personally, I feel drawing what I love is not as difficult as drawing what I hate because when thinking about drawing what I hate, I have to think of how I can let the viewer know that I actually hate what I am drawing. For what I hate, I draw snakes. Initially, I only drew snakes forming up the shapes for my name. However I feel that cannot really convey the message to the viewer that I hate snakes. So I thought hard and an idea came to me that maybe I could convey my message by drawing how I hit or kill the snake or even what makes me hate snakes.

Now I have the idea, but there are limitations to my drawing skills :( More searches to help me out with how to draw. After drawing, I have to learn more about photoshop and illustrator to do the final design for my drawings. I feel it is surely not an easy task to do this assignment but I can say that the process involved is really fun and fruitful. I always tell myself that sometimes in life, it's not really about the destination, it's about the journey ^^

I will attach the 2 drawings to this blog and hope my drawings won't scare anyone off :)