Assignment 1- Me Myself and I

Though the first assignment, this one is probably the most challenging assignment of the whole lot. The first reason might be that I was not yet familiar with Illustrator, which made the process a real struggle.

-----My initial concepts ----------------

- I love playing chess rough 1.1


I love playing chess rough 1.2



2.I hate being sick

Rough 2.1.
The hate for being sick is expressed through illustration of medical appliances.


Rough 2.2.


This second rough somewhat follows the first’s idea, however, develop it to a higher level whereby the “atmosphere” is infused more into the illustration, highlighting the discomfort one endure when falling sick.

-----Refining Process---------------------------------------------

For the "I love playing chess", the general comment from Siti and the class was that it's more of manipulating the letter to produce the image. The assignment was supposed to be the other way round: using the image of objects to form the letters of the name.

Since I couldn't really think of a way to make this idea look good, I decided to pick another concept, which is "I love autumn leaves". The prospect for this is brighter, as I could come up with several ok-looking illustrations as below:

- I love autumn leave_Rough 1:


I love the scene falling autumn leaves, and the calmness, mild happiness and tranquility such a scene induces. The posture of the tree, the leaves gracefully falling with the wind, and the warm colors of the leaves are some elements used to create those feelings.

- I love autumn leave_Rough 2:



Autumn is the season of memories, especially memories of highschool years for me. The notebook says Autumn 2007, which was the time I and my peers in Vietnam entered our last year in high school, before departing on our own very different path later on.

The notebook, the red and yellow leaves and the purple inks with the words convey a feeling of something treasured, kept dearly, and loved.

====Final products===========

From the roughs I was able to choose 2 ("I love autumn leaves"'s rough 2 and "I hate being sick"'s rough 2 to brush up for the final products. The results are as followed:

- I love autumn leaves


- I hate being sick!