Assignment 1: Your Name in Likes and Dislikes.

Okay - so this was the first assignment. I'm supposed to pick out something I like and something I don't like. Then I'm supposed to use it to design my name. Before embarking on the first assignement, I tried to list out the things I related with the two things I had picked (Dance & Lizards). These were:

Dance

(1) Ballet Shoes

(2) Footwork and Steps

(3) Body Movement

(4) Bars used for Ballet

Lizards

(1) Body Shape

(2) Tongue used to catch mozzies

(3) Disgusting tail that drops off

(4) How I really hate them and I want to exterminate them

These are the thumbnail sketches I came up with using these ideas:

My name is Charmaine and I Love Dance.

My name is Charmaine and I Hate Lizards.

So from this, I decided to pick these two for my further sketches:

Body Movement in Dance & Body Shapes of Lizards

I presented these two sketches in tutorial, and received feedback that the Dance one ... wasn't very nice. So I showed them the rest of my thumbnails and they commented that the Ballet Shoes was nicer, with the ribbon forming my name.

So in the end, for Tutorial 2, I came up with this, after much scanning, zoomed-in Freehand Tracing and playing around with colours:

My Name Is

And I Love Dance.

My Name is

And I Hate Lizards.

The comments I received were that it was alright on the whole, a good first attempt at freehand, but that the lizards actually looked cute, cos of the black round eyes. They suggested that I make the eyes slits instead, so I did some revisions to it, made the eyes red, and this was what I got:

My Name Is

and I Hate Lizards.

I guess this was a okay first attempt at design, and the comments that I received were very helpful in helping me achieve this. I felt that the lab for freehand was quite useful and aided me greatly - I definitely wouldn't be able to do it without the lab.

Yup, that's all for Assignment 1, I guess.