random photos i took 
silhouetting the main object can be a good effect too!
I got to do this design because one December day my LA teacher approached me to do it for the montage.
She wanted an illustration to accompany a poem that was going to be featured in the 2008 montage. The poem is about a man and his donkey basically, you can go read it in the nanyang montage, the poem won an award!
So my LA teacher approached me and asked me to do an illustration of a man in red silhouette, one of him on his donkey, and another of him walking beside his donkey.
I did it by first drawing on a piece of paper, then scanning it into the computer and tweaking it with photoshop. Something really difficult while doing this was getting the donkey to look like a donkey, because whatever i drew just really looked like a mutant horse.
This was what i came up with :/ within a few days
(By the way, try to spot a really stupid error.)
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Title: Platero and I – Media: Multimedia – Size: A5 – Approx. date: December 2007
Haha did you spot it? Anyway its the fact that we really cant see silhouettes of trees in the night. hahahah its so stupid but i only spotted it after i sent the design in. Oops!
Anyway i think this two pieces are really ugly, because i didnt have enough time to make sure the proportions are right so its very awkwards. Also it was shrunk in the montage and had borders around it, which made it even worse.
Ah well lesson learnt, understand the requirements before doing anything!
My friend, Rachel, and I were approached by my teacher to do this since she was in charge of the graces camp booklet.
The idea was to have a ‘heart’based design, to represent graciousness, which really is the basis of graces, instead of graceful as projected by designs of women, swans etc.
And the restriction was that it had to be grayscale, to save costs on printing. So all i had to work with white, black and different shades of grey.
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Title: Graces booklet cover – Media: Multimedia – Size: A4 – Approx. date: February 2008
This was what i came up with and i still like it pretty much.
I cant remember what happened but we had to change it to a more 3D thing.
so i changed it to this:
Personally i prefer the first design. simplicity is good. The second design is too black and cluttered. and what made it worse was the horrible printing as expected which didn’t differentiate the shades of grey, so the design was practically full black which was quite bad 
Filed under: Writings
First excursion for GAP! happened sometime in January last year, it was fun
We went around the CBD loooking at the abstract sculptures present there.
Honestly i didn’t really understand the sculptures, because they are more abstract than realistic, so heres my best interpretation of what i saw.
This bronze sculpture is of a woman lying down sideways. Actually thats all i figured. It was in the middle of a water feature, contrasting the solid-ness of the sculpture. It gives me a feeling of commanding presence.
I did some research and found that this sculpture was a homage to Sir Isaac Newton who discovered the law of gravity, made by Salvador Dali. It is represented by the hanging ball on his right hand. The artist also opened up the body and head of the sculpture and hung a heart and mind respectively in the space. This represents the two factors- ‘open-heart’ and ‘open-mind’ Isaac Newton possessed to discover such an important law of physics by the fall of an apple.
However other interpretations say that by the open torso, open, head, distorted back of the head, and cut up feet, Salvador Dali seems to imply that Isaac Newton has become a mere name in science and is completely stripped of his individuality.
This sculpture is named ‘Bird’ by Fernando Botero
It signifies the joy of living and power of optimism because birds are traditionally associated with peace and serenity. The fattened bird gives a comical feel to the sculpture and gives it a quality of humour. It brings a feeling of light-heartedness and happiness to the people who pass it by (:
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Hello world!
Sec 4 General Art Program
My first post! Welcome to my wordpress! Its an art e-portfolio done up for school, filled with some of my works, polished or unpolished. and also some random idiosyncracies! Please feel free to comment!
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