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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!