It was intense joy the night we walked out of the art room, leaving our prep boards and books behind in the art room for once, and we realise we are free! woww….. hahahaha!
_______________________________
The theme for my coursework is toilet hygiene. It all started when one day we were asked to bring a piece of recent news that influences us alot. And being a prima deli fan, I naturally brought a report of the prima deli salmonella poisoning to class. Then the news hit. Do coursework based on this piece of news!
Basically, there were only 2 factors in this case. Do something related to responsible food handling, or toilet hygiene. So i chose the easier of the 2- of course the 2nd one.
My general idea was to do a children’s guidebook to toilet hygiene. For the first draft, I came up with an informative handbook on toilet hygiene. There were basically 2 mascots- toilet roll girl and tissue paper boy, who brought the readers along on a journey teaching them good toilet hygiene. I finished developing my characters and finished the whole story boarding for this concept, but in the end, i really couldn’t stand the idea of such a boring book, so i changed the whole idea. So my final idea was a story book instead, teaching kids to maintain good toilet hygiene through a story, which would probably appeal more to me if i was a child (think captain underpants and the talking toilets) than a book with assertive statements.
I was real excited about the idea but i forgot that i needed a good story, and i am not a childrens book writer, and i dont understand the mentality of children! My story ended up being very embarassing, to think i learn to write narratives in school, but oh well! I also decided to do an interactive book, to try to make learning alot more fun that what is happening to us currently. ))
So here goes!
[oops please follow this link for the running pictures of my book, because wordpress cant upload videos (&^#@*$*! ]
Here are just a few snapshots:
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If i were to choose again, i would definitely choose to go through this experience once more though it is really no easy feat. At least now i can say that im an author :O creator of an original book. haha
But then again, if i had to go through this experience again, i would have done alot of things alot differently.
I have really gained alot of takeaways from this experience and here are just a few:
1) When doing huge projects like this, organise my time well, stick to schedule, stop procrastinating so that i won’t have to do last minute work.
I think my book could have been alot better if not for the fact that i was in a serious rush of time. I had alot more ideas to be incorporated into my book but i just didn’t have the luxury of time to device the mechanisms for paper engineering. The mechanisms required really accurate measurements and proportions, and especially making them from scratch was not easy, expecially not for a beginner like me.
Also, if i had more time, i would have been able to better complete my paintings. I had pictured and wanted a vibrant and eyecatching first page but due to the fact that my medium was watercolour, and i didn’t have a green water colour to start with, mixing blue and yellow dulled the colour alot, resulting in more of a dirty green than bright happy green. Spot, the dog, wouldn’t have to look so grilled too, as i didn’t have a light brown to start off. My coverpage and backpage were a last minute resort too! Did it in the last 15 minutes of handing in coursework!
In short, one big lesson learnt is to organise myself alot better, and prevent from doing last minute work.
2) Water colour painting. Through this first hand experience, I have learnt alot more about painting with water colour. It is something that can only be learnt through getting down to painting it. Water colour is a beautiful medium that has a transparent quality special to it
3) Lastly, the most cool takeaway i have is discovery about the world of paper engineering. The world of paper engineering is vast and very cool! Don’t you just somehow awe at how amazing 3D models are created by the flip of a page, but yet can lie exactly flat when the page is closed? It was something that amazed me alot and while doing research for coursework, it was a definite eye-opener for me learning and looking at all these ingenious creations. Also, i thought that pull-tabs and spinning wheels were so cool, allowing images to move in a book. The magic in these mechanisms is the personal interaction the reader has with the book!
I have a few links to share on paper engineering. if you have time do explore this wonderful field of art!
-Links from the internet
-http://robertsabuda.com/everythingpopup/index.asp (world of pop-ups)
-http://www.pop-up.dk/english/Mekanik.htm#20 (some really cool projects/designs of paper engineering)
-http://www.popularkinetics.com/volume_tent_page.html (d.i.y templates for basic pop-ups)
-http://www.popularkinetics.com/links_page.html (cool links for pop-up resources)
-Music videos using the idea of paper engineering:
Clumsy by Fergie
OK by Shitdisco
-Books i used for research, available from libraries in Singapore
-’The Pop-up Book’ by Paul Jackson
-’The Usborne book of pop-ups’ by Ray Gibson
-’Pop-up Paper Structures’ by Heidi Pridemore
-’Making books that fly, fold, wrap, hide, pop up, twist and turn’ by Gwen Diehn
-’The art and craft of Paper Sculpture’ by Paul Jackson
Filed under: 2D works, Comments and criticisms
Sec 4 Coursework 2008!
All i can say is, OMG im so glad its over!!!:)
It was intense joy the night we walked out of the art room, leaving our prep boards and books behind in the art room for once, and we realise we are free! woww….. hahahaha!
_______________________________
The theme for my coursework is toilet hygiene. It all started when one day we were asked to bring a piece of recent news that influences us alot. And being a prima deli fan, I naturally brought a report of the prima deli salmonella poisoning to class. Then the news hit. Do coursework based on this piece of news!
Basically, there were only 2 factors in this case. Do something related to responsible food handling, or toilet hygiene. So i chose the easier of the 2- of course the 2nd one.
My general idea was to do a children’s guidebook to toilet hygiene. For the first draft, I came up with an informative handbook on toilet hygiene. There were basically 2 mascots- toilet roll girl and tissue paper boy, who brought the readers along on a journey teaching them good toilet hygiene. I finished developing my characters and finished the whole story boarding for this concept, but in the end, i really couldn’t stand the idea of such a boring book, so i changed the whole idea. So my final idea was a story book instead, teaching kids to maintain good toilet hygiene through a story, which would probably appeal more to me if i was a child (think captain underpants and the talking toilets) than a book with assertive statements.
I was real excited about the idea but i forgot that i needed a good story, and i am not a childrens book writer, and i dont understand the mentality of children! My story ended up being very embarassing, to think i learn to write narratives in school, but oh well! I also decided to do an interactive book, to try to make learning alot more fun that what is happening to us currently.
))
So here goes!
[oops please follow this link for the running pictures of my book, because wordpress cant upload videos (&^#@*$*! ]
Here are just a few snapshots:
_____________________________________
If i were to choose again, i would definitely choose to go through this experience once more though it is really no easy feat. At least now i can say that im an author :O creator of an original book. haha
But then again, if i had to go through this experience again, i would have done alot of things alot differently.
I have really gained alot of takeaways from this experience and here are just a few:
1) When doing huge projects like this, organise my time well, stick to schedule, stop procrastinating so that i won’t have to do last minute work.
I think my book could have been alot better if not for the fact that i was in a serious rush of time. I had alot more ideas to be incorporated into my book but i just didn’t have the luxury of time to device the mechanisms for paper engineering. The mechanisms required really accurate measurements and proportions, and especially making them from scratch was not easy, expecially not for a beginner like me.
Also, if i had more time, i would have been able to better complete my paintings. I had pictured and wanted a vibrant and eyecatching first page but due to the fact that my medium was watercolour, and i didn’t have a green water colour to start with, mixing blue and yellow dulled the colour alot, resulting in more of a dirty green than bright happy green. Spot, the dog, wouldn’t have to look so grilled too, as i didn’t have a light brown to start off. My coverpage and backpage were a last minute resort too! Did it in the last 15 minutes of handing in coursework!
In short, one big lesson learnt is to organise myself alot better, and prevent from doing last minute work.
2) Water colour painting. Through this first hand experience, I have learnt alot more about painting with water colour. It is something that can only be learnt through getting down to painting it. Water colour is a beautiful medium that has a transparent quality special to it
3) Lastly, the most cool takeaway i have is discovery about the world of paper engineering. The world of paper engineering is vast and very cool! Don’t you just somehow awe at how amazing 3D models are created by the flip of a page, but yet can lie exactly flat when the page is closed? It was something that amazed me alot and while doing research for coursework, it was a definite eye-opener for me learning and looking at all these ingenious creations. Also, i thought that pull-tabs and spinning wheels were so cool, allowing images to move in a book. The magic in these mechanisms is the personal interaction the reader has with the book!
I have a few links to share on paper engineering. if you have time do explore this wonderful field of art!
-Links from the internet
-http://robertsabuda.com/everythingpopup/index.asp (world of pop-ups)
-http://www.pop-up.dk/english/Mekanik.htm#20 (some really cool projects/designs of paper engineering)
-http://www.popularkinetics.com/volume_tent_page.html (d.i.y templates for basic pop-ups)
-http://www.popularkinetics.com/links_page.html (cool links for pop-up resources)
-Music videos using the idea of paper engineering:
Clumsy by Fergie
OK by Shitdisco
-Books i used for research, available from libraries in Singapore
-’The Pop-up Book’ by Paul Jackson
-’The Usborne book of pop-ups’ by Ray Gibson
-’Pop-up Paper Structures’ by Heidi Pridemore
-’Making books that fly, fold, wrap, hide, pop up, twist and turn’ by Gwen Diehn
-’The art and craft of Paper Sculpture’ by Paul Jackson
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