Music Painting

So, for our last class, we had a paint to music session. It is consist of 2 sessions, a half is painting to classical music, the other half with modern songs. Painting isn't my thing, but as a design student, I'll have to give in my 100% to try and give in my best. I came unprepared in terms of what I want to do. I brought spray paints and paints along. It is more comfortable for me to use spray paint thats why I brought it. 

First painting (Classical Music)

All the work put into this is purely thought on the spot. I started with brown and added red. I chose blue  to represent how classical music makes you calm, it is also used to accent the whole painting. It would be dull without it.

Second Painting (Modern Music)

I started by painting the top(which was supposed to be the bottom) yellow. I then added a thick layer of black paint. By using a piece of paper, I scrape down the black paint to let it reveal the yellow paint. This technique can be found in most spray painted art.

All the other works!!

This is another activity that is totally out of my comfort zone, and it is also my first time painting on a large scale. Listening to music while painting helps me pull more inspirations, not only from what I have in mind, but also what I hear, what I sense. It is another activity that opens up my mind into the things that I can look into for inspiration,

Final class in the class. (Batik Presentation!)

Yeah! We got our batik that we printed back in the workshop! It turned out better than expected. We notice that all the colours fade a little bit but it doesn't really matter. Fact is! We are proud of all our work.

This is our final output.

Cutting the original frame to make a new bigger frame is really good idea. Since everything are not align, we folded and adjust the print to align everything up. 

This activity is kinda off my comfort zone. I am less comfortable working with too much colours and painting directly. While dying the batik, I realised that it is possible to make a lot of colours just from  secondary and primary colour. During the presentation, how Ms Lisa taught us to make a bigger frame out of the smaller frames we had was brilliant. I would never thought of doing that.

Batik trip. Part 2.

Today we are going to the trip and print the batik at a Batik shop, Jadi Batek.

We get to watch the pros do it before we start.

This is Canting, the traditional "pencil" for drawing batik. But instead of using lead, wax is being melted and poured into a small well near the tip. The wax prevent the paint to spread over the "drawing".

 

Finish tracing.

Trying out colours. There are a lot, of colours available to mix and try out.

Done painting it. The stain glass patter can be found on the carpet.

Colours and painting style influenced from stain glass.

Batik trip!

We are going to a trip and make my first batik drawing and painting. We did our sketch and had a tutorial with Ms. Lisa. We come up with several ideas and themes. We end up using the theme "Disney Movie characters". We used the stain glass pattern to make it more interesting. We worked in group for this activity.

Here are our computer generated sketches

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Snow white-

Lisa

Tarzan-

Ajiem

Beauty and the Beast-

Sam

Aladdin-

Me(Denny)

A2 Size poster print.

More printing!

We are asked to make an A2 sized poster. After thinking and referring to my designs, I decided to stick with the design of my case. I made a new stencil because what I had is too small in ratio to the A2 board. I used the same technique I used in making my case, masking tape and spray-paint. I did a black on white instead of white on black like what I did on the case. 

I measured and made sure that the stencil is in the middle. I did that because my stencil is rectangle-ish and the diagonal line, if extended will meet in the thirds.

Presentation day!

Back again with monograms.

It's presentation day! We presented our items that had been printed. We are asked to choose a spot in the classroom and display them. I tried arranging it at first, but was asked to rearranged by ms. Lisa because it doesn't look really nice.

This is the final arrangement for my display. 

After all these work, I've learnt a couple of things. First, when designing the monogram, using the inspiration for the my reference and developing the idea can make something even more unexpected by people. Second and last, while doing the display, I've learnt that not only the subject/object to display is important, but the arrangement and composition is important as well

More Stencil and Prints!

A week after we finalise our stencil, it is time to print it. We are asked to bring 5 items to print our stencils on. I brought a T-shirt, My laptop's case and hard drive for the first day.

For the T-shirt, I used the screen printing method with fabric paint. Its not perfect but quite good for a first timer I guess.

I used spray paint and masking tape to get this design working. Masking the unwanted parts and using different distance to the case, I am able to get the gradient.

For these 3 I used the stencil and newspaper to mask the sides. As much as I want to stick to black and white theme, gold on black and on silver looks better.

Thats it for that day. :)

Monograms!Trials, Cut, Print!

Right after the tutorials. I started cutting copying and cutting the monograms. Here are the first few trials.

Results!

This one doesnt work because the H isnt showing up.

This doesnt 

This doesnt work because the H doesnt show up as well

I went home and tried again. And YEAH! succeed to make both of the letters show up.

The actual stencil and test print!

So how did I actually came up with this Monogram? During the presentation day. Ms Lisa showed us examples of monograms, there are a couple that I liked. It takes the idea of perspective and develop it into a monogram design. Thats where the idea of my monogram came from.

HE Design

Monograms!-Brief and 1st Tutorial

After we had our paper cut out installation presentation. Ms Lisa briefed us on our next individual assignment! Monograms. This one is as exciting as the other projects. We were given nearly 2 weeks to prepare out sketches, at least 10.

We went for a trip on that week and I sketched some while on the trip and the week after.

Experimenting with initials as capital letters

Experimenting with initials in lower caps. For the lower cap monogram, most of it I tried combining my initials together, D and H. Most of the sketches are expected by most people, the reason why I gave up on it.

Ms. Lisa liked 1 from the capital letter page and 1 from the lower cap page. She preferred the one capital letters because it is more unexpected as a design. From there onwards I tried developing ways to print it.

Group assignment- The Showdown and little bit of progress.

At last it is the last day of work for our first group project. Most of the things went through as planned. We were proud of ourselves that we actually came up with an awesome display with just white papers. Without further a-do I present the.

PIXEL SQUARE WHITE ARCADE!

Whack-A-Mole

SUPER MARIO

PACMAN

PACMAN

Panoramic view of the arcade

Checkers

The little progess:). Sketch for the door sign 

What I've learnt? 

This is one of the biggest installation that us, as a class put up together. I've learnt that in takes more than 1 or 2 "brains" to make a great output better. Even better, it opens up my mind that any materials can turn out very, very nice if used properly.

Group Assignment- The Discussion and Progress 2

Second meeting!

In this time in class every other group was ask to consult and talk with us about how they want their signage to look like.

Whack-A-Mole- The first one to have a talk with us. They came up with a sketch of what their signage will look like. It is a Mole holding the sign of their game. (yeah..moleception..)

Pacman- Since we want to keep it as original as possible we used the original Pacman title.

It looks like this minus the neon plus the papers

Tetris- Tetris group came to us without a sketch but with an idea that is then turn into a typefont. They told us that they wanted a font build up from diamond shapes. So this is what we came up and agreed to. How I made this was, I construct a simple diamond, duplicate them and arrange them. Simple but took quite some time to make it look good.

Mario- For Mario, we also want to as much as posssible make it look like a 'mario' type font. This is what we came up with. Fun Fact! The Mario signage is the first to finish.

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Space Hockey- Space hockey they came up with a sketch, and let us choose their font. We researched and agreed on this font. (their initial plan didnt go as expected though).

Checkers- Last but not the least! Checkers. Since their display will be on the floor, we want to make it stand and visible from the eye level clearly. Again, we research and agreed on a font.

Group assignment 1

First group assignment!(an exiting one)

This group assignment is actually more like a whole class assignment. We were ask to plan on a big installation display referring to shop window display. Since our paper cut out skills were sharp enough, ms Lisa wants this to be a whole paper cut out design. We came up with several ideas, themes and concept, including Superheroes, Seasonal installation. We consulted ms Lisa on which idea is the best. Ms. Lisa picked on the Old School Arcade theme. So basically we will reconstruct an arcade from the 80s. There is a catch though, everything as in EVERYTHING must be cut out from a white piece of paper. This arcade will contain popular games from nintendo in the 80s. Mario of course came up first as it is the mascot of nintendo. Tetris and Pacman followed up. Zuliana was ask to come up with the layout and space.

We are then separated into groups. I volunteered myself into the signage group, which basically is in charge of cutting out the titles and the front door sign. 

My day ends here. Next time!