Design-A-Lovely-Cup Of Tea

My first participation in design related competition!

After days spending in front of the laptop I have finally completed my design for the Lunartik "Design-A-Lovely Cup of Tea" competition. I gave it a name -Sugary-. Its full of candies and sweets, giving it baby-ish color to bring out the cute sense of sweetness.

Did some sketches before putting the work on computer. I chose the 2nd sketch because its more attractive to me and it is the one i had more ideas to work on. I was inspired by the cupcake mug on my working desk the color scheme is as well similar. Here's the outcome.

I wanted to thank my friend Tiffany who taught me how to use illustrator to construct some of the elements in there. In fact, the 30 minutes tips and tutorial allowed me to construct the candies all by myself.

swirl taught by Tiffany

wrapped candies constructed by myself.

For full competition details visit www.spaghettijunct.wordpress.com

Digital Painting

Ciel Phantomhive - lady

My Digital Painting

Reference

Spent days working on just this piece. I tried to learn more about shadows but sometimes I have trouble understand how the shape of the shadows formed, so I'll have to study more on this in order to actually draw something on my own, without reference.

ITAP Week 7 - Productions & Outcomes

Hosukai's Great Wave of Kanagawa
Principle 1 - Interpretation

The Great Wave of Kanagawa is a woodblock print by Hokusai a Japanese artist. It depicts an enormous wave (aka. tsunami) threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa.

Later in 2004, John Mayer released an album As/Is and had the "Uprising" created by the Kozyndan. It was originally created at 2003 for the cover of Giant Robot Magazine #28. It has since become the Summer image of the "Seasons of the Bunny" series too. This is digital artwork and different from the original Great Wave. 3D model is also produce by the technologies that enables artist at the time to create 3D forms.

In 2007, Bernard Pras a French trash artist, produced another piece of The Wave. Trash art is categorized in the "Readymade" art movement. These works are primarily comprised from components that have been discarded.

Later in 2009, Chris Jordan collected pieces of plastic in the Pacific Ocean. Chris Brown named this after the Pacific Grye. Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic. The Eco Art is popular in the past few years and also now, in addition this also educates and creates awareness.

Jonathan Wakuda Fischer also had another piece of The Great Wave. Its named "Ukiyo-e" or "Pictures of the Transient World of Everyday Life" and based on the pop art style. It portrays a new urban lifestyle available to the growing middle class. Jonathan's work includes the elements of beauty, fashion and leisure with a fusion of retro.



Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As/Is

http://www.kozyndan.com/art/uprisings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_art#Trash_art

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/18/eco-art-chris-jordans-gyre/

http://www.artxchange.org/artwork_detail.php?ArtID=1985

Eco Art - Chewy art!

Ben Wilson uses old chewing gum to beautify sidewalks

Ben Wilson has been working on the sidewalks and paint on CHEWING GUMS. Click here to check him out!

ITAP Week 6 - Development of Ideas and Structure in Moving Image

-BRIDE WARS- 

Principle 1 - Story Development -- Three Act Structure

Bride Wars is about two childhood girls had the same dream of having a wedding. They planned for their wedding since young, and even saved money since 16 years old. They share almost everything together, except there is one thing they can never share.

Act I
Introduction of the protagonist -- Emma Allen (starring Anne Hathaway) and Liv Lerner (starring Kate Hudson). The origin of their wedding dream introduced. The career scene to show character personality. Liv and Emma finally are engaged to their respective partners (Emma & Fletch , Liv & Daniel). The bond and the love between the two best friends is conveyed through scenes like Liv buying Emma a shirt, and Emma let Liv to have the wedding dress she really wanted. Story develops nicely and everything works fine, they both booked the date and venue for their wedding which is the place they planned when they were young.

Before

After

Act II
Crisis occurred -- St. Claire the wedding planner, made a mistake with the dates, now they both have the same date and same venue. They both wanted each other to be in their wedding, so both Emma and Liv decides to negotiate with the other bride to change date. Unfortunately they failed so they waits for each other to move the date and not to do anything until one of them changes their mind.

They started a cold war, until Emma sent out her save-the-dates after knowing Liv did the same, they both argued and trying to ruin each other's wedding like giving orange skin and blue hair. While the story develops, both protagonist starts to reflect on their mistakes and just when things gets calmer, during the wedding Liv ordered her mister of honor to change back the montage video that was suppose to be shown. Emma's wedding was ruined so she fights with Liv.

Act III
Happy Ending -- Both calms down and they both made up, said sorry to each other. Emma finds out that she and Fletch aren't meant for each other but Liv however proceeds her wedding and they happily celebrated the wedding. Everything goes on well, Emma later is married to Nate, Liv's brother. Both Emma and Liv were pregnant and are due at the same date giving the happy and coincidence ending.

-Ciel Phantomhive-

Principle 3 - Pre-production - Character Design

Kuroshitsuji is a manga and anime illustrated by Yana Toboso. The series follows Sebastian Michaelis, a demonic butler who is bound by a supernatural contract to serve Ciel Phantomhive, the 12 years old head of the Phantomhive noble family, and in return Sebastian will obtain Ciel's soul when Ciel has finished all of his missions about taking orders from the Queen and including getting revenge on the people who killed his parents. After that Sebastian is then allowed to kill him and take his soul.

Costumes and appearance:

As the head of the noble Phantomhive family, Ciel dresses in long jacket, button-down shirt, shorts, knee-high gartered socks and boots or high-heeled pumps. He usually has accessories like a top hat, gloves and a cane. 

He always wears two rings, one emerald-cur deep blue stone, passed down through his family for generations and wears it at the left thumb as its an adult's ring so its too large for him. The other one a gold seal ring in the form of the family crest, used to stamp the wax seal on documents. The rings and canes reminds him of the passed down family company he bears and to take revenge from the people who killed his parents. 

Ciel is always wearing an eye patch over his right eye because there's a sign of his Faustian contract with Sebastian is hidden. 

There are also times Ciel has the pauper's clothes, a pink ball gown and religious uniform for disguise during missions. 

Action:

Ciel Phantomhive plays as a mastermind and always make the orders. He is seen comparing himself the king piece in the chess and other people as his pawns. 

During dangerous missions, Ciel is never worried of his own safety as he is certain that Sebastian will come to his rescue. Ciel is determined to take revenge on the people who killed his parents, to do that he made a contract with Sebastian to help him and in exchange he will allow Ciel to take his soul.

Interaction:

The Phantomhive residents

Ciel hired Baldroy the chef, Maylene the maid, and Finnian the gardener not because of their competency in their chosen jobs. but because they are capable of protecting his manor and his family's pride and secrets. The old man at right is Tanaka and has been working in the manor even before Ciel was born. Ciel doesn't interact with his staff much, except Sebastian his butler.

Together with Ciel's comrades they take revenge on the people who killed his parents.

Ciel's happy childhood with Elizabeth

Elizabeth and everyone else

Elizabeth, Ciel's cousin is a childhood friend of his, ever since Ciel's parents passed away he is less interacted to Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth has feelings towards Ciel and tries hard to let Ciel to be happy like before his parents passed away. Elizabeth even decorates the Phantomhive manor and brought new girlie clothes for his staff and for Ciel too.



Bibliography:
http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Ciel_Phantomhive#Noah.27s_Ark_Circus
Pictures all obtained from google website.

ITAP Week 5 - Reflective Visual Journal

Cultivate Reflective Practice

In my previous college I've been working on a costume project for History of Art and Design. We were asked to make a costume using 2 types of art styles. In this group project we at first chose Op Art and Pop Art.

The concept is about a celebrity, wanting to break free from all the fame that entangles them having no freedom. During the process we managed to head for Dadaism more than Pop Art. We had to make more research, and we had to attend some critique session to make sure we're on the right track. A lot of reflective session has to be done, and to make choose the best concept we at first have to have few other ideas. The outcome wasn't what we expected, how we put on the costume and the design of the costume changed not completely but a lot. We not only reflect on our work, but also on the team work, as we had some conflicts in between and some members are not cooperating. We tried our best to solve the problem and we managed to sit down quietly and communicate in an appropriate way.

[They tend to stray away from the light, hoping not to be seen]

[Being caged, hairs entangled, FAME written on the hand showing the FAME he holds. Finally a barbie doll's head on the finger based on Dadaism creating the scenery of the destroyed childhood, but he is still holding on. Along with the wire entangled on his feet, showing NO-FREEDOM]

[The armor looking suit that is so big and tight, so hard for one to bare, and the illusion giving a perfect image of celebrities possess. He however wants to break free and struggles hard to pull off.]

Its not easy to get everything together as group projects people have different ideas and one has to work hard on convincing the other. During the process we had to reflect back on how can we make this happen, as in how can we make the costume what sort of materials, what colors, what kind of technique. Of course some of our ideas failed we had to do it again, and we made samples to test. The make up was improved and improved. Repeat doing things until we get the right one.

Cyclic Design Process, Iteration.

For most of your project, you will have to go again few times. We get to somewhere we have no idea we could get there. This is through a cycle. Some people start thinking before plan, some start with plan, do or evaluate. No matter where you start, by the right way you'll still end up somewhere you never imagined. Going back to the cycle over and again allows you to improve your work and improve. Find out the weakness or problem, and improve it little by little until you're satisfied with it. 

These are some examples of my progression for my work. I first start with thinking what I want and i plan how should I do it and then evaluate, see whether if its good enough or not.