Artwork by Me ^_____^

This is the painting i made for my final project of my semester one in this CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA faculty. I'm sorry for the low quality of the image. The title for this project is INFLATION.

I divide this painting into 4 parts, in the upper 2 parts, I'm trying to show that inflation is actually beneficial and a process that a country must undergo before developed into a strong economy country. Under good control, inflation can actually triger the growth of a country, just like a flower in the spring and summer, blooms beautifully.The middle 2 parts show that if inflation this issue is not handle properly and happened out of control, it will be a disaster, causing a country to stumble just like that, just like the condition of a flower in the autumn n winter. And the final part is showing the future of country in an out controlled inflation. Insead of real money we used now, the whole country will be filled with paper money used by dead people for the people have much probably died of hunger.

The whole painting is painted using my hand and fingers and its done in 3 whole days since we are not allowed to use any kind of brushes. And this picture is hung inside my classroom wall now among many other senior's artwork, I'm very happy to see that but still I know there's still a lot I need to learn for and I'll keep on my hardwork. Thank u for everyone that supports me, and I'm always wishing the best for all my friends although we are not by each other's side ^_________^

Meanings for My Assignment 3

Throughout the whole process of doing this assignment, I can always remember the reminds from fellow lecturers asking us to produce a design that conveys a positive message instead of a negative one. I personally strongly agrees to the lecturers because in my opinion, the main aim of this assignment is to create an awareness and encourage the people to protect and love the nature. I think that a poster with negative design will scare the people to think that everything is destroy already and it is too late to do anything.

That's why I come up with this design. I design the sky to create the effect of sunrise because sunrise always signifies a brand new day and hope. It shows that by planting more trees and protect the forest left around the world today, we can have another hope for a brand new day.

The part where the tree is as lighter and the part where the sky and the city is is darker to indicates that the city where we lived is badly polluted and that the lighter part where the tree is signifies a place where there is full of hope if we protects our environment well. The fireflies in this poster carries a meanings that it is never too late to save the forest, there is still a glimpse of hope, just like the light of fireflies in the dark to save the planet where we all lives.

Steps in producing Assignment 3, The Poster

Firstly, I open up my original rough sketch of my choice in Illustrator and named it PENCIL SKETCH layer and lock it up to ease the work.

Next, I open up 2 new layer, one named as LAND and the other named as CITY. On both layers, I used PEN TOOL to draw the outline of the city buildings and land. I set the stroke of the brush to 3pt so that the lines would be more visible and easier to work with.

Then, I copy the image of my tree in assignment 2 and paste it in a new layer which I named it as TREE and make some alterations to the size of the tree so that the whole proportions of the posters become more balance.
For the next step, Itried to create a morning sky. So, I open a new layer and named it as SKY, and I fill the sky with color by using LIVE PAINT BUCKET TOOL, and add some GRADIENT to it. I mix dark blue, cream yellow, and soft orange for the sky. Then to avoid the color appeared to be too opaque, I reduce the OPACITY of this layer to 75% to create soft light effect. Same as the SKY layer, I used LIVE PAINT BUCKET TOOL to fill in color for the LAND layer. I add some GRADIENT to the color so that the overall color won't look so dull. I change the characteristic of the gradient to Linear and rotate the angle of the gradient to 90 degrees.

Using the same technique as above, I fill in black for the buildings of the CITY layer. Then, I move the whole layer below the LAND layer to create distance feeling between the city and the land.

Then by making the TREE layer visible, I just do some slight alterations to the position of the tree to the centre of the poster.


Next, I open a new layer and name it as FIREFLY. Using the same technique to create the fireflies in assignment 2, which is using Ellipse tool to draw many circles, fill it with mix orange GRADIENT effect and use GAUSSIAN BLUR to blur them. The only difference from assignment 2 is the color I used to mix for the GRADIENT which is to be fill into the circles is a 2 or 3 more level lighter than the orange color I used in previous assignment ,the sizes of the fireflies is much more smaller as compare to assignment 2 so that it won't take away the attention of the TREE which is the main character in my poster.

Next, on the SLOGAN layer, using ARTISTIC PAINTBRUSH, I select dark green color as the stroke to draw a young plant and write the words 'tree' to make the elements TREE appear differently from the others to accentuate it as the main message of my poster.

Next, to insert words for the slogan, I used TEXT tool to draw a text box and type in the slogan I design and change the font size of the words by using big font size and bold for the main message appear LARGER and more eyecatching and the smaller message into smaller font size.

This is how the the SLOGAN layer looks like after all the editing I've done to it.

Next, I try to copy one of the firefly from the FIREFLY layer and paste it between the L and the I of the word LIFE to enlighten the whole effect of the slogan. I found out that the outcome is really quite nice, and I like the way the firefly brings out the feelings of HOPE for the words LIFE and hence I decided to keep it there.

Last but not the least, I create a new layer and name it as LOGO and paste my symbol in assignment 1 on the left corner of the poster. It's like a copyright, symbolize that it is my creation...hehe...

Here is how my project looks like in the end. yay!!!!

Background Research for Assignment 3

For this assignment, we are supposed to design a poster based on the topic we choose from the previous assignment. The poster is to give an overall picture of the happenings and the effects of the area of choice. That's what stated in the mmls.

I start off as usual by soing some background research from the internet to search for some suitable pictures and examples of posters as my source of idea for this assignment. Since the my topic is deforestation, I look for some posters with trees as the main theme. The following are some pictures I dowonloaded from Google images and Msn images.


Though the design is simple, but the poster sends out clear message of protecting the nature.

I'm sure that this everyone will feel very familiar with this posters because this posters have been used by many other students as their reference. But still, this poster captures my heart the moment i saw it. No complicated design, the usage of color give me a very refreshing feeling as if I can feel a warmth of breeze blowing on me if I was standing under the tree in the poster. Certainly a very special design as compare to the other poster, this poster gives me a hint of priental feelings because the design of the treelooks very much like a cherry tree.

Sketches for Assignment 3

Now we are starting our final assignment....phew....finally, the last one. For the third assignment, we are supposed to designed a poster based on the topic we choose on the previous assignment.

My main theme is deforestation, and I decided to design a poster that can convey a positive message to the people to protect and love the trees since it's essential in balancing the natural ecosystem. And I've come out with a few idea which I sketch roughly on my notebook.

Meanings of My Logo

Since the topic of my first assignment is deforestation, I tried to convey the message of protecting the trees on the earth because it is the main character in maintaining the balance of the ecosystem of nature.

I purposely design my tree with a lot of branches and leaves in comparison to the tree trunk and draw it as if it is growing in the middle of a hill to enhance the message of tree as a character in maintaining the balance of the nature at the same time praising the tree as a holy presence of the earth. The tree plays important role not only in carbon cycle and maintaining regular global temperature but also as the primary food source for living creatures. Without trees living creatures will die eventually because of the disruption in the food chain and also the imbalance of carbon cycle.

Next, I purposely make the lines of the whole image very thick to create the feelings like the tree is being created through mosaic, a totally different feeling as compare to others artwork which I get this inspiration through the mosaic on the wall of the bathroom when I was taking my bath.

The fireflies and the black background symbolized that the tree is just like fireflies providing a little glimpse of light in the darkness of the night. When the world becomes more and more pollute because of human actions, there's only the trees struggling to maintained the harmony between nature and human beings. And the amount of trees left around the world keep on decreasing day by day until its number reaching a state that its always wiped out completely by us, the human beings, just like the light of fireflies although visible but so tiny in the night sky that it feels like it is going to fade away anytime.

Steps in Producing Assignment 2

Firstly, I open the pencil sketch of my tree in Illustrator and used pen tool to draw the outline of my tree. I separate the lines into a few layers that is the pencil sketch layer, tree trunk layer, background layer, leaves layer, hill layer, firefly layer and also another layer for my logo.
Next, I make the lines of the whole image becomes thicker by changing the stroke of the outline of the tree to 10pt. Then I fill in the trunk of the tree with brown color by using Fill Path technique.
On the leaves layer, I fill the leaves with color by using Fill Path technique and add some gradient to the color of the leaves by mixing 3 colors that is dark green, light green and white color. Besides, in order to make the leaves appear more coordinate, I rotate the angle of the gradient by changing the angle of the gradient, some remain 0 degree, some into 90, 180 and 270 degree.
After that, I fill in colors for my Hill layer also by using Fill Path technique at the same time adding gradient to the hill. For the Hill, I mixed only dark green and light green for the gradient. Then, by using Pencil tool, I draw some grass free handed so that the whole picture won't look so dull.

Next I create a new layer which I named as Firefly. For this layer I try to draw fireflies surrounding the tree. I used Ellipse tool and randomly draw some circles on the picture then fill in the circles with orange color which I blend in 3 types of orange and 1 type of yellow color and I change the type of gradient into Radial gradient. In order to create the soft and blurry light carried by the fireflies, I choosed Gaussian blur in the Blur tool, and change the pixel to 9.o and alter the size of the firefly some into small and some into big to create distace effect.

To accentuate the color of the firefly, I fill the background of the whole picture with black color at the same time also because firefly usually active in the night.

This is how the whole picture looks like after changing the background to black color.Finally, I open up a new layer and put my logo in assignment 1 on the bottom right corner of the picture.