Graphic Design Fundamentals - Project 1

The end of GDF Project 1. Satisfaction.

 

Project 2 has started.

Break updating.

Having a break, and thought of updating. Eyes is sore and red now, probably due to the fact that I was rolling around in my bed trying to get to sleep and the dust got into my eyes. Sucky feeling. To think I still have to look at the computer to do my work.

Drawing Fundamentals
Today was horrific. Drawing fundamentals might prove to be my downfall after all. To think that I was having slight hope that I might do proper for that module. Seems to me not. After all, drawing is the only subject I’ve studied till now that I cannot have control over.

Graduation Day
Graduation day yesterday was fun, meeting up with friends that hasn’t seen each other for so long. Miss Tiffany came along for awhile too and I had fun playing with the Digital SLR Alpha 200. I just hope that I’ll get my own DSLR soon. Saving up for it still.

Work
Work is ending this saturday. Feelings? I don’t know what to feel about it. I feel more relieved actually to be quitting work, because even without work, school assignments are proving quite a chore. I’m still able to manage it though, barely, with some time for rest and break, but definitely not for work. Thus choosing to quit would be a good way to save myself from overworking.

Its also disappointing to think how many people (I refrained from using the word IGNORANT) has no idea that being a multimedia student is both challenging and tiring. For me, it is what I want. I feel happy being busy. I feel that every assignment is the way to explore new possibilities.

To others, it is just another course. It is just school. It is just books and nothing else.

It hurts me and at the same time tells me that people are ignorant when they say things like that. The only people who can understand all these, are people who have gone through all these. So please, don’t compare Business courses, Biomedical course and whatever Papaya Research courses you are attending with mine.

Seriously. I don’t care what kind of stuff you come out with. Try coming up with a character of your own. Try having a world you control. Now that’s the IN please.

MISC
Onto other things. I’m feeling kind of guilty for the fact that my life is all studies and school and assignment. I’m not complaining. It’s fun. Its just that maybe I am so occupied with the stuff I like that I take for granted the things I have.

What can freelancing get me. Can it get me money? Yes of course If I am good. Here is 1 thing working at there will get me. It is “preparation for the future”. I can pat my chest proudly and say Freelance, even 1 will get me whole lot of experience then working there.

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Life is busy now.

I’m kind of losing the correct perspective of time. Its passing very fast. Unknowingly its been a month since I’ve started schooling. With datelines every week, its just meeting 1 dateline after another. Fun as much as it may be, its moving so fast.

Graphic design is really pissing a lot of people of. Including myself.

Peeps in class really have to take care of themselves. Some are falling ill all over again. Its always better to visit the water dispenser then pay to visit a doctor, so drink more water, especially some people.

Here are the photos from Digital Photomedia Lesson this week.

I like this one so much

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Departing thoughts

 

Unconventional Convention

 

Antique Art

 

Just another parking lot

 

Through the eyes of the feet

 

Parts and Parcel

 

Catching up.

Time to close my eyes, take a deep breath and recall what I’ve done and what I am supposed to do.

1) PP1 Sketches over. Didn’t get much for that, but its ok. I’ll get back from the 90%.

2) Drawing Assignment Done on Last Friday.

 

What I am suppose to do:

1) Complete GDF Articles and touching up

2) Research for IS (Important) tml

3) Design PP1 at least 50% completed

4) 5 Perspective Sketches for Drawing Fundamentals

 

So I am going to rush for my IS COMT and once I complete it, all the troublesome stuff are out of the way. This puts me where I can finally do the proper stuff again. Happy thought.

Some rest before I go do my research.

Short Scribble.

Scribbling into this small post right now. Don’t think I’m blogging because I’m too free. Its just that my pain Desktop PC is taking some time to turn on because I need to scan my magazine in. So I’m using the free time to scribble some stuffs here.

Drawing lessons were disastrous yesterday. We had to sketch Landscapes and I didn’t know better, thus trying to embrace the whole scenery infront of me into my small piece of drawing block. I ended up with a piece of unsightly piece of crap. Really regretted wasting my 1 1/2 hours.

Jackson accidentally tore my drawing though. Ain’t too sad about that. It means that I’ll have to work faster and harder to catch back the progress.

Currently finishing up my Graphic Design Fundamentals Assignment 1. Its a task to revamp 2 articles from magazines into good layouts of good magazines. Sounds easy? Not so. Its actually even more restricting because we are required to follow layout of good magazines and so we are darn restricted.

As much as I believe that each article has its own fitting theme and layout, It is also essential that we learn what is good layout before we start making good layouts.

I’m done with 2 of my spreads. Totally not satisfied with my second spread (2nd Article). I’m doing the 3rd one right now. Some might think I’m crazy.

“Finish 2 already what, can off com go sleep, and see what lecturer says tomorrow.”

“Haolian izzit, people do 2 also cannot manage, you go do 3.”

I’m sure those happens =). Used to it happening all around.

Im just doing so because:
1) I cannot sleep well knowing I have a piece of unsatisfactory work done.
2) Yes, I can show my lecturer the 2 revamp articles I’ve done. But what do I gain If they are lousy, I still have to redo them anyway.
3) I like to do alot, what can others do to stop me hahaha. Nonsensical reasoning.

I know the final dateline is next week friday, but that is only if we are confident that our work is presentable and doesn’t need anymore comments or criticism from the lecturer. So showing as much as I can now is kind of a backup plan, in case my second article does truely fail the pass grade. If it doesn’t, I’m going to replace it anyway. Hahahaha.

The Store dinner just now was somehow fun, only to remind me that my last day of service is closing in soon. Its still not a good thing to have Sambal Stingray, Sambal KangKong, Chili all over when you’re having a throat infection.

I feel so sickly right now I can smell the sick smell in my nose.

Continue my magazine editing….

Photomedia Lesson

Today, the lesson we had was so darn interactive. We basically took the cameras loaned out for a photo shoot. Although it was still in campus but I had fun, snapping away.

It wasn’t a surprise we took ard 30+ pics more then required haha.

Here are some pictures I think was nice.

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Test Test

 

Bad start of a day today.

Today is a bad start of my day. I’ll elaborate more when I get home tonight.

Instead I turned to finish up the sketch that I never came to complete.

Its done, fairly well for a first timer in Drawing.

It felt really great to vent the emotions on the drawing, being able to express how I feel.

I feel a lot calmer after sketching things out.

1 more reason to fall in love with drawing.

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Drawing is a kind of art.

I was planning to go to the IT Helpdesk to install my Adobe CS3 Design Suite, but I woke up late and tired thanks to the unreasonable job I’m having. I am so going to quit that job seriously. Its just too much for me to take between school and work. Don’t tell me “time is always enough, its just how we manage” because Biomedical sciences is just not the same as multimedia and animations.

I reached school at 10.30am, with the lesson starting at 11am. There was no one around. Half of them are probably still installing their software at the IT Helpdesk. At around 11am, a lecturer came and open up the room, and soon 3 more people arrived.

When its around 11.10 and no one is coming in, we realized that everyone, not just half the class, is at the IT Helpdesk. The lesson was cancelled and postponed to next week, and we were asked to join our class at the Helpdesk.

It was kind of a wasted trip because due to the fact that everyone including people from other classes are installing softwares through the network, the installation process came to halt a rather few times.

After spending near 2 hours+ and getting nowhere, I took my Mac and decided to go back on Monday again. Next we headed to the Art Studio for our Drawing Fundamentals.

 

It was fun. We finally had our first real lesson kind of lesson. We took our stands and chairs, clipped our paper to the drawing board, and set up our positions around the 2 objects. We were required to draw a sphere, cylinder lying on a square cube. We had to learn new pencil holding gestures and measuring technic. 

After drawing and nearing the end of the lesson, we had to put the drawings in the front and pick out 3 nicest drawing. I realized my drawing lack boldness and suck haha. I’ve decided to go get a sketchbook tml and start to draw 2 items a day to improve my drawing.

I fell asleep on the bus again. I am so going to quit work. Not going to be persuaded by people at work again. They simply don’t understand how and what I am going through. If they knew, they probably wouldnt make those irresponsible comments like asking me to skip CCA.

Our first Digital Photomedia lesson

Bigger photos are in my thumbdrive. These are thumbnails in the iWeb project. Used them anyway.