This is the rough sketches for the initial draft under the topic sports.I love sports generally. Was surfing the net to brainstorm ideas about sports. I tried to pose each of these stick figures into different positions. Letter "A" was initially a problem since I can only think of someone very tired leaning against the wall to form the letter "A". However, I found out that letter "S" and "E" give me more problem than I could think of since it is very unnatural for human being to be posing in that position. "M" was not very clear also, it is quite vague and some of my friends took some time to recognize it to be that letter. First sketch was mainly about sports in track and field. Most of them are field events though. The second sketch's letter "A" is some sumo guy in position, but sometimes I wonder whether sumo is a sports to people or not. Since in the second sketch 2 of them are from soccer, so I thought that it was not very good to have repeated ideas. My friend then suggested to me why not concentrate on one sports that I like most, rather than sports as a general thing and I am not that knowledgeable in other sports as compared to the sports I like most. So the third sketch I tried out forming letters using part or the whole of a player who is in action of playing the sports to form the letters of my name. It was easier than I thought of in some sense, but as usual letter "E" is still a problem. So I tried some soccer player doing stretching to form "e". It was quite a weird "e" but still sort of passable. I continued to explored with other sports like basketball with some other positions of other sports. But I didn't find it as satisfying with the soccer one. While chatting with my friend and doodling, the idea of sport equipment came to my mind and I tried to draw it out. Forming letters are easier with equipments since some of them have strings to make things easy to form difficult letters, but I find that equipments do not represent that I like sports as much as compared to people playing it. In the end, I had chosen the soccer out of the 5 sketches and decided the title to " I am Anselm and I love soccer."
After getting done with the 1st batch of sketches, I continued to draw the 2nd batch. The second theme will be car. I tried to combine the letters of my name together to form the shape of a car. The first try was a conventional shape of a car. The hole in "A" was used as the front light of the car and the top part of S is used to form the roof top of the car. I made the hole in "e" as the handle of the car door and the holes under "M" was used as the back lights. Somehow it looks weird, but I thought it was due to the proportion of the letters of my drawings. I continued with the second sketch and this time I tried to form the letters into the shape of a beetle car since I thought it was quite a cute car. I tried out some different concepts with this beetle car. In the previous try the wheels are there but not part of any letters, so I tried to put the wheels into the bottom of the letter "S" and "E", but it didn't manage to turn out to be nice. With the shape of the beetle car I thought that the letter "S" which is not so obvious in the previous try will be much clearer. The other thing I tried out with the beetle will be the antenna formed by the letter "l". But it did not turn out to be that nice too since it is too thick for an antenna, but I leave it as it first since the concept might be useful later on. Later on I continued to experiments to form letter with parts of a car. I tried not to use any internal parts since it might be not so distinct as compared to outside parts that we see everyday. I ran out of ideas so I tried to form my other parts of the name "Xiong" with car parts also. But neither was good. I felt that the beetle car was the best out of all the 4 tries.
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