Assignment 1 part2: Me, Myself and I

Draft of Car 1 and 2
After getting all the rough work done. One of it is chosen to be further developed. For the idea for car, I have ended up choosing the second design, as I find it more interesting and unique. The idea is basically using the characters to construct the car out. I have chosen a beetle car to construct as i had the idea of using the top part of the letter s to form the roof of the car. The "holes" in the characters I tried to fill them in with head lights, back lights, signal lights and so on. Especially the signal light at the back of the car is not very well done as the position of the light is rather awkward to me, but well since it doesn't really have to look like a real car, so I just accepted it as it is. But the "hole" in letter a allows the head light to fit in rather well . But one problem arises as the gaps at the bottom of the characters is rather irritating. But i leaved it as it is to prevent any further distortion of the character to be totally unrecognizable. As those small gaps and holes there suppose to exist in real letter is being drawn to a very small size the letter might not be very recognizable from far. But I find it recognizable around 3-5m away. More than that might be quite hard.

The main difference between the 2 design is the antenna and door. In the first design there are 2 doors and the car is a bit bigger due to the door. Due to the letter s being the front door and the roof of the car, it has become rather unrecognizable. the letter l is the antenna of the car. it is the only object in different color to make sure people can see it and also antenna usually don't have the same color as the car.

The second design looks quite cute to me. I personally like it a lot. The top of letter s is still the roof top and this time the lower part is push and squeezed forward, become even more unrecognizable. L now is part of the window frame and also the exhaust pipe with M sitting on it.
The main problem is still the letter s since most of the people say that they cannot really recognize it.

the stick figure inside the car driving is someway for me to indicate to other people that I like car so I am driving it. In the next prototype most likely I will add a person with a happy face driving the car to make that more obvious.

There are feedbacks from the class.
Both the car's S, L not obvious. I think some of the people seems the second cars not obvious is because they are sitting quite far behind and the black lines are not thick enough for them. My friend suggested to me to thicken the lines to sort of highlight the characters out, but I was thinking, doing it that way wasn't far from writing the letter out and have some random coloring inside. The digital copy and print out have some color difference also, well partially due to not setting it to CMYK before printing is a problem, and it seems that allowing photoshop rather than the printer to decide the color have a better effect also.


Draft of Soccer 1 and 2

These 2 piece of work is developed from the 3rd piece of draft that I had while brainstorming for ideas. In the rough version everything was in stick figure form, but I have decided to make it into cartoonish people playing soccer, to make it to have a more vibrant warm and happy feeling.
Looking at blackish stick playing doesn't seems happy me, but in return I have to put in more effort ~.~

The first one is quite similar to the one in the draft. The concept is basically having people or parts of people playing soccer to form the letters of my name. Many of the things are in while and I have forgotten to add a background to this before is bring it to class was a major mistake. The letter S as compared to the draft work is different since i find that using the path of players running to form the letters is like quite cheating since i can form any letters this way and not very innovative also. So I changed to some player hitting the ball with his head to form the letter s. Letter E remains, stretching out to form the letter, but this is something I wanted to change since it is not directly related to soccer at all, since I cannot think of anything at the moment so I left it as it is. L is someone executing an over head kick move and M is the goalkeeper standing in front of the goal pole. This is not very interesting and I feel that some element of happiness is lacking inside.

The second one is also a further development of the same piece of work but with drastic changes.
The idea is the same, still people forming different characters, but since it is a bunch of players playing the game and at the same time form the letters of my name. It gives a sense of greater unity ,happiness and a better idea of what soccer is like, since soccer is not something a person will be happy playing alone. Since in a soccer game people it is not possible to see people play like as if they are lining up so some of the characters or letters seems to be of different font size because some have to be further away. A is form by the lower part of someone kicking the ball. N is formed by someone sitting on the grass. S by someone chasing after the ball. E was a bit tricky. It took me the most time to figure out how to form the letter. It was formed by someone trying to clear the ball with a header and another one trying to do a overhead kick( but in the wrong direction). L by the goal keeper stretching out to reach the ball and M by the goal pole with the ball falling down in the middle of it. The background is green to represent grass. I tried drawing more realistic grass for background but it was a waste of time since it make the characters harder to be seen. The problem S is not very clear is because I realized it too late and I don't have enough time to make it better. While drawing it I was tryin to make the character as natural as possible so eventually I forgotten about making the character looks like S.
E is the major problem since it is something I spend sometime but still not solved. At first I thought since 1 person cannot form the character why not use 2 and I came up with this current E, but it only looks alright in stick figure but not on colored human beings. The color makes the character looks messy and thus harder to spot the E out. Furthermore, some part of the head and hand pops out of the E make it not really like an E.

The second one was my favorite since as mentioned above it is more fun dynamic, and a gerater sense of unity as whole as compared to the first one.

Class feedback for 1st one
1) too white, contrast not enough

Class feedback for 2nd one
1) A, S, E, L, M not clear. It's like 5 out of 6 characters, but well A S L M only need some minor changes to make it clearer, the real problem lies in E.