My thoughts

The show is done now,we still have to do a presentation.

How do I feel about this project?
Actually I felt good, I enjoyed working with my team mates, of course there will be ups and downs, and a little arguments about clashing ideas, but we worked out quite okay as a team. I was excited when the project launched, but then half way through the Easter break stuck in the middle, kinda lose the motivation of continuing the project, but our group still keep up anyways.

What is my project talking about?
We are mainly focusing on light pollution. We tried using recycle paper to make those paper houses to bring out the message about saving the lights by using the power of design. The future lies in our hands, we can change the world at once but we could try changing one at a time about how people see with our designs.

What have I learn from this project?
I have learned to work well in groups and get along with my team mates, I have been more sociable and I get to see all kinds of design from other classmates, learning about their thoughts of Future canvas, I find it really interesting .

How would I do differently if I had a chance to put the show together and working with the same team mates?
I would definitely speak out and not be afraid to go against each other's ideas, I realised since we are working as a team, we should at least listen to what each other wants to do and what each other wants to be part of it and how. I personally wants to do something with Books, I read Georgie's blog, she mentioned about putting old books together to make something out of it, if I had that chance I will definitely go for my idea.

Does your work reflect on your understanding of Illustration practice?
To be honest I don't quite get what this question mean but I think I do start to see "Illustration" differently after starting this project. Illustration can be fun and playful, and in the process of doing it I must also learn to have fun and open up myself to more people, seeing all types of illustration designs , and most importantly to know what I want myself to do in future.

So, what is your future canvas ?
I had a dream of wanting to be a manga artist since I know how to draw. I will do what ever it takes to make that happen. I see my future self as a successful manga artist. Imagining I will be in a magazine introducing my artworks to the whole world.

Dream big , haha !

Comic Drawing Workshop

I joined the comic drawing workshop organized by the comic book society I joined , with guest comic artist Dan Lee came to Frenchay to give us a small talk of how his comic career started.

Dan Lee was an Illustration student as well back about 5 years ago when he was still under his degree course, and he siad he didnt quite have the chance to really go ,so later on he decided to move on and work as a freelancer and draw his own comic strips.

 I drew some pictures of character

I love this workshop, because I love character design, and I learned quite alot from Dan Lee as well, reminds me of the old me, the me that use to draw like crazy back then, non-stop drawing and drawing.

Animation: Developing Character

Today's talk by Mary is kind of like a day she pushes the animation option students to give us a talk and ask us about the progression about our animation project, everyone /most of the people have the same reason why non of us start to step into the next step to do our animation film.

Mary said people who do under camera MUST book 2/1 week earlier with her to discuss/ask for help for their project.

I think is due to her was a student here before thats why she know what we think, she knows that part of us is slacking, lazy and dont have the courage to move forward and start our animation project, because some of us never done animation before, that's why they stunt at the same state.

Mary's advice : courage ! make a shitty work! you have to know what you did wrong only you can do things right ! totally motivative to everyone !

I find this an inspiring day so I noted it down in my blog.

LIbrary Hunt: Visual Culture, Essay Writing

This post is extra update, through out the research for my visual culture essay writing, I found very much inspiring true stories from people around the world.
Because Im going to be writing an essay topic about transgender, they are not popular and often make people get the wrong idea, after my research i found the inner part of their personal stories , truly inspiring.
went to library to borrow some books and dvds.
I enjoy writing the essay, my knowledge grown a huge part about transgender and people in LGBTQ.

Frasier MacLean Talk

A famous author who wrote Setting the Scene: The Art and Evolution of the Animation Layout, and credits included from the movies: Space Jam, Tarzan and so on came to Bower Ashton to give a 2 hours and 30 minutes talk to share his experience through out the year on how he worked on his projects.

He talks about how important it is of the layout of an animation  because that brings out the whole idea of and picture of the animation. He also talks about how he discovered that people did not actually treat animation layout seriously in the animation film. He showed us some film included The thief and cobbler
Studios mentioned are Animo , D-Canvas etc.

He emphasizes that the staging and movement of an animation is rather important , and it is also important to develop your own animation style.

Some example of books he recommended.

Frasier MacLean with students after the talk show. Seems like everyone was amazed by what he did.

Some notes I wrote during the talk.

Throwback : Manifesto , Future Canvas

17 Jan 2014
Everyone are asked to do a research about Future Canvas, as in how do you see the future of Illustration can be, and how do you see your future self to be.
What is your future canvas? Who you are, what you are. Explore self reflection/reflective approach. As an artist, you have to know what you are doing and why you are doing this. What are your potential canvas? Can your future proof your work ?

Your future, Your responsibilities .
Develop your own working methods.

23 Jan 2014
Whole day workshop.
A task for us to discuss about all the famous tag lines and quotes by all kinds of famous artist or it can also be random artist/person that inspires us to think about our future self.

I bought a magazine call "computer arts" , basically its like a magazine for artist to speak out, so I read through some pages and came up with the above ideas, and also some web researches.

After that we are asked to form a group to discuss about future canvas, collective manifesto, something to do with believe in yourself and find a way to make it work. It also gives us a chance ot learning to work together as a team/group.

I manage to team up with Bethan, Georgie, Alex, Elena , Timna, Tabitha, Frejya, Emma. Because out group formed up kind of big, so we all decided to split into 2 little smaller groups to start off with our discussion.