Assignment 1 - Me,Myself and I

Assignment 1 - Me,Myself and I


Brief synopsis:


After selecting the 2 designs, we need to develop 2 variations of each selected concept (a total of 4 roughs). After which, prototypes of selected roughs have to be developed.

1st concept - Music
Two variations for my Music concept and the key difference between these two varitions were on the alphabet -s,-p and -i.



Feedback from my tutorial group:

• Alphabet -h should be given more emphasize by not colouring the notes. This will enable the linkage between the notes to be more obvious.
  
• Most of them prefer the 1st design.

2nd concept - Bubbles
Two variations for the bubbles by using different shades of colours. For the 1st design, i have chose a warm colour scheme as it portray my love towards them. As for the 2nd design, as bubbles tend to reflect rainbow like colours under the sun. Hence i came up with this colour scheme.

Feedback from my tutorial group:

• They prefer the 2nd design.

Developing Prototype

After getting the feedback from my tutorial group and peers, i started to work on my prototypes. The softwares that i used were Freehand and photoshop.

Difficulties faced while working on the concept, Music:

• Initially, i thought of scanning my roughs into my computer and trace the outline of the musical notes. The design looks fine on the sketch book but actually the sketches outline were rather inproportional. Especially for the cursive part, this makes the tracing of the design very tough. Therefore, i decided to drop the tracing outline idea and to do everything from scratch.


• By using Freehand pen tool, i worked on the musical notes and save them individually. This is to reduce the hassle for editing when i export over to photoshop. As i am not familiar with Freehand, therefore it took me quite some time to get the desire shapes i had in mind.

• In my sketch, there isnt any shadows, but i felt that it will be too plain. Hence it will be good to add in shadows to make it more 3D.

Difficulties faced while working on the concept, Bubbles:

• Even though, the colour setting, i had set as CMYK but the displayed colour was not of what i want as seen on the first picture.


• Since that was the case, i tried to explore on other feasible way with the current colour. Had added background and it seems more enhanced but I was still not satisfied with the colour combination.

• As the colour scheme does not portray the feel of liking towards bubbles so i thought of injecting more vibrant colours into the design. This leads to my final prototype (with the black background)

Feedback from my tutorial group:

• One of them stated that i have taken into account his suggestion which really enhance the musical note design.
  
• The bubble design is a little too abstract.

After some consideration on the feedback regarding on the bubble design, i decided to edit it.

This time round instead of using vibrant colour, i intend to use bubbles itself to do the work. Been searching online for bubbles tutorials and tried out different forms of bubbles. After a few try, this is the bubble that i have settled with. As i think bubbles portray an innocent feeling to me, so the best way is to make the design simple with a relax feel. My design focus is to convey the characteristics of bubbles which are light and gentle just like bubbles in the water. In addition, instead of using all white for my text, the word "love" is in red. This is to give the whole design a bit of warm as the dominating colour feel cold.


Do give me your comment on this revised version on the bubbles concept. Your comments are greatly appreciated :)