2D Design - assignment 5 Paint to Music

For the last class of 2d design and the last day of the whole course, we did a special assignment named paint to music. This activity is to let our emotions and body movement flows according to the music and express it on a big watercolor paper. This assignment is categorize into 2 parts which is the contemporary musics and classicals. The classicals is provided by Miss Lisa whereas for the contemporary music, all the members in the class will have to choose a song and send it to Wei Yi for compilation. I chose the song skinny love by birdy.

On the day, I prepared arcrylics, water color and some brushes to paint. Due to some techinical issues, the class is delayed for awhile which we will have rime to rest before the class since most of us did'nt sleep the night before for assignments. When the class starts, we are told to find our own spots and I chose to paint it on the floor since my paper is quite large in size. After that we start the session with the contemporary music first.

In the starting of the session, I really don't know what to draw. But after a minute, a sudden idea just pop in my mind and I tried to start the painting with a spot. The spot then follows the music which elaborates into a skirt. After that, the music changed to a moodless and sad song. I used a light blue colour for the background. After the song change to a strong song my emotions goes aggresive and i starts to splatter the paint on the paper. After a few songs the session ends and the dong i chose did not have the chance to be played due to time constraint.

Below will be the first painting:

The painting started from a girl. Then it became an ice below after the songs changes, i drew a crack on the surface of the ice. And the clouds with a gloomy tone. After that i drew a fence and trees in the end the song changed to a dubstep song and i started to splatter the paints. After i saw the painting, i realized that it reflects what i think about myself. In the part where the fence, the clouds, the cracks are blocking the way, it reflects that im stucked in my own thoughts and the trees painted in gold reflects the good things behind which i never see in the past and the splatter is the things i wants to let go and the things i lost.

In the second session which is the classical music session, Miss Lisa asked us to play with strokes and let the music take over our emotions. The session starts with the song Canon and I paint the music using blue and flowing strokes like a waterfall. The following music had quite similar tones with a richer emotions which makes the strokes slightly aggresive. After that, i realized that classical music have a balance which brings peace and calm and therefore i chose to paint the two sides of the paper slightly similar and play the strokes and dots according to the music. In this part, i understand and thought alot about the situation which i am in at the moment which i just want to let go.

Below will be the second painting:

I feel sorry for Miss Lisa as I couldn't give my full effort in doing the last assignment. Besides that, I am thankful to join the class as I found alot about myself and the ways to express myself. 

2D Design - Assignment 4 Unconventional Batik

On the day of the batik trip, we gathered at the bus stop before 9. After we reached the destination, they demonstrated some of the basic techniques for batik drawing. Since our class had went to a batik trip before this, we already knew the basics and the way to do it. We were given a big cloth and each of us are given a part of the cloth. We placed our design below the cloth with masking tape and starts to adjust the placing of the design. Since our drawing needs to be connected we discussed for quite a long time about the placing and we even asked for oppinions from the batik expert. He guide us on the placing of the design and adviced us on the connection of the cloth. After that, we started the canting session and there were some helpers which helps us on refilling the wax and touching up the canting. One of our group members accidentally spilled some hot wax on the cloth and we decided to make it our design and it actually does'nt affects the batik piece much. After we finished the canting, Miss Lisa came to check on us and gave us a suggestion on finishing the body of the animals on different piece so it stands out even if it is on its own.

After that, we starts to paint. We first discussed on the colours we wanted to use  for the animals and the colours will be brown for the eagle, red for the snake,  green for the frog and golden brown with a slight tint of green for the grasshopper. After the short discussion, we painted our batik piece individually with some comparison between each other to check on the color tones since it needs to be connected. After awhile, Miss Lisa came to check on us again and it appears that one of the batik piece have some problems with the colors. All of us discussed on the ways to change the colors. After some hard work, all of the batik piece is nicely done. Although we are the last group which finishes thr batik, we are still proud of the outcome.

2D Design - Assignment 4 Unconventional Batik.

On the presentation day, we got our batik piece and removed the mounting to connect the pieces. We displayed the batik on the panels and adjusted the connection. After that Miss Lisa took a picture of us and the batik and the explanation starts.

Our batik is actually a food chain which represents the real live. In the working world, the dominance will always be on the top and the minor ones will always be at the bottom. This is much like the world we live in where the people who is much better will be at the higher position. The distribution of animals represents eaxh of us with me the eagle as i am always dealing with birds, cong the snake which he is good at drawing, jialun the frog which he likes to jump around and kokulan the grasshopper as he is always quiet in giving ideas but all in all he is quite creative.

I must say that working with them is a great experience as there were alot of laughter and creativity flowing. The only part i dun like about the batik is the colour run.

2D Design - Assignment 3 Monogram

Below will be my monogram presentation:

My monogram's keyword is hot on the outside but cold on the inside. The design is a combination of a wings which represents warmth and the hexagon represents cold. As seen, I used two types of tones which is the bright colours and the monotonous colour which represents two sides of me. I used glass as my stenciling items which is cold and boxes, candle which gave a warmth feeling. I used transparency as my poster and repetition to emphasize on the two sides of everything. The things we see or heard may not be true since everyone's perception will be different. 

After my presentation, Miss Lisa said that she is proud that I understands myself more and produced a better work. She also said that always neat and asked me if it is hard for me to be that neat.

This will be one of my classmates work which I like the most as she plays with perspective and reflection.

For the monogram presentation, as I am having a duty for an exhibition, I can only present my work therefore I didnt really take any pictures of my classmates monogram.

Introduction to Business - Reflection essay

Reflection Essay

Attending this module is basically a fairly good experience. During the participation of this subject, I learned some basics about business. One of the important lessons I learnt in this module is the different types of businesses. Business are categories into 2 main categories which is the the goods producing business and service business. Besides that, there are also business which are not earning profit such as WWF. We also learned that there were a few factors that affects the operations. The external part which affects the operation will be the environment of the business. the environment includes domestic business environment, global environment, technology, economic environment, sociocultural environment and the politic and legal environment. The internal factors which affects the operation is the management process. The management process includes 4 components which is plan, organize, lead and control. The planning is to create a goal and preparing strategies and tactics to reach the goal. Organize is to classify the business into sub-groups with specific purposes. Lead is to inspire and guide the employees to rach the business goal. Lastly, control is to monitor the performance of the business. Another important lesson I learned was the functions and goals of a business. The function of a business is to  proovide goods and services, employment, pays tax to the government and provide opportunities for other businesses to serve as its suppliers. During the classes I understands about the ethical and social responsibility issues faced by businesses. This involves the environment, customers, employees and the investors. Businesses will normally have an organizational structure to organize the working departments. Besides that, marketing is also a fator which is important to a business. There are 5Ps in marketing which is the price, product,place, packaging, and promotion. The last topic in this class is the accounting. Accounting is to record all the transactions of a business for decision making purpose.In the final assignment which is the charity drive, I took up the role as the project manager. My job is to search the products at Tao Bao and make comparisons between the products and choose the best out of them. Besides that I'm also helping out Kuai Bing in doing the sales. We walked around the campus to get donations and promote our products. Although it was an tiring thing to walk the whole campus. We had fun and eventually got closer to each other. Besides that we also help out each other in preparing the orders.These lessons are important as we are going to work in a company or even start our own business in the future. Moreover, I also learned to approach people and socialize with them.

The topic I like the most will be organize. As I am a messy person in organizing my thoughts, I learned how to apply the organizing skills to organize my thoughts. The subject I dislike the most will be accounting as I dun like to deal with numbers. Joining the course made me realize alot of realistic sides of the working world and it also thought me to socialize better.

2D Design - Assignment 4 - ( Unconventional Batik)

Miss Lisa gave us a new assignment brief through facebook. It is a unconventional batik assignment which we need to get in a group of four and design a batik piece by using an A3 sized batik each. I group up with Jia Lun, Cong and Kokulan which is considered as a fresh thing for me as I had never been in a group with any of them except for Kokulan.

On the next day, we reached class early and discussed about our drawing style and things we like to combine in the batik piece. Jia lun suggested to use parrot in the batik piece. After that, we discussed about Cong's drawing style and decided to do a detailed drawing. Kokulan suggestion was to do a chain of animals from a particular country and mine was to use colours from colourful to monotonous. In combination of our suggestions, Jia Lun came out with an idea of using a food chain and apply it as the realistic part of our life. We discussed about the construction of the batik and decided to play around with only animals without the arrows which is normally drawn on the food chain diagram. After that, we chose the animals we wanted to use and decided to use a grasshopper as the primary consumer, frog as the secondary consumer, snake as the tertiary consumer and eagle as the last one standing. We came out with composition of a curve with the animals hurting or eating each other. While we were drawing out compositions which we desire, Kokulan's and Cong's idea coincidentally matches and we decided to use that composition.

After we proposed it to Miss Lisa, she asked us to draw the composition in a more detail way with the way we are going to connect the four batiks. We drew the actual design and showed it to Miss Lisa again. This time, she told us to draw on 4 a4 papers and connect it with a masking tape and distribute an animal for each of us to do. For me, I chose the eagle, Cong the snake, Jialun with the frog and Kokulan with the grasshopper and leaves. After we drawn everything on the a4 papers we combine it together and adjusted the size. We play around with the different sizes and came out with the final design which four of us agree and desire.

Below will be the process photos: