Revamping Assignment 1

I still remember the amount of pain i took to do assignment 1 (recall: blue clocks and movies theme), due to the fact that i spent almost 5 hours figuring out the bare basics of illustrator.

I realised that as the module progress on, our skill on illustrator will naturally improve (due to attrition) and we will be able to pull better designs and improve on the areas which our classmates found lacking. So 3 days ago i began working on improving all the assignments which was done.

First of all, i chucked the entire concept of the Savaldor Dali's concept of my hatred for time, because its very hard to conceptualise and communicate the theme of disliking time. It ended up making people think that i hate clocks... so i changed it to a dislike of germs.

First digital sketch of 'Things i dislike'

This was the initial creation of the 'i hate germs' drawing, however, 70% feedback was that it looks like cactus... amoeba... slugs... whereas the rest manage to understand its germs. Devastated and defeated, i went back to the drawing board. Until i talked to my neighbour doing life science who showed me some pictures of real germs, then i realised that in communicating visual forms, the communicator must take into consideration the ACCURACY of the subject being drawn in order to not confuse or mislead the receiver. Therefore, i changed some of the elements and details of the germs to give it a more accurate biological description.

Final product of 'Things i dislike'

I also added a background of germs under the microscope to contrast with the vivid colours of the cartoon germs. Centre of the background was enlarged to try to show that the receiver is viewing the message under a microscope.