Colour Studies

This class was for us to learn the basics of colours and the basics of mixing colours to create new ones.

For the first class, we had to make the colour wheel to understand the very basic of colours.


Then we did a colour test to show how we got the colours in the colour wheel.


We also learned how to categorize the colours into warm and cold. Then made an art piece with the differences.


We made logos out of the primary, secondary and tertiary colours of the colour wheel for one of the classes.


Next, we had to do colour hues for the red, blue and yellows of the colour wheel.


Followed by making the values from white to black, and a monochromatic art for it.


After that. we had to make tints, tones, and shades for a colour of our choice. And with this new set of colours, we are to make a monochromatic art.
 

Then, towards the end of the class, we had to do colour coordinations.


And we had to extract some packaging that has these colour coordinations.


And we had to design a pair of shoes with these colour combinations.


Last but not least, for our finals, we had to make our own colour schemes with the colour wheel by adding white, black or grey. I chose to add with and grey.


And with these new colours we created, we were required to make an art piece of our choice. I decided to make it more abstract.


That's it for my colour studies assignments.

Basic Drawing Final Assignment

For the final assignment for Basic Drawing, I had to do an A2 sized poster based on a topic of my choice. I chose to do based on the series of music videos from Fall Out Boys, called The Young Blood Chronicles. Then I was to come up with 5 elements to put into this poster. Mine was instruments, insanity, which I used the main character's eyes to symbolize, blood, Hell and Heaven. After some sketches, I settled on one idea and started my actual drawing.


I started off with sketching out the eye.


Then I went into more details and shading.


I tried making things darker but then realized the drawing was still too light.


So, instead of carrying on with pencils, I went straight into it with charcoal.


It was really fun playing around with charcoal and smudging. It's also very rewarding to see the drawing getting darker by the minute.



I thought I was done, until I realized that I forgot to add in the blood for the bottom lid.


So I went ahead and did more touch ups as best as I could with the frame in the way. I made the blood thicker because the top frame cropped out quite a lot of it. In the end, I am really happy with my finally product. It was my first time trying charcoal and it turned out quite well. I had a lot of fun doing this and I might try to make more artworks at home with charcoal.

Visual Communications Individual Assignments

We started off by making an art with only dots. Tedious as it was, the result was quite rewarding.


Then we had to make an art with only lines.


This was for a group work but I was in charge of making a negative and positive art for my group.


The rest of the assignments for this class was group work and I'm unable to post pictures of those work because the artworks are not with me.

Basic Drawing: Gestures

Unlike the contour practice, drawing gestures was one of the most fun classes I had in Basic Drawing. It's very simple. I had to time myself to draw a set of poses done by people shown on pictures by my lecturer.

So for the first set, I had to draw groups of people within 3 minutes. Some of them I couldn't finish it in time but I tried.


Then I was required to draw individual figures within 2 minutes. Again, I was given a slide of pictures for each figure.


And lastly, I had to draw within 1 minute. 

Basic Drawing : Contours

This is one of my first few classes in my first semester of Diploma in Digital Animation. In this class, we learn how to do basic drawings of contours, gestures and still life.

This was the start of continuous contours. It was tough to get used to it.

These were done without looking at the paper. This is Blind Continuous and it was even harder to get used to drawing.


Then I had to do Continuous Contour for faces.



And lastly, this exercise was to do Blind Continuous Contour with faces. It was the toughest practice at the time.

Basic Drawing: Straight Lines, Toning, Shading and Still Live

So, for my first class of Basic Drawing, I had to practice on drawing straight lines with different pencil grips. Which was hard at first but I soon got the hang of it and found out which pencil grip is easier to draw straight lines in different directions (horizontally, vertically or diagonally).
Anyway, these are the small practices I did for my first assignment.

After this, we had to practice on measuring with the pencil and eye judgements. And we were meant to go home and practice more with it.

Later on, I was required to do toning in different ways with pencil and pen. I had to do toning with hatching, cross hatching, dots and scribbles. And an extra blending for pencil.


And with this toning, I had to shade 4 shapes with these 4 different ways with pencils.
 

A few more classes down the road, we had to practice our first live drawing setting. Which was honestly fun for me because I've already had some experience from the previous college I was in.


Then we had to draw one more live portrait of our choice as our last practice before our finals.