me, myself and i.

Our very first assignment. I'm feeling rather excited about this business of designing. The box of pencils with varying degrees of thickness, the sketchpad and all. It's so artsy and I think I can almost, for the first time ever, get away with the whole tortured artist routine.

So during lecture last week, we started out with 4 thumbnails of something we love and something we hate. I felt self-expression was limited in the sense that what we chose had to be portrayable visually, so stuff like 'mediocrity' and 'hypocrisy' was ruled out. Also, my love for writing couldn't be presented in an original yet aesthetically sound manner; I had to compromise one or the other. The strongest design I could come up with was too heavily inspired by Leo Burnett's big black pencil, so it had to be discarded.

In the end, I settled for 'I love stiletto heels' and 'I hate butterflies' and presented 4 rough sketches in tutorial today.

I was told to make the first butterfly more sinister because apparently it looks too beautiful for anyone to infer my hatred. The second butterfly was rejected on the grounds that it 'looked too happy' haha. I honestly don't know how to go about sinister-fying my butterfly because I can't even look at pictures of butterflies. I had to google cartoon butterflies when I drew the sketches.

The stiletto ones were fine, I guess, except that the second sketch didn't fulfill the requirement (the incorporation of my name was more arbitrary than manipulated). They were inspired by Christian Louboutin, by the way. I drooled over the sexy heels and derived such joy working on the sketches. Here's a video:

Bet you're all salivating now! (: 

(final products will be up when i'm done)