Representation Techniques

My signs are about Cooking! Among the Realistic to Abstract, I decided to take number 4 as the sign.

I feel #4 is suitable as a sign as it consists of 2 things every chef should have. 1, the chef hat, of course to keep the hair in it, so that you won't get to taste the chef's hair! 2, the ladle, of course it is used for cooking.

(Forum for the E-Learning Week is still not out yet...)

Added: 19th April

I redraw the cooking signs and blow it up to an A3 size, good for printing so the resolution is high enough so it will be clear.

Digital Version

After yesterday's class, our work are being critised and commented. I think everyone's works are great! Give yourself a pat on your back.

First Picture, critics received:
1) Background is obsolete, too distracting.
2) 'O' not recognised straightaway, classmates tot is a 'd' instead.

2nd Picture:
1) Background very un-natural.
2) Animals too small.
3) Should change rabbit to another animal.

Added: 19th April

Really I feel that the animals are really a bad idea, I thought of another hate to do... TOMATOES!

Colouring a pencil sketch on Photoshop

I've found a webpage desribing the steps to colour you sketches on photoshop. Hopes this will help you all in the assignment!

http://www.newtutorials.com/coloring-a-pencil-sketch-in-photoshop.htm

Me, Myself and I

This assignment was an interesting one. You will need to squeeze every single bit of your brain juices to think of something you like (a bit easy but can also be very difficult) or something you hate (extremely easy if you have one!), and that it can fit into your name, and hopefully create a picture out of it.

Here are some 4 roughs for the tutorial...

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Fibonacci Number and Rule of Third

I am fascinated on Fibonacci Number. It is really amazing, and it is used in many areas like Mathematics (of course, it is a number sequence), life sciences, botany, and non-technical areas like Art and Photography.

Since I learned it in a Math Class, I would like to start explaining it technically. Fibonacci sequence is a recursive function that adds the previous 2 numbers in the sequence, with the exception of the first 2 which are 0 and 1. It formed recursively implies that you may need to count from the beginning if you were to find out the 20 sequence of the series. But interestingly, a direct formula in Math allows you to calculate the number immediately with just one step. And more interestingly, the formula consists of calculation of 2 root of 5! Most of us would have learnt from middle school that the root of 5 is some very strange number resulting in tons of decimal places 2.236067977..... But the formula actually ends up in an Integer Number!

In botany, most flowers have petals of a fibonacci sequence. Very rare flowers have petals that are not in the fibonacci sequence. The 4-leaf clover is considered a lucky symbol as 4 is not a fibonacci number.

Rule of thirds is a common tool used in photography and art. A picture captured in the rule of third shows to the viewer a different perspective of the image. A picture of the merlion I took sometime ago shows the rule of third.

Lecture 3

Guess I had done my blogging late. But nonetheless, it will still be good to start than not starting at all.


Lecture 3 today was a bit more technical that usual, guess most people from non-technical areas may not be able to understand them quickly. In my own opinion, some knowledge on these technical stuff is critical and absolutely essential.


Drawing a image, say on Abobe Photoshop, you will require to understand several things when creating a new image, namely the resolution, colour and image size.


Resolution is an important part of the image as it tells the programme how much information you want your image to contain. Like 72pixel/inch (ppi), which means that in per square inch, there will be 72 * 72 pixels in that square. That means, your image will be clearer and sharper when compared to one that has lower resolution for example an image with resolution 48ppi.


Once you had determined your resolution, the next is the colour space. RGB, CMYK are common colour spaces found on most image editing or creation programme. RGB are common for graphics created to be displayed for screen viewing, but for publishing, you will need to convert it to a CMYK colour space.


Image size is also important. Should you create a poster for printing in A3 or A2 size, you may need to create a blank image size based on a A3 or A2 size before proceeding in creating the images on the file, especially they are of raster type. For vector-based images, they do not have this problem, but you will not be able to create high quality images on vector based drawing (unless you are expert in Geometric Math and Linear Algebra).