Self Portrait presentation for Principles of Design

On the 24th of April '13 I did a presentation on a self portrait that I drew. The self portrait is based on a modern cartoon art movement. I used watercolour pencils to add colours to my drawing and made speckle effects using a spray bottle. The reason behind the colourful background is because I love colours that catches my attention. I drew my cat next to me simply because she has become a part of my life. 

My self portrait

Speckle effect

My fat cat

The cartoon Me

Rings and more rings!

I am a huge fan of uniquely designed accessories, especially rings. I love rings that are special in a way that I would look at it and "love at first sight" happens. There are some of them that caught my eyes.

Ring from Topshop at Sunway Pyramid

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Strangely, Neatly, Oddly, Arranged Tic Tacs!

Some Saturday ago, my cousin Tessa from Melbourne, came to visit me in Malaysia. We decided to go and watch 'The Croods' at the cinema in Sunway Pyramid. After the movies I asked if she wants to pay a visit to Aeon (one of the supermarkets in Sunway Pyramid) to get some local food products back to Melbourne. She was keen on the idea, so we went. As usual I would walk to the junk food/candy aisle first. I scanned through the shelves to see if there's anything I wanted to buy. To my surprise, I saw something really odd to the eye. It was a box of strangely, neatly, oddly, arranged Tic Tacs! What are the odds of that? I showed Tessa the box of Tic Tac and she said she must take it back to Melbourne with her. Call us silly because we ARE! It was a fun day indeed and I sure miss those silly moments with my cousin. 

Tessa amazed by a box of candy

Awesome box of Tic Tac!

Spot em' awesome Tic Tacs

Neatly arranged from top to bottom

    

Art Movement - Cartoon Drawing.

Mashimaro (Mashimaro)

Om Nom (Cut the Rope)

Zim (Zim and Gir)

Droopy (Droopy)

Peter Rabbit (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)

Garfield (Garfield)

Patrick and Spongebob (Spongebob Squarepants)

A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art.  Modern cartoon refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works. In the 19th century, cartoon was mainly used in humorous illustrations in magazines and newspapers. In the early 20th century until the present day it referred to comic strips and animated films. Famous cartoonist for example Walt Disney, Jim Davis, and Charles M. Schulz created cartoon characters that are recognized world wide. I feel that this modern art movement represents me best because I love doodling and drawing my own cartoon characters. I love how every expression given on their faces are exaggerated. When I was young I used to draw my own comics, I got very attached to the characters and sometimes I find myself imitating their facial expression while drawing. Whenever i start doodling or drawing I get carried away and start daydreaming. 

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My very first Principles of Design presentation.

My mind map

Me preparing for my presentation

My doodle of ME!

                        



Self portrait made out of nature

  

So on my second Principles of Design class, my lecturer Ms Lisa gave us an activity which is to draw a mind map of who I am and a self portrait made out of trash and nature I started off on my mind map which took me quite sometime to figure out what to 'map' about. My friend gave me an idea to start off with my favourite colours. So I started off with the colours, and then food came to my mind. Within minutes I found myself occupied with the mind map. After a while the A3 paper was filled with drawings and colourful words. It wasn't so hard after all.

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Now here comes the other part of the activity.

I walked around campus to look for some 'free stuff' for my self portrait. I found some really nice round edge leaves, big and tiny ones. I also came across some seed that look like green peas, dried leaves, sticks, small tiny white flowers and yellow flowers too. I brought them all back to class and started brainstorming. The first thing that came to my mind was to make me wearing dress out of leaves! I loved that idea. And so the messy work of art began by adding a generous amount of glue on the A3 sized paper. I glued whatever I picked from around the campus on to the paper. All of a sudden I got this idea of having a cat next to the so call 'me'. My cat (Kitty) was the love of my life. <3 My heart shattered after knowing that she would never return to me again. In loving memory of her I decided to make her part of my presentation.  I made her a little dress out of a dried leaf simply because I used to dress her up all the time. Not that she enjoys it but I know that she wouldn't mind.

Presentation was surprisingly fun! It was the first time I wasn't nervous while doing a presentation. Maybe it's because I knew what I was blabbing about. Or maybe a little furry guardian angel stood by me. ;)