Wednesday, May 25, 2011

My Pixel Collage module's first exercise!
My fave piece of work~ ^_^
Cos it features one of my fav k-pop idol G-Dragon!

The module (for the past month) was about digital collage, a little bit of cut & paste effect is fine, as long as the separate images look well-blend together, forming a single image.. And so i thought, a face would be easy, just input diff facial expressions..
There's 9 separate images used in this collage.. Can u tell?
Teacher said use at most 3 or 4 images if not there's too much going on & lose focus..
I've no idea why i was so hardworking & challenged myself by putting together 9 images & blending them into 1~

I deliberately chose pictures from the same 'Shine a light' concert/dvd photoshoot so the pictures look consistent.. Since G-Dragon is a well-known fashionista & is so 百变 with diff styling, dressing, expressions he'll exude diff aura.. Mysterious. Cool. Cute. Crazy. Funky. Quirky. Outright outrageous style. He's those few people who can pull off seriously weird & awkward styles.. Born Versatile..


Another exercise is halftone, silhouette & vector..

The reddish part is the halftone effect.. I put vector headphones on the head of Jaejoong (my beloved member of DBSK-JYJ)
I put in silhouettes of leggy beauties (Orange Caramel members)
And had water textures as background..
There again, i fulfilled 3 requirements of the exercise while incorporating my fav K-pop idols (aha yeah i don't think i'll ever grow bored of talented & gd-looking K-pop idols, they give me inspiration & motivation to continue working on)

In case you couldn't tell, this was last min work..
I was losing inspiration in doing pixel collage, largely due to the uninspiring teacher who didn't teach (what an irony!)
His "style" of teaching is emailing us several links to online photoshop tutorials.. Well, we can easily search for them if we wanted to..
The very reason why we're enrolled in school is to learn first-hand from the "experienced experts"
But it seems that many polytechnic lecturers are established/brilliant designers in their own right, but fail as design teachers.. Shouldn't poly lecturers attend courses by MOE/NIE so they can learn effective teaching methods?

This is the nth time i've met poly teachers who can't teach.. Like omg.. In design sch block system, all modules are taught in 4 weeks, and what are we, students supposed to learn from teachers who fail at teaching within a space of 4 weeks?

In the end, it's up to ourselves..
Why are we paying school fees then?


Enjoy school's air con?
Dots...........................

yunn. at 9:32 AM