Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The next serving of 'WokBox'

Greetings! I'm still continuing on making stuff for my mock business 'WokBox', here is my next serving

First, here is the mock-website that I had to create last week:



Also here is the box design I built, but forgot to put on my blog (NOTE: I need to print it out and build this):



Thanks for viewing!

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Changes in my Blog

Anyone can comment on my work now, instead of those that are registered to Blogger.com

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Cookin' Up 'WokBox'

Throughout recent months, we had to come up with our own 'mock' fast-food company. I orignally called mine 'Cupps', but was changed as the whole concept didn't work out, so that was changed to WokBox, this new concept came in mind as I had a love for asian foods (especially Chinese, Thai and Japanese) and I was born with an Indonesian/Japanese Descent. This is some of the work that I had to create for my fictional fast-food company (Note: The A3 Spread that I posted earlier is related to what I'm doing now):


Brochure - Front View


Brochure - Rear View


Poster 1


Poster 2


Poster 3


Letterhead


Business Card


Comps Card
That's pretty much everything so far...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A3 Spread

We had to cover a 'scandal' on our mock company on our A3 Spread, this is pretty much the end result (as far as I know of):



I admit this wasn't the best I've done (exporting this as a JPEG was harder than what I've thought), but what I was trying to achieve was something like a exclusive news article you might find in TIME Magazine (though they are more 'professional' than what I could come up with...). But this is what I came up with as far as I know.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Art Tuesdays - Logos and Mosaic Artworks

As part of Art Tuesdays, I got more works to post regarding to this, the first image show of the five logos we had to create:








The second image shows of the mosaic we had to create:





That's all for now!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

FACE COMPOSITE

Interestingly, when I was posting my work, I came across the face composite of myself, here is what I came up with:



ART TUESDAYS - ART GALLERY (Part 2)

Here's another image I would like to post:



The first image is of cartoon characters using Vector Graphics, here is another:

The vectorised image of the Circus Landscape

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

ART TUESDAYS - FIRST SEMESTER ART GALLERY COMPLIATION

Throughout the whole first semester, this is all of the work that I have put together during Art Tuesdays for all the world to see. This is what we've done:





Depiction of the flowers in a vase, created by using glouche paint


The recreation of Luke's Guitar, using Glouche Paint. But what is being done here is trying to achieve lighting techniques (from darker areas to bright areas), however, this was consideribly harder than I first thought.

The next two images show the cityscape and the landscape of a circus that we had to do, this is what I (attempted to) achieve:


Cityscape showing an Fictional City with some unrealistic building structures


Landscape of the circus, showing the Regurgitator


Some of the artworks were done digitally, as the next few images will show (NOTE: Sorry about the screenshots I took :-), next time I'll have to remove the window interface):


Cartoon Background, the first two pages of what could be a cartoon...



A Dark Background, showing how cold, depressing and dark it intended to be

On one of the mornings, random music was played. The objective was to visually represent on how we hear that random music, mostly depending on the mood of the music that was played:



Image 1 - Felt lively, bright, feels alive and at the same time, feels a bit 'rushed'


Image 2 - A mix of red, orange and yellow. Has a effect to create a 'Dawn of an new era' Scenario. Something new is about to commence and feels like a certain scenario could 'change the entire world forever'.



Image 3 - Has the feel that the 'Grass is always Greener on the other side of the fence'




Image 4 - The music had a rather an annoyed irritated mind, the colours show this




Image 5 - This image made me enter a mind of a raging 'Psychopath' or a deranged mind on a verge of a meltdown (Mental Trauma)



Image 6 - The song that was played reminded me of somewhere within Outback Australia and for some reason, feels calm and peacefully quiet



Image 7 - Reminded me of where I used to live (live around the North Queensland Coast). Feels Calm and very Lively, the colours used represent this.




Image 8 - Self-explainatory, I felt like I entered the mind of a hyperactive individual

The next few images we had to do was to attempt to make hand-drawn images as photorealistic as possible with just different types of shading, I honestly found these quite challenging. But at least they're done!!!







We also had to do a portrait of someone, using this technique, as shown below (I also like the time to thank fellow classmate Ben Trevaskis for being the main person for sketching)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Concept of Design (Personal Opinions) - 4/6/2008

Greetings user! Now that my CD/DVD Cover is finished, there is more stuff that I need to post to my Den. Today, we're studing designs of the packaging that is used for products in terms of the colour, typography, images, etc. We had to bring three different products that may be used to study the design of the packaging.

PRODUCT 1 - LITE-ON DVD BURNER




After evaluating the packaging of this product, this is what I found:
  • The purpose of the design of this box is to hold the DVD Burner
  • The colour is pretty much basic, but is bright
  • The manufacturer's logo is branded throughout the box on all sides
  • The Information on the front of the product shows key information regarding to the functionality of the product, whilst the sides and the back of the product are more technically detailed
  • There is a image at the front to tell what the product will look like once out of the box
  • The size of the box doesn't provide enough adequate protection on the product. Though, by looking at the back of the product, there are symbols that tell me that it may be fragile and the product must be used in a dry environment
Overall, how I saw this product as simple, yet is there for a purpose of holding a piece of computer hardware.

PRODUCT 2 - SONY PLAYSTATION 2



After evaluating the packaging of this product, this is what I found:
  • There is not much colour, but the colour used is well suited to the colour of the product, although the colour can be rather dull
  • There is not much information on the front of the product, but the icons that appeared on the top left are pretty much self-explainatory, showing what the console is capable of (e.g. DVD Playback, DTS Connectivity, USB, Network, etc.)
  • The image of the actual product, can be eye-catching
  • The size of the packaging appears to tell me that this product may be fragile (there is a icon that represents that at the back of the packaging)
Overall, like the first product, pretty self-explainatory like the first box, but the image on the front of the packaging can draw enough attention to convince you to possibly buy the product (especially when the product is more aimed at potential gamers).

PRODUCT 3 - OLD GOLD DARK CHOCOLATE



After evaluating the packaging of this product, this is what I found:
  • Self-Explainatory, holds Dark Chocolate
  • As a self-confessed Dark Chocolate lover, it's pretty eye catching with the image of the product, showing on the front of the packaging, to tell the buyer 'EAT ME NOW!!!'
  • There is not much information on the front of the product, just mainly the net weight of the product (there is more information at the back, regarding to nutrition info, ingredients, etc)
  • How the colour used on the packaging suits well to what the product is (The use of Red and Black with the image of Dark Chocolate).
Overall, it can be eye catching, but it really depends on the taste you have on the type of chocloate you like

Honestly, this was all I could think of with these products

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

INTRODUCTION TO ART TUESDAYS

Something new for this Blog, Art Tuesdays. We have those every Tuesday Morning throughout this year covering from traditional art to digital art learning every aspects of design. I'll be regularly posting any inages that are related to what we learnt in Tuesday Morning Classes.

I'll be keeping you posted!!!

CD/DVD Cover Development Process - Final Post (28/5/2008)

Today the assessment is due, but after a month and a bit of painstaking work, I'm finally finished the damn thing, this is how it came out on the actual CD:








Well Enjoy! :-)

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

CD/DVD Cover Development Process - The 'Development' Process (Part 5) (21/5/2008)

Only a week left of this project and so far I've finished the development stage of my project. What's left now is to print these covers out and to create the rear inlay and the actual CD Face for printing. But otherwise other than that I'm pretty much done the important stuff at the moment (I hope...)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Contacting Me

Anyone who visits my blog can make a comment on my articles and also e-mail me at drakie_rox@hotmail.com about anything regarding to my blogs. I'll try to read them all and if appropriate, respond to your e-mails as quick as possible (if I have any spare time to check my inbox). I also allow any feedback on the interface and layout on my site as well. One last thing, for more articles click on 'older posts' at the bottom of the page.

CORRECTIONS

There was a mistake in the 'Development' Process (Part 3), the camera (Kodak EasyShare C340) was 5.0 Megapixels, not 5.1 Megapixels. My mistake for any incorrect information that might of confused you :-)

CD/DVD Cover Development Process - The 'Development' Process (Part 4) (14/5/2008)(Updated)

I'm halfway into developing the covers for my CD/DVD Cover Project. I've only being able to get 5 pages done so far (including the Back Cover and the Front Cover), but I'm still getting there (hopefully!!!). These are what the front cover is set to look like:







Front Cover for CD/DVD Cover

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

CD/DVD Cover Development Process - The 'Development' Process (Part 3) (7/5/2008)

I've now started on the development of my CD/DVD Cover, in which the project must be done by 28th May 2008. Firstly, I starting on the front cover of my CD/DVD, here is the photography I took myself that I'll be using for my front cover:


The camera that I used for these images was a Kodak EasyShare C340 taken at a maximum resolution of 5.1 Megapixels


CD/DVD Cover Development - The 'Development' Process (Part 2) (7/5/2008)

Deciding what CD/DVD Cover to develop on for this project is honestly quite frustrating, after days of thinking and getting suggestions from other classmates in Cert IV Digital Media. I decided to use the DVD Cover (See the blog, CD/DVD Cover Development - The 'Idea' Process for more information). The Cover is for a 'mock' Computer Software CD/DVD with Video Files.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

CD/DVD Cover Development - The 'Development' Process (30/4/2008)

Ideas now aside, I'm now up to the development of the cover, a useful resource of information about CD/DVD Covers is from Technicolor Australia (http://www.technicolor.com.au). The company provides useful information on how CD and DVD Covers should be developed to industry standards. Aside from that, 'Development' Process of my Project will be a rather interesting and rather painful experience.

CD/DVD Cover Developement - The 'Idea' Process (30/4/2008)

After weeks of 'brainstorming' and getting increasingly 'restless'. I finally came up with a few ideas for the Audio CD Cover, I chose to go into the Rap/Hip-Hop Scene or perhaps try the Nighclub/Party Music Scene and see what happens here. Here are some of the ideas I came up with (Sorry if they are a bit distorted as it's not easy to take photos with little lighting, let alone trying to get the images that are done in pencil, because of that I had to use Photoshop and used the Exposure and Contrast to make them more readible):



AUDIO CD COVERS (DRAFT):
Lil' Punk (Top Image), Red Head Rapper (Above), PartyMania 2008 by DJ-DD (Below) and StreetParty 2008 (Bottom Image)

I would also like to thank my former Cert IV Digital Media Classmate Ben Trevaskis in suggesting some of these ideas (especially the idea for Lil' Punk and Red Head Rapper)

If these doesn't work for me, then I'm thinking of a 'Tutorial DVD' Cover (I only though of this one just yesterday):