cardy thingy

it's really hard to say too much about the card because i drew inspiration from some very very personal matters. i'll try to share as much as i can. let's go chronologically.



started off first because a dear friend of mine received some psycho letters. i wish i had scanned in the letter but she almost burned it the moment she got them. (in all honesty who wouldn't ya?

so anyway that's how my first card came out, wanted to use very black and red themes instead of the usual red, pink and white. so this is what happened.

2208 - card assignment

the problem with this card was that it was very font dependent. thinking back i think my thought process was rather fixated on the fonts as well. the class gave really really really mixed comments, for the most part they were amused that i reused the rose from a previous assignment. and one thing i realised... no point criticising your own work during presentation, after that people just don't feel like giving good comments. i really think in order to get good feedback from people in class, you have to feel like you love the work. maybe then people will put in more effort in saying what they mean as well - knowing you'll do something about that work.

my conclusion from class presentation? redo. which i did.

CHAPTER II: Child Like Love

i was inspired quite abit by Sham's work after his presentation in class. i liked how he presented love as a sunrise/sunset.

i'm not sure is he got how implicative his work actually is, but i really feel it's potentially very deep if his work was further elaborated on. I'll just put his link/work here for credit sake.

http://www.sham2208.blogspot.com/

what started off as inspiration from sham's work became my eventual card. now how it went from that to this is where it gets rather private.

2208 - Card Assignment (rework)

i really wanted to express a different kind of love and i kind of searched around for it ever since that class. it came really really late in some tough times with a friend and spending alot of time around my muse. eventually i got to experience a kind of love that's very akin to perhaps children holding hands... or siblings in younger days.

well i know all that seems kinda missing alot of details cos it is. but point is.... i was trying to express a very innocent, child-like kind of love. hence the use of natural colors, an overall very eartly-brownish tone to the card. i was trying to give the feeling it was like two children in a deserted field.

the only exception to the color scheme was the two characters in the poster. i changed the color scheme for them largely to bring them out. so while skin tone follows the rather earthly-brownish color scheme, the white represents very pure and innocent love. the red however represents a deep, innate passion that really is the motivation for both characters.

the card is a "flip up" card that really was designed to throw a person off when he/she first looks at it. (as in at first glance the cover page really doesn't look like a love card) it's only when the card is opened the full message is received.

some credits:

1. thanks to my brother kayvern for the characters. my previous characters looks better for the psycho card. so kav here saved my ass by doing an outline for me. thanks again brother.
2. thanks to john legend. no he didn't actually write the words or anything, but the words and a big part of the idea for the card came from my misinterpretation of some lyrics of his song "high"
3. thanks to my muse
4. thanks to my best friend, for everything