Autumn sketch

Yeah I decided that this week will be all about my sketchs so now I’m posting another entry with a sketch.

I really miss my hometown now >”<

I’m from Ha Noi, the capital of Viet Nam, in the North, and it’s like 2000 km far from HCM city. As the result, the weathers here and there are totally diffirent. In HCM city , you only have two types of weather, dry or wet, rain or not rain, while in Ha Noi, four seasons. Well it’s not that I don’t like HCM’s weather, actually I love it here, but because I’m in the mood of homesick, so just want to talk a little bit about that.

It’s gonna be autumn in Ha noi soon, usually from August I guess. And in autumn, the weather is really nice, it’s dry, and cool, and the scenes are really really beautiful, you can see yellow leaves falling all your way, and winds blowing your hair while you are walking. I love autumn the most and then winter among all seasons. However, what’s not good in autumn is that, with all the beautiful scenes, if you’re kind of sensitive people, you may feel somehow lonely and sad without any reason…

Oh maybe it’s too much just stop driving this entry too corny XD, what I wanted to say is that, with a mood of missing autumn, I have finished this sketch.

I draw this based on a movie poster I have seen somewhere (don’t really remember ). The content of the movie has nothing to do with the meaning in this sketch. Just I by chance saw the poster, together with my own mood, I made this. And I name this “Autumn wind”.

Well a while ago, I remember seeing somewhere people using metaphor to express what they want to show. For example, to represent the sky, instead of drawing clouds and sun , or moon and stars, a painter can simply draw only a bird in a big blank white paper (Lee Oi Soo picture from my entry post before) . I want to try that too. In this example, I didn’t draw wind, but I draw a girl whose hair flying and looking at a leaf falling from above. Wind is actually what did make her hair flies and the leaf falls. Thus, this sketch has been called “Autumn wind”.

recent sketchs

Pencil and paper are things that can help me hiding away from stress and recharging my energy.
When I was in UK two year ago, after looking at my sketch, my teacher told me that I should take illustration course, and I agreed, firstly because I didn’t know what the other subjects I can choose were. After that, thing is, the more I learn, the more I love illustration. Even though I’m not a great drawer, drawing brings me great pleasure, especially drawing people in comic style. I can sit still doing nothing but just sketching down every scene appeared in my mind. Back then, my dream was to become a fashion illustrator and comic artist.

Time passed and many things have changed, now I’m here in RMIT doing a degree in multimedia design. Is this the right choice for me I don’t know, but at least at the moment, I’m satisfied with this situation. And who know several years from now on, what would happend.

Here are some of my recent sketchs, I just used pencil drawing in paper and then scanned it straight into my PC. No photoshop or color in. I like them natural like this. Maybe, will paint them with Photoshop, later.

My flashs

I love illustration, Flash and 2D animation. Here are the two most recent flashes that I’ve done during last semester.

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This is my first flash portfolio, it cost me like 3-4 days to finish everything, and I’m quite satisfied with the outcome ^^ I love light pink, piano and flowers and that’s how the layout has been designed.

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Does it look like a flash game? XD Actually, this is a baking cake tutorial. After a week continuously working with pencil, paper, tablet and the PC I’ve finished this. Even though there are still some mistakes -such as sometimes it’s too fast and some spelling mistakes (- -! ) – I still love the flash and especially its main character, a cute girl cooking.

Sun and Moon exercise

 

 

 

 
So, the Sun and moon exercise requirement is to create a Sun&Moon symbol for a post production studio/ company which specialises in editing film and sound. The symbol is to be used on a website.

Following the instruction, I began with sketching out as many ideas of how moon and sun can be positioned next to each other as I can. For example, You can see on the first and second left pictures, some of my my drafts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<– This is actually the idea I have chosen after considering all the drafts. This is why I have chosen it : At first I by chance drew the moon inside the sun shape, since we all know that the sun’s size is a lot bigger than the moon’s. After finishing and looking at it, suddenly I realized that their position standing together was like a smiling face emoticon. This is perfectly representing human happy emotion, which – firstly suitable with the suggestion of the exercise guidance, adding “anthropomorphization” into the logo, secondly bringing the friendly and joyful feeling into the logo, as this will be used for a film production company, in entertaiment industry. In general, the logo contains a meaning that our company cares about the audience and we want to produce great movies which can bring people happiness.

 

 

 <– This is the shape of the finish logo I’ve sketched. To presenting the company is working in film production industry, the moon and sun symbol has been put inside a square piece of film.

 

 

 

 

And here they are the final results with Adobe Ilustrator, the same logo with some diffirences in arrangement. Customers can chose what they prefer.
And completely finish !! ^^

Do Thuy Linh
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