The very first exercise
Hello. This is the very first exercise that we were task to do in the very first lecture. What a great start with such a horrendous looking picture to kick off the new semester. Anyway, the objective of this exercise is to start the ball rolling by sketching a machine that enhances one's creativity by 100 times.
Obviously this exercise is not suppose to be a realistic portrayal I guess it is most likely to jump-start the creative part of our brain. I look around and my friends had stuffs really out of the world and it isn't really a machine any more.
My Creative Oxygen Machine
For me, I think pretty straightforward (I'm not sure that is good or bad). The word 'machine' really restricted my imagination even though the lecturer encouraged not to. Regardless, I diverted my creativity to the make up of the machine.
I imagined that enhancing creativity should first be something received by the user and in my case it is fed to the user through oxygen. The user lies in the incubator the same way you do so for artificial tanning while a pump would pump in 'Creative' oxygen which I named CrO2 (after which realizing that Cr stands for Chromium). But anyway you get the point. I added an additional function to the machine if you realize, you can adjust the scale of input.
Can I draw?
A trick question by our lecturer Jing(Ms Chiang), "Who in this lecture cannot draw?" Well I raised my hand. But 'duh' who cannot draw, its only whether the drawing is good or bad. In the standard of the artistic world, my sketch is nonsense. But in terms of visual communication, I think I fulfilled the objective because it is intuitive what my drawing is all about it is not that bad that no one would understand what the picture is all about.
However if we were to look seriously I probably need to work more on my drawing because it is horrendous as I have difficulty drawing the 'coffin' into a normal 3D rectangular shape. I also struggled to draw a person, something that I couldn't do for 22 years. But anyway it is the first exercise and the photoshop/illustrator part hasn't come in so hopefully better stuff would be up as we turn to software to aid the horrendous drawing.
Thank you!
