Assignment 5 - Colourful Asia

Initial design was not on costumes, but on rice. But it was too simple as can be seen from below and hence called for a change in design. haha. There are some colour distortions. The images of the Indian, Thai and Japanese women were from cliparts.






For the next design, I had to trace out the images from scratch. They were traced using the same method as in Assignment 2, where we had to create Pictograms. They were then coloured in Photoshop. Because they were outlined in Illustrator, all the details provided in the clip art were lost. I had to add in my own details using Photoshop brushes. As can be seen in the final postcard design, the Indian sari was added some sparkles to make the costume more unique.











There are 4 colour schemes initially, each based on a season. Blue for winter, green for spring, orange for autumn and pink for summer. Initial design as seen below was to place these 4 different colours of a nationality in one postcard, but it did not fully represent a colourful Asia.

The solution was thus to add in different Asian costumes so it is more vibrant and colourful. Colour schemes are based on the background. This is so the spotlight on the costumes do not get compromised. 4 schemes were created

Pastel scheme

Shades of black scheme


Fabric Scheme


Grayscale scheme (some distortions occured??)

The final chosen design was the fabric scheme, as it it able to bring out the costumes most effectively.