Proposal / Timeline

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The project that I’m going to make is called “Art on the Egg”. Why am I choosing this topic? Since I was young, I almost see eggs every day, because my grandmother owning an egg’s factory and my mom working at there. She brought me to the factory everyday. When I was 6 years old, it’s just a small farm. With the growth of the farm, it has become a factory which specializing in the production of eggs. So that I want to design a project that related to EGG to express my respect and admiration for my grandmother and my mom. They can put it at their office or factory to have fun to look at it. And I said my interest is fashion design, but graphic design will be my career. My grandmother’s company spent a lot of money on posters, booklets, and packaging design every year. Now, I am learning the knowledge of graphic design from the United States and seeing a lot of great design around every corner of the streets. After I graduate, I think I can go back to China to help them to design these things.

The other reason that I chose this topic is I did not see anyone made this before. It’s a novel and creative project for me. I like drawing stuffs but I never officially learn how to draw, which is a big challenge for me. The most interesting class that I’ve ever taken is the ART 106 Beginning Drawing. I learned how to use charcoal to draw and some different kind of draw, such as perspective drawing, profile drawing, and patterns drawing. Even though these are very basic techniques of drawing and only apply black and white color, they are very significant to me. It’s the very first hand drawing class I’ve ever taken in Chicago. To combine my ideas of design and the design techniques that I learned from Depaul, I believe I can make it very well.

My Art on the Egg project will have 5 groups of eggs with different scenarios, such as beach, garden, road, home, box, etc. Each group is made up of six eggs. With different scenarios, each group has different theme. The theme of the first group is Typography, which is combining my mother language Chinese and English to draw on the egg. For the second group I will draw different facial expressions on the egg, such as surprise, scary, cute, etc. The third group I will draw the patterns on the egg. The fourth group I will draw the shape of each country on the map. For the fifth group, I’ll draw the outfit on the egg. And each egg wears different hats or headwear, which is making by paper.

For the drawing process, I’ll boiling eggs at first and then use pencil to make sketches on the egg. I’m going to use pencil, acrylic color, watercolor, marker, pen, etc. I’ll shoot the process of how I make these drawings on the egg and post them to my Tumblr account as my final presentation. The size of the images will be 10.5x8.5 in. I’ll give a printed card to my classmates, which shows my working progresses and the final images of my project.

Here’s some inspiration images:

Timeline (2015)

Subject to changeJ

January (begin the first and second group)

1/30: Begin to use pencil to hand draw the first group’s sketch on paper.

February (complete the first and second group)

2/6: Use pencil to draw the sketches on the egg (Typography and Facial Expression).

2/13: Use marker to trace the pencil line.

2/20: Simply apply colors on the egg.

2/27: Shoot photos for the first group of eggs with the box scenario and the second group of eggs with the home scenario.

March (complete the third group)

3/6: Hand drawing the sketches on papers of the third group (graphic patterns).

3/13: Use pencil to draw the patterns on the eggs.

3/20: Use thin marker to trace the patterns.

3/27: Use watercolor to fill the color of patterns and background. Shoot photos with the garden scenario.

April (complete the fourth group)

4/3: Hand drawing the sketches on papers of the fourth group (map).

4/10: Use pencil to draw the map shape of each country on the eggs and use pen to trace the outline.

4/17: Use watercolor to fill the color of the map.

4/24: Shoot photos with the road scenario.

May (complete the fifth group)

5/1: Hand drawing the sketches on papers of the fifth group (outfit).

5/11: Use pencil to draw the clothes on the eggs and use thin marker to trace the outline.

5/18: Use acrylic color to fill the outfits. Make the paper headwear and hats. Shoot photos with the beach scenario.

5/25: Print and present.