This project secretly branches off from another final project I did during my senior year for my drawing and painting class before graduation. It sort of plays as a sequel to it. Surprisingly, the process for this was a lot less messier than my desk while completing my pieces for the X project, not to mention I worked on this on the floor of my bedroom because my desk didn’t have enough room for the canvas.

The materials used for this consisted of mainly office supplies, like sticky notes, sticky tabs, notebook paper, binder dividers, index cards, pencils, and old, dried out pens. Other materials include graph paper, tracing paper, and snippets of my geometry homework from my sophomore year in high school. When laid out flat on a desk, many elements and layers of the papers on top of each other begin to rise from the canvas, making it feel and look like a portion of an office desk belonging to a very disgruntled employee.

These are 3 collage pieces made from washi tape, origami paper, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, some magazine pages, lace trims, and posca pens for some minor details.

My inspiration for the first piece, consisting of red and purple hues for the analogous color goal, came quite instantaneously where I had a rough idea of what I wanted to do but didn’t know what to use until I was looking through a wedding magazine that had so many hues, tints, and shades of my desired colors and decided to make it visually inspired from weddings.

The second piece is a little more abstract, as I thought more about the colors than what tangible thing I’m taking inspiration from. Given that my complimentary colors were blue and orange, the end result made me think of direct opposites like fire and water. As a random fact, the feminine figure that’s present in the X is part of an illustration seen for a wine company, and she is only known as ‘The Immigrant.’ The added origami butterflies were later added shortly after I learned that fact.

The third and final piece is actually dedicated to and heavily inspired from a video game character that I may or may not have had a fixation on years ago. Because their design consists of 3 colors, I decided to base my triadic piece off of his colors, being red, blue and a lime green. This piece was the most fun for me to do.

Overall, this project was my favorite. But it also left my desk in shambles.

The image at the top is the final draft of my zine before it is printed on a sheet of copy paper and folded into a small book, as depicted in the second two images below the first. This zine is no bigger than the size of my hand, and as the numbers suggest on the back of the zine, it is the 18th copy out of the 20 produced in total.

All images used in that zine were all personally taken by me. They ranged from simple objects or furniture found around my house, to hues of red I found while outside of my home. Looking back at this makes me wish I could’ve added more to make it better, but I am proud of it for being my first ever attempt at making a zine.

These are two pieces made from what started out as simple black and white sheets of paper. I cut the designs and patterns out with an x-acto knife and glued them down on the white sheet of paper into the artworks displayed. The first image is based on a viral music video for a song titled ‘Bad Apple’ and the second image is based on an album cover for ‘Kikuo Miku 7.’

To put it bluntly, I didn’t quite grasp the goal of the assignment in the first attempt, but while drafting the thumbnail sketch for the second piece, it became much more clear to me. It was still fun cutting out the patterns in more intricate designs, as I am a very detail-oriented person.