The Big Move T-Shirt Design Contest

~ 15 Oct 2005 Saturday

Hmn...today woke up quite late...already 12pm....heehee...mama's not back yet..she's working halfday on sat...aunt on leave today...so she's busy tidying up her closet.... As for mi...hmn...today i m going to spend my time designing T-Shirt...cos i m taking part in the T-Shirt design for my church upcoming event "The Big Move". My church is moving to the EXPO this december...so it's being called "The Big MOve" as it involved the whole church...the 1st prize is $500 + 11,000 ppl wearing the 1st winner design T-Shirt; 2nd prize is $300; 3rd prize is $200; every participant will get a free T-Shirt...heehee....i was of course hoping to get the 1st prize...but there's strong competition...cos there will be many design to be choose from...heehee...so let's pray!

Before i get down to design...i surf the net for some info...met ting & luan on MSN...so had a short conversation with them...then after i had finished surfing for wat i need...i went offline.... Then mama's back..we had Mcdonald meals for lunch...heehee...yummy...then after resting awhile..i started designing...i used the scanned outline of the T-Shirt...then do some touching up...add different colours to the T-Shirt background using the Paint...then i chosen black colour...heehee...Why? well...cos i wanna use that colour to let God's glory to stand out....then i draw the arch plus the church logo...then also a pair of footprints...

Then once i m done with all these small designs....i realised i m in deep trouble...i can't seems to open my Photoshop 5.0...oh my god.....this can't be happening to mi??? I tried opening for a few times...but it promted Error!!....*panic* i immediately online to download...but invalid...there's seems to be no complete version of that software to be able to download....thn i met luan on the MSN...i asked if she had tat software...she replied yes..but still cant be help..cos the file toobig..cant be send to mi thru neither email nor msn...so i offline...thenn tried opening again & again...still error...then i realised that i hav a copy of tat i my pc...& lucky mi...there's really a copy in my pc..so i burned it into cd..then saved in my laotop....yeah...can be used...& this is the Photoshop 6.0 version...heehe..better than the previous one....

Aunt cooked fried maggie mee for dinner...the taste not too bad..heehee...then after dinner...i had a bath...aunt wanna watched the korean drama "The Stariways of Heaven", so i played the vcd for her....then i went backed to my design again....this time round...i add the arch to the T-Shirt, then the logo...well.. the arch symbolised the horizon, the logo on the horizon meaning the church will be moving into the horizon in near future...then i added the footprints...total of 5 pairs...each different sizes & colours...to represent different things; the big blue - Jesus; Yellow - Chinese; Red - Caucasians; Purple - Indians; Green - Malays....the 4 different races in s'pore...then i add the Big Move wordings onto it....by the time i m done with it ....it's already 11pm....And here's the Big Move Design of mine...(wat do u think? Nice?)

hahha...i chose to let the round collar & the edge of the sleeves to be white...so as to match with the overall design....& here's the completed T-Shirt. If you think that's all...then u r wrong...after i m done with the design...i complied these 2 jpeg files into a blank cd...to be submitted together...then i had to type out a rationale on the concepts, the reason for the particular designs, the choice of colours...etc...in not more than 300 words....well well..this took mi roughly about 90 mins to completed...cos amending here & there...becos this is going to be taken ito consideration with the design....so must be appropriate...heehee.... After i m done with tat, i even typed out a chinese version...well..this the 1st time i m typing out paragraphs in chinese words...hahha...challenging..& time consuming as well....then by the time i m done & printed out...it's already 3am (16 oct 2005 Sun)....i went to wash my face..to refresh myself..then there's the final step of the contest...i had to draw out exactly the same as wat i hav design on a piece of A3 paper given by the organiser... Oh i then realised i threw away my water colours paint & brushes long time ago...how m i going to colour....so in the end i used colour pencils & magic pens...heehee...i fell aslept inbetween for an hour...

When mama woke up in the morning...she woke mi up...heehee...lucky...else...i won't be able to finish my design...then mama helped mi to go 7-eleven to get black markers..while i continued shading other areas....she bought 2 black markers...& around 9am..i m finally done with the whole design...*phew!* fianally it's all completed...so happy...i took a photo of the design sketch..hmn..so is the design sketch identical to the design using computer?hehee...

I then filled up my particulars on the form..and then sealed everthing in an envelope..and it's DONE!! Yeah!!heehee...I had a bath, then had my breakfast�dressed up..& went church with mama...