Tshirt and Jeans design competition
Saturday, May 26, 2007
On wed I went to suntec office. Signed up for Tshirt and Jeans design competition. I was really nervous. Physically quite tired also. Cause the night earlier I slept at 3 plus near 4am. Cause rushing out the design out. I really don’t have inspiration for weeks. Don’t know what to draw. Staring at the blank Tshirt, don’t know what to draw.
On wed, I start to paint at around 9pm. Decided to draw butterfly. The butterfly I really drew for long time. Just on the butterfly alone took me about 2-3hours. Think partly because it’s been a long time since I last drew, the speed dropped a lot.
After that, my speed picked up. The jeans took me about 4 hours. The shirt only took me slightly more than 1 hour.
What I like about designing is that, no matter detailed you plan your design, the actual is definitely different from what you planned earlier on. The shirt I wanted to add in a lot of things initially. But in the end, I changed my plan totally. When I start to draw, I don’t have a plan in my mind. Seems like my hands helped me to do the drawing. It’s really tiring to draw, cause need to concentrate for long period of time. But I really loved it! Something that I really love to do.
Is a talent God placed in my hands, I don’t want to put it to waste.
Really give a big THANK YOU for the following:
Jennifer: thank you for sacrificing your time to be my model! Don’t think I can get in if you are not my model. Haha. And also thanks for helping me to think of what to say for the presentation. I think if you are not there, I will be like a flattened cockroach.
Pui: thank you for staying through the night with me to complete this work. Your face gave me lots of inspiration.
Bb: thank you for everything! Thank you for believing in me that I can get in top 10. Thank you for coming all the way to my house late at night to encourage me! A very BIG thank you to you. The po piah you bought gave me energy to last through the rest of the night. Thanks Bb!!
Desong: thank you for driving Bb to my house. Hee…
God: thank you for placing this little talents in my hands. I really love this talent that you gave me. I wanna use it, maximize it to the fullest potential for Your glory.
Anyway back to the story, after work I rush down to suntec. Met Jennifer at Esplanade library first. She went to change first while I quickly go grab a bite.
Reached office. a lot of people there, is really very nervous. Cause from some designs, you know they are really professionals. I am not professionally trained in this area at all. It’s really challenging for me to stand among them. Anyway my design in considered simple. Many of them got all on other materials like laces, plastic net, colorful cloth, etc. mine only T-shirt and Jeans, period.
Suddenly felt really nervous. What to say later? What if I cannot get in top 10? Is my design too simple? What if my design is not good enough?
Jen knows I’m very nervous, is written all on my face. After changing, we prayed together. I believe that Holy Spirit will help me do the talking later.
Registered my name at the reception. They took a picture of us. I think I’m too nervous that day. I forgot to take a picture with jen that day. Oh man.. Miss out man.. Haha..
We’re supposed to go in small groups. 5 teams per round. Jen and I are the last team in that round. Phew… not much stress as the earlier teams will leave the room after their turn. Thank God for that.
I use my crapping skills again. Link butterfly with something meaningful. Thank God that I managed to make the design sound very ‘wow’.
Really happy to see that the judges are shocked that I actually hand painted everything. Sharon asked me whether I have any background in this area. I didn’t tell them I have a business earlier on. I just said, ‘no, I studied business…’
Can see the judges are impressed by the graphic. Then among all the 5 teams in my round, my team is the only team that they mention, ‘if you got into finals..’
I was really happy that they mention about finals, so it means that I have chance to get in finals. Thank God for helping me.
After the presentation, I was really happy. I jumped and screamed once I got out of the conference room. The people at the reception looked at me and laughed. Jen told them I was happy because the presentation was over. But in my heart, I am happy because I think I can get into finals.
After the presentation, Jen meet Perlie and I went to find bb. Bb was at a Japanese restaurant at Esplanade. Naomi’s birthday celebration. Bb didn’t have a chance to see the completed works, so I took it out to show him when I met him. The rest of the attributes staff saw too. They don’t seems to believe that I hand painted them. Is really a compliment to me. Bb told them, ‘I know she can do it one…’ :D
Today, received a call from ZS Charmaine. She said she’s been looking for me for two days… opps.. I told her I working, not able to pick up the calls. She told me I got into top 10! Praise the LORD!!! Haha..
I was really overjoyed when I heard that. Bb was the first to know.. Call him immediately once I put down the phone with Charmine.
I still got less than one week to improve on the design. Decided to drop the shoe design competition, focus totally on this competition instead.
God, may the spirit of creativity manifest more over my life. I pray that I can shine for you in the area of design. Really don’t want to lose this talent someday. I want to experience more breakthrough. My goal is that one day I can come to a point that there is I will gain confidence to draw everything.
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