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The Drafts of Mine (of Me?)


It was almost the end of our first term when I first joined the UCL Islamic Society Media Team, which is something that I had never think of before. Hahaha well after reading my 'debating' post, you should know by now that I have always been that curious girl who is a bit crazy in throwing herself to try out something new, but this one is also something I will never regret trying for.

I was accepted to be part of the Media Team in November 2017. And due to my insecurity and lack of confidence, I had never volunteered for any of the poster making task my leaders had offered in the group, but three months later...

Member #1: This event looks brilliant! Media, anyone up for it?

And then, there's...

Me: Can I give a try for this one? (Might need a lot of help for a first attempt)

Ha ha ha, say the girl who (is a silent reader ngeh ngeh ngeh) has not been doing anything for 3 months :P (such a terrible group member, they should have kicked me out earlier XP)

Member #2: Absolutely! Making posters is literally a process of trial and error, so don't worry about needing help :)

Member #3: Got to start somewhere :)

Member #4: Hamizah of course! That's how most of us have learnt the tricks of the trade funnily enough

Fuhhhh, very supportive members! They are all very nice (and lenient) to me hahaha probably because I am the only first year in the team, and they know that coping with university life is not an easy task huehue

More than a week after I accepted the task, I sent my first draft, which is pretty embarrassing. (please prepare not to laugh, though I know you would)

Draft 1

Okay you can stop laughing now. I was trying to make it as simple as it can be so that I will get a lot of feedback and not having to do a lot of changes (hahaha silly girl can you see my game :P) so obviously they told me;

1. The fonts are not commercial enough
2. The gradient is nice but something is missing: there is no texture in the background
3. The colour of logos should be unified XD (the empty space is for another logo I didn't add in yet)

So in a day, I added another layer for the texture in the background, change the colour of the background cause I hated it even though somebody said it was nice (I have issues with yellow idk why), and of course, look for better fonts from dafont.com

Draft 2

Before I move on, when I first got myself this task, I was expecting that I would end up producing 10 drafts hahaha. We'll see how it goes. So the feedback that I got after sending this draft was:

1. It looks quite gothic (lololol) so change the heart design to white colour
2. make the background a burgundy/purple/dark pink colour and reduce the opacity
3. keep the texture
4. love the fonts!

The good thing is I got to learn how to replace colour using Photoshop since I have to change that black heart design in the middle. It is not as easy as using the 'Paint' app in Windows though XD

Another day, another draft...

Draft 3
To be honest I feel like the background is a bit too dark, and for some reasons I really love the colour of the text but they don't appear to be obvious to me, and I had no idea what was wrong. But my fellow teammate can easily pointed that one out:

1. Change the colour of the text to something lighter and not red. I like the font and the texture is cool! (eheh kembang jap, lol)
2. Change the hue (of the background) to something more purple
3. Make logos white! Can't be seen at the moment

Ahhhh, now I know why hihihi. Changing font colour is not that nasty, but again changing the colour of the logos is a bit tricky, like what I did before for the heart pattern. So, here goes another productttt

Draft 4
"Changes look awesome!" That's what they said. Wow, I feel so accomplished! I learned how to use Photoshop when I was in high school but unfortunately I can recall nothing from those old days huhuhu. This was a great opportunity that I got to learn everything again from scratch, thanks to my teammates and also Youtube and Google XD

The last few changes that I have to make are just technical stuff such as moving the logo to top centre, reduce the opacity of the logos, and I had to drop the speakers' names out. After a week since I first started working on this poster, this is the final product of the first poster I have ever created in my whole life (over je):

Draft 5 (draft 4 is pretty much the same)

(Hopefully it's not my first and last poster I made in my whole life hahaha)

While dating Photoshop for hours and days, I realised that a collection of snapshots of the phases of my life is actually a collection of drafts of me. A snapshot of a 20 year old me will never be the same as a 40 or a 60 year old me; if I am given the chance to live that long.

But as long as I let other people help me grow, and I take the action to make changes, I can always say goodbye the older versions of me (and might see them again though) and look forward to meet a better me in the future.


Well, it's just drafts of 'me'. It will always be incomplete. Because I am a normal human being too. And everyone knows, nobody is perfect ;)




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  1. Maiya26 May 2018 at 16:20

    Weh, that looks soo awesome!!

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  2. N.H. Afandi31 May 2018 at 06:09

    Thanks Ummi! ! Still looking forward to improve though hahaha

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