Stepping into Illustration

Quick drawing:

Reportage Drawing:

'The Dog Exercising Machine'

Photography

This was also a new skill to me and i really enjoyed practising it using; depth of field, shutter speeds and framing.  I am actually looking into taking it up for a hobby.
The brief was based around Time magazine and four titles.  We then had to choose a title, think of a concept for the title and take a photograph of it with no photo manipulation.

The final image was my final cover design as i thought this was the strongest photograph, also it has a clear, simple message of what will spring bring? In the What's Next? title.  However i think that although the image is very clear maybe using one of the key points we learnt such as depth of field in the final cover would've been more effective.

I also think the type choice is ok for the title, not yet there but improving.

FINAL magazine cover:

Vinyl

Vinyl was a new skill to me, i had never tried it before and i quite enjoyed it.  Having Kid Acne there to help and teach was also very helpful.
We had to create a repetitive pattern based on obsession, so something i liked was flowers and these are repetitive in their own way naturally.

I do like the final outcome, however there are points i could have considered more, such as layering the vinyl which in turn produces different shades of colour.

Enjoyed the challenge of the actual process of applying the vinyl to the acrylic, making sure it was applied smoothly.

FINAL vinyl:

Observation and Communication

Obs and Comms was my favourite module last year, as I love to draw but it also taught me so much.  I had never done life drawing before so that was a great opportunity and I really learnt a lot about drawing from the sessions, all of them including mark making.
The module consisted of creating a poster of a piece of Sheffield architecture using drawing and hand made type.

I admit the type part of the module was not my strongest point, although looking back now I could've done a lot better with creating the type; I was more interested in drawing the building.  I did like my end poster but the type on it brought it down.

FINAL poster design:

Type. Image. Format

This module was sectioned into two parts; Buy Nothing Day poster and the Book project.

I quite enjoyed creating new typefaces from existing ones and exploring layout although i didn't carry it through well in my final outcomes.  I also really enjoyed making the book but I didn't do a good job in making it look very professional.  Looking back at this module it was probably one of my worst, but did learn about screen-printing :)

Buy Nothing Day- In my end poster i only like the shape created by the text and the created typeface.  It looks plain and has too much text on.

Book - Looking back now it was all about type and layout whereas I guess focussed more on the imagery, which shows I’m more interested in the illustration part of book design.

Revive

Revive is the name of my inspirational party I had to create.  It encourages women to exercise and feel alive and happy, reviving themselves.

I had photographs took of myself running just up and down the road at night.  The effect that the camera gave I really liked.  The shutter speed must have been open for a while capturing the running movement with light.

I then painted on big photocopies of these photographs then scanning them into Photoshop, adjusting the contrast and making it look more effective and eye-catching.

I feel the images are quite strong however not knowing much about type let me down in this project.

Revive Motion

This was for my final project at art foundation; I decided to carry on from my inspirational party; creating Revive Motion; a group of people interested in dance and come together to create dance routines. I thought of this as it still fits in with revive as in you're exercising but branches off into something that I particularly love.

I worked in the same way as the revive project on this one and called upon my dancing friend once again for photographs. I then decided to experiment a bit more in this project taking away unnecessary detail and creating a movement, which I used for my logo.

Again I feel the images are strong but the type choice is not.

York Castle Museum

This project was about observing items, buildings, everything that the castle museum contained and producing a set of postcards for them.  These are a few of my images from the project.

I enjoyed sitting down in the museum and just drawing it was nice and calming, and i could really observe what I was drawing.

I like my pen drawings a lot in this project as you can capture every detail sharply.  The postcards that have a colour wash background, I was inspired by looking at Angel D'Amico (inspiration artists) and thought I would try and experiment.  I think it works really well once enhanced on Photoshop too.  I was also experimenting with layering at this point, with drawings and photos to create postcards.