tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32897446048031468772024-02-19T23:01:31.108-08:00Rob's Learning BlogThis blog represents the work I did fot the Illustration 1 course for the OCA. Now that its complete I intend to post my thoughts on print-making, art and
stuff...Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-48831417410038441202014-04-26T12:12:00.000-07:002014-04-26T12:12:12.178-07:00Illustration Friday post - 'Vanity'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My post for this weeks Illustration Friday is 'Vanity', so I decided to </div>
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go for the bodybuilding fraternity. I've been to a couple of these shows</div>
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effort and er, commitment, amongst other things, it takes to get themselves</div>
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into this shape. I'm also aware of the gallons of fake tan that are required </div>
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to ensure they resemble the required shade of dark, dark mahogany...</div>
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Their sheets must be hell to clean....</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-17620653408118530062014-04-23T12:04:00.001-07:002014-04-23T12:04:46.289-07:00Illustration Friday post - 'Natural'..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my entry for Illustration Friday post, which is on the theme of 'Natural'.</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-49447273689567120012014-04-13T09:32:00.000-07:002014-04-13T09:32:26.408-07:00An Excuse to Draw - Tommy Kane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of my favourite artists is Tommy Kane, who has recently had his first</div>
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book published, entitled An Excuse to Draw and its a fantastic book containing</div>
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Its made me get my sketchbook and pens out!</div>
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You need this in your life!</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-48781128493227112142014-04-13T09:09:00.001-07:002014-04-13T09:09:22.874-07:00Illustration Friday post - ZODIAC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is a sketch I did for Illustration Friday. The subject title was 'Zodiac', so </div>
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drawing a car. For the petrol-heads out there its a Ford Zodiac Mk 1, from 1954....</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-84196775167522914402013-04-28T11:56:00.000-07:002013-04-28T11:56:40.512-07:00Second visit to the Print Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So, continuing my screenprint experience, I spent a fruitful day as described in the previous<div>
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through the screenprint process from start to finish. It all went swimmingly and by the</div>
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end of the day I had, with the help of Katie produced a veritable pile of prints. All I had</div>
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No problem I thought....I will go straight back on the Wednesday evening session and</div>
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by then, even with my Goldfish memory some of it will have stuck, but no, this plan was </div>
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thwarted by my daughter, Megan who wanted me to go with her to the local dog rescue </div>
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who Megan was determined to adopt.</div>
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On a side note the name 'Dee Dee' was given to her by the home as her original name </div>
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was 'Donna'? Bit Weird..</div>
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Anyway, the 'meet and greet' went well but this buggered my chance to go printing, </div>
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so I had to wait until this Wednesday, a whole ten days since my lesson! </div>
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Luckily there is a technician always present and I availed myself of Sarah, the resident print angel, who was always in the background ready to advise where I was going wrong. Its weird how I could remember some parts of the process but couldn't remember others, such as, which way up the frame went and which cupboard contained the 'stuff' for this and the 'thingamajig' for that. So I spent lots of time looking like a spare part whilst the other people there hurried around doing their own work until one of them would make the mistake of eye contact and I would seize this moment to ask things like "where do you keep the masking tape" and "is this upside down?"</div>
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Despite this everybody was more than helpful and on one occasion I had three people showing me how to use the print down frame. They were all doing different things and were more than happy to share their knowledge and ideas with me.</div>
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So, by the end of the the two hours I spent there I had produced two print frames, each one with a three colour design on, ready for my next visit on Wednesday.</div>
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I just wonder if anyone will make eye-contact with me....</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-68758640169612963022013-03-24T16:25:00.001-07:002013-04-07T13:39:12.927-07:00New boots!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Been a while so I thought it about time I posted. I'm about to do a 'crash'</div>
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screenprint course, along with some lino print, so needed to produce something</div>
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Hopefully these boots will look good...</div>
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I drew the boots freehand and then digitally using a wacom tablet and pen. I seem to get</div>
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Personally I prefer the image above but think they both will work well as a screen print.</div>
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Oh, I drew the boots from a painting by Leicester artist Paul Wright. Check him out.</div>
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I attended the course today and here are the first results! I printed each design in </div>
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Above are the acetates I made in order to burn the images into the screen.</div>
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Its day 1, and for my first post I thought I would decorate my little lilac ukulele. I've bought some Posca pens to draw directly on the the uke, but I have realised since I started that they are waterbased and will rub off without much effort... so, I have since applied a couple of layers of artists gloss varnish and they seem to be holding out, but I am a bit nervous every time I pick it up.<br />
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P.s. this ukelele lady has gone to another home via e-bay now!</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-78463581663020042582012-09-01T07:09:00.000-07:002012-10-31T16:05:17.428-07:00Assignment five - Seven Days - continued.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Research; there is a lot of varied information on this subject depending on which country of origin you are looking at, but most theories seem to confirm that the Greeks named the days after the sun, moon and the five known planets, which were in turn named after the gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite and Cronus. The Greeks called the days of the week the "days of the Gods". The Romans substituted their equivalent gods for the Greek gods, Mars, Mercury, Jove (Jupiter), Venus and Saturn. The Germanic peoples generally substituted roughly similar gods for the Roman gods, Tiu (Twia), Woden, Thor, Freya (Fria), but did not substitute Saturn. The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans but glossed their indiginous gods over the Roman deities (with the exception of Saturn) in a process known as Interpretatio Germanica. The date of this introduction of this system is not known exactly, but it must have happened later than AD200 but before the introduction of Christianity during the 6th to 7th centuries, i.e. during the final phase or soon after the collapse of the Roman Empire.</div>
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<b>SUNDAY:</b> Old English Sunnandaeg, meaning “sun’s day”. This is a translation of the latin phrase, dies Solis. English, like most of the Germanic languages preserves the original pagan/sun associations of the day.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<b>MONDAY:</b> Old English Monandaeg, meaning "moon's day". This is likely based on the translation of the Latin name dies lunae. In North Germanic mythology, the moon is presonified as a god, Mani.</div>
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<b>TUESDAY:</b> Old English Tiwesdaeg meaning "Tiw's day" Tiw was a one-handed god associated with single combat and pledges in Norse mythology. The name of the day is based on Latin dies Martis, "Day of Mars" (the Roman god of war).</div>
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<b>WEDNESDAY:</b> Old English Wodnesdaeg, meaning the day of the Germanic god, Wodan and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other Germanic peoples) in England until about the seventh century. It is based on Latin dies Mercurii, "Day of Mercury". The usual connection is that both Wodan and Mercury were considered psychopomps, or leaders of souls, in their respective mythologies; both are also associated with poetic and musical inspiration.</div>
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<b>THURSDAY:</b> Old English Punresdaeg, meaning "Punor's day". Punor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Thor's day corresponds to Latin dies lovis, "day of Jupiter", the chief of the Roman gods, wielder of the thunderbolt.</div>
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work really well for the text to go along with my images. It has a sort of 'medieval' feel about it, almost like</div>
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Here are some examples of the hand-written font in capitals, I think they work very well.</div>
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Images above showing ideas for the Sunday page. Not keen on the top one as its too</div>
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For the Thursday image I have been playing with ideas of depicting the god Thor, but</div>
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This is the sort of tone I am looking for in the Thor image. Just the hammer and a</div>
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Now we're talking! Pretty pleased with this. Just need to add the text and title. I think</div>
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the image conveys the feeling of power but is not too fussy.</div>
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Well the hand-fonts are done finally and have been scanned in, live-traced in Illustrator and are<br />
ready to place, along with my images. I intend to present each image in a landscape format, in the<br />
shape of a postcard. Each of the illustrations are quite different in style so can stand alone but<br />
are laid out in a similar way, with the same type-face (hand-drawn), and can also<br />
stand together as a set with their contrasting colours.<br />
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<b>Monday</b> - based on the Old English meaning of 'Moons day', I've stayed with my original<br />
sketch, based on the theme of the 'man in the moon'. I've inversed the originally black type and<br />
image to aid visibility against the dark blue 'moonish' blue.<br />
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Tuesday - based on Tiw's day, I went for the obvious image<br />
of the one-handed god proudly showing off his arm.<br />
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Wednesday - Wodin, or Wodan, apparently the father of </div>
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Thor. I am aware that the three images so far are quite different in </div>
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style, but still think they sit together well.</div>
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Thursday - Thor's Day. See above for idea behind</div>
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this image. My favourite so far....nice and punchy.</div>
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Friday - For this one I was toying with a figurative image to show off</div>
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the Goddess, Freya, or Frige, but decided to go with the minimalist view, </div>
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based on an image by Milton Glaser. Although simple, it still</div>
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looks playful and sexy.</div>
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Saturday - Saturn's Day. In this instance I decided to go for a more</div>
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detailed sketch of a statue of Saturn. I really like the contrast of</div>
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the grey-toned sketch against the solid background. Apparently</div>
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he was quite a nasty character...ate babies....allegedly.</div>
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Sunday - going back to the more graphical approach, and along the </div>
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same lines of the 'man in the moon' but this time, with the face of the </div>
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sun. I've repeated the image throughout, and tried to keep the </div>
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colours complimentary to each other.</div>
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So there it is, finished. It seems this final exercise had taken me the long</div>
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way round, and I'm aware that I've started off on one road, gone quite a way down it,</div>
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but then decided to stop and go off in a completely different direction. Art is</div>
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subjective, so it doesnt neccessarily mean I've taken the correct route, but I feel</div>
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like I've arrived at the required destination and I'm quite pleased with the result.</div>
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Besides, don't they say its as much about the journey as the destination?</div>
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-28157605390815134152012-07-28T11:14:00.000-07:002012-09-01T06:53:38.785-07:00Assignment Five - Seven Days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The brief is Seven Days, and these can be seven days of the week, or random days that tell a story.<br />
Initially, I had the ideal of seven days in the week of someones life, such as a holiday, or snapshot into someone's diary. Maybe the seven days of the Christmas holiday and the stresses and challenges that come<br />
with it, but then I decided to go for a random seven days of seven different people, at different stages of their lives, starting at the very beginning....as a feotus in its mothers womb. I decided that each image would be accompanied by a few paragraphs of text describing the setting for that particular person, on that particular day in his or her life.<br />
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The page above shows ideas and notes, along with a bit of brainstorming, following ideas down certain roads to see if they led anywhere interesting. Some thumbnails along with copy, describing the day being illustrated.<br />
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Timeline.</div>
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Feotus.</div>
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Baby.</div>
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Teenager.</div>
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I have the idea of showing these seven stages of a life, and somehow conveying</div>
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how everything seems to go full-circle, such as starting out helpless and reliant on</div>
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others for survival, and then, as you reach very old-age, being in the same position.</div>
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Whilst I like the digital sketch of the foetus, I prefer the watercolour sketch</div>
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Brief - produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools, explaining to your teenagers how to cope with the onset of puberty.<br />
Pick an aspect and using metaphor and humour but take care not to trivialise the message.<br />
Also supply a single illustration of the character for the front cover.<br />
The leaflet is called, <b>What's happening to my body? It's all gone mad!</b><br />
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I decided for obvious reasons to cover the subject of puberty in boys as I have, in the past, had<br />
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I came across this Illustration blog article based on the creation of a jazz poster. I know I've already done a similar exercise but I thought it might be of use to future students. Its really interesting how the artist, Christopher has shown his method of working, from his initial brief, to his conception and ideas, right through to the finished article. It all looks so simple now, but I guess thats the beauty of a great job.</div>
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I love working on gig posters. I don’t get to do them often enough. Luckily for me Pat West of the blues band, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Steady Rollin’ Revue</em></strong> called me up earlier this week needing a little something for their upcoming show at <a href="http://www.gipsyhilltavern.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #2babb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Gipsy Hill Tavern London">The Gipsy Hill Tavern</a>, in London on 22nd April.</div>
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After a quick telephone conversation with Pat about the band and their sound which has a British Blues Boom feel (think Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & The Blues Breakers, Cream) he emailed me a few visual influences and a couple of their tracks to listen to. I later drew up a quick rough showing the basic layout I had in mind which was quickly approved.</div>
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The guitar in my original rough was drawn straight from memory so I wanted to make sure the guitar in the final poster was appropriate to the band’s sound. Pat’s guitar turned out to be a Sunburst Gibson 335 which after grabbing a few photos from Pat was used in the final design.</div>
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Taking influence from show flyers of the late 60s, I knew this should have a traditional screen-printed look that called for a simplistic use of colour and detail. I opted for a two colour treatment with the guitar shape made up from the negative space created by the two side stripes, with a few essential guitar details to seal the deal.</div>
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An illustration of the guest vocalist <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruce “Mississippi” Johnson</em> was a must too, so after receiving a promo shot I set to work on his portrait, hand drawn in good old brush, pen and ink.</div>
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Once this was finished, it was scanned in, brought into Photoshop and cleaned up. Much jiggery pokery later with textures, painted outlines, laying down text and messing about with dissolve effects and you’ve got yourself a poster. And to finish the job we put together a few colour variations.</div>
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This has got to be one of my favourite jobs of the year so far. Smooth from start to finish. Here’s hoping for a few more like this.</div>
</div>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-52790852565742328072012-05-26T07:36:00.000-07:002012-06-09T07:41:33.817-07:00Exercise - Working for children.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For this exercise I had to gather as many examples of images for children as possible.<br />
The following images go with the following age groups;<br />
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Pre-reader.<br />
Usually these are mostly just picture books and are often made from cardboard as the little ones take as much pleasure in eating the book, as they do looking at it. Plastic, material as well as heavy-duty paper are also popular, and often come with squeakers, sound-effects and pop-ups. Spot was always popular.<br />
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Pre-school (3-5)<br />
From what I can remember, my kids always loved Spot the Dog, drawn by Eric Hill, which was always furnished with a few memorable words on each page to describe the scene being shown. It always amazed me how quick they memorised each page. Julia Donaldson books, drawn by Nick Sharratt are a popular read, offering repetition, numbers and lively images.<br />
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Early reader (5-7)<br />
Repetition, rhyme and the use of poetry is important in this age group and the images can be more detailed.<br />
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Established reader (7-9)<br />
The books this age group are interested in can be more sophisticated, less obvious in their storyline allowing the children to develop their inference skills. Images can be more detailed, slightly scarier even.<br />
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Older age groups<br />
Longer storylines, often less images throughout with the emphasis being on the strength of the storyline. More use of comedy and a brighter, trendier cover.<br />
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I really like this set of stamps featuring childrens illustrations and the diverse styles of </div>
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Below are some of the images I have sketched of various animals, with the </div>
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intention of aiming towards the 3-5 year old pre-school reader and also the early readers 5-7.</div>
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I think the travelling rabbit shows promise, looks a bit serious for </div>
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I've moved on to the idea of a travelling octopus......</div>
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'Olly's journey could be based on images of his adventures, from </div>
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This could work well for small children in a geographically</div>
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Olly's look is starting to come now, I like the idea of putting him in different </div>
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I have decided to go for a really simplistic style, so as not to confuse the younger children, although, </div>
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I like the idea of a the pages in the book looking like a polaroid photograph </div>
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Brief - to produce a series of illustrations to be used for a range of organic biscuits for children. Raisin, Choc chip and Ginger. They need to feature extinct animals interacting in a fun way on the boxes. Full colour to reflect the flavour of the biscuits.<br />
Research the market - how will it stand out?<br />
Does the product exploit poster power or appeal to both adult and child.<br />
Does it also need characters suitable for young children. What style? Type - hand-drawn or straight?<br />
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As a means of research I visited the supermarket to have a look at the way that biscuits are displayed and how they are positioned to attract their target audience.<br />
For instance, it became apparent that the packaging that<br />
was geared for younger children was placed on the lower<br />
shelfs where the kids would see them at eye-level.<br />
Also, the colours used for the childrens biscuits were brighter and utilised bright, primary colours </div>
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I then looked at what was available in terms of extinct animals to choose from, so looked on t'internet and </div>
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Sea Cow - not too keen on this as it doesnt make me feel very hungry.</div>
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Caspian Tiger, Sabre-tooth Tiger, Wooly Rhino, Hairy/Wooly Mammoth (quite like this as</div>
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the word 'mammoth' offers connotations of huge/large, and everybody likes a big biscuit.)</div>
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Giant Turtle (definitely not edible), Pterodactyle (too chewy), T-Rex - (not loveable enough), Raptor (like this as it goes well with the word 'raisins'.)</div>
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Dodo - this has got to be a good choice as everyone's heard of the Dodo and the name will go well with most things....ie. Dodo Droppings, Dodo crackers, Dodo cakes...etc.<br />
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I looked at other name options based around the three animals, Dodo, Mammoth and Raptor.</div>
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Mammoth biscuits, Raptor Raisins, Raptor Crackers, Ginger Raptor Crackers, Choc-chip Dodo droppings.</div>
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On a serious note, I wanted to make the name fun and attractive to young kids....<br />
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These two raptors at could be good, they dont look too fierce and I have given</div>
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them a hint of a smile...</div>
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I've picked out the three key colours for Raisin, Choc-chip and Ginger as above, not sure yet whether to </div>
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go with a hand drawn or traditional font, will try some more ideas later.</div>
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This is 'Reggie' the Raptor, Not sure if he's friendly enough, but I wanted him to have a bit of an edge cos he's sort of tough and streetwise. Reggie likes raisins......</div>
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Not sure if Dora is the right colour but I like the way she looks, not too fierce, sort of cheeky looking...slightly mental, but a bit of a character. This probably explains why they became extinct.<br />
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Martin the mammoth has been coloured in a nice bright orange to emphasise his allegiance<br />
to all things ginger, including biscuits.<br />
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I have been thinking about the size and shape of the packaging for the biscuits and what shape would appeal to both children and adults. I thought about the packet type biscuits but these were not as<br />
instantly ascetic as the tube-type packs such as the ones you get with Pringles. This type of packaging<br />
really provides a solid base for a strong bright image and also has the added bonus of being a pack<br />
that parents can re-seal and carry around.<br />
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I like these cans and the way they sit up and shout; "buy me, I'm expensive but collectable" and there<br />
is the added bonus that when all the biscuits are gone, they can be used to keep 'stuff' in..<br />
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As a set of tubes they would look nice and in situ on the shelf, would really stand out.<br />
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Also had the idea of a caveman-character, who could be used along with<br />
the animals in various situations. Like the name - 'Biscuit-Smasher'.<br />
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I knocked up this mock-up of a can of 'Raptor Snaps'. I like the idea of a strong<br />
vibrant colour, which could go with whatever flavour was used, ie, purple for the raisins,<br />
orange for ginger etc.<br />
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</div>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-72957488941484877542012-04-03T09:35:00.037-07:002012-04-08T10:00:06.199-07:00Exercise - Text and Image.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="color: yellow;">Big Small Fat Thin Fast Slow Fun Boring Calm Mad</span></b><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I then drew some of the words in freehand and pencil and then coloured them in what</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought was suitable for each of them. Bit of a puzzler this, in the realms of, who knows</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">what colour 'Big' should be? Its probably quite subjective and down to the individual doing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the selecting... anyway this is what I chose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I then created some of the words in Illustrator and chose colours and patterns that I thought</div><div style="text-align: center;">suited the words best. In this instance it was easier to match the subject to the colour/pattern.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8c1xltUhUJ-JDCm12AeurVAU0fr-Y8xzZVRe5NannZEnAz6mEt89GxmmstgldF1tXGdjn2UyiqD1ysLiC-No9oqgdzl9-Q3z7xSKDjdXZ1_uduoNhjDSkeIz7tD-8leybdTaLsS-50Iw/s1600/bigweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8c1xltUhUJ-JDCm12AeurVAU0fr-Y8xzZVRe5NannZEnAz6mEt89GxmmstgldF1tXGdjn2UyiqD1ysLiC-No9oqgdzl9-Q3z7xSKDjdXZ1_uduoNhjDSkeIz7tD-8leybdTaLsS-50Iw/s320/bigweb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">For this one I used a heavier stroke which 'grounded' or gave the word more weight. The pattern is actually </div><div style="text-align: center;">a bit of a Peter Blake poster. I like the way the different colours work together...looks big and brash.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Another version on the 'calm', white is also a pretty calming colour. This also works well. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I may market this and sell it to Psychiatrists as a sign<br />
or poster for their patients to focus on..<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">For 'slow' I had a discussion with my daughter who informed me that an orange or yellow was good 'as </div><div style="text-align: center;">it was the colour you used on traffic lights to slow down'. I cant see any reason to disagree with this </div><div style="text-align: center;">theory, and I cant think of anything better, so I have gone the whole hog and based the word around a 'slow children' hazard traffic sign. She's not a thick as she looks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEvY-98MczaWetfwC6SsMXsr85LHIs7iQtblRvjHTrgEfjC_lyyQhIQadlOr5JLxj9C_bipYbmevwqgdLVT2zZT9RVsEkIdKzuCA6eolcBhyGMMyOE6k1C-MHazKAaQ2RYrBf_oecfWGQ/s1600/madweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEvY-98MczaWetfwC6SsMXsr85LHIs7iQtblRvjHTrgEfjC_lyyQhIQadlOr5JLxj9C_bipYbmevwqgdLVT2zZT9RVsEkIdKzuCA6eolcBhyGMMyOE6k1C-MHazKAaQ2RYrBf_oecfWGQ/s320/madweb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">For 'mad' I have chosen the Ravie font which definitely evokes a feeling of 'random' and 'abstract' in its</div><div style="text-align: center;">letter shapes. For the colour I chose one of those never-ending maze-like patterns which, when looked at </div><div style="text-align: center;">for too long can be know to cause seizures, mainly because thats just the way I roll.....crazy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After discussing this with aforementioned daughter, she liked the pattern for the word, but for the reason</div><div style="text-align: center;">that she associated the red stripes with the uniform that mental patients wore....?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>The moodboards work well as a catalyst for ideas and creative ways of </div><div style="text-align: center;">demonstrating a word. For instance in the 'big' moodboard above, the image of the </div><div style="text-align: center;">large dog looking down on the little one shows perfectly the phrase you are looking for.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Likewise there is lots of scope with the obvious image of Big Ben.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe a font involving the clock and tower. Interesting the image with the</div><div style="text-align: center;">word BIG made out of money looks very similar to the one </div><div style="text-align: center;">I did earlier with the Peter Blake colours.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mad moodboard.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Same thing with the 'mad' moodboard....lots of ways of conveying a word or feeling and<br />
it just goes to prove there are no limits to the way you can colour or portray something.<br />
I really like the image in the centre above of the word 'Mad' which is made up<br />
of lots of smaller illustrations.<br />
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</div></div>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-92094246414803682982012-03-25T12:57:00.001-07:002012-04-01T15:03:18.547-07:00Exercise - Travel guides<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Brief - produce three illustrations for a series of book jackets, for the locations Istanbul, Helsinki and Milan.<br />
Bring elements together in a diagrammatic way. Use hand-drawn type in an appropriate style that works with the subject and country. Based on size 210 x 148mm (A5).<br />
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For the first part of this I referenced the titles available and then produced a series of mood boards to give me a feel for the individual places and also to help me to find suitable subjects to draw and colours to suit.<br />
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could be used in the form of a sketch or line drawing. I initially have the idea of a simplified outline of one or two of the famous landmarks, with suitable solid colour shapes in the background.<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have produced two other moodboards, for Milan and Helsinki looking for interesting shapes, sights fonts and colours that represent the city.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Playing with different font ideas, I like the idea of the word 'Istanbul', drawn with the towers ascending to combine the place-name with the iconic imagery of the mosques.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I like the way this particular style of font is slightly reminiscent of the arabic fonts and </div><div style="text-align: center;">can foresee this working well in the finished artwork maybe.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 13px;">I'm thinking now of using the two pen sketches above , and separating them with the coloured tile image. It should work</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13px;">well and also suit the brief. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the visual above I have incorporated the two sketches around the tile image of the Turkish</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">symbol and star, and then added the hand-drawn 'Istanbul' text.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not sure I like this though, with the red and black colours it looks a bit like a Man Utd programme.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This looks better and seems to be going in the right direction. The colours look better,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bit more like a West Ham fanzine.... Seriously though, the illustrations look better, with</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the sky added, but maybe the background red needs to change. I have used Arial font </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for the other text, which seems to compliment the hand-drawn 'Istanbul'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Another illustration I found was the one below by Jeff Dekal to accompany an article which seems to be about education and the influence of Hip-Hop culture in the classroom. Its informational in that it does what it says on the tin and gives you an instant idea of the subject matter of the article. I love the image, its representative of the subject with an abstract feel in the way the students head is fading out. Where is his head at? What is he thinking? And the way the headphones are clearly identified says something about the way this particular medium is guiding the students thoughts and behaviour.<br />
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Another article below, goes with an article about match-fixing in Sumo wresting and depicts a couple of Sumo wrestlers carrying off a huge bag of Yen. The connection to the article is again, using a metaphorical bag of Yen to represent the greed of the guilty wrestlers in an informational cartoon.<br />
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I decided to go for 'Loves me, loves me not' and found an article in the Guardian entitled 'Loves me not', which seemed interesting enough to give me something to work with.<br />
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In brief, and to save you the bother of linking and reading the article, the story is of a 51 year old conceptual artist, visiting Berlin when her mobile beeps, its an email from her boyfriend. In a hideous message about human emotion, he dumps her via text, finishing with the line, "Take care of yourself". She's heartbroken, but then she starts to think of it in terms of her art.<br />
Over two years later she showed to missive to 107 women professionals and then photographed them reading it and invited them to analyse it according to their job. His text has been pulled apart, pored over and judged by among others, a crossword setter, a chess player, an actress and a judge.<br />
She goes on to describe how at first it was therapy, and then art took over and she filled the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale with an exhibition of the whole sorry tale.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I first went through the lengthy article highlighting words and sentences which I felt to be important parts of the text, trying to find connections between some of the words and phrases. It was a mixed bag and the initial selection seemed to lean to the side of heartbreak and suffering, but then it changed to the problem of displaying his misdeed as well. Thrown in with this was the womans reputation as a conceptual artist and her use of stuffed bulls heads, zebras, tigers in necklace's and a rocking chair? There was a real mix of stuff in there, but how would I be able to reflect this in my illustration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the women who viewed the text was a crossword-setter and I had the idea of creating a crossword with all the relevant words and phrases cleverly installed, but halfway through I realised this was for one thing, not very interesting, and for the other beyond my literal capabilities...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I carried on sketching out random ideas such as a bulls head, not sure where that was going but enjoyed drawing it, and then a zebra, French flag and then the idea of a judge which I quite liked as it seemed (in my opinion) that she had basically put him before a judge and jury, which was probably a fair result.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I then thought about taking the judge and jury idea a little further, but to spice things up a bit decided to include the bulls head and maybe other animals in the jury's box.....yes I know its a bit random, but the whole article is a bit weird and I thought this might reflect the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I then went down the road of a decorative border based on the obvious but still appealing route of 'he loves me' flowers, with the petals, hearts and text showing the words 'Take care of Yourself', which I thought was one of the most poignant parts of the story. I had the idea of a sort of lace like pattern containing the flowers and text in a very delicate frame.....not sure about this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I decided to go back to a spider-gram by re-examining some of the words and phrases I thought important to the article, based around the word 'Heartbroken' and this led to the image of the couple facing away from each other with the obvious body language and the split down the middle.. still not happy wth this, a bit obvious for my liking.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did come up with the idea of 'The Little Dumper Truck' along wth way, with the front cab of the truck replaced with a phone front and the broken heart in the back. I'm quite pleased with this play on words but not sure its suitable for the article. Could be mileage in it for a later date though?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've added the screen to the phone along with some text, I have tried out a few colour options but</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">feel it works better as a black and tone image. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Although it was difficult at first to try and find a way of capturing the story, I found it useful just working my way through different ideas, and then its seemed as I went through this process the ideas either wore themselves out, or evolved into newer versions which seemed more appropriate. In the end I have produced a simplified, informational type of illustration, which, in its own way narrates several parts of the story.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did this watercolour the other day, just messing about with shapes which took on the form of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">fish, which evolved into this collection of multi-coloured swimmers. I like the way they 'flow' around </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the space and intend to use these again at some point. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The fish will return...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last year I discovered the work of illustrator genius, Al Gray in the form of beautiful screen prints,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">based in the style of Japanese woodcuts, but with a contemporary twist. As soon as I saw the first print</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I knew this would be a great basis for a tatoo. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The one above was the one that I wanted. I really loved the strong use of line and the composition of the figure, so I booked myself in for a full days worth and handed the illustration over to talented tattooist, Jamie Greaves of Real Art Tattoo. He explained that the tattoo would have to be changed slightly, especially the girls tattooed back, as the detail would be too fine to replicate, but thought it would look really nice in the form of a half-sleeve, with his Japanese style work, surrounding the figure. </div><div style="text-align: center;">When the day finally came, I was really pleased with Jamie's design, which he then, by means of a transfer and hand drawing sketched out the tat. Six and a half hours later and stage 1 of my half sleeve was finished. I still have about another three hours left to go, with some colour to add and the remainder of the inside back of my arm (the painful bit), but I'm looking forward to it. Overrall, I'm more than delighted with my sleeve and as it heals the detail is really coming out. Its like my own moving work of art.<br />
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The illustration is to be based on a still life of which I have the freedom to choose and have creative free rein. Decisions made on the choice of subject, arrangement and placing of subject in the frame, along with the choice of media should contribute to the overall description of the subject I have chosen.<br />
To start things off I decided to do a spidergram based on word associations around the word Lost and tried to look at the less obvious linnks to the word.<br />
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Some of the words associations that came out of the spidergram were interesting, in that they made me think about the other meaning of lost, such as lost in thought, being emotionally lost, lost in thought and how I could convey these in the illustration. After some debate I decided to go the more obvious route and based my idea around Lost Property, by illustrating a sort of lost property collection, with each item in its own box referencing some of the word associations in the spidergram above, such as the heart for lost love or the road signs for loss of direction.<br />
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I was still not sure of the media I wanted to produce this work in and had an idea of producing a number of these 'lost' items as line drawings which I could then redraw in Illustrator. I have an idea of each item in its own coloured panel, drawn in white line and overlapping the other panels. The opacity of each panel is such that the colours will show through each.<br />
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These were the basic sketches I did with the intention of then producing digital line drawings in Illustrator. I was thinking of the obvious items such as lost teddy bear and shoe, but then the more random objects such as false teeth, (who wouldnt be without them) and then the skull which I thought would always look good on a shelf. I also included a sat-nav, which is vital whenever you get lost.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Above are examples of the illustrator line drawings, with the white out line on a strong background colour. Below are some roughs of the kind of page I was trying to create.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After some experimenting with this idea I decided to abandon and go back to a more traditional image, more in keeping with the rough line sketch I did earlier of the lost property cupboard containing the same objects, but a little less abstract. I also felt I had wandered away from the original brief which had stated the image should be in the form of a still-life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">It's been quite a journey to get to the above illustration but I'm pretty pleased with the outcome and feel it conveys the subject 'lost' quite well. Yes, it is a bit obvious at first sight but I think it offers something new every time you look at it. I then tried the image placed in the context of a page of editorial. See below.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looking at the final mock-up, seems to work quite well in the context of an editorial. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In reflection I think I got sidetracked down the wrong route for a while and misunderstood </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the brief, which is the most important thing after all. If you don't match the brief, then </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it doesnt matter how good the illustration is!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>I dont think I'm the only person who's been worried or constrained by the sight of a blank sheet of paper and this seems to sum it up perfectly. (source - this isnt happiness.com)</div>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-42819976249399947012011-09-24T09:45:00.000-07:002011-09-24T09:45:51.446-07:00Exercise - Character development<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The first task was to collect as many examples of possible characters and file them as types - ie. babies, children, sportsmen and old men so I collected these, scanned and downloaded them in to the relevant files, and to give an idea of whats in the file did these random moodboards for each;<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Babies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Children</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sports<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old men.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The next thing is to think about a character so I started with the idea of an old man and did a few sketches roughly based on the old Steptoe character as below.<br />
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To be honest got a bit distracted and decided to have a go at a different body shape below, which is based on a rugby player. Big, muscular gym-freak and did a front and side view of his frame trying to keep everything in proportion. Gave him a big lantern jaw and a heavy brow to finish the look. Quite like the look of him, looks like he could be useful in a ruck...<br />
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</div>Also, did a couple of head views of someone who I seem to think looks quite a bit like Eric Cantona, which is purely accidental but interesting nonetheless. Big eyes and nose to match, he seems like a nicer personality than Eric maybe?<br />
Then moved on to 'Andy', the 'mans-man'. Ex-squaddy, aged mid 40's, likes going to the gym and playing rugby. Works in security on the 'doors' and is a bit of a lad. I've done a number of head shots of Andy, trying to show some different emotions, from confused to hungover. Think I've caught hungover quite well...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then had a go at portraying 'Roger', the salesman from Staines who seems to be struggling with his career at the moment, and seems to have reached a crossroads in his life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289744604803146877.post-76961695025559213172011-08-21T09:26:00.000-07:002011-08-21T09:26:10.298-07:00Illustration Friday: 'Influence'.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0T0UmY99q3Rp49CxbR1Itbx2sR4FVWjeP2I6YSfO0_ow7-jdWp7ec34FvR6ITqdqzTEuRCVgDxz1xXBYAiw_tnCSdVsdvJT5io0n6rSPbcIeLkrtOTMLi0Xy-PngLZHfSdfPAs96bEI/s1600/drunk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0T0UmY99q3Rp49CxbR1Itbx2sR4FVWjeP2I6YSfO0_ow7-jdWp7ec34FvR6ITqdqzTEuRCVgDxz1xXBYAiw_tnCSdVsdvJT5io0n6rSPbcIeLkrtOTMLi0Xy-PngLZHfSdfPAs96bEI/s320/drunk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Its that time of year again....glad I'm not in Xanthe..or Benidorm...or Ibiza...etc.etc.</div></div>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11080701362976997231noreply@blogger.com0