4.2.12

This week I have carried on practicing my drawing skill and refreshing my memory of repeats to begin the processes of creating designs.
I need to play up to my drawing skill which in the last unit I did not do. This will give my illustration and designs a style which is only mine. This will ensure the concept and clarity of my work and style will flow throughout the whole project and into presentation.

My illustrations have been going well but I want to take them even further away from the human body. This will lighten the content that I have looked at for inspiration for my designs. I think people will be more accepting of it then. This is also a way to show off my drawings.
This week I have got a little obsessed with Bikram Yoga and am fascinated by the others in my class' ability to bend there spine and push there bodies to flex beyond our regular capability. It is also an open eye meditation and has allowed me time to reflect on my work and inspire.

I have been looking at pictures of contorted bodies to inspire my drawings.

1.2.13

Talking about other methods to illustrate and how to create colour. Collage and changing where you would stereotypically see colour you recognise.


Jonny Burt is a London based illustrator who uses collage to emphasis his illustrations and tell the story. In the image below you see a child, but because of the colours and violence shown in clipping of newspaper/agazine the image become more sinister.

The image below looks strained and painful. Using white to highlight the face and red to bring areas to your attention. This image depicts how I believe the feeling of a headache could be drawn.

31.1.13 TUTORIAL

This week I have been working on methods to imply bruising or a story without it being so literal.
I have been looking at illustrators and painters for inspiration to help move this stage on a quickly as possible because I need to get a variety of methods together without it taking weeks.

I have taken away the colours stereotypically used for skin so that the imagery does not seem human. Not to look haunting or dead but so that the impact of seeing a bruised face is not distressing. I have worked with pencil and used water colour to shade but also fine liner with watercolour to accent the face.
The paintings have worked well and I am going to carry on for a few more days to try and improve my drawing skill but also for elements to go into design.

TUTORIAL NOTES
Illustration in this style but carrying accessories of my design would keep the concept and illustrations on the same line so the concept flows through the whole design work.

Keep working with different colous
Changing the colours we would noramlly expect to see

Image of woman "Sally"
Create whole body- Develop more.
Once done take white paper and section of the body to see how the contouring/distorting of body will intensify the illustration and keep the style.

Once many drawings have been done. Use Multiply tool to layer images.
Begin using other mediums. Collage with paper, oils, other photos.

If struggling with eye, feet or hands. Create my own style by taking photos of these elements and edit on photoshop to bring into illustration.

To change the colour easily -  Lasso tool around the drawing. Fill with another colour then can adjust the Hue/Saturation, Brightness, Blur etc

Bring detailing onto illustrations to make them more professional. Labels on garments help

Trace around images in magazines but different arms/legs etc to create the illustration.

Use MDP. Click for inspiration and help with trend.

17.1.13 TUTORIAL

Back to Uni!!!

First tutorial back and I have written up a draft learning agreement. I think it is important to show that I have taken on the feedback I was given for the end of term tutorial. I was disappointed by my make but that has spurred me on to work even harder on the HCC essay.

TUTORIAL NOTES
I understand my concept is a little harder to grasp than others and i think that is where some of the confusion I felt was being portrayed in my work and ultimately effected my outcomes. I want to create collections that are not simply patterns but have a message or underlying story behind them.

I think the importance of storytelling was lost in my research and development. I will begin drawing elements of stories to allow the viewer to make there own mind up on what they are seeing. This takes away the "shock" of my work and it will become more aesthetic to a larger audience. I want to create a collection for a high end target market where you are able to take more chances with design and think about detailing to a larger degree but also show how the pattern design can be adapted to fit the high street. This will be useful for my portfolio when applying for jobs.

WHAT IS MY CONCEPT!

I think along the way of this unit I have got caught up in a lot of ideas. I want to specify what my concept is and narrow it to allow my development to be from that and not to carry on developing ideas I have already looked into.

First what am i trying to achieve

A high market on trend collection
Not all is as it seems
Began looking at trauma - using imagery that is maybe slightly uncomforting but finding the beauty in
it, using it as a tool to remember


UNCOMFORTABLE MADE "NICE"...basically

MARY KATRANTZOU

At first glimpse this suit and trousers look they are shimmering in the light. But this affect has actually be produced by using a slightly lighter colour in the pattern design. How could this contribute to my own work? by allowing only a glimpse of the image and using placement to my advantage to manipulate what you think you see?

RHIANNA PRESENTATION

Believes I have done enough when it comes to contents. I need to find a style of presentation that makes my work look of a professional standard and helps to tell the story of my work.
I have been looking at websites to help this along.
She particularly liked the look of the line drawn lips repeated to look like paisley and whether I would be able to create a similar pattern to the this with the fish. This helps to move my work along because I can adapt work already created and develop to further my design with a method that I think captures my concept.