Monday 24 October 2011
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Year 2, let's go.
So two and a half weeks into the second year and here's what's happened so far. .
It looks like second year will be more specialism focused, i.e general illustration for me. So far i'm liking the approach to second year, we're being treated more maturely and have a lot more studio time instead of being told what to do. However they have this idea to put us with graphic designers which so far isn't working (mainly because we keep getting told we illustrate things to much, whattt?) but we'll see.
So, work wise this is where i'm at:
We've been set two week long projects that are setting us up for a longer project. Week 1 was to create a profile of someone you know without actually drawing them but objects of theirs and things you associate with them.
I chose my grandad, this is just a rough sketch of what it should look like. for the final piece I decided to make it 3-Dish using feathers* and card etc but left it in uni so here's a taster. For as long as I can remember my grandparents back garden has been home to racing pigeons and it was always a joke in the family that those birds were his life, so obviously pigeons had to be in the image.
*Future tip for using feathers, DON'T!
Anyway, second week long project was to find an image and create another image with a word that word anchor its meaning. After spending most of the week trying to make sense of the brief and getting different versions from different lecturers I decided to just go with what I had. Turned out pretty well I have to say, I think i'm realising that the less you try to impress the lecturers then the better it works out.
These are two examples of what I did, although they didn't do what the brief said specifically, Yadzia seemed to like the one on the left so I think that's probably the one i'll re-do into a final piece, It's titled "Unknown".
So, just to sum it all up, second year is going swimmingly and hopefully it continues :)
P.s. Apparently we have to start blogging notes from our contextual studies lectures that we have but i'll try not to make them to boring!
Until next time . .
It looks like second year will be more specialism focused, i.e general illustration for me. So far i'm liking the approach to second year, we're being treated more maturely and have a lot more studio time instead of being told what to do. However they have this idea to put us with graphic designers which so far isn't working (mainly because we keep getting told we illustrate things to much, whattt?) but we'll see.
So, work wise this is where i'm at:
I chose my grandad, this is just a rough sketch of what it should look like. for the final piece I decided to make it 3-Dish using feathers* and card etc but left it in uni so here's a taster. For as long as I can remember my grandparents back garden has been home to racing pigeons and it was always a joke in the family that those birds were his life, so obviously pigeons had to be in the image.
*Future tip for using feathers, DON'T!
These are two examples of what I did, although they didn't do what the brief said specifically, Yadzia seemed to like the one on the left so I think that's probably the one i'll re-do into a final piece, It's titled "Unknown".So, just to sum it all up, second year is going swimmingly and hopefully it continues :)
P.s. Apparently we have to start blogging notes from our contextual studies lectures that we have but i'll try not to make them to boring!
Until next time . .
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