Asessments are DONE! Although I don't know how I got on yet as we haven't had feedback, so my fingers are still crossed. But we've been given two new briefs to keep us busy before we start back next week.
They're both competition briefs, preparing us for next year when we have to enter them. The first one is the D&AD brief where Little White Lies magazine have chosen 5 films of 2011 (Drive, Tinker Tailor Soldier, Spy, Black Swan, The Tree of Life and Super 8).
Something I found difficult was drawing the people, the magazine has a distinct style of portraits of the cover (Gary Oldman has a ridiculously wrinkly face!) and sometimes I can be quite hit and miss with faces, so after initially drawing the main characters faces a few times to become familiar, I sat and "researched". Although I haven't seen The Tree of Life, I watched the other 4 films and after a few ideas, sketches and compositions I scanned them into my good friend (not) Photoshop. However I don't particularly like the vector style that using the computer creates and so I tried to just use the computer to clean the image up and put it into the magazine template.
Drive - Pencil illustration with ink flicks, later altered in Ps.
Black Swan - Pencil illustration slightly altered in Ps with monoprint crown.
Black Swan - Linocut
Drive - Linocut with pencil illustrations, altered in Ps with monoprint typography.
I've said it a million times but print just seems to fit with me, I feel comfortable in it but also find myself pushed at the same time which is a perfect balance. And so for this brief I used a bit of lino and monoprint, combining it with my illustrations in order to bring a contemporary feel to the end image. Combining bits of print with illustrations is something that I am interested and want to take further this nest semester in order to bring a fresh way of working in print to my work instead of using one technique alone. We'll see how it goes . .
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