If i've learnt anything during the second semester, it's how useful/stressful/the biggest pain in the arse photoshop can be :) Being told to do something to your image that you have absolutely NO idea how to do it is the most annoying thing! BUT i'm hoping it'll be approved by my lecturer soon so that I can actually finish this flippin' brief.
Here's a bit of progress:

Things have been pretty stressful the past few months, my grandads been pretty ill and then i've found a few things from Uni have been building up too, but i've got assessments in the not too distant future so i've got to try to get under control of everything pretty soon!
Anyway, we've been given a new brief, this time we had to choose a text to adapt into a set of images. I chose a poem by Spike Milligan called Jumbo Jet.
I'm still finding it difficult to develop an individual style, so my images have changed quite a bit over the past few days.
So these are a few sketchbook scans of my rough ideas, they're still very much a work in progress but I quite like the character i've been drawing more recently so as long as the lecturers feel the same i'm hoping he's the one!

So we were given a photoshop brief this week, for someone who's never really used photoshop before, the thought of having to do an entire project using it fills me with fear. But I had a go at it and this was the end result.

 After feedback from my tutor though I was told that i'd have to redraw it to add a few changes. So yes right now i'm at the point of waiting for the ok from my lecturer and then i'll be back into photoshop. Joy. Although I have to admit that it wasn't as bad as I anticipated.



So we had to take characters out of our alphabet mini stories and make them in 3D workshops. I decided to take the characters I liked the most (mole and mouse) and then make them using clay. They've turned out quite well and although I should probably make them a little bigger considering i've still got 2 weeks left until the deadline, i'm quite satisfied with how they've turned out. My only crucial mistake? I made them using an oil based modelling clay, which means it NEVER dries out. Nice one :/

Aboce is the original sketches of the characters, and below is how they've turned out in clay.

Bit of character development...

I've begun to improve (slowly) when it comes to drawing characters due to the amount of briefs we've had on them!

In these rough drawings I can kind of see a style in there somewhere, it's just trying to maintain that certain style throughout I guess.

Soooo, we've had two weeks off for assessments. I passed atleast :) but now I just need to try to improve in the second semester. One thing they said was that I need to find my style, the words i've been dreading! My "style" is something that scares me because it means i'm on my own with it, completely open to critism with no one else to blame other than myself. No more just drawing whatever comes into my head but i've now got to create work that can be recognised as mine everytime. I suppose it's exciting at the same time but at the moment it's frustrating because i'm only at the beginning of developing my style and my style often varies depending on what it is i'm drawing. Oh well, we'll see what I come up with I guess...