My Favourite Page Yet For The Book..

I've noticed that I'm really into colouring and shading at the moment which is really cool but as I've said... takes me FOREVER... So because it takes forever I make sure I document everything at different stages so if the group want to change a specific thing.. I can always use my images from previous stages as reference/ templates.


I think I like this so much because its so colourful.. and its always miserable in Leeds.


The text the image goes with: "he knows it is a city,but he thinks of it as a camel from whose pack hangs wine-skins and bags of candied fruit, date wine, tobacco leaves, and already he sees himself at the head of a long caravan taking him away from the desert of the sea"

Playing With Text

This is another piece of the selected text Invisible Cities.. Just playing around with composition and text.

City Poster: Google Text.

One of our tasks to do for the city poster was to put into Google > Books three words, one being CITY. 

I decided to use "BUSY CITY SOUND" because since moving here alls i seem to think about is how busy it is and noisey.. 

Ok so the idea is that you search down untill you find something you liek or thats interesting, i found two quotes that i quite liked the look of: 

"140 gunshot at close distance, 120 loud rock concert, jet aircraft taking off, 100 shouting at close range, very busy street, 90 busy city street, 70 average conversation, 60 typical small office or restaurant".

I added the last one to finish the poster off which I didn't make up, I did Google it. This was just a draft but took a lot of time because I was constantly playing around with each individual Number/Word. I decided to merge all the sentences together because I thought it adds a more busy/confused look, it also makes you look closer at the text and adds a pace.

"Maybe I Should Just Do A Degree In Colouring In?"

Although it does just look like I've coloured something in it was A LOT harder then that. For 5 years its been buried into my head that I need primary or secondary sources to draw from, this however was total imagination and I think was one on the hardest things to do ever. Trying to get something from your brain onto paper was just hell. I've decided I want my bf who's doing product design to design something that connects to your brain and projects the image onto paper.. This would be a dream.

But anyway, this was for a piece of text for the City Book brief. The book the text is taken from is called "Invisible cities" by Italo Calvino. If you get a chance, try reading some of the text from his book. The text itself is.. when you get your head round it beautiful but trying to make illustrations for a piece of text about a city that never existed is harder then you think.

"In the coastline's haze, the sailor discerns the form of a camels withers, an embroidered saddle with glittering fringe between two spotted humps, advancing and swaying"

Above is my interpretation of the above quote without making it too literal.

What Introduces Me In My New Sketchbook....

 

Yer.. That's right.. I decided to do some typography cut outs for my first page. Totally regretting it now. Although it looks good and I'm really proud of it, its a little annoying and I had to buy a "Soft Grip"Craft Knife because when I was using a plastic one I ended up with a numb finger tip from where I had been holding the craft knife for so long.. I WILL finish it.. Eventually.

Urghhhh D:

I have so much to post on here that if i done it all in one session I think ill be here till the morning... I shall post until I'm tired.

So, 

I now have another sketchbook becuase my first one was too small for me to work in. 

However because its bigger, if ofcourse means everything takes twice as long, which in my case is never good. 

Although, even though its taken me twice as long, I'm actually really happy with the work I'm producing and genuinely enjoying the course.

The briefs are coming along in different stages,

The City book is coming along really well at the moment, the group is coming together and our ideas are collaberating together really well too. 

The City Poster is having its moments.. I'm so indecisive that I keep changing my mind.. I started by playing around with text and got bored. 

But I came across a artist/designer that I really like : Edward Bawden, ill probably post more about him. Anyway, hes put me on a whole knew track for my city poster. 

The sketchbook as I've said is steady..ish. Were supposed to do a page a day but because I am who I am my pages take like 3/4 nights. 

Participation has come to a hold but im planning on doing some cool cultural events this weekend. 

The written piece.... KILL ME NOW...

Experimenting

Not quite sure how this came about but I got some pretty good results for randomness.

In The Pictures Are: A Plastic Sandwich Box, Water and Drawing Pins. 

The pictures were taken on my Canon.

Last Experiment..

Experimenting (Cont.)

This Time In the Pictures Are: Tin Foil & Beads.

The Sketchbook

Whats in my sketchbook?

 This is a collage of cut outs I found in a magazine that i associated with leeds.

Strange I know but i think everywhere is when your left on your own in a city you've never really been to before.

  

We were asked to take a test that in a way explains who we are. My result was ESFJ and from about 130 people on my course around 8 of us had this result.

 This is an ouroboros, it was one of the things we were asked to draw at the start of term.

This is the view outside my window... Lovely. So this is what Leeds looks like to me. This is also the first drawing I've done in a long time that i didn't use a ruler and set square for..

It's Clicked

Typography.

That's What I Want To Do.

BA (Hons) Graphic Arts & Design

Last week was my enrollment week but today I actually started my degree. Ive found out my time table and what briefs I will be working to until Christmas.

In total around 800 student applied for Graphic Arts & Design and only 130 got a place. Hearing these two figures together has definetley gave me the confidence to believe I can do this course and I will succeed. 

Although, I am now only one student out of a class of 130, which scares me as that's a huge amount of people to work with and even to get to know, so not only is this course going to be a challenge to my skills but also a challenge of me as a person and how I'm going to interact and remember all these people and there individual talents.

So, along with our time tables and briefs we got given a sketchbook, which coincides with one of our briefs. All together we have 6 briefs for semester one. Five of which I have and the last one is still to be given to us. 

Brief One: Participation. 

Brief Two: Sketchbook 

Brief Three: City Poster

Brief Four: City Book 

Brief Five: Think & Link

They are a range of briefs that coincide with workshops that I will undertake, participation is about participating in events and such around the city, I will have to document everything I take part in that is to do with art and design in someway like going to galleries or festivals..

The Sketchbook brief is really open, I've been given a sketchbook to fill with my ideas, drawings, notes, photos and other work that work together in some way to represent Graphic Art & Design in some way.

The City Poster; no other way to explain it. I think this brief may be done in groups of 9. 

The City Book, I believe is a brief were you have been given the text to go into the book to be made, however you and possibly your group make and design it. 

The Think & Link brief is the written piece of work that all students do. I'm yet to find out exactly what we asses to write about but we have lectures for this specific brief.

Leeds...

So now I'm in Leeds and tonight shall be my first night.. 

This Is my room with my stuff in... This is were I'm going to be living for the next year... 

 

 Crazy!

"If You Want To Know How Much I Love You, Just Count The Waves"

More Photos From Looe, Different photos were taken on different days as we visited the beach and harbor twice whilst staying in Looe Bay. Again they have been edited in Photoshop but I chose to to give these photos an old "worn"effect because I wanted to show an idea of time.

Sea Shells Sea Shells On The Sea Shore

The following photos are from a trip to Cornwall where we visited Looe Beach. They Were taken in April 2011 and have been edited using Photoshop software.

Those That Got Left Behind...

Visit to A5 Aquatics: Late 2010

THE Zebra Fish

Visit to Coombe Abbey: February 2011

Close Up Of A Tree

Visit to Matlock: February 2011

Bridge

Photo taken whist Photographing FOTP at Band Practice: BINGO Rooms

The Fortune Tellers Drum Equipment

I Feel

So bad for not blogging!

I'm missing college, I'm missing my fellow ex students, I'm missing Mondays cakes, I'm missing tea and biscuits and I'm missing stress. I'm bored and the things I want to do involve money!

I'm missing my camera and photoshop. 

This summer has/ is THE longest summer ever. 

Totally regretting the fact that when I was at college I couldn't wait to finish.

:(

Major Edit

I know its late haha but everyone has to see what i just done on photoshop.

Before:

After:

Art Exhibition!

Just Playing

Playing around with Photoshop for the Exhibition Poster.