13/03/16

Although I only had 1 week in which to start and finish this 3 week project, I feel as if I've produced a final outcome that I am really happy with, while I haven't managed to include the amount of research in my sketchbook as I could have done with 3 weeks, I am very proud of my self-promo map. I'm also excited about the fact that doing this project helped me realise that I need to stop doing the kind of art I THINK suits the project because of what I've seen done before eg. Childrens books illustrated with watercolours and start creating the kind of work that suits me, this has really helped me with my idea for the final major project.

06/03/16

After having half term, trip to new york, a university interview and some serious jet lag I returned to college with a week and a day left to start and finish a 3 week project, but I think I can manage. Deadlines do seem to be my strong point and while I will not be able to gather the amount of research and sketchbook documentation as the rest of the students doing this project will, I'm feeling pretty excited by the ideas I've had already. For most of the other projects we've been doing I've been doing what I think is right based of stuff I've already seen in that subject matter, rather than doing the kind of work and illustrations that I am good at and enjoy, and I'm trying to kick that habit and so when i started this project I took to my own personal sketchbooks and chose 2/3 pieces and ideas from it that I wanted to use for this project! We've been asked to create something to promote ourselves and our illustrations using maps. I've started designing some front and back covers for the little fold out map leaflets I want to make that I'm really happy with, however, deciding what places I want to put ON the map is proving to be a little more difficult than I thought.

14/02/16 - The Cube live project!

This project was super super fast past and very fun, working in a pair with a graphic designer made it much easier to complete the product in time for the due date. We'd started mind mapping ideas directly after our trip to the cube last week and decided we were both very interested in pursuing the theme of chinese culture seeing as the cube was originally owned by a Chinese overseas company AND there spotlight movies for the month of the program we are designing is asian crime films. We then decided to put this on the back burner while we finished our narrative illustration projects.

I started the week by illustrating a chinese dragon that would flow all the way along one half of the program when it is unfolded, Ellie then used her drawing tablet to make sure the lines of the dragon would work in photoshop and fit onto the size our program had to be. I then drew a couple chinese lanterns and translated the titles for each page into chinese and drew those as well. Ellie did the same to those as she did to the dragon and we were ready to start putting everything together! getting everything the right colour was incredibly difficult as I am not very familiar with photoshop but we managed to get the hang of it, and I began to put everything in place. We had a bit of trouble making the dragon fit correctly on the page but Ellie fixed that up sharpish.
Just after we thought we were finished, had packaged everything up and put it onto kellys usb drive, ready to send to the clients, we discovered we had missed some important information from the back of the program and had to sort that out as quickly as possible as we were running out of time.

07/02/16

On Wednesday we took a little trip to the cube in order to get some information and start some research for our live project that we're starting next week and it's left me with a tonne of ideas. Thankfully, I think the excitement for this next project gave me the motivation to finish my current one properly. I hate leaving things unfinished (i'm very uncomfortable with my unfinished final piece from the textiles option project) and I've left this project with a printed version of my finished book that I am very happy with, and that's a pretty big achievement considering I chose to use a medium I'm not super comfortable with and managed to make it work.