Illustration. Week one.

Week one of viscom was working with illustrations. We were all given a word and I got the word 'CULTIVATE'.

• Cultivate means to prepare the soil for growing crops.
• To grow an interest in a relationship or hobby.
• To grow ideas, education and skill.

I spent all last week investigating these definitions with thumbnail sketches. 

 

Then for Friday we had to pick two illustrations and with Patricia's advice I choose the idea of a leaf with the veins forming little illustrations within the leaf. 

However my second illustration is going to be used in my final assessment on the second Friday and so I'm working on it, improving on fine detail.

Graphic desingers

Drew Flaherty

An Australian designer.
His work really interests me because he draws over images to create a busy scene. His images don't make sense but are visually attractive. Compostion is a key area in his designs.

 



Jasper Goodall
An English illustrator. His work is often found in music, fashion and advertising, he also pruduces prints.
I really like theese images because the colour used is really eye cathing and transparent, a sense of fantasy is a part of it. The images are simple and have simple perspective.

 

Jeremyville

A grapic designer/autho. He has worked with Converse shoes and has released toys to do with his designs.

I love his work because its so poppy and childish. I love his cartoon style with block colours. The images are flat and very busy.

 

My animation!

Here's my little animation about a kitty, penguin and a UFO! Enjoy :)

Stills

Here are some stills from my animation:
     

Two weeks of print over and now onto animation!

So for the last two weeks I had been in the print elective with Des and Fiona. I learned so much in print, how to do drypoint, woodblock and I improved on my monoprinting technique a lot.  We didn't need to use our blogs much so hence why I'm only updating my blog now! 

 

Animation:

So yesterday I started animation. We have to create a 15 second stop motion. The heading I picked was I opened the door and... so I got to brainstorming and came up with a whacky random idea! I talked to Paul about it and he told me to go for it, no matter how crazy it was. The crazier the better! 

Okay so here's my story so far, well knowing me I'll probably add a zombie penguin or flesh eating marshmallows somewhere along the way! 

• A cat is walking along and suddenly spots a door with a sign saying STAY OUT written on it. The cat stared at the door for a second and then looks back at the camera with a cheeky grin. 
• The cat opens the doors and walks through it into a seemingly empty room. 
•  He comes across a wooden box and he stops and stares at it curiously before dropping to the ground and crawling towards it. 
• The box starts to make noise so the cat pokes it. The box then jumps into the air and continues to make noise.
• Suddenly a penguin flies out of the box sitting on a UFO. The penguin hops off it and walks away. 
• The cat stares in shock as the UFO slowly moves towards him.
• The UFO stops over the cat and shines a beam of light onto him. 
• It ends with the cat staring at the camera scared and confused. 

Prints

Sorry I haven't been posting over the last three weeks, I've been so busy over Christmas that I've been neglecting my blog a bit.
Anyway, I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year!

I got some prints done over the holidays, but some of them didn't work out but at least I tried!
I tried etching but that didn't work too well and I also tried using white spirits as a drawing tool but that didn't come out as planned either... BUT! Here is what I came up with:

Collagraph...

Recently I made a collagraph as an experimentation of lines and dept.
I covered MDF with polli-filla, cardboard, strips of wallpaper and strips of paper. I pushed wires into the polli-filla to get lines and i also drew free hand onto it.

I talked to my tutor Mary who suggested I talk to Des about it and how to print it. So off I went to find him, and find him I did! Des suggested I come down to the print workshop the following day to see how to go about printing it.
At the workshop I was shown how to ink a collagraph which is done very differently to other types of printing. Des told me that the whole board itself would take over an hour and a half to ink and it might not work so I was sent to the materials store to get it cut up into 6 small pieces to make the process quicker.

 When I came back I inked up one of the pieces which unfortunately was an incredibly slow process.
Finally I had one inked and off I went to get Des. He had to use a presser and press is several times to get the print to come out. Because the collagraph was deep a lot of it wouldn't print so I was told not to print the rest of them and that the board itself was effective enough.
This is the print I was left with:

I really like this print and even though it doesn't really relate to my cats eyes it does give an effect of lines that aren't defined.