Studio Brief 2 - Frame

                                          

The task set for this lesson was taking the information in about what we had learnt about frame and from looking at the work of other artists; we were to create our own illustration including an elephant, ourself and a butterfly, in which we are to consider how the frame shall be. 

These are some thumbnail sketches that I did first: 
                      
                   

                  
                    

















And here is the final illustration that I came too: 

                             

I am happy with the overall composition of the piece. I like that I had the elephant's trunk as a key feature for the piece as I think it was a little bit different. I think that I could of been a bit more creative with placing the butterfly. I don't think I have made a clear foreground/mid ground and background though so think I could've played with that a bit more. But overall I really enjoyed this quick task and it really made me think about where I place things within the frame. 

Studio Brief 2 - View Point and Depth

The task for this lesson was to develop an illustration including three figures. Within the image we were to consider view point and to give a sense of depth. Then we were to use our chosen image within our etching workshop to create a final finished illustration. 

I started off by doing some rough thumb nails of different compositions to get my ideas down.  

                        

                     

                        

This is my final etched illustration. I am actually really pleased with it and really enjoyed trying out etching. I think that it creates a really good effect. I think if I could go back and do it again I would create something more challenging that would've given me the opportunity to try out some of the different tools to see the effects they'd give. And maybe leave some areas in the solution for longer so that some parts would be lighter and darker. However, I think for the image that I created it was best to keep it simplistic. I defiantly would like to do etching again in the future as I love the finished look it creates and think it was fun to do. 

                                  

Studio Brief 2 - Line of Sight

This week we all had to email in our own example illustrations that portray a strong line of sight. For each example that everyone had emailed in we drew a quick scamp and dicussed as a class what we thought about the image. 

             

I found this lesson to be really helpful breaking down the image and discussing where we can see the lines of sight and what we generally like about the images. It helps talking about other artists work like this so that in future I can think about it when I am producing my own work. In addition, the past few weeks we have been drawing thumb nails a lot which I also find really helpful just getting my thoughts and ideas down like that. 

At the end of the day we were given a task to complete which would be in for 3 weeks time. The task was to create an illustration of a mode of transport. I began with thumbnails as I now find it really helpful to thumbnail my work before coming up with a final idea. 

   

Here is my final image. I am actually really pleased with it. I think that it holds some sort of atmosphere to it. The mode of transport is a piggy back. I like that I did a crossed hatched background. However it doesn't have good line of sight and is very flat; which defeats the point of the task. I think I got a bit too caught up in the idea and drawing it I didn't think back to what the task was. Though the light from the moon does give a line of sight onto the monster and the little girl. 

        

Studio Brief 1 - Composition

In this lesson we were told to get into pairs and write down the artists names that appear on the powerpoint and discuss and make notes about the image and its composition.

             

These are some from the powerpoint that really stuck out to me the most:  

      

The task for this week was to draw 5 different thumbnail compositions using the same three elements, which were: a figure, an object and a landscape. Then using our favourite thumbnail we were told create an A5 more refined and developed version of it. 

These are my 5 thumbnail rough sketches: 

              

I decided to stick with my theme of under the sea and drew a mermaid as my figure, the ship wrecked boat and my object, then the coral reef and the ocean as my landscape. I am pleased with my final composition I spent quite a lot of time on this piece and happy with my use of lines. I think that the composition went well It has a clear foreground, mid-ground and background. To achieve this I did a bit of overlapping of the reef and the mermaid so you can clearly see that she is further behind and then drew the ship wreck a lot smaller and as a silhouette to emphasise the distance between them. 

        

Studio Brief 1 - Study Task 6 - 3D Craft & Lens

After Matt's lesson on 3D art its made me really excited. I have never really considered working in 3D so really excited about the idea of making my own 3D work. I thought that the professional work that Matt showed us was great to see the quirky ideas that you can do like in the three images above. I really love the watermelon one the most; I think Sarah Illenberger has kept it very simplistic but it is very effective and theres clever thoughts behind this piece. 

For the task we were to pretend that we were mutants with a specific superpower or mutation. 

The idea that I was most excited and draw to was having super long nails. I thought it would look good if I had each nail a different colour and I'll make it out of coloured papers. 

These are all the photos that I took: 

This is the one that I ended up choosing and sent in to Matt to present to the class. I chose this one as I thought the nails looked great where I have put my hand on my hi p and they've all spread out. Plus the nails haven't gone blurry in this too like the other one with my hand on my hip. 

Studio Brief 1 - Study Task 5 - Collage & Ephemera

I actually really struggled with this task. I have never properly worked with collage at all. I stuck with my theme of deep sea diving and used images from newspapers, magazines and images off the internet. I also, experimented with different textures like foil and tissue. I don't like the work that I have produced for this task. I am glad that I gave collage a go and think that in the future for some briefs that it could potentially work really well. But for me I find it quite difficult and would have to work on it a lot more. I think you can see in my work that I found it difficult as it looks very ammature.