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Feedback from Part four

Part four has focused on developing your own style and producing work that directly responds to a brief. Overall, your response has been very good. You have demonstrated various stylistic approaches guided by the exercise briefs. Your stronger individual exercises in this part are the ‘Animals’ book cover, the ‘Choosing Content’ portrait, the ‘Fish’ logoContinue reading “Feedback from Part four”

Part Four – style

Assignment four – Magazine Illustration

I lost my marbles with this one! I had started this with a spider-graph and sketchbook page of thing “lost” and things you could “lose”. First page of sketchbook – exploring ideas I had a theme for my marbles being a symbol of lost childhood memories / dreams that we walk away from.The reason I’mContinue reading “Assignment four – Magazine Illustration”

Character development

Illustrating with character! I have started creating character moodboards (Sample above of my digital), physical, digitally and on pinterest. (below) Characters really do interest me, I’m going to continue to make mood boards as the list is endless! Aaron Blaise I cannot talk about character design without talking about one of the biggest influences inContinue reading “Character development”

Visual distortion

Not just pushing an image visually, I found I really needed to push myself! I start this exercise with being honest I’m not a fan of using collage of magazine/printouts in my work, I have just started to like creating textures and put them together, but to visually distort using images seem to fail me.Continue reading “Visual distortion”

A Tattoo

Designing with a client in mind and his mum! A quick note before starting this learning log. An important lesson was learnt during this exercise, that you need to be careful within illustrations, I had a direction I was going within Norse and Viking mythology, runes and mother symbols. While I did a lot ofContinue reading “A Tattoo”

A menu card

Making a small impact! One of the artist I found when I was researching for point of sale inspiration was Camilla Perkins, I liked the colours she use and how simple the design were (which could easily double up as a logo design. Her illustrations reminded me of John Mintons book jacket for In myContinue reading “A menu card”

A children’s book cover

Trying to create an out of the world book cover for 7-11 year olds! My daughter aged seven, not long ago at the library picked up a book titled Aesop’s Fables retold by Elli Woolard and illustrated by Marla Altes. The fact she picked this up as she liked the illustration gave me a veryContinue reading “A children’s book cover”

Feedback from Part three

Overall Comments Overall your response to part three has been very good. I will mention again (as I did in earlier feedback) that you seem to be spending a lot of time on some exercises. Try to stick to the letter of the exercises; for example, in the ‘Reading an image’ exercise you delve intoContinue reading “Feedback from Part three”

Museum Posters

Creating work to appeal to all the ages! And a trip to Weston Park Museum (Sheffield) Weston park is a museum of my own childhood, I often visited as I was always at Sheffield Children hospital which is across the road for my hearing, So it natural I picked this museum for this exercise. WhileContinue reading “Museum Posters”