End of induction week

At the end of induction week I've got to see how everyone else works and the amount of talent in the course. This induction period has made me really excited to start working and really get into the course. I really enjoyed doing the tasks even if they stressed me out a bit at the time. I think they were useful for getting to talk to a couple of people when I would of shied away from talking at all.

Ten based on the ten

My six sketched out Ideas for my next ten drawings based on one of my ten for the summer project.

After doing this and receiving feedback I decided to combine my sea creatures and my putting party hats on things.

I gathered some reference images and some research and then I did some further tests before deciding how to further progress with the idea. I wanted to try some new methods for this project as I already showed how I often draw in the summer project.  I bought some watercolour pencils to try out as well as some new fineliners of different widths. I ultimately decided that the watercolour pencils needed further practice and that for the detailing of the creatures the fineliners worked better. I also enjoyed the contrast of the brightly coloured party hats on the colourless creatures. it was a little while after I started drawing these that I was given the idea of working on a dark background in white pencils and going back to the original hatless idea.

I tried a drawing out on three differently coloured paper before deciding on the one above. after that I did a mock up of positioning and then sketched out my real one. I changed a few things in this including some of the positions and some of the close ups. when I fished sketching out I moved on to the detailing.

Summer Brief

This is my accompanying sketch book and my ten, ten by ten for the summer brief. Along with the comments I received about them.

The ten are displayed in order of the questions going from left to right. The bulk of my feed back is based on approval the bold backgrounds I used. I however wish that I had allotted more time to do the drawings themselves. The first four are by far my favourite and I spent the most amount of time on them. I would also have worked out something else for something beautiful as a wave breaking is very difficult to draw recognisably, without further context.

The most stupid brief ever

These are the nineteen designs that I made for the most stupid brief ever, for which I had to make the designs with the idea of making someone smile in mind.

To try out my favourites I did some quick colour tests before deciding that I liked the look of mrs. Blobfish best and moving on to drawing it out on my worthless garment.












This unfortunate photo is me modelling my T-shirt while 30 rock plays in the background.

There are several aspects of this T-shirt that I would do differently if I started it all again. The major one being that I would have used ink from the start rather than getting the lines and make up done in markers before doing the body and letting it all bleed.