A day in the life

For this brief I was given an article and was told to choose three words that interest me. I chose future, young and conspiracist, after choosing the words we did a workshop where we played word association and passed it on to another person to do further associations. I originally found this fun but useless as it goes so far away from the article. However I found when doing my roughs that it really helped, it particularly  helped for props and background ideas. 

 I did some quick ideas with some colour before moving on to some more thumbnail type drawings. For all of my drawings I had Russia in mind after my chosen word, future Russia etc. and for future Russia  the robot babushka was further evolved and eventually became the final piece. I chose to continue with the robot babushka because it was my favourite design and because it was a sort of clash of ideas, with the traditional and the future. 

Here are my more thumbnail style sketches. These ones are for young Russia, my intention was to do a 20 something as the article refers. However after the word association encouraged me to do more of an obvious connection to being young. 

Future Russia was also explored with the help of the sheets and with my own ides of a more sci fi based drawing. I tried to include Russian landmarks into the drawings.

For Russian conspiracists I mainly tried to include the tinfoil hat as it is synonymous with conspiracists. I also used my own knowledge and some of the suggestions from the sheet.

The results of my concept crit, The main opinion was to draw more babushkas and perhaps some Russian nesting dolls.

I decided to try to use a dip pen for this brief, something I had tried in visual language. I wanted there to be colour still so I tried using watercolour, copics and coloured paper.

This is my favourite and first of the of my finals, I highly enjoyed doing the texture of the wood and the colour works the best. I chose to do a combination of lots of fine black line by the dip pen and bits of colour added with copic. I think it worked well and made a great contrast, which the coloured paper couldn't achieve. The idea behind this was from a word on one of the sheets, it shows the traditional being left behind by the young.

With both of these I found it much harder as the ink kept coming on to the page or getting smudged, fortunately  as it's the robot babushka it rather appears to be oil leaking from within it.

This is my conspiracist, I chose to do a babushka for this as well as I felt like it made a better set. To truly give the impression of her being a conspiracist she has the tin foil hat, aliens on her apron, lizard Putin on her broach and the bright blue to finish it.