Jade Wall Semester Two

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Integral elements -

During the course of this semester I have found that I am working in a more fluid and personal way. This is a combination of both my evolving technical skills, the approach taken to the briefs and the personal confidence that these factors have produced. I have allowed myself to be more playful and free and to let my personal style bleed into my uni work. I’ve been developing the technique of digitally colouring my hand drawn illustrations and I’ve definitely found it to be a style that I enjoy working in. It allows me to fully flirt with colour in a way that I haven’t before and lets me work with playful illustration freely. Colour and story telling have become an enjoyable and successful focus in my illustrations and will hopefully remain to be an integral part of my work in the future.

Although previously highlighted I’ve found that the time I allow for each project greatly effects both my enjoyment and the overall outcome of a project. In ‘designing as I draw’ I am allowing less time worrying about how a project will look at the end and thus give opportunity to happy accidents and ‘honest ideas’. I’ve found that I like the lines and haphazard feel of a first draft to an illustration I have redrawn and copied and I feel that this fluidity is inherent in my style. While I realise that the development and research stage of a brief is important I’ve found that I enjoy and find most, if not all, success in letting that happen while I create the finals. My main success is that I am allowing myself to have more confidence and therefore fun, experimenting with colours and techniques that I have often shied away from in the past.

Personality! -

- Success

As well as having discovered and developed a style and technique that I enjoy, one of my greatest personal achievements this semester is the inclusion of my personal style and interests into my ‘portfolio’ work. In the past I‘ve often found it difficult to bring the personal work I enjoy doing into my university work, however with the freedom of projects and my developing technique I’ve found myself enjoying uni based work more and allowing the two to mix. While I am still interested in many areas of illustration I absolutely want to continue this style and can’t wait to see how it develops. Even within a few weeks of each other I’ve found that I enjoy both the process


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C- Art, Contemporary Vision Wind in the Willows The Distant Peninsular Radio 4 Postcard Grow! Seed Packaging Eskimo editorial Degree Show Posters A Thousand Nights Comic Peritoneal Dialysis Cookbook Waking Up Brickyard


C-Art, Contemporary Vision 20 X 20 Programmes, posters and invites commissioned by Tullie House Museum for a gallery event and lecture for C-Art focusing on contemporary art in Cumbria.





Wind in the Willows, Book Cover/Map Book cover designed for the Penguin Children’s book awards. The cover folds out into a map of the landscape in which the narrative takes place allowing young readers to engage more fully in the story and follow and speculate about the plot.





The Distant Peninsular. Editorial/personal illustration produced in reaction to my dissertation and as an experiment in light of techniques learnt in pervious projects. The map plots my journey from home in the south to university in the north.



Two Things to Do, BBC4 Postcard. Postcard produced to promote various comedy shows produced by BBC Radio 4. Link to Audio



Grow! Seed Packaging. Seed growing kit to be sold in newsagents, supermarkets, etc. to children as an alternative to sweets and trading cards. Packets contain ‘compacted soil sheet’ and seeds and can be folded into a ‘pot’, watered and then re-planted when plant has grown.





Eskimo Editorial. Editorial newspaper/magazine editorial.



Degree Show Posters. One day brief to produced three degree show posters and invites using given typefaces, images and rules.





A Thousand Nights, Comic Book. Comic book for anthology based on A Thousand and One Nights, exploring the origins of each tale before it is told each night. Designed in response to my dissertation, the comic explores the use of maps as a story telling tool that allows several plots and personal reflections to occur at once. The narrative needed to be sequential but also allow for a range of journeys to be taken.





Peritoneal Dialysis Cookbook. A cookbook developed for patients on dialysis due to kidney failure. I found a massive gap in the market for interesting or well-designed cookbooks for this medical condition and therefore attempted to create a colourful and visually exciting menu that would prove that eating with the strict diet and limitations could still be fun and healthy.





Brickyard Posters. Posters designed for The Brickyard music venue.



Waking Up, Poster and DVD sleeve Posters and dvd sleeve created for Waking Up, a short film in which a young girl is admitted to a psychiatric institution believing herself to be sleeping beauty.



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