Statement of Intent 2

Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION OUIL603 Extended Practice

Level

06

Credit.

60

STUDIO PRACTICE Statement of Intent 2 Name

Jay Stelling

Date

08/02/18

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Rationale My ambition is to illu trate chil ren boo using puppet illustration and 3-Dimensional sets; inten to ini h thi mo ule ith a port olio o or which will showcase my work as an illustrator and storyteller which could be shown to publishers and/or clients.

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Brief 1: Jim en on ompetition

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Ripon Christmas Fairytale Trail

Deadline

December 20177

Collaborating with Gaynor Gray (Art Director and owner of Gray Finch, Ripon), Blow Your Horn Ripon (a

Rationale: community project for improving Ripon City) and local shops/businesses to organise a trail of my art dolls for children to find for prizes. This will provide me with experience in working as part of a team, collaborating and working with the community. It's a local project to me so it's relevant to my background and love of the city. It will also help to promote my work and get some free advertising. The trail is aimed at my preferred target audience of children and the dolls will be fairytale characters, a theme I find fascinating and will allow me to research the stories.

Brief 3: LAIKA Holiday Scene

Deadline

December 2017

The chance to make a Christmas twist of one of LAIKA's brilliant films/characters/scenes! The winning entry

Rationale: is posted on their social media pages and is seen by members of the LAIKA production team, which could

help me to network and make connections with people in the industry/company. This would be a fun project for me as a fan and an artist. The competition is open to all art forms but I would make models and a 3D scene to build my puppet illustration/model making/3D storytelling portfolio.

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uarterly Burton Inspired Holiday

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Another ADQ brief, this time inspired by the work of Tim Burton. I don't want to copy Burton's work too closely, I would like to produce something more original; perhaps his characters but in a different world, or his worlds with new characters?

Editions 1

Portfolio Work: Classic Children's Stories

Deadline

ngoing

Rationale: Practicing making puppet illustration for children's books, using classic children's stories such as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Editions 2

Portfolio Work: Animals

Deadline

ngoing

Rationale: A self-directed project in which I will produce a variety of different puppet illustrations of animals. Animals

are not something I hadn't attempted before in anthropomorphic puppet characters until the fairytale trail brief, where the Mouse and Wolf were the two most popular characters in the hunt, so I plan to make more and see how different animals translate into this media.

Editions 3

Rationale:

Children's Book: Kristin Baybars' Toy Shop

Deadline

ngoing

I intend to finish this course with a children's book that could be submitted to MacMillan's Book Prize competition or to a publisher. The book would be created using puppet illustration and 3D Scenes.

The story will focus on Kristin Baybars' toy shop in London; a quiet and mysterious little toy shop hidden in Gospel Oak between a newsagents and a demolition site.

I plan on making Kristin (the owner of over 40 years), the shop (and its many tiny objects), the street and possibly some children to enter the shop. I will practice storytelling, page design/layout and text placing.