Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION OUIL603 Extended Practice
Level
06
Credit.
60
STUDIO PRACTICE Statement of Intent 3 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. My interests in model-making might also lead me to produce a portfolio appropriate or po ition a a mo el ma er in companie uch a or ac innon an Saun er .
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Brief 1: Jim en on ompetition Rationale:
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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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Templar Publishing: Dragon Story
Deadline
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Applying my passion for storytelling and interest in children's publishing, I intend to submit a 32 page
Rationale: traditionally illustrated children's book (draft + cover + 1 coloured spread) to the Templar Publishing competition. The theme for this competition is dragons.
Editions 1
Portfolio Work: Classic Children's Stories
Deadline
February
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
February
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: Whistle-Stop Thistle
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 a world I have created called Whistle-Stop Thistle and the tiny people who inhabit this land. I will practice storytelling, page design/layout and text placing. This world and the illustrations made for it could be applied to merchandise and other products, such as a proposal for a stop-motion animation for children's television.