Next Two Weeks: Five (+) Objectives 1. Respond to emails, and further my research into teaching – or working abroad next year. 2. Update my Linked-‐In, make this something that I can use to professionally represent me. (Improve picture and personal information especially.) 3. Collate and pull together some of my existing work and consider what needs to be done to portray it in a professional way to represent and assist me. 4. Line up at least two people that I can and ought to contact, to learn more, gain a link with relevant practitioners and potentially even get access to experience. 5. Start up my illustrated information brief, as this is important to explore so that it can be potentially considered as a viable area of specialism. 6. Take on new live brief and apply myself early to it – make the most of opportunities.
My Current List of Briefs for OUIL 603, Extended practice: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
War Horse (SB1) Travelling Man Exhibition A2 print -‐ series(SB2) Bright Futures, Unilever (SB3) Illustrating Medical Information (SB4) Arctic Tern Story Book – Pan (SB5) (Illustrated brief guide to horse anatomy (SB6)) Inktober (SB7)
I plan to add more live and competition briefs to it as they come along or when they are released, such as Reportage Awards and Secret 7. Creatures To develop an animal each week by drawing them repeatedly and getting to grasps with them, the end result should be a a personal and proficient way of drawing each new animal that I take on, and thus a substantial body of developmental work which will help me to become more comfortable and capable at character design. Splodges This brief entails filling at least three whole sketchbooks, cover to cover with these experimental and playful drawings. The end result should be a body of inventive characters perhaps, or at least several new approaches to drawing. This brief allows me to explore and investigate the creative potential of drawing, and characterisation. War horse For this brief I need to consider what type of work the folio society like, I need to do some research into them. Travelling man This really is a bit of a smaller project, however it is a fairly big challenge to me as I am neither very good at portraits or screen printing. He liked that I was trying to challenge myself this way however, it's good to do this. He also showed me how to go about creating half tones with photoshop and suggested I take a look at the work of a college of his. • •
Consider bringing photograph into the screen print. Include/incorporate some text, quite nice with ink handmade.
Half Tones = Image, then mode, choose bitmap. Then this should give me the option to select half tone and then 'rounded. Children's book Try applying proposal to Pan McMillan brief. Arctic Tern storybook, propose 4 pages, plus a front and back cover. The story should aim to encompass the theme of migration. (Longest migratory bird) Could perhaps make suggestion as to current potentially relevant affairs. Medical Information 1 a week, nice idea Treat like bit of an editorial brief Illustrating/making clear complex or difficult information, such as medical information. Animals This could be my big idea, maybe even go as far as to look at WWF, and national trust. Draw a different animal once a week for the sake of betterment of drawing, and with a look at applying them to relevant wildlife conservation and promotion of thus.