Visual journal explorative journey

Josh Atkinson - OUIL501 Visual Journal explorative journey

I began my journal looking at influential musicians who had placed a stamp on music culture through androgynous appearances and ideas as artists. I started with a fairly toned down way of drawing.

I quickly began to adapt and evolve my drawing style as a way of reflecting the musicians personalities and the energy that is represented through them and their music. I began to incorporate more about the formal elements using line and shape in a more interesting way as well as pushing the colour use as well.

I was beginning to embrace a more energetic style at this point to draw the portraits and I feel this energy was reflected well through the use of striking colours, sharp lines and thick outlines.

These images/pages started to show a use of visual aids such as the rolling stones mouth to draw the musicians in a more playful way and putting a different spin on how id drawn them previously. However as I eventually found that time was running out I had to involve the subject of which I had tackled in the essay so I switched tactics.

At this point I began to focus my journal on a more relevant theme that best reflected my written work which was all focused around Mod culture specifically of the 1960’s in Great Britain. I chose collage for my medium to portray the images as it is a very effective way of

These two images which I have made with collage represent certain themes which I have talked about in my essay pretty well I feel.

Demonstrating the free spirited new generation of youth and not needing to rely on the home and then the other side is how the media portrayed the mods with the events ‘vs’ the rockers.

The mod haircut and the cultural nightlife where they were notorious for doing all nighters and pilled up on the new craze drugs.

Finally these are examples of journal work which I have given the Photoshop treatment and have developed them a bit further to make them more like finished outcomes. Had I had more time I would have made journal experiments such as these into more developed outcomes and it would have resembled my visual and explorative journey in a better way.