inderpendant practice 2011

After working on the paper limitations project, I decided to carry out on further. I decided to keep limitations of only paper and knife, but I allowed myself coloured paper and to get a more accurate image design it on the computer and then traces through onto the paper I was going to work on. Taking it beyond type I started to look at what was the most complex shapes and images that I can create while still using two colours. I tried a variety of methods for the shapes which I was creating,

whether to completely cut out the shapes from the paper or two keep it structurally intact. With the type images I wanted to cut away the negative space but is keeping a frame, this meant but hype had to stretch to the edges of the page and stay as one complete shape. With the pictures of objects I decided to cut away the positive area of the picture leaving the medicine area come the frame and then sliding this native area over the top of a coloured piece of paper to create the final image.

LIMITATIONS CONTINUED

These two images are the positive area rearranged on a separate page to show the details which I cut away.

Also experimenting on foods seemed an interesting idea, after all everyone does pumpkin carvings our Halloween, why not draw ships on apples. I was also interested to see what effect

carving away the scheme would have on the integrity of the Apple, it meant that started to rot faster than leaving the skin on because it was drying out. This led it start to shrink and dry out.

POP ART

Since coming to university I been receiving a monthly magazine called practical photo shop which ranges from how to improve simple photographic errors all the way up to complex image making.

One of the rings I found in the magazine was somebody asking how to make a Roy Lichtenstein style of work, he’s famous for making pop art which uses halftone dots as a fundamental part of the image, but the whole image is not made up of halftone dots. They are very simple to do, but difficult to get right, the basic principle was to create the main outline of the image, in my case to World War II planes.

I started with the main bicker outline of the planes and then adding smaller hairlines to add detail, asked that adding block colours which had to be a brighter colour that I wanted because the halftone affect brings down the brightness of the

colours which I was using.

One of the major styles of this comic book\pop art style is to have large black shadowed areas, again this is one of hard parts to get right but looks very effective when done properly.

The first images were done on photoshop and it was a case of building up the layers as went along, one of the issues was did the planes need to be completely coloured or could some of it be left white empty space. The second image of the boat was done in Illustrator because I once the push myself to see if I can get a more detailed image and also to see whether I have the same effect through Illustrator rather than photo shop. The third image of a person was actually the hardest as a difficult to work out exactly what detail needs to stay and what can go.

LOW LIGHT PHOTOGR APHY

FIREWORKS

FAIRGROUND

f/5, 1/13, ISO 200

f/10, 1/4, ISO 400

R ACECOURSE f/7.1, 2.0, ISO 200

NATUR AL HISTORY f/ 3.5, 1/3, I SO 640

CENOTAPH f/ 3.5, 3.0, ISO 200

TR AFFIC LIGHTS f/5, 4.0, ISO 200

TR AIN STATION f/4, 1/60, ISO 400

UCA ENTR ANCE f/3.5, 1/13, ISO 200

ASHLEY ROAD f/5.6, 1/1, ISO 200

UNI STAIRS f/3.5, 1/50, ISO 200

HIGH STREET f/ 5.3, 1/60, ISO 560

LOWER STREET f/5.6, 1/10, ISO 200

After working on the commitment to learning brief and taking night photographs I wanted to push myself to low light photography work, some issues I had were needing to use a tripod and processing the raw files having both white and black clippings. I found that an ISO of 200 days more detail and a better quality of image but a long this is these than our high ISO photograph.

THE GIRLS - WORKSHOP The object of the girls workshop was personal personality, as a group we had come up with group shots showing our personality, and groups initial idea was to get rid of the surrounding distractions and photograph purely our face in our normal expression.

This idea and others we had, such as a group shot in a phone booth, were put down by zoe sinclair saying that they didn’t really reflect our personality. It was the first time in a long time that someone in the art world has put one of my ideas down, most just say to run with it and creates more out of the initial idea than just say no to it!

When our original ideas had been put down we were sat by the large blackboards and decided why not draw our personality onto the blackboard. So the idea was that we drew round ourselves and filled in details of ourselves with basic images. We filmed and photographed the

entire process to create a stop motion animation of our personal outlines filling up with our personal interests, and then photographed ourselves in front of the board showing our stuff around us. This was a better and more interesting idea, which I’d like to take further in the future.

RODERICK MILLS - WORKSHOP I came across Roderick Mills a few years ago in a book full of different illustrators, I really liked his style work of outline and silhouette images, so when I heard he was given the one of our guest speakers I jumped at the opportunity to be in his workshop.

However they say you should know the meet your heroes, because you build them up in your mind and they don’t always meet your expectations.

The workshop itself was

interesting because we were given a large number of images to work from and given a range of titles such as hybrid, growth, defence and death. What was most interesting is that he played horror films wildly did the workshops and subtly it influenced my work, I’m not a violent person but my work seemed to be quite violent in places. But I’m still glad I met him!

ILLUSTR ATOR Wanting to improve my skills with Illustrator, I decided to create some basic animal images with some mild humour.

I sketched out my ideas first sign new where to start and then just playing around until I got it to looked right.

The reason why cat’s land on their feet

This is typeset which I been playing around with since pretty much the first day of the course when we were introduced to TED talks with Tim Brown and we were given a four piece of paper with a load of circles to come up with as many different uses with the circles in under a minute. One of the things I cannot with was using the circle as a negative space for a letter.

SKETCHES These are a number of sketches from my sketchbook which I have been doodling, the first whilst watching beautiful

Now armed with my 3-D Max software knowledge I want to turn these sketches into 3-D models, even though there are many computer-generated spaceships out there I want to have a go at doing one myself.

losers. The film made me realise verbally more I foundation that it’s really important just to sketch and doodle!

This image (left) is a sketch of exploring what’s on the London, which I want to make into a large-scale detailed illustration.

WORKSHOPS A brief look at the variety of workshops which I have done such as print screen, letterpress, HTML & CSS and 3-D Max studio.

Not all these images and text are mine, but work done to print them was my own. mine were the word Moose and the image to the right.

Prints don’t always come out perfect.

Screen shots taken from 3-D max workshop, which was very enjoyable and something to pursue for the future.