Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION OUIL603 Extended Practice
Level
06
Credit s
60
STUDIO PRACTICE Statement of Intent Name
Blog Address Naomi Crompton
Date 20/10/2016
Rationale I want to create work that is portfolio worthy and that I could show agencies, companies, galleries and other creativies to get work. I want to focus on improving and develpoing my lino cutting skills not just in the lino cutting itself but also experimentally. I want to make work that is out of passion and insperation. More work around horror and history and maybe applying that to adult education and editorial work, along side podcast coversm book covers etc.
Themes / Subjects My themes are Horror, History and a Tad of Humour. I want to focus in Publication such as Historical, Horror, Non-fiction Adult Book Covers creating more intresting and eye catching work. I also want to look at character and design in Horror and the Creative industry on concept art for Horror Movies, Animations such as Rick&Morty and Harmonquest. Editorial work for Historical magazines also intrests me as a side project.
Products / Methods of Distribution Lino Prints, Editorial Imagery both thumbnail and full cover, Small publications, Book Covers, Posters & Character Boards.
Practical Skills / Media / Formats Lino Prining Editorial work Painting Mono print Digital Work Small Print Runs Audio/Visual Podcast
Brief 1:
Thought Bubble
Rationale:
Deadline 5-6 November
Produce Posters, Small Publications, Stickers & SketchBooks to Sell @ Thought Bubble Forces me to sell my work and look at my stuff as products to sell now rather than later
Brief 2: Spook Of The Week
Deadline
20th Febuary
Rationale: Use Lino print to experiment with diffrent ways of podiucing imagery. Create a Horror themed Picture each Week
Brief 3:
Cold Blood & Adult-Non Fiction Covers
Rationale:
Brief 4:
Brief 5: Rationale:
March 7th
Design Cover and insert for Cold Blood in the Penguin Competition, Try first by lookign at redesigning other True-Crime Non-Fiction Book Covers. (Maybe Colabrative With Graphic Designer)
Traveling Man Poster
Rationale:
Deadline
Deadline
1st Nov
Make a Poster around the Theme 'Fan Art' for Traveling man. Must be family friendly with Limited colour pallete.
Deadline
ACTION PLAN​ – use this section to identify specific tasks that you need to complete in order to resolve the brief. Brief What do you need to do? 1
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Create A Series Of Merchendise for Thought Bubble to sell as well as promote my self and my work using this oppertunity.
Create a Series of at least 7 Lino prints with a Horror theme that experiment with Lino Print in some way
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Produce a Book cover for In Cold Blood for Penguins Compeition alongside Some development work using other non0fiction crime books to explore how to make the book covers intresting.
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Create an A2 Limited Colour Digitial Print to Hang in Travelling Man
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Deadline 5-6th Nov
20th Feb 7th Mar
1st Nov
BA (Hons) Illustration - Level 06 OUIL603 Extended Practice STUDIO PRACTICE
Project Proposals 10 steps to producing persuasive project proposals
1. Set clear aims and objectives 2. Be SMART (Specific , Measurable , Achievable , Realistic , Time Conscious) 3. Use words from your brief 4. Justify the need for your proposal 5. Describe your audience 6. Describe your motivations 7. Consider the reader 8. Eliminate vagueness 9. Visualise the ending 10. Assume nothing