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DID YOU KNOW YOUR PETS LIE TO YOU?
KARO CICHON
My piece is an experiment of combining typography with illustration, to make play with the audience's imagination just like the tricky question played with my thoughts. It links to pets being used as dress up-dolls and not having any say against their owners, so they pretend to be happy. Therefore I have represented that idea with a line illustration of a pug dog hidden behind the typography, just like hiding behind the lies. From exploring ideas using CMYK one at a time I came up with the solution to overlay text in two colours. Developing my image digitally allowed me to create a perfect mirror image of “Did you know your pets lie to you�. Also, the background colour links back to the original colour of the animal's fur. This created a dramatic contrast between the foreground and the background. I have successfully combined digital with traditional illustration to present my ability of creating both illustrating methods. However this module made me explore new methods and techniques that I have never tried before through digital printing and developed my monoprint skills.
JOEL MAYNARD
“Did you know your pets lie to you�
This was my starting point the phrase itself has some meaning - bringing up thoughts of my own pets being deceiving. The way to start the brief was to first experiment on a range of different medias to expand my knowledge in the world of illustration. Monoprinting was the first point of really expanding any knowledge, I had never tried monoprinting before. Learning that its a very experimental process resulting in every print being different. My monoprint was a series of muddled overlapping lines creating a kind of tangled wire image. After gaining some experience and confidence in monoprinting, I decided to take the print and expand and develop using a printer. Using such tools as colour modes, negative and zoom I thought of an idea to use tracing paper to make the design transparent. I did this twice one with the colour blue and the other with the colour brown, overlaid the two and made it so the images were kind of off centre creating a 3d effect. The final stage was to make the piece relate to the title. I scanned the image into Photoshop, edited the brightness/contrast to remove the boldness of colour. I wanted to include typography in my piece so I went on the fact of adding a silhouette in my image, in which I used a black silhouette of a cat. Next I brought in type, using the phrase given to me. I created the title with a range of different fonts to make the design dynamic and over ordinary. I finally made a clipping mask with the text, to reveal that the font was going through the silhouette, to pull the whole image together.
BETH MORRISON
To best portray the sentence 'did you know your pets lie to you?' I looked into the body language and facial expressions of animals with a focus on dogs. Thinking about the typical 'puppy dog eyes' I wanted to show how dogs tend to look when feeling guilty (likely because they have done something wrong). My idea is all to do with deceit and I have used contrast with the cute puppy dog eyes looking innocent with the repetition of the negative word 'lie' making up the image. The red tissue paper for me represents the colour of the word lie.
YOLANDA PEREZ
My piece is inspired by the behaviour of animals in connection to lying to their owners. I was particularly interested in cats so I studied a range of ideas and approaches that led me to experiment with monoprints. The process includes scanning the monoprints onto the computer and using photoshop to make an effect to portray that a lie can be repeated more than once. For me, the colour red depicts a false identity and draws someone's attention to look closer at detail. The idea of a scratched sofa allowed me to interactively express the way lies are normally hidden. 'Scratch me if you can' by Yolanda Perez
CALLUM GOODGER
My idea for “did you know your pets lie to you� was created with the intention of using all the skills I had gained in the past two weeks. These included processes such as mono-printing which I used different media and started visually playing upon these ideas. With no intention on the final outcome and just let the process create pieces within their selves. Furthermore I collaborated this with the typography I had experimented in week two to create a illustration/typography piece. The background of my final piece was the illustration aspect of my learning this is where I took the monoprinting and took these pieces mixed these single images up into a new collage where I experimented with the way people read an image. Places a full stop and the end of the bottom right of the page symbolises that it was meant to be read left to right the same way we read the English language.
I felt that my typography aspect of the piece was the weakest as only having a week experience in this field I feel like I need to take it further. This made this part of the work very literal and direct where I feel I need to be more sensitive in the way I put my ideas across, make it slightly harder for the viewer to understand.