Book Binding

This week we did a book binding workshop, specifically techniques for making zines. it was really interesting to learn and I really enjoyed making my little books!

Here are some different methods of book binding.

In the second half of the workshop we were able to experiment with what we'd learnt, I used some paper from an old comic to make my book, and made some tassels with drawings taken from the illustrations on the comic, attached to the ends! 

Here is another little book I made. On the front is a stamp of a duck that I made in another workshop we did this week which was learning how to make rubber stamps.

Christmas Wrapping Paper

I really wanted to try out screen printing as I had never done it before. So, for my first go at it I decided to make some christmasy wrapping paper. Here is how it turned out, I like it but I think for next time I would do more bits of block colour, as that is what has worked out best. The thin lines came out really faintly. I'm proud of it for my first attempt though!

Life Drawing

The Nose

https://vimeo.com/80584537

This is a link to an animation I did based on the story of 'The Nose' by Gogol. I picked 2 main scenes to focus on and then adapted them to make my story have a beginning and an end. I really enjoyed this project and used it as an opportunity to try out some techniques that I've always wanted to try but never have!

Heres a little snippet to tempt you to click on the link to it......

One Panel Narrative- Crowd

We recently had a 2 day project which was to draw a crowd scene. We had to include interactions and narratives within our crowd, and the tutors encouraged us to be imaginative with our choice of setting.
I chose to have my crowd living on somebodies face. I was excited by the possibilities of narratives that could evolve from a colony of people interacting with and living on a human face.

Here are some close ups of what the people are doing to this poor man's face.

Drawing in the Museum of Childhood

Brixton Market

Location Drawing in Brixton Market:

The Human Echo

We recently did a 2 day project called 'The Human Echo'. I decided to focus on people's accents in my interpretation of the project.
 A person's accent is an echo of their past. It allows people to make assumptions as to how and where that person has grown up. In that way it is a 'human echo' of somebody's history and life.
To show this concept I decided to focus on the way 2 different people pronounce one word. I chose the word grass...