The Fixed Image

For this project we had to choose between 4 disciplines, photography, print, collage and 3d.
Naturally I chose 3d. They told us to choose something which we felt pushed ourselves out of our comfort zone, which I feel a bit bad about as I didn't do that at all, although I have really enjoyed this project and it's nice to be able to explore something I love.
The theme of the project was us and them. After thinking about it for a bit, I decided I didn't want to do anything too heavy, and that something more lighthearted would suit me a lot better. I thought it would be interesting to create a conflict between 2 groups of people who are different, but where there isn't actually tension between the groups in the real world. I thought it would draw attention to the silliness of actual conflicts that are based on irrelevant differences.
I thought of lots of different bodily things which could separate groups of people where comical conflicts could arise. I thought of, detached and attached ears, eye colour, short and tall people and other things, but ended up settling on bearded and shaven/balding men!
I thought it would be an interesting thing to show visually and my imagination was running wild thinking of beards coming to life and the like!
I decided to create an action shot style battle scene of the hair based conflict, and I created relevant weapons for both groups.

The bearded men have hair growth serum as weapons and the hairless men have razors.
I was a bit disappointed that in the photos you can't easily read the text on the hair growth serum, although it's more obvious in real life.

Spontaneous Lush Illustration

I was shopping the other day with my lovely friend Jack, when we decided to stroll into Lush (Jack's favourite shop in the world). We were chatting to one of the people who worked there and she asked us what course we did. When we said Illustration, she said that she really wanted an illustration for the 'Lush White City' Facebook page, and she asked if we'd like to do one for them!
I did a little drawing and here it is...

Animatic

This is an animatic me and another girl from my course Jennifer made together. We had to make a storyboard based around 3 images. Our images were a picture of a doll lying on the ground, a picture of a man walking down the street holding something with red powder flowing out of it and a picture of a man crying. This is the narrative that we developed from these 3 images.....

Extraordinary Books

Today our brief was to do something extraordinary with a book. My group had a book about herbs, here is what we did with it..........

So, it just looks like a not particularly extraordinary book about herbs.... but when you open it...

It has a miniature herb garden inside it!

First World Problems

We had a workshop this week about constructing collages to be used in a zine.
The theme of our work for this day was 'first world problems', we all had to make up quote about this to base our collage around.
Mine was, 'My micro pig is no longer micro. I don't want it now.' .....#firstworldproblems!
Here is what my collage looked like after photocopying it at different stages.

I was quite pleased with my composition, but i was disapointed that the process of photocopying made the images lose some of the contrast, texture and made them appear grainy.

Here is the original collage before I photocopied it, in a way I prefer it!

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