Tile Time: Development for Poster 2

Deciding to go for a tile shape that the images would have to conform to it allowing me to make a uniformed pattern base.
After looking over the Aoi brief again and seeing that it want's a semblance of diversity within the image to best represent the city I am focusing on both my male and female talking tiles showing a variety of ethnicities. I have The male tile with all it's variations here so that you can see what I'm now going for.

Final Draft for 3rd Poster

This was the most fun sketch for me really.
I wanted to create a design that would take me out of my comfort zone.
Using the photos I took and the low key concept that has been going on in my head about sound being translated into strips and woven together to make a sound tapestry.
I enjoyed this the most as an end result, It feels like mixing medias and allowing myself to have fun with the work I produce helps me a lot.
For the final Image However I need some Cleaner photographs of some of the buildings and cars and also maybe look at expanding the image further.

Final Draft for 2nd Poster

This Poster Design I more of a repeat pattern, inspired by the Pattern designs of Jemma Salume whose pattern work is usually themes and she molds images into specific shapes showing both variety and uniformity. I don't feel like keeping them all restricted to one shape will really work, however I do thin cleaner line work and simpler block colours will.

The theme for this is just everyday Sounds of the City. It isn't any city in particular more of an amalgamation of visiting different cities and seeing/hearing repeating sounds and visuals.

Final draft for 1st Poster

This Is the Final Draft for my First Sketch.
Media wise I've been playing around with brush pens and acrylic however i'll probably go for designing all of the main images such as the pigeons, the buses, the clock and the market callers in brush and colouring them digitally. As I prefer the brush pen lines to the more controlled digital lines for this. Keeping the hand craft with the lining but using photoshop and my online brushes to create vivid colouring should work really well together.

Clocks and Ideas

M&S Clock Leeds Market 1884

Town Hall Clock 1853-1858 

Built 1930-1951 Parkinson Building Clock

For one of the designs I want to use a Historic monument of leeds as the main focal point, mixing the history of the city with the sounds of it. showing visually how both affect one another. I looked at clocks because when going through leeds the sound of a clock bonging the hour is something that is symbolic to me of a city and I think that in all cities this is a good way of indicating a passage of time. I'm more inclined towards the marks and spencers one due to it's Historical and cultural symbolism, Also M&S is very well known throughout the UK however it's not as well known that it was started in Leeds. The clock also rediseds in Leeds Market, one of europe's largest indoor markets which if full of sound of market stalls, the buses going by, birds going in and out, people talking. In away the Market has it's own soundscape, compared to that of the centre or outskirts of leeds, and I feel it would be an interesting and enlightening endeavor to have the context of one poster focus on the sounds of the city but specifically the sounds of a specific and to the locals well known part of the city. To those who don't know that part of leeds it will become educational but for those who know it it will be an exciting representation of leeds historic past. 

Abstract or Narrative

Similar to  Hurtado's collage work I'm thinking of making one of my poster based off collage work made of the photographs I took in town. Mixed in with more traditional drawings maybe the clash of aesthetics, colour and media will echo the chaos of the city.

Edwood's and Takemasa's work is more literal, narrating a scene what one would find in the city, either something very specific like bread at the baker's stall in the market or a busy intersection in the city. More narrative and scenic however I don't think I want my work to be that literal. Creating sound visually is very abstract to me and I won't my work to reflect that. Maybe create a non-linear or non classical narrative in the poster depicting how I adapted this foreign way of working and visual depiction to suit me.

Roughs And initial concepts

 This next part of the project I have difficulty describing because I tend to get caught up in the concept of idea and making things rather than reflecting or documenting them.

A lot of these roughs and scamps look ill put together or maybe even nonsensical but I did find them helpful in finding out what i did and didn't want from my work.

Due to the size of the canvas there is more focus on the compositing and use of negative space for me in this one. Also you need to really look at if the work would fit well onto merchandise.

I've got some vague ideas for designs but I'm going to hash them out futher and then choose which ones I'm taking forward.

Snap Shots Of The City

After Setting myself up in town for another day of observational drawings I came to a couple of realisations an hour or so into trying to depict the Sounds of the City I felt overwhelmed and uninspired. I work best with reflection, hindsight allows me to review and assess the information presented to me as well as stopping myself from becoming too stuck in my own head. The need for constant reflection will be crucial throughout all the progress my work goes on.  

Because of this I decided to get myself a disposable camera and take pictures around the city, documenting the hustle and bustle of different parts of leeds from the more quiet areas to the louder ones. Taking photographs of single people who played the accordion or where just humming to themselves. With these images i can look at what makes the sound viable in the image and put that into my art work rather than becoming too overwhelmed and stressed by the idea of capturing sound instantaneously.

Artists And Sounds

These artists work display sound to me in both the obvious and oblivious ways which is why i compiled them together. Size, shape, line and colour are used as visual markers of sound in different artist work. Experimenting with these components individually and seeing which one works the best will help deliver me towards a final solution when it comes to depicting sound in my posters.

Parkinson Steps Drawings

Deciding to go and start doing drawings and collecting sounds in different parts of the city I started this process at the Parkinson Steps spending 3 hours drawing, observing and listening. I also recorded the sounds to do some soundscaping later.  I learnt these things: 1. I can't draw cars 2.Drawing sounds is hard 3. People move too much same with cars.


I am going to look further into artists whose art illustrates noise and sounds, to me, so that I have a greater understanding and concept of how I'm going to tackle this brief visually.