Character-Digital vs Digital

The first image was done entirely digital with very flat colours . I found this to be very stiff after I lined it. The character lost a lot of fluidity after that and colouring it in did not help the final product. I did rush this because I felt like I just needed to get it over and I think my unhappiness with the illustration translates in its execution. 

On the other hand I feel that the college image is definitely better with the textures and attention to detail allowing me to get the fantasy ideal across. The background on this feels so fantastical however due to the way it was cut and put together, similar to the previous image it lacked the fluidity my work usually had making it stiff and almost characterless.

Id do the backgrounds in the collage again. Maybe look at other ways of mixing traditional and digital together to create characters with more life to them. 

Passion Fruit Part 2 -Research

Looking into this idea of setting it in mystical ancient Greece. Inspired by some of Sapphos poems as well. The idea of two lovers isolated on an Island, having to protect and alter. Mimicking my love of the greek mythos formula from when I was younger Is how I got my plot for this tale.

Using past research allowed me to spend more time drawing and mapping out developing ideas. 

FMP-Musings pt 2

So Through research and pre-known knowledge A lot of Medieval europe folklore is focused on the virtues and sins attached to christianity.

But in all honesty I'm going to make a series of prints depicting the narrative of the Marksman, a Medieval Germanic fairytale from 14th century in a series of prints.  This could become a larger series looking into other tales and the 5 point tales they tell.

MAn gets bullets from stranger ->  becomes wealth and gains his lady love -> she is killed by last bullet turns out stanger was devil man promises to be piese to see wife -> Immediately re marries -> is killed by skeleton of wife.

I want to limit the amount of Prints/ Panels to this narrative. Stirp it down to it's bear bones.

Character Brief

So I want to do more character designs and look at different ways of using different media. I thought this will help me work out the best media for my quicker and more fluid character designs. I'm hoping to build up a portfolio of character design for more potential character design jobs. 

FMP-Musings pt 1

So I've been trying to research some medieval events, tales or folklore but I cant really find anything.

To be honest I think it's because I'm being too vague.

I did however find some super fun and messed up stuff about Hera and here revenges.

Maybe do it about that?

I don't know. I'm gonna try and be more precise within what I'm looking for. I don't need to find a narrative to create narrative work.

History editorial- Reflecting on why I stopped this brief and why i started it back up.

After flip flopping around on the idea of creating a series of historical editorials. I have finally done them. With the time frame of a week to do them in. as a way of setting myself back on the right path.

After talking to Sól about my worries with editorial and her saying I don't have to do political in the moment stuff. I realised that I can focus my practise into an area I wanted. Using Sól to pick the articles for me. It forced me to work to the specifications of another not just myself and what I wanted to do. It was challenging but also allowed me to adapt the way I work to a brief and hone the way i create images.

All 5 Images where done in lino and finished in digital. It took a week to complete and I honestly feel better for it.

I swore off editorial, however I see know that that was a shortsighted vow that I'm no longer sticking to.

It is important that I still remember I have other Briefs to finish as well. So I have given myself till the beginning of Easter break to get one more of the D'n'D characters drawn up as well as complete my A3 African vampire print. 

I know the week commencing won't be as productive as I want it to be. Due to having an boost in my working hours this week along side my practise. However I aim to use my time valuablly and feel that after working myself through  the almost 3 month slump I was in this week. I'll be able to be a more productive, and reflective practitioner. 

So after my talk with Ben about my FMP. I'm going to start focusing on gaining a solid amount of research to begin my project.

• I don't want to flood myself with too much research so that i focus more on that than the creation and development of the work.

• I've chosen to focus this project on one time period and fins several tales to illustrate in a Lino cut. Along side the chance of a series of smaller comic strips . 

• The focus however is on the 3-5 A3 lino cuts which tell either several separate stories or work similar to Hogarth's etching series in that they tell a tale. 

• I want to be more daring with this so I'm going to look at multi layered lino reductions, collage and paint on lino. 

The focus of the two week commencing is to get the tales chosen and begin to draw the roughs and composition. as well as do miniature experiments with lino process. 

Passion Fruit Project

So Olivia told me about this competition for queer artists to pitch an erotic comic to beyond press in hopes of getting chosen to create said comic (paid). Creating the initial character boards and scenic concepts for said proposals was new to me. I've always  avoided drawing nude people because I was, weirdly worried what my family would think. However this project for me became a rather freeing one in that I did it because i wanted to do it. Rather than because I felt that I had to do it.

The sample bellow contains some of the initial sketches and the beginning development of the environment and scenes the characters created would interact with. I wanted to show a lot of interaction between the characters with each other and their environment.

Wine Label

Doing this wine label design with the quick turn around time allowed me to basically strip what my process when going from start to finish was. As A result I know how research even if minute comes into it as well as the importance of finding an angle to your brief that makes it easier for me to be at least excited about the work. Mine was trying to refine the digital collage more as well as transfer character work into a more commercialised projects. 

Something that I learnt from this experience however was the importance of contrasting colours and referring to the colour wheel. As parts of the background eclipsed the foreground and at different points the faces blended into the background. I would Focus more on the colour next time.

The size I submitted the image at left much to be desired and made the images difficult to read. Although I uploaded it in the correct format I may need to look at the placement and sizing of images next time. 

I don't think I'd do a competition label again however if I was commissioned I'd love to create another wine label. 

Paper Cut DIgital Experiment

I Began to mess around with digital  collage. Looking at ways that I could use it to advance my digital work. This is my experiment piece. I'm thinking of using this technique on the wine label competition for talent house.