One day brief

The brief is to produce a piece of visual communication that illustrates cross media and how it benefits businesses as a marketing tool.
the key properties to be included in the design:

• a start point and a end point
• gathers momentum 
• delivers an outcome
• sequential and linear
• can be repeated 

at first i wasn't sure just what to or where to start but after a good brain storm i came up with some ideas, my best idea was a Sound Wave as it has a start and end point, gathers momentum, delivers an outcome (the outcome being the sound) and it can be repeated.

A sound wave can travel though all forms off matter: gases, liquids, solids and plasmas. i would relate this in a business as the company getting past any obstacles and getting straight to the clients.

 

this is one idea i have, a poster of a sound wave blasting through a wall, id put some sort of speaker on the inside so you can see it making a sound wave to blast through.

i found these cool speaker on google an they have given me an idea of maybe a character in the shape of a speaker, and this character can blast through the wall with a sound wave. this character can also be made into some sort of little toy that can be sent to the company.

did some little ideas of what the character could look like but the only one i like so far is the big speaker with legs.

this is one of my final idea pieces, its a sound wave smashing though a brick wall. i put the image i drew of the brick on to photoshop then started to to add colour in different layers. im pretty happy with how it has come out but i think it could do with some more work ot it, maybe make it more realistic.

  

Design Process 
 

When getting a project i would normally start off by putting down as many ideas as i can on either some paper or my sketchbook about the subject area no matter how stupid or unrealistic they seem, i would then break down my ideas in to a cupple of my strongest ideas.

The second step i would take is research, i would research into the subject either from the internet, books or do some primary research e.g if it was a games project i would go out and play games and write down notes as i play and also go and asked people who have played games what they think and there outlook on then ect.. after trying to get all the information i can about the subject i would then do some more idea development and research to make my ideas a lot stronger.

The next step i would undertake is to take my ideas as far as i can to expand on them just to see how far i can go, i would do this by doing a lot of experimental work, trying out different techniques, finding out what does and what doesn't work. i would then start to bring them back and start refining them narrowing my ideas to a cupple of really strong ones. after changing and tweaking my ideas i would go on to further research to make them as strong as possible.

I'm then in the stage of picking my strongest ideas to be my final piece, after picking the idea im wanting to be my final piece i would then develop that idea using the techniques i had tried. finally when i am happy with the outcome of my final piece i would present it.

The design process is good, it allows you to know what steps you must take in order to produce the best outcome for your work. The more you use the steps the more you do them automatically in your work and produce some really strong pieces.

3D negative and positive space.

  

this is all the string after we had taken it down, like this the string had more of a solid positive space but lass of an impact. 

 had a pretty awesome day in 3D, we was looking at negative and positive space using string, we put it all around the room to show the negative and positive space, the string being the positive and the space around it is the negative, putting the string all around the room gave the negative space more of an impact than if the string was rolled up into a ball because it made the negative space harder to maneuver around. after we had finished we made it a challenge to get round the classroom to see how hard it was to get through the negative space.... it was pretty hard :P
we then took it all down and put the string on the table to show how much string we used.

the costume im wanting to make is the American civil war costume. its 18th and i wanted to do a war costume abecause i thought it would look cool. im obviously not just going to coppy the war uniform, im going to put my own trist and style to it. iv started off my looking at the uniform and doing some designs of my own.

 

as the project is a paper project i thought id look into artists that use paper in costume and wigs as part of the project is for the wig to be part of a character relating to a Rakes progress or person from the 18th century, i found some artists work i like, Susan Cutts and Isabelle de Borchgrave. Isabelle makes Victorian dresses out of paper and prints the patterns on. 

 

 

I looked through the internet for 18th century wigs and found some images that gave me an idea of what they looked like.

 Wig Making
we started wig making as a project relating to the work we are doing on a rakes progress, the project is a paper project so its all made from paper. i started off with raping a plastic bag around a manikin then taping it up to make the bass of the wig. I then rolled up some bubble rap and taped it to the rim for the big side bits, i cut out loads of thin strips of paper and curled it with scissors and taped them on.

Life Drawing
life drawing. 

these are my first drawings back at college. i was really surprised how good they came out to be honest, i thought they would look really crap because i haven't drawn anything in a while. this one i did on black paper with white and black chalk, this was the second drawing i did an i didn't thing it went as well as the first one i did, i dont like the size or shape of the skull, i think it could do with not being as round, and id probably not use so much white and keep it more grey then use the white to highlight the areas that the light is mostly hitting because i dont think the light that was hitting the skeleton was as bright as that allover. overall i dont think its to bad though.   

This is the first drawing i did back in college and iv got to say im pretty proud of it, again i thought it was going to be crap as i had not drawn in a white but it came out really good, again i used chalk for this drawing, i love using chalk, i just like the effects you can get with it and its easy to blend so you can get the right kind of shade, also you can keep the chalk lines nice a crisp and it can give a hole different look to your drawing, i like to do both when i use it so you have the nice blended areas and then you have crisp areas that stand out. also if you make a mistake i find you can blend it in then go over it with some white chalk (black if on black paper) and start again. the only problem i had with this drawing was the left arm as it comes out a bit, but i go there in the end as i think the drawing looks like the arm is coming a way from the body like its got its hands on the bottom of its hips. overall i think it looks good an the proportion is good so im happy. AND.. as you can see i started another one in the background but i had no time to finish it but i may go back and finish it.

these two are done in just a average HB pencil. i really enjoyed doing these two as it was more relaxing, i sat down and taken my time doing shading, i chose to do that as i dont usually do that, i would normally use alot of big expressive lines and mark making. but i like how they have came out and i will be doing more of this kind of drawing in the future.

some of the pictures i taken on the trip to Chatsworth House. 

it was my first time going to Chatsworth House and i was surprised how much was there. it had taken us one hour to get around the house and it dint help getting stuck behind a tour group, i liked all of the large paintings on the ceiling and on the walls, and i really liked some on the sculptures, they gave some good inspiration and ideas for some of my work. i think the part i mostly enjoyed about the trip was the gardens.. they was really beautiful, it was like walking into wonderland with some of the landscapes there and the maze was pretty cool, we got lost quite a bit but got to the middle in the end, i was kinda disappointed in what was in the middle of the maze though because it was only a tree.. and not even a very nice tree. we had six hours to get round everything an we was done in four so we had nothing to do for two hours witch was a bit boring. looking at the trip as a educational visit i didn't really learn much but i got a lot of ideas from what i did learn and see so it wasn't a wasted trip. i will be doing some drawings and doing some concepts from my ideas and uploading them another day.