Evaulation: exam unit

To start this exam unit I had to explore my exam theme, so to start with I picked a brief the brief being the illustration brief, the theme for this brief was perception,emotions,thoughts and imagination. So to start with i was looking at some of my perception that I put into some of my drawings and how the illustrator from the original book used that through out. Emotions I felt just came out of me and how I felt towards the book its self and the drawings I see, so I read the book and looked at the drawings in-depth to see what points where illustrated.
The imagination behind this project again came out of me and so to understand this i had to get drawing really and how I would see the book coming alive in my drawings.My plans for the final piece is to use color and techniques to really get out the emotional effects that i want to get across with my drawings.

the methods that I have used through out this project would have to be drawing elements of my subjects and my sources which helps a lot, another way of recording my observations was to be doing loads of annotating which is something I will admit I haven't done a lot of in the last projects but with this being the last project I felt like I didn't do as much.

My ideas at the start with just getting some drawings onto a simple A5 page and then maybe adding some text a bit like what the book has, but then I found out about etching and sort of went off the side of just drawing with only paper and started to look into my printing skills. My final ideas came across with loads of different designs to my characters and scenes before finally settling down with some designs that I felt fitted the roll of the character such as the white knight, I felt he should have a human body and chess piece head, I also tired this the other way round so with the house being the body and the knight head but i felt the first design was so much better.

The materials I have used though out this project would have to be pen and pencil in my drawings, I have also used mono printing which is a new thing I have had to master to experiment with in my book, and another thing I have also had to really master would have to be etching which is a type of printing that is a really good technique to be using in my book and final piece. The techniques I have used are that of drawing printing and also a bit of photo shop but I would have to say that drawing and printing was so much better in my techniques and with this I only had one problem which would really have to make me think about my timing in the exam is the time it takes to print with the etching plates.

The people who I fill have really inspired me though out this project have influenced me, first person is Elia Fernandez  her work I found was very line based and the use of colour with in her work was great for me to understand how I used colour with in my work and how to get a good outcome out of it.

This is her piece of work which I the best image Ive seen by her and her work has really inspired me as the way she uses layering of doubling the image of the mans head has made me want to experiment with this and possibly take this with in my exam and this could be easy with the etching behind my work as you can mark very lightly and be very nice. The second person who has inspired me would have to be david shrligey, as I keep saying though out this course, his work is very similar to my work I have always felt this because of the humour behind his and my work out side of college is the same style of humour in a way.

As you can see with this image it has a sort of humour behind it. The humour with this is just getting the side of the cow and what the cow would say if it could talk when a human is taking milk out of it.

The third and final artist that I have felt that has inspired me in this last and final graphics project has to be the work of Julia potts. We was shown her work in lesson at the start of this exam unit and I have always felt that her work really speaks out to her audience and to the art world for that mater. The thing I like about her work is her use of line and colour with in her work, it is never that much but when it is their, there is always meaning behind the work.

This image of a bear in a scarf is always a image I relate to when I think of Julia potts, I like how the bear is dressed up just like a human and is in fur which could be a very deep meaning with the whole fur wearing is wrong and not nice to animals, and for that reason I like her work because their is deeper meanings with in everything.

For my final piece I plan on drawing out 6 scenes from the book Through the looking glass by etching out the scenes. The first scene I wish to draw out is the most important scene in the book if you will, its the scene where alice is going through the glass onto the other side, I plan to use different line making on the other side of the glass to show off that she has gone though the glass. The second scene is where she is fighting the jabberwocky as it is a poem near the start of the book. The third scene is where she meets twiddle dum and twiddle dee. The fourth scene is where the white knight saves her and helps her up from the red knight. The fifth scene is where she places the crown on her head, and last but not least the sixth scene is where she wakes up and she releases it may have been a dream?.

I intend to use etching plates in my work which is basically a type of printing technique, you start of by scratching into the plate with a etching tool, what I have found is that it is like drawing basically but every mark you make gets printed onto the paper. After this you take this onto a roller and print the image onto paper that has been left in paper for about 5 minutes and the after this I will be using watercolour to bring in colour to the image to bring out the expressiveness of the image.

In-depth analysis of Elia Fernandez

This piece of work is made by the artist Elia illustration. She is a 24 year old from madrid who now lives in the netherlands in den haag. the piece of work that i have here is called ' My Astronaut" and the piece is a illustration which in away can be made into mix media to some people. The piece is a painting in some form, the piece was made in 2012 and was made for her own work but was then later exhibited. I have chosen to do a analysis on this piece as when I first looked at the artist/work I automatically feel in love with the way the artist has used colour with in this piece and the way the illustration comes out of the colour and shape of the body, I also love how the name goes well with the colour as it looks like a galaxy which would explain why the piece is called " my astronaut ". I am also looking at this piece as I am a illustrator my self and strong illustration such as this really interests me so when a piece like this comes along I have to in away do a analysis of it.

To get a better understanding of her work I looked her up on the internet but I could not find any website that she has created her self to show off her work other than hat of the website that lets you show off and put your work on it, the website is called deviant art ;Deviant art. That link right their is the link that shows you her work on the website, as you can see when you go on their their is a few pieces of work done by her on their which is nice to see but I really think she should make her own website for her work as she is a great illustrator. Here is a quote from her which was then used for this article which showed off a lot of her work: ”I’m trying to define my personal style through an specific way of transforming the reality. I extract segments of reality and combine them with illustration, making visible unreal elements so everyone can see them.” - Elia Fernández.After reading this quote from the artist her work makes a lot more since in so many ways, she says that she is using her own style to in away transform reality which is great and in some ways I try to do this in my own work so to find a artist who is a lot like me is really inspiring. o course the genre of art that this goes with is illustration and in away a new modern form of illustration which is my favourite sort of illustration.

The theme I would say that goes along with this piece of work would have to be space and in some sense dreaming. The title does make the work easier to understand as if their was no title you would wonder what the colouring is all about but with the title of " My astronaut" it makes so much sense. the subject mater is simply just what ever Elia Fernandez wants it could be a little story on its own. the artist i think has got inspiration just from looking up into the night sky and where she lives I can imagine the night sky being amazing and very clear.

The materials used for this would have to be water colour and maybe a fine liner is being used to get this effect, the techniques would have to be of course drawing and illustration an their is a bit of layering as you can see she did two heads and one of course was done before the other their for giving of the layering effect. the artist's use of colour is very well done as it gives the whole piece of work a different meaning as I have said before about the night sky and the title just goes well with the whole piece and goes well with the colour which brings back the meaning which is shown off very well in this, she has used deep dark colours which is what the whole space thing is all about which is good to see that she is trying to show off that. The work is sketch book size and the paper of the size is A4, which is a good size to one exhibit and two to work with which is what I find in my own work as you can get a lot more detail with in your work and more meaning in away. The textures with in the work is very clean lines and very tonal but looks great like that and really fits with her style.

My first reaction the work was that it is a very well drawn illustration and love everything about it from the colour and the title which I have said before. I love how its done on A4 piece of paper and also I love the style of her work and the colour elements that she has put with in her work. On thing I dont like is that the background is a bit plan maybe if their was some drip watercolour with in the background but then again this could easily make the work not as good as it is. the piece reminds me of work such as erin petson as he uses colour with in his work to. This has really inspired me to do more work like this because I really do fill like their is a link between me and this artist as she uses her own style to create her own way of reality which is what i try to do with in my work, and i think todays drawing of the day will be very different to my other drawings thanks to this artist.

digital experiments

This is my monoprint of a design of alice I did along time but I then wanted to see what the design would look like with in the technique of mono printing, when I saw that it came out this well and what I loved with mono printing is the fact that when you wanted to add a shadow effect and get it done well all you have to do is use your finger and rub in as the mono printing technique picks up any marks made on the page.

Exhibition review: The Photographer's Gallery-Perspectives on Collage

To start of this exhibition we had to first find our way to london, the exhibition was at the photographers gallery which is located right next to the oxford circus tube station. One person exhibiting at the gallery that we looked at with great detail was laura letinsky who takes photos of certain objects that relate to the theme and subject mater, and in some of her photos their would be drawings of some objects which gave the image a real serial look on things.

Underneath this text is all the pictures I took on the day when we all went down to the photographers gallery, one piece of imagery I found good was the second image down from this piece of text as it is a since of freedom as its not greatly detailed but has some sort of meaning behind it, but then again I dont like it in away as it is to childish to be in gallery of this high quality, a kid could of done this piece and possibly done it better in some sense but I think thats what its serposted to be.

 One artist I liked at the exhibition was called Geraldo de barros he was born in 1923 and died in 1998, he never wanted to become a photographer and never really wanted to do this as a living and only really took fame when he got to a later age. Basically after a series of strokes and when he was only restricted to a wheelchair he took photography back up. With this in mind his daughter was looking though loads of old pictures and with the two years he had left which he of course didn't know he started the project sobras which of course didn't get finished and in the gallery now and with the rest of the work of sobras, the exhibition at the gallery is called what remains which is a great title for this piece and really has a lot of meaning behind the title alone.

digital experiments

The aim of this piece of work that I did was that of trying to match the work of Ciara Phelan, she works on digitail medium just like what I have tryed to do here. So to start with I had a random shape which in my case is a hexagon but ciara phelan normaly works with circles but in this case I wanted to see what the work would look like if I used I didnt object, I then got one primary photo which is of my sister and put it somewhere with in my work, I then got 3 different primary objects and that was of grass, a building and and chess piece. After I had my images I put them all around my hexagon to make the piece and once I was happy I started to crop things and even cut out things like I did with my sister to give a more random and serial effect in away. 

Colourising and layer blending

This exercise wasn't the best piece of work I've done but I can understand why people would use this type of work with in their work, I think it was because of the images I used but Im just not to sure.

The techniques that I used when making this piece was of course using layering to build up the image its self.The equipment I used with this technique would have to be a camera of course to take the images and then I took it onto a mac which had photoshop so I could edit the images to fit into one piece. When using the techniques I didn't enjoy it as much as I do when Im drawing but none the less i still liked using something different in my work. When it came to working with the images I found it hard to get the images looking good together maybe this is because of the images I have chosen to use in my work. I would like to work with them again but only if I have some good images to work with in the piece of work and maybe a beter theme to the work. With this piece I didn't have any inspired artist in mind as it was tutail.

Chris ede ispired work

With this exercise, I really enjoyed doing as I sort of knew what I was doing because I have done this exercise before in my Btec class's but with those I did animals as the main subject mater but this time I have used my little sister and I also thought I would use a mirror as it is alice and she is going though the looking glass. The techniques I used in this piece of work was mainly layering so by getting loads of colours from the image of my sister and lifting them up and creating more layers. The equipment I used in this piece of work was of course a camera to take the pictures for this piece, I have also used photoshop to bring the technique to the max. When doing this piece of work I didn't enjoy the work as much as I would of liked to do this work by hand. I found the work very difficult to get like to a good level, and I still dont think that I have done very well so thats why Im not doing anything with in photoshop or anything to do with computers. I would not like to work with this sort of thing again as I really didn't enjoy doing this. The piece was inspired by the work of chris ede who does work like this all the time and has put up on you tube a lot of tutorials on how to do this type of work.