The final piece

Proud of it yes...

Finished it, No...

Theres always going to be room for improvement, but the Key here really is the the message, and i hope through this blog, and the final outcome there will be a strong one.

EVALUATION

My project has always been based scale. The idea came from the fact that a my accomplished work is always limited to sketchbooks, which in turn has limited the effectiveness of my illustrations. I had the idea of creating something larger scale to force me out of my old habits.

My research was triggered by a popular underground illustration event named “Secret Wars” I visited. It tested the illustrators understanding of size, use of lines, improvisation skills and expressing their creativity within a time limit. The images created really influenced me to work with “scale”.

Around this time I had been invited to Essex University in Colchester for a viewing of a Chinese fine artist named Xin Sun where, he used the space provided for him to create something more interesting than his sheet drawings and actually said something through its scale. I wanted to create something using this method of communication.

At this stage the concept of a child’s imagination became something I wanted to explore. It seemed limitless as children show pure notion of their creativity. I wanted to illustrate this point. Trips to the Museum of Childhood where among the list of things I did to get some insight on what I was actually looking into. From the visit I found the concept of “reminiscing”. I started looking at my own old toys that made me think about working with my own childhood imaginations.

Originally I kept two books, one big one small for comparison and ideas. I started with small sketchbook to record ideas and create observational drawings. However, this book was 70 percent random and 30 percent relevant. This reminded me that I had a strong understanding of method, but lacked understanding of theme/concept, and how to tell a story.

Through the process of my project it’s became apparent that I wished to transcend certain ideas from 2D to 3D all to aid the strong idea of play that children have with toys.

So I the idea of comparison books changed to working from work sheets by using things that I had made and developing them that way.

The feedback conversations I had with people about their childhood were really helpful as they gave me confidence throughout the project helped me to delve into the subject better. Working with worksheets was a lot more effective than sketchbooks because of the visual communication aspect.

My time management was fairly flexible, right from the research. I would give myself targets for the week, rather than days to leave room for changes.

CONCLUSION

I have learn that I have time management problems that needs to be dealt with, many problems arose when trying to build the final project due to not giving myself enough time to build everything. If given more time I would have finished mini tasks that would have made the outcome of my project stronger.

I felt that my work has become a lot more skilfull as I am now more interested in the “experience” of doing things, rather than just drawing in the style of someone, or taking things from the internet which is what I previously did. This surprisingly helped me create stronger ideas with substance.

Legoman Saga!

I actually started Getting lego men again since i couldnt find any in my house surprisingly. Im still in practice of making stories just liek i did when i was younger. Theres this notion that people cant do the same activities they did when they were a child which really gets me down. the thing that made your childhood so creative was that you were active in expressing your creativity. This story was the Aspect that helped me with planning my image composition.






YAY lego powerrangers win!

Back to the three

Back to Marc Brown, Andrew Jones and Tite Kubo.

whats quite nice about the things that i looked at was the fact that alot of these artists drawings were done on a larger scale than what I expected. because we see there stuff in books and magazines as reprinted 2d work, we immediantly marvel at how they can produce such complex or well done piece of work on that scale. When infact alot of these work is Drawn on twice if not 3 times the size of what its printed as. That interests me because the rescaling of a picture can actually change the meaning off it, so you should as an illustrator bare this in mind. Try to create an image that can be as effective small aswell as big, so that it is not limited to a particular way of viewing.

ALSO Reading Rocket's interview with Marc Brown

heres a nice little video that interests me... probably because there was a transition with the character moving from books to TV/animation. it would be nice to see Zeek do the same thing one day :)

Desicion making

finally decision making with the piece. i get the feeling that this would be very suited in the Room of a child around 7-12 years old, which is pretty much what im aiming for. the colours help that alot.

~However I feel that for it to be more of an effective mural it needs maybe a better contrast. I think thats down the the lines used... or maybe the fact that its not finished...? but still, i had an idea of where the illustration was going.


The left side of the illustration is working quite well, interms Line work, however the Right side has a strong use of colour, but not together! we need more of a balance.


That word balance has been floating around the latter half of my project for a while now. I wanted to put more of a composition balance in the line work and with the colour. Should i think about using Gradients? blured or smudged colours or try and be more specific to bold and solid colours. from what ive done so far shows alot of indecision, as the Lego robot has adopted on method while the otherside has adopted somethign different. in a way the right side has a Commitment to the reseach and development that i have been doing on the work sheets, but the colours are somethign i feel i shoudl think about more, try and get some omre mockups done. but so far i think its worthy of getting the point across.

Anime Expo! ONE REASON!

Anime Expo. i went there for one reason and one reason only.....






Zeek Had ALOT OF FUN!!!!!

something about dressing up as samurais and powerrangers and BATMAN! that just brings out the inner child.... its great that i get to Experiance my project aswell as illustrate it. it has made me totally approach my project in a different type of creative way...

Never too l8 for some research.

Not really research... just a colection of images ive been looking at on my way to shorditch that actually helped me think bout composition...










Some work better than others but it would be really good to see how mine would stand out of the crowd. interestingly enough they all work together sort of like a collage of things that compliment eachother, rather than indevisual pieces.