Thursday 28 April 2016
FMP India Re-cap
Jamie Mills Feedback 23/02/2016
A collection of artifacts that tell a story.
Lino prints - landscapes, environments.
Focus on colour.
Narrative - journey.
A collection of drawings and prints that tell the experience of your trip.
To do:
A journalistic approach; investigate documentary photography!
Lino prints, photographs, drawings, screen printing?
People and places and events.
Scale - large scale tests of flora like palm trees.
Installation?
GIFs?
Research: Reductive lino printing, William Eggleston, Reductive Line Printing, William Grill, Natives Journal -Nicolas Burrows, Lizzie Stewart.
Patrick Group Tutorial - 04/2016
For paper stock - Fred Aldus shop, Cassart, Fabriano, heavy gage water colour paper.
MDF board- Get two; one to stretch paper, one to work on. 7mil (mm?) - Go to the woodwork room!
For lino, do loads so you can afford to play about with it - draw on top, and below of the lino cuts! Prepare some illustrated paper to take with you to print on.
The printed brief that I took along...
A collection of artifacts that tell a story.
Lino prints - landscapes, environments.
Focus on colour.
Narrative - journey.
A collection of drawings and prints that tell the experience of your trip.
To do:
A journalistic approach; investigate documentary photography!
Lino prints, photographs, drawings, screen printing?
People and places and events.
Scale - large scale tests of flora like palm trees.
Installation?
GIFs?
Research: Reductive lino printing, William Eggleston, Reductive Line Printing, William Grill, Natives Journal -Nicolas Burrows, Lizzie Stewart.
Patrick Group Tutorial - 04/2016
For paper stock - Fred Aldus shop, Cassart, Fabriano, heavy gage water colour paper.
MDF board- Get two; one to stretch paper, one to work on. 7mil (mm?) - Go to the woodwork room!
For lino, do loads so you can afford to play about with it - draw on top, and below of the lino cuts! Prepare some illustrated paper to take with you to print on.
The printed brief that I took along...
Brief Title:
Illustrated India
Brief: A
reportage project based on a trip to South India. Documenting moments from
everyday life. Telling the story of locals and tourists in a freeze frame type
of narration through my illustrations. (Not an actual story book.)
Product:
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A range of prints; scenes, gods and yoga poses.
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A number of multimedia large scale
drawings/paintings.
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A range of photographs.
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The possibility of creating work from this
original work such as; postcards, a book of the collection and others work such
as travel diaries and poetry, a zine could be photocopied or printed and done
nicely like NEST, bags, cushions, henna, bolster covers and yoga brick designs
etc. For the bolster covers could buy material, print/stitch onto it, and hire
or borrow a sewing machine from fashion student.
Tone of Voice: Reportage,
Documentary, Commercial.
Audience: Yoga/India
fans, people who like to travel, people who like the printing and drawing
process and asthetic. People who may want to own these works in their houses or
as designs on their products.
Context:
Exhibition, or to hang in their house/business. Such as a yoga workshop room.
Mandatory
Requirements: The pieces must exist individually as a standalone piece of
work so that they can be bought separately, but also must act as part of a set.
A good quality stock must be used.
Deliverables:
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Sketchbooks – stitch materials and samples in to
experiment with multimedia before final pieces.
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Products.
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Presentation boards. 5/6.
Ben Jones Tutorial 25/04/2016
NOTES
My portfolio is diverse, which works well for inhouse design studios.
Fashion collaborations are quite apparent in my portfolio pieces - consider fashion companies. These companies will be looking for Photoshop skills.
Inhouse designers - T shirt, card companies.
TO DO
-Buy A3 PRAT portfolio/ London graphic centre. Crystal Sleeve & Spiral Bound.
-Portfolio paper - uncoated summerset paper - white A3.
-Adobe creative package - buy soon and get student discount; over summer can improve illustrator (ben Kitsch does portraits in Illustrator), indesign, after effects etc.
-Create some portfolio pieces which could be used in T shirt context by block colour print scans. (same with card companies/ gift cards, wedding invites etc)
-Look for Junior Design roles or Artworker roles and internships.
-Take 4 stills from FKA Twigs animation.
-More repeat patterns for portfolio. For example Promo pack patterns.
-Portfolio should include idea sheets and sketchbook pages but put together nicely, perhaps like magazine double spread.
-Less information on portfolio the better. Could just have a small font in left bottom corner saying name and context or set of etc.
-Linkedin; search Art directors, Association of boards etc.
-Get client list. - Linkedin, Creative Review.
-Artjobs.uk
-University job pages e.g. UAL
-Think about events near me- e.g. regatta promo?
EMAILS
Get emailing! You need internships and people to invite to the exhibition!
-Personalise it - find a name.
-I am a recent Graduate / soon to graduate from...
-I am looking to gain some experience ... is there any opportunities / that I could get involved with? I have learnt a lot of skills at university but I am interested in learning about the company/how a design studio works etc.
-Or do you know anyone else more appropriate for me to speak to regarding this?
-If you would like to see more of my work, link website at the end, with a low res image related to company (72 dpi jpeg).
-When you get an email back, you can ask if you can show them your work/portfolio where they are based, london etc and studio visits.
My portfolio is diverse, which works well for inhouse design studios.
Fashion collaborations are quite apparent in my portfolio pieces - consider fashion companies. These companies will be looking for Photoshop skills.
Inhouse designers - T shirt, card companies.
TO DO
-Buy A3 PRAT portfolio/ London graphic centre. Crystal Sleeve & Spiral Bound.
-Portfolio paper - uncoated summerset paper - white A3.
-Adobe creative package - buy soon and get student discount; over summer can improve illustrator (ben Kitsch does portraits in Illustrator), indesign, after effects etc.
-Create some portfolio pieces which could be used in T shirt context by block colour print scans. (same with card companies/ gift cards, wedding invites etc)
-Look for Junior Design roles or Artworker roles and internships.
-Take 4 stills from FKA Twigs animation.
-More repeat patterns for portfolio. For example Promo pack patterns.
-Portfolio should include idea sheets and sketchbook pages but put together nicely, perhaps like magazine double spread.
-Less information on portfolio the better. Could just have a small font in left bottom corner saying name and context or set of etc.
-Linkedin; search Art directors, Association of boards etc.
-Get client list. - Linkedin, Creative Review.
-Artjobs.uk
-University job pages e.g. UAL
-Think about events near me- e.g. regatta promo?
EMAILS
Get emailing! You need internships and people to invite to the exhibition!
-Personalise it - find a name.
-I am a recent Graduate / soon to graduate from...
-I am looking to gain some experience ... is there any opportunities / that I could get involved with? I have learnt a lot of skills at university but I am interested in learning about the company/how a design studio works etc.
-Or do you know anyone else more appropriate for me to speak to regarding this?
-If you would like to see more of my work, link website at the end, with a low res image related to company (72 dpi jpeg).
-When you get an email back, you can ask if you can show them your work/portfolio where they are based, london etc and studio visits.
To Do List!
FMP
-Buy embroidery circle.
-Physical work; prints, publications, posters, sketchbook work, material.
-Physical work; prints, publications, posters, sketchbook work, material.
-For frames uni provides for exhibition, but Ikea do cheap ones to.
-This should reflect my future aims, aspirations and employment opportunities.
-Create Lino Cuts
-Create Lino Cuts
-Create material illustrations - book cover? Bolster cover?
-Print lino onto material (talk to technicians) for bolster and book cover.
-Print lino onto paper stock (order or buy externally, or get from print shop?)
-Print lino onto paper stock (order or buy externally, or get from print shop?)
-Organise photographs
-Get yoga reference images from Mary Niker
-Get yoga reference images from Mary Niker
EXTENDED PRACTICE
-Extended practice project reports PDFs - where it relates to COP and PPP, use key images of my work, context.
-Evaluate against your statements of intent - all extended practice briefs.
-Improving some extended practice briefs that your not happy with.
-Employment opportunities - my briefs should fit to my aspirations for the future, and potential portfolio pieces.
-Blog screen printing at Portsmouth!
-Print learning outcomes
-For all briefs you must have boards - pitch, propose, reflect and articulate, evaluate on your work.
-Visual quality needs to be professional for presentation boards - have portfolio in mind.
-Visual quality needs to be professional for presentation boards - have portfolio in mind.
PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
-May want to have some wrapping paper etc so could get tissue paper and potato print or lino print wasps onto it. May want metallic paint for this.
FUTURE PLANS
-Link work to future employment roles and companies. Document research and decision making to show how work relates to where you want to go in future.
-Visual quality - professional and keep in mind themes of pattern, colour, people and nature.
-Visual quality - professional and keep in mind themes of pattern, colour, people and nature.
End of Year Show
Think of it like a trade show, I need to sell myself as a brand. A portfolio of my work will also be there, however these key pieces on show at the exhibition will need to catch the eye in order to make people want to look through it!!
Client List
My client list will provide some great names to invite along - so get emailing now!
Emails - If they do not think they are right to talk to ask if there is anyone else that they could recommend me to speak to?
Area
The area available to me for the end of year show is about 2m wide and 2.5m high.
I can then have a small table where I can have the prints, and my promo material - business cards, book marks, postcards, a coffee table style of small book with all of my designs? I can sew the cover.
Social Media
For the exhibition there will need to be branding, promotional material and an online presence! Need to know the name for the show but could start off with Illustration_LCA... or something similar.
Client List
My client list will provide some great names to invite along - so get emailing now!
Emails - If they do not think they are right to talk to ask if there is anyone else that they could recommend me to speak to?
Area
The area available to me for the end of year show is about 2m wide and 2.5m high.
I can then have a small table where I can have the prints, and my promo material - business cards, book marks, postcards, a coffee table style of small book with all of my designs? I can sew the cover.
Social Media
For the exhibition there will need to be branding, promotional material and an online presence! Need to know the name for the show but could start off with Illustration_LCA... or something similar.
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Lino Printing onto Material
I spoke to the technicians in the print room shop today and they said that it is possible to lino print onto material, but it sounded like quite a complex process so they said they could help me once I have the lino prints ready.
This would be really cool for my idea to create a bolster cover for yoga tools.
This would be really cool for my idea to create a bolster cover for yoga tools.
Yoga: Mary Niker
My yoga teacher, Mary Niker, could be really helpful in providing some original photographs and poses, as well as key facts or quotes that I could combine in my work about yoga.
Iyengar Yoga carefully focusses on body awareness and alignment - systematically working through a sequence of postures called 'Asanas'. Mostly, one could expect to start the class with a quiet few moments of preparation. In a beginner's class, the emphasis is on the standing poses to build strength, stability and stamina, before being able to move on with the practice. With the teachers quidance, one is able to learn the fundamentals of how to adjust and align the body correctly - the correction of the body alignment is what makes Iyengar Yoga profoundly different from other yoga practices. The practice could then focus on specific postures for that day as more standing postures, inverted postures, back bends, recuperative postures or breathing exercises called pranayama. The class will end with recuperative and re-energising postures. Students will often say they walk away from an Iyengar Yoga class taller, straighter and full of energy in spite of having worked hard. They also say that they can sleep better, are more self-confident and feel more at peace.
Only fully qualified teachers in the Iyengar method who have been examined by the Iyengar Yoga Association can use the term Iyengar in their teaching qualifications and bear the Inyengar Certification Mark.
Iyengar Yoga carefully focusses on body awareness and alignment - systematically working through a sequence of postures called 'Asanas'. Mostly, one could expect to start the class with a quiet few moments of preparation. In a beginner's class, the emphasis is on the standing poses to build strength, stability and stamina, before being able to move on with the practice. With the teachers quidance, one is able to learn the fundamentals of how to adjust and align the body correctly - the correction of the body alignment is what makes Iyengar Yoga profoundly different from other yoga practices. The practice could then focus on specific postures for that day as more standing postures, inverted postures, back bends, recuperative postures or breathing exercises called pranayama. The class will end with recuperative and re-energising postures. Students will often say they walk away from an Iyengar Yoga class taller, straighter and full of energy in spite of having worked hard. They also say that they can sleep better, are more self-confident and feel more at peace.
Only fully qualified teachers in the Iyengar method who have been examined by the Iyengar Yoga Association can use the term Iyengar in their teaching qualifications and bear the Inyengar Certification Mark.
Collaboration: 'Power' Fashion Illustrations Finals
I created these black, white and gold illustrations to a really quick deadline as I had only given myself two days to do them in order to spend time on my other briefs too. I really enjoy doing this type of work with portraits etc. However I don't think it pushes me very much. I basically worked to a reference image completely - this was the brief set for me as I was actually given the reference photographs and because I was collaborating with someone else I didn't feel comfortable changing anything in the images. Yet if I was to do these again it would be a good challenge for me to see how I could push them further by playing with proportions and symbolism... at the moment I think they are a bit straightforward as stand alone illustrations - however in the context of the book that they have been created for they do go alongside text so this should help to correspond to a bigger meaning.
I added red and cropped some of these images for my website, find these versions on the link below...
Collaboration: 'Power' Fashion Illustrations Progress Shots
These are my initial pen line illustrations before being digitally edited. Although I try to get them to a professional quality when I am hand drawing them, Photoshop always manages to give them a much more professional presence by making them a crisper white and a darker deep black by adjusting levels. Also I was able to make them ready for the printed publication by adjusting their mode to CMYK.
Collaboration: 'Power' Fashion Illustration Reference Images
Here are the reference photographs I will be working on for Sarah Woolley's Fashion Communication FMP book:
Collaboration: 'Power' Fashion IIlustrations
'Also, wondering if you want to collab for my book I'm doing on power. I think some illustrations of some photos I've taken would look cool. Let me know if you're interested'
Deadline: 29th April Media: Digital
Colour Scheme: Gold outline.
Content: Illustrations from an interview with Santa Agolli for Fashion book under the theme of power.
Size: A4
Deadline: 29th April Media: Digital
Colour Scheme: Gold outline.
Content: Illustrations from an interview with Santa Agolli for Fashion book under the theme of power.
Size: A4
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Monday 11 April 2016
Kovalam Beach Painting
I have started a painting based on one of my own photographs from the beach at Kovalam in Kerala, India.
Friday 8 April 2016
Q&A Saturday: Aggie Davies
Research trip and reference images...
Aggie loves exploring media and the stories behind artifacts and objects...
Matchbox Birds
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| The colourful nature and use of birds in these carefully designed matchboxes reminded me of this brief as those are some key characteristics I want to produce in my Investigating India work. |
V&A: Bejewelled Jewellery
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| This head piece / turban piece really stood out in the collection because the delicate feathers were so luminous white and carefully positioned in place, the intricacies of the patterns were incredible to see up close. This piece inspired me even more so to push myself with detail when crafting my lino prints. |
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| I love the colours in these jewels. They are natural yet often enhanced with foil underneath to add depth to the jewel. I love the quality and care in the cut and presentation of these jewels. There was an amazing documentary video showing the process of producing the jewellery in India and the care and time taken to produce each piece was mind blowing. |
Wednesday 6 April 2016
India Brief: Traffic Warden
I love creating these large scale pieces because I feel like I can be really expressive and experimental with line work, media and colours.
http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/140921829765/120316-traffic-warden-crayola-and-gouache
http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/140921829765/120316-traffic-warden-crayola-and-gouache
Monday 4 April 2016
Q&A Saturday: Aggie Davies
Reference Image Possibility
Showing Aggie with her practice - lino prints.
India Research
Birds of India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_India
Flowers of India
http://flowersofindia.net/
V&A India
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?limit=15&narrow=1&q=india&commit=Search&after-adbc=AD&before-adbc=AD&category%5B%5D=1629&offset=0&slug=0
An Indian Summer Blog
http://www.anindiansummer.in/2012/09/the-fabric-of-life.html
Liberty London
http://www.anindiansummer.in/2012/09/the-fabric-of-life.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_India
Flowers of India
http://flowersofindia.net/
V&A India
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?limit=15&narrow=1&q=india&commit=Search&after-adbc=AD&before-adbc=AD&category%5B%5D=1629&offset=0&slug=0
An Indian Summer Blog
http://www.anindiansummer.in/2012/09/the-fabric-of-life.html
Liberty London
http://www.anindiansummer.in/2012/09/the-fabric-of-life.html
Crispin Orthotics Flamingos
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| Night Version |
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| Day Version |
Process…
In the previous posts I explained my thought processes which led me to choose to depict a flamingo as my design. I started by drawing out a few flamingos in different typical poses of the bird in pencil. I then picked the ones which I thought would work best on an orthotic design and drew a thick black outline in pen around the pencil lines. I then scanned these in and started working on the above design. I wanted to make a repeat pattern of a variety of my designs but I didn't have enough time to do this by the deadline as I had been working on some more urgent work simultaneously. If I were to do this again I would spend a lot longer creating a varied range of the flamingos and laying them out in a much more complex way that would look effective as a surface pattern design.
So I just focused on making this single design as vibrant yet simple as I could by adding colour; white, orange and pink, to the design with layers on Photoshop.
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