Produce 3 illustrations that visually communicate my response to 'Evolution and Bad Boyfriends' text. They need to be produced using two colours plus stock to the following three formats:
200mm x 200mm
105mm x 200mm (portrait)
290mm x 105mm (landscape)
They should be distinct but work as a set or series and be visually consistent.
Supporting Material:
105mm x 200mm (portrait)
290mm x 105mm (landscape)
They should be distinct but work as a set or series and be visually consistent.
Supporting Material:
http://www.jeanjullien.com/
http://barryblitt.com/stuff/
http://keithnegley.com/
http://joshcochran.com/work
After reading my text I picked out some key topics/words, for which I found five reference images and used them to create some collages in my sketchbook. My choice of words were; controlling parents (for this I found a stern looking middle aged woman), peacocking (when a male shows off to attract potential mates, for this I found a peacock showing off his tail to a peahen), resources (for this I found an image of falling pound coins), gambling (for this I found an image of dice; it refers to the gamble in genetics and also the traits of a bad boyfriend- gambling his resources instead of using them to provide for their offspring) and babies (signifying the survival of genetics- for this I found an image of two babies- this also portrays the idea of siblings and the parents choice between them, it states in the article that 'by helping their needier daughters, parents maximized their total number of surviving grandchildren').
http://joshcochran.com/work
After reading my text I picked out some key topics/words, for which I found five reference images and used them to create some collages in my sketchbook. My choice of words were; controlling parents (for this I found a stern looking middle aged woman), peacocking (when a male shows off to attract potential mates, for this I found a peacock showing off his tail to a peahen), resources (for this I found an image of falling pound coins), gambling (for this I found an image of dice; it refers to the gamble in genetics and also the traits of a bad boyfriend- gambling his resources instead of using them to provide for their offspring) and babies (signifying the survival of genetics- for this I found an image of two babies- this also portrays the idea of siblings and the parents choice between them, it states in the article that 'by helping their needier daughters, parents maximized their total number of surviving grandchildren').
Some of my experimental sketchbook work;
This is a primary photograph I used as reference for the right hand page below. |
Above are a few pages from my sketchbook experimenting with ideas and media following the article and concentrating on a few key elements.
This was some of the work from one of Freds workshops. The intention of this was to explore ideas and themes:
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The article looks at why, if both the woman and her parents both want the survival of their genes, their is conflict in mate choice. If the parents have more than one child, it is in their evolutionary interests to distribute their resources - money, support etc. The child, however, cares more about the survival of their genes than that of their siblings, so each child should try to secure more than his or her fair share of parental resources. In the article they talk about their computer model study in which they allowed a females parents to interfere with her choice of a male, and for parents to distribute their resources among their children. They found that parents invested more resources in daughters who chose mates with few resources because this daughter would profit more from extra help than her more fortunate sisters; and maximized their total number of surviving grandchildren. This unequal investment meant that daughters could 'exploit' this generosity; instead of holding out for the perfect man they could accept a less helpful partner whilst still ending up with a similar amount of support (from parents). As a result, the choosiness of females gradually declined over evolutionary time; simultaneously parental preference for caring sons-in-law increased.
On the left is my peacock feather using monotone and replacing the 'eye' with a pound coin. On the right hand side is some faint pencil and biro sketches mapping out where I could have colour on my square design. I decided on the colours pink and blue because of the fact that pink/red is often the colour of love or lust and dark blue to add some weight to the image and the meaning; the sad fact women are settling for less. I looked at using these colours for the peacock feather and I thought it worked well however after using it with my wedding toppers design I decided against it due to the wedding dress loosing relationship to its meaning as their was no white - it became less recognisable, this was true for the cake too. So I then decided to use black and white so that I could convey the images more clearly. |
Unfortunately I made a huge error when cutting the sizes and drawing the designs on; I cut one at the slightly wrong size and then confused that one with the wrong layout- so my portrait and landscape pieces are mixed round. I have learnt a huge lesson from this and it will be something I will definitely be checking again and again before finishing the illustration in future. If I were to do it again I would definitely ensure the correct sizes were used- this brief was really important in highlighting this issue.
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