Archive for December, 2009

18
Dec
09

The weekend approaching…

And I finished re doing the A-Z pages that needed re doing, finished 100% what is done is what is going in the final thing. Whilst re doing or going over some of these pieces I realised how much better they looked and was glad I got the average grade because it has pushed me to new limits of creativity.

My mixed media (Mos Def) page is about 10 times better than it was, because last time I tried to do pencil, collage, ink and paint at the same time on one piece and it looked a mess! This time I drew a light outline in pencil, scanned it and then printed it four times so I could do a different media and keep it roughly the same size. I did ink, pencil, felt tips and collage and they all look great. Then I cut each piece into four and mixed them together (take a look if that doesn’t make sense)

these are two of the four.

That’s just one example but I did re-do or add to 13 of the a – z pages in the last week which is great progress. With less and less work to do in this everyday, I’ve began recreating Hip Hop album covers with Ninja Turtles (purely for fun) which has been great, I’ve done 3 so far, this one is probably my favourite:

and it’s not all work, I’ve been playing drums, met up with a few mates and seen my lovely girlfriend a couple of times this week too, plus got to see Avatar today which was awesome!

So for now goodnight! and have a good weekend!

12
Dec
09

Wow I have not been on this in a while

With a project approaching that is all about self promotion for a designer outside of the portfolio, I decided it was time to get the old blog going again.

So what’s new? Not much, same old guy, still drawing and playing drums and of course going out.

My current project from Uni is an a-z of graphic design, we were allowed to make this as interesting as possible and use whatever we want, I decided to do hip hop album covers and re make each one in a different medium (eg Beastie Boys is drawn in BIRO). The project is finished but it has been roughly marked at 55% which is what I need to get to carry on to next year, but I want to do much better than that so I have improved it and I have the next 4 weeks of xmas holidays to work on that, and I am aiming to achieve 70% at least when I hand it in in January.

Here is some examples of my favourites…

B for BeastieBoys/Biro

C for CypressHill/Collage

F for Fugees/Felt tips

If I can figure out how to make an extra page for the whole A-Z I will :)




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