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!

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

A new post?

Thats right I’ve decided to come back to the wonderful world of blogging. Have to say its been a very busy few months and Uni is still goin pretty good, I’ve decided i’m not gonna work part time over next term as apparently its intense and last term was really stressful!

Things with my band have really taken off though! Played a gig last week in the Ship in Croydon where we had our very first gig back in November! It went really well and all that practice has paid off !

Theres me goin mental on the drums and we have videos up of us playing up on youtube! Just type in Deviate 88!

Went round my uncles yest for a family gathering and he let me look through his loft and we found 16 vinyl singles I was interested in and he let me have em SAAAAAAAFE!

The time has flown and by June I will have completed my first year of uni AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! But things are goin good

Jamie achieves!

Had my marks for my first project at university given to me on tuesday, they send us our marks via email, and I was so nervous when I opened that email, but my nerves were wrong this time! I got 81 percent, the highest grade I have ever achieved in anything EVER. You see I have always tried hard at education, but it seemed from age 12-19 I was destined to be average, even during my art foundation course I was working as hard as possible and only came out of that with a pass, despite my tutor being completely amazed by my final project!? But NO MORE! 81 percent, only 4% away from a distinction and over the holiday I recieved my grade for a presentation i had to do and thatwas 70 percent. My first assesment at the beginning of the term was 56 percent, so I am improving, I am growing, I will succeed. Sorry this probably sounds like a lot of me hyping myself up, Im just actually starting to feel like I have recieved the recognition I deserve and I am trying hard!

Also been having a lot of fun with my turntables, blasting out some XZIBIT, DMX, PUBLIC ENEMY, WU TANG CLAN, N.W.A, THE ROOTS, KRS ONE, etc mixing it up, scratching, blending, playing acapellas over instrumentals, its great fun,and if your serious about your hip hop like I am but can’t seem to put a rhyme together, get decks man, they are the ultimate way to really get into ur hip hop! the only problem is I have become obsessed with buying vinyl lps and singles off of ebay, so I am burning my birthday money haha.

Really been inspired by this image too, it’s of kanye west, and it’s made up of all his favourite songs, see quite a lot of wu tang clan in there (always a good move) some RUNDMC,  some Notorious B.I.G, also some Jay-z and even some STING!? Why not, classic stuff. The image had me consider some of my favourite songs, and I’m gonna do one myself, so wait and see! (BTW if anyone knows who this image is by please let me know, the website didn’t say!!!!)