Welcome to the internet

For my current project at uni about self promotion, I decided to join twitter and flickr, 2 very important ways of self promotion and easy for everyone to see, whereas blogging can go un noticed. Twitter at a first glance is pretty good and I can see why people can get addicted, as there is a limit to your word count. And I’m liking the fact I have now got some work on Flickr which does copyright everything, unlike facebook which has access to all of your stuff, so I will be taking some of my stuff down from fb very shortly.

All in all has been a good weekend, went out to celebrate my birthday last night (even though it was a week ago) and I’ve been doing some stuff to do with my project. My group have decided to do something about recycling and remixing images. To start with we said to find an image we have got and then pass it on to remix. I found a drawing of a robot made from a cassette player so I re-drew it, printed a few copies and made a junk pile from it, not sure if this counts as remixing from myself, but it’s a cool image.

I have also finished my first album cover design made for my friend’s university project. His solo project is called “I Electric” and the EP is called “Falling Through”.Check me out on Flickr – Jamieisjokes

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

Random.

Inspired by the Kanye West pic on my last post, I made my own favourite song pic! used tracing paper over a photo and then pasted it over the photo on photoshop check it out!

got quite a mixture of songs on their, mostly Linkin Park, Xzibit, Public Enemy, Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers and wu tang, but missed out loads of my fav songs, maybe i shudda done bands instead. Enjoy.

On a further note not impressed with the person leaving comments posing as my brother. I live in the same house so I’ll find out if its him leaving the comments wont I? Use your brain and maybe find something better to do with your time, I only spend a few minutes on this a week, its not my life, its just a bit of fun when I have free time, I would rather noone read my blog than get stupid spam. So go ahead spam me but I won’t accept it so your only waisting your time.

kEEP It REaL!

Gallery Updated

Yes to all my viewers out there, I have set up the gallery page, which at the moment contains 6 drawings I have done, so let me know what you think of them! I will add a load more over the weekend so watch the space.