Firstly I'd like to apologise for the horrible tint on the pictures. But the lighting in my room has suddenly gone rubbish and my camera won't take the photos we'll because of it.... And iv too much to do to wait another day to upload the photos sorry...anyway back to it.
Looking back through my sketch book I noticed I don't have enough images that I can play with for the up sowing print sestions such as screen print and what have you. When I say play with I mean not enough body of work to take part and put back together to get a few good ideas. I have a few yeah but not enough to actually get a nice variety of good prints from different work shops. So I decided to take some time and get down some ideas for them. A hand full of roughs and thumbnails to help my prosess.
Still playing around with the road and the postapocalyptic. Really trying to get that lonleyness across. And now adding a new element to the images I want to get across that the weather is horrible too. I'd love to make the viewer say it makes me feel cold or I'd hate to be out in that. But with as little as possible.
Below. Man walking through wrecked street with helicopter cars and bikes. Grey pallet with brown skys.
Above. Man sat on the edge of the cliffs looking out to a ship wreck with his trolley full of nothing's. Grey seas with brown pallet.
Below. This one is a road that once went around the cliffs or hills like you see in films in America but the earth has shifted and the road has collapsed and cars lay at the bottom. The ruined city in the background. Mans not in it but I want the ma to be walking across the road or the rubble.
Above. Same has above different composition
Below. Man and boy walking through a wrecked road were the earth has torn up the road, cars piled up and the trees have over grown the scene. City scape in the background.
I like the angle of this one, it shows a lot of the land and how it's all destroyed. More scenery showing the more you feel that lonely world.
Above. Same as above but no city in the background. Im planning on moving this one forward, when I work on this I'll add more cars to the foreground and make the trees more thin and stick like, but more deeper and dense. I feel iv captured the journey and the weathered area but not lonelyness or the postapocalyptic world.
Below. Man walking through the city with a trolley.. Like the thought of the composition looking up around the car tire, I like to play with composition in my practice but not really explored this with in this project.
Above. A more refined rough of the image one above it. I like how the car sits on the page and the man is in the mid ground, I feel the image covers a lot of ground and says a lot that I'm trying to say.
Below. Treat but stopped because this didn't work. It came across more of a walking dead scene than the type of scene iv been working for.
Above. Estate of homes, some homes destroyed by the earth. Sat in rubbles, a man stood on the rubble looking out at his destination. City in the back ground. Again I like this because of all the ground it covers. This would work well as a huge print.
Below. A dried up sea. It dosnt get the message across part from the weathered earth.
Above. I kind of liked the idea of having a dried up coast but the first rough didn't work but I didn't want to leave it there because I like the idea. I pushed it forward and played around with composition and gues what, it's still shit. It dosnt interpret what I'm trying to say.
Because there's a lot of smashed up cars showing up in my work there's a good chance that there is high possibility I'll be doing a car. And I can not draw cars. They always look twisted or out of balance the wheels never sit strate. So here is my attempt of drawing a smashed up car, and even the smashed up part of it dosnt hid e that the back end is out of angle and proportion and the wheels look out of line.
Iv been drawing the characters in my sketch book from behind to hide there face. I think if a viewer sees the face they can't relate to it, for example if a woman looked at my characters one could easily be a woman rapped up from the wormth and same goes for a man, but if they have a face that relative disappears. It has limited some of my ideas so I tyres to explore frontal shots. In the book the people have masks and goggles it was just the challenge of illustrating that and not making the characters look like men and woman.
Been TRYING to get a grasp on half tones and how they work. Watching YouTube tutorials and the odd step by step on websites but struggled to understand how they worked, after talking to a tutor I was told the best way is to play around with two colours and over lap them and just get a good idea how the media works. Iv probs got that wrong too but what I did with the pencils on the next few pages did give me a real good aspect how I can work in half tones.
Played around with reflective light and shadow exaggerating
After drawing the plain it gave me a good idea for a rough.
Working again with the half tone experiment. But I added it to one of the roughs I found worked better.
We did the after effect workshop today and because I found it so exciting because there's somthing on the computer that I don't actually feel like a slug on and other people iv heard have struggled to take in. Inspired by the class I did a short storyboard of a short film that I had the idea in my head, also to get the ball rolling on the task.
•Tutorial with Ben.
The feed back I got from Ben was really helpful. He gave me some artist references that I can relate to with my practice and others that I would just be intrested in. He also talked me into come WELL out of my comfort zone. He talked me into doing cut out character and elements and using them as my short film in after effects. Also pointed out what my strengths are in my work and also my weaknesses and gave me some heads up on my blog and how to use that better not just for the grading but for me as a dyslexic. Also we took a short time to talk about the new star wars trailer that's always cool.
From the tutorial I learnt I have to make more reference to artist and try not to get stuck up with in a style even if I'm not meaning to. All in all I came away feeling positive with were I am and what I'm expected to do.
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