An opportunity has arisen that means that my original plans for my studio practice and my statement of intent will be affected. I have gained employment as a contractor that requires me to work on site sight for the following next 12 to 14 weeks. This means that the projects that I had planed and currently working on either has to be slowed down or even neglected. 

Completely aware that I have to have other projects running along side my profession projects (that can be used as my studio practice) but for me to complete both, studio practice and pro projects, the uni projects that run along side have to be short, for me to be able to meet the requirements of the project. Thats why my current projects will be effected.

The best thing for me to do is to re-think my statement of intent with my contracting position in mind. 

speak to my advisors to work out the best way to achieve both...and well. 

ADVISORS FEED BACK

It was suggested to me that I take on smaller quick turn around projects that I can complete in the space of a few days that I can make in my evenings whilst I'm working.

Make space for the days when Ill be asked to or have no choice to work in the evening for my contracting employment. 

 I am worried that the results of my projects will be weak and that will have a bad result on my studio practice but hoping that my  profession practice will help support / make up for the projects that are effected.  

  

statement of intent

practice development project

starting my figure drawing project that focusses on developing my figure drawing has made me question what else i need to focus on, what else do i need to develop on, what is it that I NEED to do to better my practice. 

its no secret that starting my higher education that my digital skills was none existent! when I came here I didn't know how to turn a mac on! my practice has a huge percentage of digital presses now! something that iv been working on the past 3 year and if I'm honest i have progressed a lot. in my first I was introduced to photoshop and i hated it I couldn't use it but since then iv learnt all sorts and that has opened more opportunities for me, not just within my practice but opened doors that now allows my practice to exist in places that it is necessary to have knowledge of photoshop. places such as concept art and comic book careers!

digital comparison 

 

level 4 digital work                         level 6 digital work 

even though I'm at a level with my digital skills that I can say that I am comfortable and able to produce a high-level standard of work i still realise that I need develop my skills to the standard that i feel that people will want to hire me for concept work. basically I want to be able to paint crazy digital paintings. 

so I decided to create a project that allows me develop my skills. a quick turn around, a fun project.

During PPP tasks iv contacted many concept artists and most told me the tools that all the pro use and them selfs are the kyle webster brushes. i checked out the sight and saw which ones would suit me better, which ones i needed to develop my skills as a digital artists. 

 

I decided to start a little fun project...

to draw 10 portraits using these brushes. doing this allows me to experiment and get used to the brushes. im going to create the portraits in black and greys. this allows me to only question technique and texture, focusing on just that really lets me make good judgement of the use of the paint brushes. after that ill develop 2 of the portraits in colour. 

after i have finished with the portraits I should have a good idea of how the paint brushes work and have some ability and knowledge of brushes. 

once i have finished with the portraits ill be creative and will attempt to  draw something at a high level and see how this project has developed my digital skills

this project is to be able to have fun and practice developing my digital skills. 

i want to pick relevant portraits so this project will alays be entertaining. i dont want to do people of the class of family members or anything like that i want people that have had some influance/intrest/entertained me as present. 

so... here goes.

Conor McGregor

this guy has entertained me and kept me inspired with 

my sports as the uni work as been piling up. 

Penn and teller

 

Penn and Teller have been mine and George's escape from cop,

our treat to our selfs as we enjoy our tea.


Tim and Eric. An adult bizarre comedy duo. here they are sporting their Christmas special out fits. Chrimbus.  I added the back ground and the text so I could submit the image to the fan art Friday on their Instagram account.

Tutorial 

my tutorial with patrick was to recap what i was doing and what i was planning to do with my projects over the chrismas holiday. i proposed this digital project that im doing and he agreed that its good to have a project that is developing my digital skills how ever i should take the focus away from celebratie portraites as its a distraction form the experiment and development. deffenitly see the benifits from coming away from the celebratie portraits. also we discussed that i should explore the
3 60 of a head and explore angles of the head but still express the weight of the character.. also explore the verity of shapes and forms of heads. i should be explorig the same with my figure drawing project to explore 360 and to explore the many shapes, forms and ages of the figure.

so what i intend to do is finish the celebrity portraits as said im going to create 10, and then explore all the topics that patrick suggested, also ill be adding additional images that show my testings and my developments with in this digital project.