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Artist research for Local Dj

My ideas for creating my Zoetrope

Here I have added images and a vague outline of why I have come up with these ideas. Also I have outlined what technique I would use for each one if I was to create them. I would like to create all of them but I feel to start of with first before I do anymore I am going to go with my last idea which is using my dog as the key aspect in this project. I feel by using her I can get the images on my camera alot easier whereas with the animals such as squirrels and blue tits I can not guarantee they will be there, they would be a lot harder to film or even take pictures of. If I had more time then I would maybe do one of them but I feel that what I have chosen will be fun, creative and sentimental.

Artists Research linking to Zoetropes

Sequential, what I'm going to do next

Now after completing one conceltina storyboard I am going to create another one but using different images from magazines. The object in my story to give a little clue is clocks and time freezing. I will hand paint that one and place it on my blog to explain how and what the story is about.

Final sequential storyboard

The story here is; A girl goes into a clothes shop looking for a dress, she spots this perfect, pink dress and as she grabs it another girl grabs it as well. They start arguing about who seen it first, then it turns into a cat fight. Using the phrase cat fight I thought it would be moire creative to turn these two girls into cats. One of the cats/girls then using cute eyes says 'PLEASE' for the dress and she stands still so tyhat is where I added the main words that had to be put in which were 'BE STILL'. The other girl gives in and gives the dress away. The story ending with the cat/girl holding the dress and cheering saying 'YES I GOT IT!'
I have really enjoyed this part of the project. It has been productive, fun, and very successful. To get to this point I started of by collecting images from old newspapers and magazines and created a collaged piece on a rough template of the conceltina, picking out an object and a starting point, in this case a girl. With the collage I created a vague story filling in rough sketches of the missing parts so that the story made more sense and linked together a little more. I then re-drew the image as a hole so that it looked a lot more like a story and flat.
From this I scanned the image into photoshop and edited it to create a more professional finish. Overall, I am very pleased with the out come, it looks professional, bold, colourful, and neat. I don't think I would change anything about it as it came out better than i expected seen as I am not brilliant at photoshop. The only thing I would do is maybe hand paint with watercolours as well which if I have time I will do. I feel it would be a good idea to do as then it gives an alternative so I could determine whether or not digital looks better or the hand painted one does for next time

Sequential Research

History of Sequential Art

Skills for working

Skills you need for working
-COMMUNICATION -TACAT SKILLS(skills from knowledge and experience)
-ORGANISATION -PERSONAL PRESENTATION
-RESPONSIBILITY -SELF MOTIVATION
-TIME MANAGEMENT
-NUMERACY
-TECHNICAL SKILLS

SKILLS I HAVE AND AM GOOD AT:
TEAMWORK NUMERACY
RESPONSIBILITY SOFT SKILLS
PRACTICAL SKILLS PERSONAL PRESENTATION
FLEXIBILITY TACAT


SKILLS NEED TO WORK ON:
TIME MANAGEMENT-Deadlines, when get a large workload, linked to organization
ORGANIZATION- Multitasking, leaving things until last minute or wrong time
SELF MOTIVATION- Easily distracted
COMMUNICATION- Speaking infront of big group, speaking on phone, doing presentations

Why I have chosen illustration as my career path

Drawing has always been my passion since I can remember; it is so enjoyable and relaxing to do. I used to draw the characters from films like Oliver And Company, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Aristocrats and so many more. When I was at school I used to love going to my art lessons, I was always drawing. I never knew what path I wanted to take in art but I knew that I was going to study it.
I came to Plymouth College of Art five years ago when I was still at school to do work experience. It was then I knew that I was going to be a student at that college. I did a First Diploma in everything associated with art for a year and found another interest of mine which was fashion. I went on from there to do a National Diploma in Fashion and Textiles which I really enjoyed but found that it was not what I wanted as a career path, I wanted to draw more and create unique imagery.
This is when I found Illustration. It was perfect, exactly what I wanted to do. Illustration is so eye-catching. I love the fact that the possibilities are endless with Illustration you can do so much with it, creating very unique pieces. With fashion it is so fixed in what you have to do and you can’t really explore as widely as illustration where you can use whatever style you want, it can be as expressive, as personal as you want it to be. With fashion as an example again you keep to what you have been told and you cannot really elaborate on it as much. With illustration you can bring whatever you want into it, you can go into a lot more depth exaggerating each piece as much as you want. Also your personality or character can shine through onto your drawing which is not always the case. In fashion when you are given an idea of something to make or design you have got to pretty much stick to that, there is more of a definitive line whereas illustration there isn’t, you can go on and add your own input as much as you want or can.
With illustration I love the fact that your final piece can be anything like a sculpture, a painting, just a pencil drawing, it can be digitally created, just black ink, anything you can imagine to use you can.
In am interested in most illustrative roles but what I enjoy the most are children’s illustrations for books for example or films. I like that animated imaginative, dream like look. Something you would see in your sleep maybe. I love this the most because you can do so much more with it, you can create something that no one has seen before because you’re the only person that can see this image, you made it up. That way it is more eyes catching to look at, it draws more people in. For these reasons I have chosen illustration as my career path.

Animal reconstruction

Here is my extinct animal from phil and matts session. The animal I chose was the monotreme animal 7. Because the animal has reptile like characteristics I went on to create a very unique drawing. It has the body of a lizard, the head of a echidnas and the beak from a platypus. I feel that it was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed creating it. From the drawing I scanned it into illustrator and filled in the outline of the creature with white, the creature itself orange and the background black. Around the animal I have added the key characteristics. I have named my weird looking creature Liztreme, Liz... for lizard and ...treme for monotreme. Weirdly enough I feel that my animal looks kind of real, a newly discovered mammal-like-lizard.