Glastonbury Bag Design Competition!

With a pair of tickets up for grabs, it'd be stupid for me to not enter this one! All you needed to do was design a bag design for the Yeo Valley Glastonbury tote bags. There were only a few restrictions, the logo had to be a certain size and only include 4 colours, as well as featuring the brand logo.

Being a festival fan myself, I used my own experience to help me plan my design. I thought I'd include the crowd and main stage, as they are the best paces to be at a festival! 

I originally wanted to use green, orange and yellow in my design, but upon discovering that black and white counted as colours in this instance, I decided to leave out green. That way, my design will look bright and sunny.

I am very pleased with the final result! It looks just as I had imagined it to!

Ink Marble Prints!

I finally have collected my ink prints that I did in the workshop on tuesday! As they were all jumbled together, I only managed to find 4, but the ones I did find have turned out really well.

This was the first print I made.

This is my favourite print of the few that I made!

Picture Sourcing Workshop

Yesterday's workshop was all about sourcing imagery for inspiring work in the new project. We were encouraged in the session to use both the library and the computers to find imagery related to our question. As my question is about observing the world, I started to find imagery that related to how people observe their world through the use of their phones, by looking on instagram and following links related to things I like to photograph.

For the second part of the workshop, I went to the library. I spent most of my time looking around the magazines, as I am thinking of making a magazine as my final piece for this project. I took photos of images that I found in the magazines which appealed to me.

Lo-Fi Printmaking Workshop

Today's workshop centred around printing processes, and I was very eager to try these out as I have done very little printmaking in the past! We started the day with two inductions into two different printing methods. I began with the with the Chinese ink printing, which involved creating marbled patterns in water using water and ink, and then transferring them onto special paper. I made several different patterns, and left them to dry on a drying rack. I am yet to see how the finished prints look.

The second method of printing involved making prints using rolled coloured inks. I however was not overly fond of the two colours to choose from for this, so I mainly stuck to mono-printing.

I created a large number of illustrations using this process. They tended to improve with them more attempts I had! I really enjoyed this process as I really like the roughness and texture that the ink gives to the finished image.

This was my first attempt. I was not overly pleased with the result of this print but I used it to test out the materials.

This was the second print I produced, and the first one to include text. I am rather happy with this illustration, I think it appeals in the way that it is quite childish and messy, and would make for a good children's book illustration! I also added a little colour to the bee.

My third attempt, more of a doodle really.

A drawing from a photograph on my phone. In this one I began to experiment with detail and fluffy textures with the ink.

Another drawing from an observation, this time from a photograph taken at Marwell Zoo. This one was produced with less detail, but I think the colour makes up for that

A christmas doodle!

And a drawing of Disney's Stitch to finish the day off. I felt that my prints lacked in the colour blue, and this is what came to mind.

Overall, I am very happy with what I have taken away from today's workshop, I feel that it has been incredibly beneficial to me and my work!

Zine Workshop

Today's workshop was all about Zines and how to make your own, publish it yourself and start distributing! Our tutor for the session (whose name I have forgotten) gave us a small booklet informing us all about zines and how to make one. As it is nearing Christmas, I decided to make my zine about all the things that make me feel festive this time of year. I ended up with a zine named 'Cheer'.

Front Cover

Mini drawing close up

I had originally created a different design for the first page, but it felt as if it did not go well with the rest of the book and did not look as good, so I removed it and replaced it with an advent calendar page.

Most of my time went into creating this zine, however I gave a more simplistic one a go once this one was finished. I wanted to produce one simply and quickly, and I am actually rather fond of what I created. It was inspired by the simplicity in some of the examples I was shown today. I named this zine 'Zine Green' and in it I document all the plants I have ever grown and cared for in my life (which isn't many).

Front Cover

Overall, I feel that this was a very productive workshop!

Test Animation

This is my first attempt at creating an animation. I created 38 frames for the original animation but shortened it down a lot in editing. I think that the movement is smooth, however I feel that I should have added movement to the body rather than just focussing on the wings.

Turning the frames into a GIF also seemed to remove the fine detail of the drawing itself. When I come to animating my collaboration project, I'm sure I will be using proper animating software. This drawing was purely created as an experiment.

Visual Thinking: Starting Out

After receiving the brief for the new project today and the news about collaborations with other courses, I instantly felt inspired to do some sort of animation. I have already contacted my housemate since receiving the brief - who is an animation student - about potentially creating an animation together.

I have also thought about including one of my other housemates who is a student studying Graphic Design, and how we could possibly re-create a news article or something. I was thinking about doing an article related to Bournemouth, and having us both re-create it in a more exciting way utilising both of our disciplines.

Tomorrow I have my first workshop of the new unit!