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Creative Exchange Week

Walk Cycle workshop.

We were given individual frames for a walk cycle that when put together would be a fully functional walk cycle animation where each frame and element was from a different student. We were given a guideline to stick to in order to keep the frames relatively consistent but still gave us room for creative freedom.

Co-ordinates and Art Workshop

Using the power of a dice roll we created patterns based on the outcome of each persons roll. This way of thinking makes a more data based outcome that is still visually appealing.

 

Diary Collage

This workshop was a very free-flowing workshop. we were tasked with creating a visual collage based on something that had happened over the weekend. I focused mine on a far away friend visiting and playing board games.

this workshop relied on not thinking too hard about each element but just getting into it and thinking more about the process and why I used certain elements over others.

Sally Dyer - Portraiture Workshop

This workshop was a nice back to routes workshop on how to draw realistic portraits. We were given a woman's portrait that was split into a grid pattern. Based on where elements were on the grid we were then made to imitate each grid to create a more accurate portrait.

Nick Deakin and James Dyer - Riso Workshop.

The riso printer works on separate channels of colour, the colours we had available were yellow, red and black. When printing in riso it is important to print from lightest to darkest when making a design. This creates the cool overlapping effect the riso printer is most known for in the creative industry. 

I had to work in a small team to create an A3 poster for the upcoming university graphic design social meet. We had to allocate all of the information into the three colour layers individually to be scanned into the riso machine. we wanted to make use of patterns, shape and texture as they really shine in the riso printing technique.

idea sketches

 We worked on all three layers together opposed to individually to get a consistent design throughout the entire poster. Each person putting forward their strong points whether it be composition, type or illustration. 

Each individual layer had to be drawn on an individual piece of paper, this would then be scanned into the riso machine where it would automatically be turned into grey scale and tones suitable for riso printing. Because of this we simply stuck to a pure black pallet when drawing out our designs as it wouldn't effect the colour of our final images.

 

Yellow layer

red layer

black layer

This is a grey scale mock up of the individual layers on top of each other. from far away its difficult to tell but the large block parts of colour have also been altered into tone to make the printing more effective.

Close up of the print in black and white

James Dyer-Student Placement Stories

Previous students who had been on placement came in to discuss their work placements and we had to chance to asked any questions that we might have about finding placements, being on them or generally seeing their work.

a sketch of one of the speakers from the session

As usual this week was a great way to try out other stuff that I wouldn't usually get the chance to and is something I like to look forward to going to.

Beardy Bassman Branding

Hand drawn Type Posters

Today I was tasked with making posters out of 3 different typefaces Cooper Black , Baskerville and Futura. I am a fan of all of these fonts but my hand written type skills are not very polished. I had particular issue with the letter 'S' due to its unnatural curve and difficulty to keep consistent.

Before I laid out my designs I would do little test layouts since I was working with paper and pencil I had the limitation of not being able to alter what I initially create, this encouraged me to think more about the initial layout of the type.

Sometimes the process of just looking and fabricating type in a traditional format can give a more free-flowing and analogue appeal. I feel I really began to understand the process and feel more comfortable with the fonts by the time I got to my final hand drawn poster.

After the session was over I decided to adapt my final poster to be a digital image, I vectorised the image and then decided to play around with the shapes in the type to experiment with other more abstract pieces.

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Thought Bubble 2018

It's that time of year again where I empty my wallet for all of the amazing work at Thought Bubble the highlight of the event for me is the indie comics and zines. You get everything from refined novels to contemporary paper zines.

There was a larger number of enamel pins on stalls this year and I was lucky to picked up a few for my cork board.

I always enjoy talking to the artists of the stalls as some will travel from canada, america and so on just for the convention. There were also artists that work at cartoon network and popular publishing companies. Its a great opportunity to ask advice on publishing or selling work at similar events.

My haul from the event:

Liverpool Gallery Trip

I went for my first ever trip to Liverpool yesterday. I made two different stops at the Walker Art Gallery and then the Tate museum. though the weather wasn't fantastic it was a great day non the less.


The Walker Art Gallery was an interesting bit of architecture, historical and contemporary work often linking to each other through winding rooms on the upper floor. As a big fan of art history I enjoyed the concept of walking into individual rooms and areas dedicated to the various historical eras of art.

The main contemporary exhibition at the gallery was the John Moores Painting Prize one that is set up every two years and is open to the community and anyone can put their work forward to be used in the exhibition. The voting for the winner is also a community driven scheme using an anonymous poll technique. Due to the variety of work and techniques it made for a diverse collection of art.

My personal favourite piece was Delphine Hogarth - 'French Summer' but I could't give an exact reason why.

After grabbing a quick coffee and preparing myself for the rain I walked over to the docks to visit the Tate Gallery, a place I have wanted to visit for some time now. It was good to finally be able to explore it.

Inside the Tate I got the opportunity to visit the current exhibition Life In Motion.

Egon Schiele self portraits were the most fascinating to me. The way you see yourself is often reflected through your art and I thought it was a shame that they were almost overshadowed by his other work with erotic imagery and experimental photography.

I enjoyed the photography but I felt the space had too much on display and that took away from the experience of individual pieces. The work reminded me of my own experimental photography though so I felt a strong connection towards the works technique.

Egon Schiele - self portrait masturbation 1911

A sneaky peek at the day: