Henry Moore

Henry Moore was a very famous, important and influential English sculpture/ Artist of the 20^th century, who was very well known for his semi-abstract and simplistic sculptures. He was most internationally recognised in the post war period, with his work mostly being simplistic abstract figures of the human form- Often portraying the mother and child or reclining figures. He is useful to look at for my 3d human form project because obviously most of his art has been human form sculptures, but also I like the way the art is very abstract and figurative but still resembling a human body.  Heres some of his work that i like or interests me...

So in my 3D work i am going to try and incorporate some of Henry Mores style into my own work to try and get a more figurative  and smooth look to my work, instead of trying to get every mark and detail to the exact scale. Also his work is very bold and eye-catching which for me from a graphic design view is a extremely important thing element to have.

Charcoal and white paint

This is another skeleton sketch I have done of the skeleton models. It was another quick few min sketch to become more expressive and free with my drawings. But also to speed up my drawings when it comes to quick life drawings.  

Although even though this was a quick sketch. I really like the free expressiveness that the image gives off. It almost has a movement to the image, but also good contrast! 

This is a painting and chalk sketch of another group members work I photographed it because there are some good points and some bad ones to it. 

The image has a really good use of contrast to it by using the White paint to really highlight areas of white while the charcoal creates really dark spots. The thing I don't like about it it is almost a little too controlled for the main point of the task which was to be more expressive. But overall It is quite eye catching! 

austin mini pics

Hi just thought these pictures that i took for my mate of his car were worth sharing as the photography pics where crystal clear, good quality images saved in FINE formate so it has the best quality when you transfer them to a computer. As JPEG is a compressed image format so it loses some quality.

Here are the pics we took the car into lumber park and drove around to try and find a place which had a nice tranquil background to complement the car but without detracting from the car its self. Also when taking the photos i have tried to position the subject matter which is the car not central every time or even the camera bang on level. This is as i feel it makes the photo more interesting.

NNC Medical room poster

I am just exploring another avenue to go down with the NNC college medical room project. Instead of using paint and sketch work to communicate to the audience i decided to try just using photographic imagery with can be manipulated on photoshop into a A3 poster with a strong copy line to compliment it.

So to start off with i though of all possible things i could think of that was healthy, and decided to bring in some strawberries, some healthy juice and other odd bits of food and fruits. Then i had the idea of photographing the juice falling and splashing on the floor. As i think photography of things with a super quick shutter speed captures things that the naked eye doesn't usually see, which is quite eye catching to look at. So first things first was to photograph some juice pouring.

To capture my photos i will be using my sony a58 Dslr camera with a 18 - 55 lens. This camera is capable of 8 pictures per second continues shooting so i can capture a continues moving images while having a sharp and crispness to the image.

So these where te images i captured which did take a couple of attempts but we finally got 3 or 4 images that were very strong, interesting and clear. These were the best 3 that i captured in about 20 pictures from my continues shooting. However you have to take a lot of pictures even if you only get a few strong images.

From seeing my images i had the idea of creating a images with the strawberries within the juice falling to create a kind of sereal image, but also give clear connotations of being healthy and eating fruit.

So the image i am going to run with and manipulate in photoshop is the bottom left image as it is the sharpest and also has the most subject matter- which makes the image more interesting to look at.

This is now my base image - which i feel is extremely bold, eye-catching and bright. It has been manipulated and changed a lot in photoshop to get all the whites a pure white By adjusting the levels and the selective color option. But also sharping the image up with the sharpening tool and playing with the color levels in the reds. Now it stands out much more than the original washed out image colors to a bold image which will look strong on a A3 poster!

The next step was to photograph my strawberries. I photographed 5 or 6 different strawberries and imported them into photoshop. It was important that the images a captured were sharp so it looked as realistic as possible but also so when the image is blown up into a3 it doesn't lose quality. Once they were in photoshop i played with the sharpest filter and the selective colour to make sure the images were as bright and colourful as possible-  So when they are against the bright background they stand out and jump out to the audience. 

Finally I added the copy line which is don't poor your life away. I positioned the text at differnt levels to give it a unusual look so it stood out on the paper still but not take away from the imagery. So this is my first draft.

Medic room art

We were given a real life brief from a client to do artwork for the medical room at college - They wanted something bright, colourful and had a elements of a health life style. So me and another partner brain storm lots of different ideas and this was one of the first avenue that we advanced on.  

First off we sketched out a caricature of usain blolt in pencil. Then we painted it and scanned it onto the computer to be modified, and add colour. Photoshop is very good for creating digital cartoon imagery as you can get bold block colours. Which will be useful as it is for a medical room poster. So the bright colours might lift peoples spirits and make them feel better. 

Skeleton sketch charcoal

I have just done a charcoal sketch of another Skelton models. I feel the sketch has come out very good. It was only a 15 min task so it is not finished. But so far I feel it has come out well. As from my previous posts I am quite a messy free hand sketch drawer, so charcoal plays to my strengths as unlike pencil or paint you get a much freer and expressive feel to your pieces. This sketch isn't one of my best as some of the sizing on the skeleton was off. However there are still elements within it that i like and that is worth analysing.

Personally i feel the hips are the best element to my sketch- the features even though they are rough and sketch like are very defined and add a good depth and lots of contrast between the light and dark.

NNC survival guide intro

Today I have received a brief from the college to design a front and back cover for this years college survival guide.

This is the brief i received from my tutor. I have read though the brief and highlighted key areas of importance so it is clear in my mind what the college want from me by commissioning us to do this work. This means when it comes to developing my ideas and producing a product it not only meets there spec but accedes it. Also by understanding the task it means you can take a very basic idea and turn it into a complex, interesting and eye catching piece. But still retaining a basic understanding of what information needs to be conveyed! But first you have to have the basic meaning and message which is right for what the college want.

From this I now have a clear idea of what the college need/ want - which is a clear educational message to give to students but conveyed in a humours, eye catching or intriguing way, so all students can relate to it, but most importantly want to pick it up and read it.

The next step i am going to do is to brainstorm all  my initial ideas and possible things to do with education and student life.

Charcoal skeleton

This Skelton sketch was done in charcoal, and is my second attempt.  I feel this sketch is much stronger than my first as I have tried to take tips from the other strong drawing in my session and have added a bit more light and dark to add more depth.  The light and dark areas arn't perfect or exact shades. However the point of this exercise was to be much more expressive and quick with your drawings. So we had 5 minuets again to do a sketch but add which chalk to give more contrast to the light and dark areas. But from analysing the the work i feel by drawing mainly off instinct and memory for speed and not looking at the exact perportions and shaded areas  gives the image a much more interesting and intreging depth to the sketch. 

This is the bit I particularly like as it has strong dark lines with quick and shades of light to give the audience the impression of a 3D depth to the image. so the drawing doesn't look like a 2D flat image on the paper.

Human form

This morning we sketch the human skeleton to try and learn the shape and size of the human body. To understand the fundamental sizes and proportions of the human body. Which means once we understand the bases of the human body, I can then build up from that to draw a actual human and in different shapes and positions.

These were my 2 Pencil sketches that I did. I feel I am a strong sketcher with a more free hand sketch approach (messy) I like this style as it is more expressive and you almost get a movement to your image. However the only thing I don't like about my style of drawing is sometimes my work lacks defining features which don't stand out very well.
Which is something I need to work on! To do this i need to add very very dark shadding with something like a 8B but also very light sketch work to show were the light bounces off with one of the H range.

This is another persons work that really stands out for me because it is in the style that I like. It has a lot of dark and light areas which gives the drawing a real depth and realism feeling. But without being to constrained with everything drawn perfectly! However i could learn something from this sketch because they have taken the approach that less is more so the dark shades have been used sparingly to highlight key areas and then just lightly shaded certain areas to give it a realistic depth and quality to it. Unlike mine which i feel i over use the dark shades, which then loses a certain quality to the image as you don't have the same contrast.