comic

I've been working on the current comic project a bit. I've based mine on the story of the youtube sensation of fenton the dog chasing some deer in richmond park.
Here is my first full page comic:

I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would which is always good!

Lithography

I've finished my set of 5 lithography workshops now, and really enjoyed them. Oddly enough the best print from the workshop was one i spent least time on

i did 7 or 8 prints of it, the image is about A3 size printed onto A2 paper.

the main thing with it is just how long it takes to get the plate ready to print. I found the prints came out so nicely though so i hope to do more of it very soon in my own time. I have also signed up for a series of etching workshops, which will fill my schedule up again i expect!

GIF work

We had our big hand in last week, and actually sort of had a week off, which sort of turned out to be a week of sorting out the studio and getting the work up and ready for our mini exhibition. It was actually very worth while spending my time off doing it as i learnt a lot about what putting on a show and curating the work together involves.
My final piece for the last project was some GIF images that i created. In retrospect i wish i had done more research to start with as it was only really the final one i did that really worked. here is the link to our class' GIF work: http://factloops.blogspot.com/  there are some amazing ones on there.
For our new project we have a choice of two quite different briefs, one is to work with 2nd year graphics to develop an online TV programme, and the other is to work with some of the guys from Nobrow (http://www.nobrow.net/) to create a comic. I wasn't dead set on either really as I don't really work in either way, however I have chosen to go for the comic brief, as it will allow me to do more drawing, and it will be interesting and useful to learn about comics and the workings of them.

GIFs

Our next project is to create 5 GIFs working with ideas and imagery already created in our 'fact' project from the natural history museum. Here are a few i've seen that I really like...

(mr. buffalo)

this on is a little longer than i will make mine as ours need to be between 1-5 seconds. I really like the movement in it though and the hand drawn quality to it.
http://mrbuffalo.tumblr.com/post/15770770575/heres-a-high-flying-adventure-hero-who-will-help#notes

(mr. buffalo)

This is one of my favourite ones that i've seen, i like how it's such a constant fluid animation, and how the object itself moves and transforms.

http://mrbuffalo.tumblr.com/post/15555224365/i-have-returned-from-the-sea-amigos-the-ocean-is#notes


http://if1and2was3.tumblr.com/post/16055125630

(tumblr)

I like the use of paper cut out here to show the bear moving around and dancing, the coloured paper with a slight texture/grain to it helps it look as if the fur is moving.

(tumblr)

I really like this GIF i have drawn brain scans before and looked at the brain but i hadn't considered showing the brain's workings in this way. here is a youtube clip of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMvzkJY6DQ

(tumblr)

although i'm not overly keen on the style of drawing on the work here, i really like the flow of it, and how the different features rotate to form different features in a circular motion.

http://www.wayfarergallery.net/hot-images/?p=959

drawing workshop

we had a drawing workshop this week, which i found really useful. The work we were creating was quick and relaxed, i like working this way as my drawings often look a lot more relaxed and less forced; so doing it every so often really helps to remind me to work this way more often. 
The workshop involved us watching video clips and then pausing the video and drawing the scene. We had between 30 seconds and 3 minutes to draw the scene, so the results were quite varied where in some images all we had time for was the basic outline, and in others we had time to add more tone to the images.
We've got another workshop next week so it will be interesting to see what we do then.

fact project

We went on a trip on the last day of term back in December to the Oxford Natural History museum, and the Pitt Rivers museum. The museums are great and well worth a visit, such a nicely composed collection and it's all housed in a massive beautiful building. I instantly wanted to focus my project on the pieces in the natural history museum, which in retrospect was a little too hastier decision, as the Pitt Rivers museum had hundreds of thousands of things to look at, and had a little more variety, but never mind. Here are some of my drawings from the project so far, most of them were done on site so they're just quite quick sketches, others were done from watching animated youtube videos of how joints work and move, which was quite fun to do, and layer up the drawings

vocabulary project

Here are some of the drawings i did for the 'vocabulary' project where we got given a long set of words to a illustrate. For the drawings we had to choose two colours opposite on the colour wheel and dark neutral colour, so i chose black, blue and orange.