Zansky - Helvete Forest

This is another great illustration by Zansky, I really like the way he uses burgundy lines. The background brown also adds to the effectiveness of the burgundy. it compliments it and is textured, giving it a grainy, dirty feel. The image itself is intricately detailed like his other work and is definitely the right sort of direction in which I want to steer my work.

http://www.zansky.com.br/

Other work

This piece of work was a typography exercise where we were told to find type in everyday surroundings. I think I pretty much missed the mark, and went too far with it. I should have just taken photos, but instead I illustrated parts of Leeds new developing skyline and spelled 'Development' with the windows. I liked my final piece but when I saw the others I realised that I had not actually done what I should have done ... Reading the brief properly would have helped.

This work was for a mini brief, where we were instructed to create a postcard to place on a wall in the studio. I drew this cloud, and of course I had to put a face on it, it's so happy!

This illustration is of Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars saying the infamous 'It's a trap!' line. This was done for myself and was my first attempt at using Adobe Illustrator. I liked it, a bit difficult to get to grips with at first, but once you get going it gets easier. I would like to practice using this program as the work that can be made using it is amazing.

This is one of my hand cut cards that I like to make, It is a poor imitation of Rob Ryan's style, but with practice, who knows ...

What is Visual Communication?

 What is Visual Communication? Was an odd module, it felt strange to create a project but not to actually create something substantial. In the end I printed my presentation, so I had something to show at the end.

The project was basically a research lead project which we would then use in creating a brief for our major project. Mine was about recycling in my local borough, I liked this project, it was different and a bit of a challenge for me as we were pretty much left to decide what we wanted to do by ourselves.

Contextual & Theoretical Studies

I really enjoyed Contextual studies, was one of my favourite parts of the course this year. I realise that I leaned a lot throughout the module as it provided insight to previous areas of art I had not looked at. This is definitely something to look forward to next year.

 http://contextical.blogspot.com/

Designing for audiences

Designing for audiences was a fun module to do, I liked the challenge and the work which I produced. I chose to look at creating a poster advertising donating to the RSPCA. It was well recieved and was an effective piece of communication in that it conveyed the right tone and message to my intended audience.

Visual Exploration: Book

The book project has been my least favourite project this year, I was not happy with the content or the finished book. I struggled with finding a subject for my book, something that would stand the test of time. This was my mistake, I took too long in deciding, which in turn meant I had less time to actually make the book. The book is about what sort of sandwiches people like to eat in Leeds. After doing this project and having to ask people out and about I can honestly say I will not be doing something like that again. I realise that it is very difficult trying to get random people to answer questions, this was a true learning curve, and I'm glad it happened early on in the course.

The book making was fun, it was great to learn a new skill like that, one which I hope to use in future years, but my choice of colour for the pages was wrong, too dark. If I were to do this again I would have lighter pages, and better content.

Visual Exploration: Zine

Making the zine was the first project we were set this year, it was also the only project in which we had to collaborate and work as a group. Our zine was called 'We are here - Landmarks through Leeds' and it was a mini pocket guide showing some of the iconic landmarks dotted around the city. The project was rather challenging as we all had different ideas, we had only just met each other and everyone was being polite and nice. This made decision making hard as there were hardly any unanimous decisions, in the end zine itself ended up being a nice way for us to explore Leeds as a new city and as outsiders learning its layout.

I liked the zine, we all contributed different styles to the mix, making it a bit more of an obvious team effort, it worked as we had intended it and was pretty self explanatory. The only bad thing was that there were not enough facts and information about certain places.

Here are my pages of the zine:

This illustration is of the bronze statue hands in the Nelson Mandela gardens, it was my favourite contribution towards the zine.