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work

new term.... last term.... bugger...

doodles for new Motion Graphics course brief...

New Project - MTV

I have been having eye-dears for this snazzy new MTV project. I have been thinking that because MTV, (MTV2 especially) desribes itself as "the boys and girls toilets in an indie night club," i sort of immediately wanted to do something the opposite to that. So i started thinking of quaint village scenes, clouds, rainbows, model railways, that sort of thing. OH.... and snow globes... Definately LOTS of snow globes!


Clouds


Village Pub


Snow Globe

finished?

here are the finals.

almost done...

these are the designs i have done. I still need to add the glass of orange juice that the straws are leading to. I am pleased with my outcome, i think it looks good!





unfinished versions in white





more finished versions in black

What I've got so far...

Below is the point that i am up to at the moment. i need to connect all the letters, create off shooting straws and extend it into a drink... i also need to think about size on a page, layout, and all that.. I also need to add "ship" to the end... i think "friendship" is a better word than "friends"..... (it makes me think of Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Joey and Chandler... not good.")



White Version



Black Version

BONUS JUMPER MONKEYS...

These are two jumper monkeys Laura and I made for my dad for his birthday this year..... He is 59. I put them up because I think they're amazing.

straws, straws, everywhere and not a drink to suck...

well, i have been creating letters from straws with the idea in mind that the term "your group" is based on friendship and connections and i am using straws because i think they are quite optimistic objects as they are something you use just before you are refreshed by a cool drink.... they also connect to each other really well. but i have been making letters and so far i have the letters F-R-I-E, of the word friendship.... although i am not too sure of that word. but i like what is coming out of it.

Sucking Straws

I decided that the term "your group" was leading me towards the idea of connections and links, which produced my last drawings, then i decided to get 3-D on this projects arse and play with some straws. Below are some outcomes.









Above is a creation i made, it is the beginnings of a 3D heart. I like it. the heart is such a personal thing and thats what connections between friends and family is... personal.

Below are some images created using straws too. one of them is a face...

Orange Continued

This is another drawing i've done.

SPRING TERM STARTS HERE.

so ORANGE is the colour of spring! after the briefing i went away feeling pretty go about a couple of the keywords, but stuck for ideas, so i went through my photos and did some drawings, then traced them all on my wacom...(cool) and this is how it is so far... the drawings have come from the idea friends and people and networks. right now they are basic drawings which i want to use as a jumping off point. they are themed towards fun and looseness and spreading out.


Traced Portion in orange

Traced Portion in orange


Traced Portion


Original Drawing

some more homemade Beuys...

Here are some more pics i have taken.


I am going to re-do the dressing gown one and add some slippers! i am enjoying doing this and it has kind of made me think differently about the portrait as a piece as well as how reading between the lines is an important part of viewing a piece.

Joseph Beuys. He's the MAN!!!!!

Well, after a pretty productive chit chat with some of my fellow 2nd years, i decided to concentrate on the ideas and emotions evoked by work such as Beuys' "Felt Suit."The idea that a portrait can show everything about a person without showing anything OF the person is a very interesting way to create work; tying in with the whole "less is more" thing. This got me thinking back to when i was young-er...and used to enjoy laying out all my clothes to make it look like a person lying down or sitting, etc. a "Fireman" if you will...( as in the way firemen lay out their uniforms to jump into in an emergency.) I really like playing with this and have had some fun with photo's. These are two of my vacant portraits. Both shot in situ, showing aspects of my daily life and that which is involved in it, without me actually appearing in them.


Work Time!


Sleepy Time!

joseph beuys...

some things i found interesting about him...

/during WW2 he was in the Hitler youth...(compulsary, as it was)

//volunteered for the Luftwaffe in 1940 began his military training as an aircraft radio operator in 1941

///began his military training as an aircraft radio operator in 1941

////On 16th March 1944 Beuys’s JU87 plane crashed on the Crimean Front he wasnt killed, but was injured

i like the luftwaffe thread, i've always liked planes and the like!

new project.

according to the wicked wikipedia...

"Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was an influential German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and his energetic championing of the healing potential of art and the power of a universal human creativity. As well as performances, Beuys produced sculptures, environments, vitrines and thousands of drawings. He was also a committed teacher and increasingly devoted much of his energy to German politics. A charismatic and controversial figure, the nature and value of Beuys’s contribution to Western art has elicited a hotly contested and often polarised debate."

So his life was his work. he lived in such a way that his life was transformed into his work. The way he seemed to work was to exhibit and document things that he collected from his life. Rather than painting or drawing his memories or experiences he used personal objects and items that echoed the way he was.


The suit being a kind of self portrait. an echo of himself.

my final clip-arts

These are my final clip art images that i have produced. i am pleased with how they have come out and i really like doing them. this project was a really good "quick" project and i am looking foward to doing some more fast paced projects.