Concept sheets

This is my origional sketch for Gloria, the sketch is pretty clean in terms of mistakes but the few mistakes i will see in editing will of corse be corrected, the mistakes i can see right now include, the breast and t-shirt fold preportions as well as the key doesnt seem to link in any way so i will edit that out!

I liften the visible breast up a few millimetres because it looked odd as well as adjusted the placement of the shading, I decided to give her shirt a flower pattern as well as change the key to a flower to show her passion to become a florist, I limited myself to 3 colours for shading, a darker, a lighter and a base

I thought the concept sheet looked a little dull so i added 50% opacity circles behind the text, using the same colour as the flowers on her shirt to keep it looking cheerful and busy!

Undertakers reference needed a lot of changing, the sketching was rushed at the time, not because i was running out of time but because i wanted to test myself on the computer.

It took a while to make the adjustments, moving the hands so that they join to the sleeves or making the sleeves. Duplicating the eye like in glories and showing a blind eye and a non blind eye.

I felt the full skull did not need to be shown in this so i cropped it to a smaller size and stashed it in a corner so it was not the centre of attention.

I formed the skull on the spiders back, moving the eyes to position and creating the outline for it.

but most of my time was simply just cleaning the sketches.

I decided to keep the spiral blush on the cheeks to show expression, I added it to undertakers reference to show consistancy.

Here are my primary photos, these were taken as practices for frames of my comic, or at least I thought they would be useful above all else

I took many pictures of different angles and different ways of holding the scizzors so I could get a better over all view as well as not limiting myself to one pose

No matter how hard I tried I couldnt get the hand to look quite right, so to save time I made the view point the flower instead, which I think went well.

I am proud of my second attempt at drawing still life, I think it went well except to improve next time I should pay attention to foreshortening (the bigger or smaller something is depending how close or far away it is).

The character has a hunched back, and so I had to make some adjustments to emphasise that however the arm positioning and face is observational mostly, it really did help alot to work from an image.

Designing the monster

After collecting votes on different shape faces I  have come to the idea that the monster in the story Worrying forest, should be small and mouse like with a rounded face and a starfish like noes or sensory attachment.

I first looked into Skinny pig because of their lack of fur and their odd looks compared to the furred counterpart. however i do not think i will be using this information in the final monster.

I also looked into glow worms because of their luminescent tail and shell, I think i will be using this information for the final design of the monster.

Because of the rounded faces i thought it would be a good idea to look into mouse skulls, however they were not as round as i expected, of course i could always make the shape much rounder to emphasise it but the skulls were very interesting, the rat skull (the one at the back) was the most intrieging because it was rounder than the mice ones as well as stronger which i may take into account for the monster in mind.

I looked a bit more into rats to be sure they were the right shape and character for this monster

I am thinking that its head is made of a transparent jelly, similar in appearance to the glow worms tail but you can see its skull, which would be similar to a rats with in it, the starfish noes is still up for debate

T-shirt

I looked into Artist Julian Opie and his simple way of making faces and tried to do the first designs for my logo with that technique

His work; 

What I did

Though quirky these designs didn't give the effect I wanted, so I started thinking of fun play on words

Here are Shirt designs- or maybe even logo designs for my brand

I imagined that this logo is for girls 13 and below, the friendly pink pigeon would need a male counterpart which will be blue as a steriotype, but because this is the target audience, and does not actually say boy or girl on it can easily be for bother genders.

I took a vote in my class to see the most popular one of the 3 designs, as you can see the top design won by a land slide, however I think the pigeon is a little too big for the text and will be corrected later on.

These Designs were for the second logo, Groovy Goose is for adults from 20 and up.

Here are my text practices for Duck logos, I have settled on Devil Duck, as it would be the simplist to understand and to draw out, I have no idea how i would have managed to draw a dyslexic duck except moving the letters around or making it hard to tell the letters apart, and demon duck would just be a longer version of devil duck, I think it was the right choice to pick Devil Duck.

Here are my designs as well as the chosen text, I decided on the middle one seeing though the vote  was a tie, for this brand i would say the target audience would be teenagers from 14-19, the age of rebelion or being little devils.

These were my first attempts at making concept sheets, they were too busy and used up too many colours which would be difficult to read for some people, the logo also changed so it would look more interesting and would not draw attention from the wings and/or to be easier to print by hand as a cheaper alternative to commercial printing.

Here are a few designs on hats to show how my designs can be fit for anyone to wear or have.

Presentation

Our Project was to focus a sculpture based around Ovid's poem "Metamorphosis which is a 15 book long and about many different mythological tales. Unfortunately for Ovid he was exiled and later died, however his last few poems show that he had become to grow familiar with death, almost excepting, though his work did inspire artists and the gallery event.

so first I looked into Titians painting, Ovids poem around his time was as well known as the bible, and three of his paintings that I have seen follow them

The story of Diana and Actaeon, Actaeon (the hunter) wondered in on Diana (the goddess of the hunt) in her bathing area, she was obviously very annoyed to be seen in such a vulnerable possition, so she turned him into a stag(male deer) and hunted him with his own dogs

now with this I had to make a decision between going down a literal route of sculpture or doing something more figurative

My first decision was to do some research, seeing though i aspire to be an illustrator, it made sculpture something i couldnt really focus on, so i tried looking for sculptures that either looked sketchy or a mixture of both sculpture and 2D work. 

Thomas Houseago

As you can see some of his work contained a mixture of texture and sketches which i really liked, one side being smooth and planned out in appearance showing patients however the other side which is more textured shows a much more rushed and emotion filled response, well in my opinion any way.

His work references cubism and futurism and toys with the idea of sculpture, he is a very much figurative sculpture

Jean Debuffet

another figurative artist, their sculptures give off the illusion of movement or melting, they are still very interesting to see.

I then tried my own hand at making paper maquettes with any ideas i could come up, these are a few of my personal favourites

This was mostly inspired by Thomas' work, however it went no further, none of these maquettes did

here are a few paper maquettes i found searching the web

Then I looked to some artists that didnt fit in to my sketchy or 'mixed' sense of sculpture, the more literal or form based.

Sarah Lucas

Anthony Gormley

I later went to liverpool to see Anothony Gormleys 'another place' piece which includes around 100 sculptures lined along the beach.

here are a few primary images

I found his sculptures very lifelike, when  i looked out to the water i could have guessed they were all just passers by watching something in a far off place, which is why i think it was named 'Another Place' as they all appeared to be day dreaming, even when the water is well up to their shoulders.

But i started to wonder from sculpture, i became fascinated with puppets, even making my own, all because of what a test with bin bags lead me to

one idea was to dress up in a sort of sculpture/costume so that i could be some what of a living sculpture, like Gilbert And George

On a visit to the Victory and Albert museum i came across this particular exhibit on puppets depicting a scene of a woman carrying a body while business men tried to fool her into a false sense of protection or blame

I also found outfits that i could possible incorporate into my final piece (as i was convinced this puppet idea would be)

Even though i was convinced i felt the need to look into more life like puppets, incase i could come up with any other ideas, which i had many of its just choosing the right one always seemed bias to my opinion instead of what would really suit

Lion King

The puppets are used in a way to show emotion even though they are perfectly still, some even having deeper meanings for example

Simba's farther is always seen as good, not only to simba and the audience but also how he is made, with a halo around his head very similar to that of a holy figure shows his pureness, Scar does not have this so it cannot be coincidental. Scar has what appears to be flames

I also looked into the 'War Horse' which not only uses a very detailed horse puppet but also needs horse behaviorists to use to become a convincing horse, not even speaking to each other to determine their next move just moving with it.

I found this facinating.

but eventually i had to rethink my designs, i started to go down the preformance sculpture ideas, coming up with a 'monster' that could have just portrayed Actaeons fear of what he had seen and the inevitable doom he had brought to himself

I had planned it out so a veil would cover a pot/modrock mask underneath which would look very pretty but would not be visible till i lifted the veil from the monsterous look

I planned and came up with a few possible mechanics to the face making it moveable, even going as far as creating the eyes for my final piece

However asking my class for opinions they told me to look back into puppets and what i had learnt from them, so i did

I looked back mainly to Thomas houseago and the lion king puppets

these caught my attention and i started planning my own performance once again with still puppets

Flat and motionless, however when they are used as part of a performance it gives the illusion of movement which I really liked

so I thought of making a more literal piece

paper maquette practices

I would of course need to look into deer and dog poses more, I first planned to make wolves/german shepherds however in the painting they are clearly beagles, as well as beagles being the typical choice for hunters, you may remember from the higher class hunters going after foxes with the sight of like 15 beagles jumping over each other with their tails pointed high, this is to help the hunters find their beagles if they go in high grass or etc.

I decided to keep the Stag white because of the story of Albin, an albino moose that was said to bring good fortune which used to be able to walk by hunters who simply saw it as a magnificent creature and would never go for it, until not too long ago when a Dane hunter finally killed the legendary moose.

I have a few options for presentation my sculpture

either with posing and a use of photography,

I could hang them from walls to portray its story, or my personal favourite I could get my class mates to run after each other as I record it to show the 'movement' or business of my sculpture

Marvin Gaye Chatwynd

or 'Sparticus'

Is a British artist who does a mixture of performance and material sculpture in that she will make items for a performance that will later on become art themselves.

her art is sometimes called 'intentionally bad' or 'amateurish' when really she is trying to portray her ideas as fast as she can while they are raw in her mind.

She also uses just random people to preform, they don't have to be dancers or performers, and they have no set movements, it is just what they want to do

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I would like my performance to be described as 'intentionally bad', even though I have put a lot of thought into my creations, perhaps I could make my performers have some throw together outfit, that from a distance will look highly thought out but up close look rubbish.