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Saturday, 14 December 2013

Everything is a remix

I found this very interesting video that dives deep into the creative world and shows us that ORIGINALITY is just a word.
The video shows us that allot of the biggest creations throughout history started off as an idea and just remoulded to become better by someone else over and over, from evolution to modern day technology.

The main thing I found interesting is when he goes on about the laws of copyright. There are allot of companies who sue others for using there idea in there way when the did the same thing themselves to get that idea.
This does make you wonder how far this will go and if it will even be possible for innovations in the future if every company who has a slightest similarity will sue.



Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Unit 1 - 3 The art of the game









Task 4

Concept Art

Character


Name-                           Colt Tanner
Super Hero Name-      UNKNOWN
Age-                              17

It lives in Pill


Research of area

Pill








Other places
clifton suspension bridge






RESEARCH
Gilles Beloeil



I like this concept art and the way its been done. it looks like it been done in allot of detail but when you look closer the colours are so simple and not shaded into detail.


tri nguyen


The same thing with this one except on the detail. He used simple colours and didn't do much with them to put it into detail.

I like both of these concept artworks for the simplicity in the colours.

I have always like the sketchy, rough looking art and its the way I like to draw. I also like to draw like that on the computer. I like to keep the hand drawn look than it all be smoothed out and perfected.

Jamie hewlett

I like his sketches he does of the Gorillaz. the way he hasn't made it smooth but kept it rough.

Also I like this Jamie Hewlett inspired drawing by a deviant artist called ArCatiel.



its sketchy ,rough, simple colours with shading. but it looks detailed.it also is how I would of done it on the computer if I were using illustrator and I could easily mistake this as my own if I knew I didn't do it.
http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/274650580?view_mode=2

I would like to keep my concept drawing in that sort of style and colouring.
I want to keep the sketchy and simple colours as they have done. i wouldn't so much call these people inspiration as this has always been how i draw but they have been artists who i have looked at and seen similarity in my own but much better making me want to progress into there standard.


MY CONCEPT

warning that the picture quality isn't great.



I like the outcome so far on my concept art and i think i have done well in using my inspiration of artists in my own piece of work. i kept it the sketchy look i liked and used simple colours without going into huge detail and i think it look good  when the image quality isn't altered by the internet.
At first i drew the outlines of the bridge on paper and then put it to the computer, This then became a challenge at first as i used a drawing tablet to go over it and add in the detail and colour. Until that point i had never used a tablet before and it was strange to get  used to but i got the hang of it quickly.
This has helped me learn to use a tablet which will help me hugely in future projects if i am drawing.




Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Unit 4 - Communication of Art and Design (illustrator)




Messing with text







HAIKU poems






illustrator logos 

pear logo


honey bee logo

Illustrator drawing

Visual recipes

Research


Development












Final piece










Music Festival


Poster Research






Fonts

These are some of the fonts I found and liked. I already have an idea of what genre of music festival I want to do and I think these fonts will suit it.


idea
I’m going to do a festival poster based around Dubstep music.
I want it to look very techy and futuristic, with a club light sort of background, dark and bright lights.
I want to use big blocky faded type of text for the heading and the main writing to look electro. ( similar to fonts on mood board )
I will search up similar posters to see the type of style other festivals use and find cd covers and videos of bands who specialize in that music.
I am going to call the festival, “BRISDUB 14”
I will draw a few different ideas i have, find out what i like and what goes think well. i will mix and match the ideas  to make the final version on the computer.

dubstep moodboard



The style of dubstep based artwork, as shown above consists of dark colours mixed with a few bright, glowing colours ( like club lights ).
It can have a techy look to it, which suits the genre as most dubstep is made on computers.


sketched ideas for poster




Development of ideas on computer














With this poster i added 2 ideas into one and added a few extra ideas into it, like the arms of the crowd from the lettering.


Design Report - Damon Ginters

Designing these posters was fun to make and I learnt a few new techniques when making them that became very useful.
One of the things I learnt to do was how to make the backgrounds fade into two different colours, which I used in both of my final designs.
I have learnt that its best to use as little fonts as possible which I did with my second poster, only using two type fonts.
When I was researching posters I noticed that the ones that used more bright colours caught my eye more than others, so I used more bright and noticeable colours when designing my final posters.

I sadly enough didn’t get to do as much research as I would have liked to do as I wasn’t able to do any over the holidays because I had no Wi-Fi for a month, but I did do my best when coming back to college to catch up.
When a was able to do research however I searched up some posters. I chose music festivals so that’s what kind of posters I searched. I tried to keep it in the Bristol area and found a few what I altogether liked and some which I liked certain aspects.
I wanted to base my festival posters around Dubstep and researched into two things, type fonts that went with the genre and dubstep inspired images which were put into a moodboard.

I used the research I did to help me within the designing, using a few of the fonts and using the images I acquired to inspire me.
I drew a few ideas I had mixing up a few of the images around dubstep I found and converted them into a poster look, putting my own spin to it.
I chose two for my final posters and started developing. The first poster came out how I originally wanted , with few minor changes from comments, making the 14 into a 2014 so viewers could understand it meant a year, i also changed the background shade colour and direction.

The second idea I ended up merging another to it and putting an extra idea I had to it. I think it came out better than they would do alone. With the extra idea to make letters into a crowd looked good and added to the feeling of being in a club raving with the base.

I would of liked to develop my techniques more. So if I was able to do it again I could make it look more detailed. I would of liked to make a logo for the festival to put on to make it look more real.
I would like to find out how to make text and images to fade, as one of my ideas I was unable to do and had to be changed because of it.
i would like to learn how to make the background into a cloudy look instead of the fading.

I think  the posters went well and I have had some good comments. I have had some bad comments which I would liked to of worked on, but sadly enough there wasn’t enough time.

I have made a few changes to both of te posters, mainly my first and final design.

My first one I rearranged everything at first and changed some of the text.
After I changed the background colour and added music bars into the design.
I like the last one the most and made it my final design.

My second poster I didn't change hugely, mainly a rearangement of everything and then after I added in sound bars and changed the fade of the background .

I like my final poster and I think from last week I have improved on it and made it better from my mistakes.