Quick Update of the Last Year

So for the last year I've been working in my final year of Uni and working on many different topics from society to social media to myself but the medium in which I use hasn't really changed since I last posted, I work mostly digitally, specifically Digital Illustration. So here's a quick rapid fire of the work I've done in the last year.

Firstly I worked around the idea of the negative impacts that Social Media has on people, specifically the younger generation, even looking into Facebook Disorder which is a real thing. I tried showing how social media helps people create masks for themselves and hide what they truly feel and think, can even change the way people perceive them in the real world. I did a serious of 20 of these portrait Illustrations trying to emphasise this problem.

For my next piece I solely focused on something I'd been interested in for awhile, '.gif' using a perpetually moving image. However for this project I needed to make a sculptor so I decided to combine the ideas and create a living .gif with a little research, some paper and basic rudimentary shapes I was able to present this next piece in an Exhibition at Karst in Plymouth.

After this I decided to make an actual .gif and present it in a show at Ocean Studios called 'Dualities' with this I decided to focus on more of the digital side of things and the amount of effort it takes to have an online presence, tying back to my previous workaround social media. I represented this by using a QR code that you would need o scan to access the image called '.Gift'.

Revamp!!!!....hopefully

It's been quite a few years seen using this blog but now being in the last few months of Uni I've decided to Revamp!! I've redesigned the blog and now I plan to make regular posts about current projects, events, exhibitions going on and updates on Art pieces I've been working on. This blog is more for me, to hopefully give myself a reason to regular update my work and keep it all in a working order, but if anyone does so happen to come across this blog then by all means read and explore all you like :)

'Star' Photo Shoot

As Primary research I decided on taking photos of the night sky and any visible stars.

These photos also remind me of light polution so I wonder if it would be a good idea to but some focus into that or if it would be to much of a diversion to my project.

This also shows me a range of colours I can incorperate into my experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

I wasn't able to get super, great, clean photos of the stars however it still looks looming and has that effect of 'small' making us feel tiny in comparison to every thing else plus it shows me that using large amount of black can have a good effect, It can also be more visually apealling than you would realise.

 

 

 

 

 





Seb Jarnot

Another Illustrator that I believe would work with the star theme is Seb Jarnot. He has a very free style using mostly line and dot based art work to a comical effect.

This could work with constellation drawings where I could join the stars plus the comic aspect is something I've already worked with, with my illustrations. I also like the idea of implementing one colour but maybe trying to move away from 'Poster Art' style.

 

 

 

Isabel Bostwick

Isabel Is an Illustrator that uses very line based fantasy drawings that look almost primitive.

I believe her work could work well with my star themed work, the idea of of keeping simple outlined base work focused around fairy tails and myths along with animal and people could work very well when trying to illustrate the zodiacs and other constellations.

Using few pale colours as well has a nice feel to it, it's as if she is taking real life  scenes and putting them into these story book scenarios.

 

    

Theory Illustrations

I wanted to take this project with a Illustration aproach so I decided to create Illustration interpretation on theories on what people use to believe stars were from greek and indian mythology.

 

 

From ancient Indian believes there was a common theory of stars being giant crystals/diamonds in the sky, this is where the nursery rhyme originates from.

 

I like the comecial concept of this illustrastion and using a combination of heavens mythology and what stars are to create an element of fantasy in this and then surported with the stick characters with no facial features.

 

 

 

 

This theory is from Greek mythology and the belief was that the night sky was a giant greek bowl hoovering over the world filled with holes that the gods had poked in to watch down on man.

 

I also like the ridiculousness of this illustration using a common china plate you would find in any household and once again using combination of heaven being above the plate and the earth being flat to once again reinforce the fantasy element. 

 

 

Roger Hiorns 'Crystal Room'

Roger Hiorns created this very experimental piece that surprised everyone, he went to a building schedulded to be demolished and took a very run down apartment and sprayed the thing with copper sulphate in hopes it would create a crystal wonder land.

After four weeks of drying out the place he was left with a beatiful crystal palace, this blue building reminded of me the night sky and the greek theory of stars being crystals and diamonds in the sky, I think I will try my own crystal experiments using salt crystals to create a shine on paper and maybe even add colour and trying to draw with this solution.