Wednesday 26 November 2008

Visual Studies...

So I really enjoyed yesterdays lesson, mainly becasue I didn't have to cut and stick any more pieces of paper. -.- I was all glued out. DX It was a really enjoyable lesson and we all got a random object/word and of whatever was in the room and we had to record that in some way. I got "Pens" and at first I was like, what am i supposed to do with that...then I stopped thinking and it came to me. So I doodled:



It's supposed to be really random and bad...yes. But I got to draw buildings in the sky and Audrey 2 and my idea was to put the pens up against the doodle and snap pictures of it. That way I would have two forms of media that work together. Like so:



It works, sort of. It's very spur of the moment so It's not as if it's the greatest looking piece in the world, but it's not too bad for what, an hour? Esspeically as Hannah Stol-borrowed my camera to take her own pictures. XD



Nobodys told me I had the goofiest looking grin in the world. ¬ ¬ Thanks guys, thanks...

Ooo and for the "what is a line" brief, I have the cooliest Idea in the world, now If i can just motivate myself to get into it. I hope it won't be too much of a tangent. 0.o

Monday 24 November 2008

Moduel sumission...

These last few weeks have been crazy. I have never done so much work in such a short amount of time. Unless you count reading the whole of the Marvel civil war back to back until your eye's start leaking. I'm not sure the counts as work though.

I've had briefs that I've loved, briefs I've hated and ones I've genrally just fucked up. The work could be so much better, I feel. And last night I had a small tantrum in my living room and collaspsed on the floor...due to tripping over said unsorted folder. Mother made me take a walk to cool off and I got it with a rock by a ten year old. Yay for my shitty council esate.

I've made some really good friends on this course and I think i've come out of my shell more, unluckily for some people . I'm not the most conventional person in the world and I can't sit still for more than fifteen minutes, but I'm yet to walk out of a classroom and wander like I did so many times last year. This course must be doing something right if you're keeping my attention in tact.

As long as I pass this module, I'm not too fused. I'm not looking for the greatest grade, neither will I ever achieve one for a long long time. But If I pass this year and get onto the 2nd year, I know I'm doing something right.

Mail Shot!

My mail shot was posted in the letter box on Saturday at 3pm...it clearly isn't getting to Leeds until tomorow (Tuesday). This is becasue it freaking snowed at my end of Yorkshire. -.-

I only realised the other night that I had not up loaded anything about my mail shot, so here we go. First I wanted it too tie in sort of with the guardian posters. They kind of did, but as i never fiannlised the colours with the last brief, I have to do it with this one.





I decided to go with somthing simple. I wanted to make a point that it was unbelivieable that it costs less to get a plane from Manchester to London than a train. So I used little signs with the prices conviently on the back.

I did have a little card telling people a quote and an opinion but in my crit they thought it would be a good idea to make it into a train ticket, so I gave it a go. I couldn't belive I found the same font that the actual train company use.
(No counterfitting train tickets Leigh -.-)



It's not as good looking as other peoples but it's good enough for my target audience. Meh, maybe I'll get to illustrate some characters on another brief. I'm sick of looking at trains. Oh wait, i have to catch one in 20 minutes. -.0

Saturday 22 November 2008

Visual Stuff...

This stuff is still confusing to me but I'll give it ago anyway.

Synecdoches: I know what it means, it's just hard trying to explain it. It's like replacing words with something worded visual, for example; I bought myself some tunes or I bought myself a new set of wheels.

But finding something Visual for this is proving tricky. The closest I've found is a picture for a Micra car and on it a man is cupping his groin. It's supposed to convey that driving the micra is like a slice of life...
Testicles = Life
Lovely.

Metaphor: Why am I so stumped with this? The closet i can think of (thanks to never mind the buzzcoks) is 50 cent opening a a bread bag with a lot of money falling out of it. Bread = dough = money.

Metonym:
A metonym is a symbolic image used to make reference to something with a more literal meaning. Like Jesus's cross.


And seeing the white house makes you think of the president...I think of a slurring ape but the guys got unill January to hall his crap outta there.

Adam's Font...yet again. XD

Yeah I re did the whole thing. ;D The mock up sheet and A3 piece will be uploaded when I go home as I left my camera cable in my house and I'm at my boyfriends mothers, forgetful leigh is forgetful. Also, I'm not renting an eskimo suit to go back out into that weather.

So here's the A3 poster instead:

(The black looks shit becasue this illustrator is fucked
because for some odd reason all of the colours have reversed.
This is what I get for posting a CMYK format on the Internet ;D Learn from your mistakes...moron)



(The right colours, but now dammed thing is blurry. RAH DX)

It looks, if I do say so myself, a hell of a lot better than the original font and I hope Adam agree's and likes it too. It's called Dammit Adam because he likes Blink 182 and I happen to like "dammit." Why not go for Adam's Song instead? Excuse me, have you heared those lyrics. I don't want the poor guy to kill himself.


(here's the A1 sheet, the first try and my mother slippers)

Angels and Airwaves is crap. By the way...
And I shall have up a post about the mail shot tomorow....Poor blog, I negleted it.

Text to Mother: Don't buy any DS games from now untill January.
Mother rings me 2 seconds later: Why not?
Me: urm...
Mother: I was thinking of buying you proffesor layton for your birthday.
Me: shit I was thinking of buying it for you for labour (it's boring and pianfull, DS games are fun dammit!)
Mother: We can link them up!
Me: yes, just what we need when the baby is being poped out. "I got a high score!" "Your baby Ms. Richmond" "Oh yeahhh...cheers."

I love my mum.

Wednesday 19 November 2008

"Look Papa....Fire!"

Here's an a pretty awesome picture my old RP buddy Billious over at Deviantart did for me:

And human parents thought bed wetting was a problem.
Sasha and Leeland. =3
LOVE IT BILLY BOY! <3
I thought it was hillarious that the majority of comments this piece recived was: D'awww cute...
I'm pretty sure Lee's flamible hair doesn't find it adorable!

Sunday 16 November 2008

YAY My Dream Job!



Pff, Literally in my dreams.

When I started this piece I never intended it to turn into a front page of a comic book. o.0 Originally, It was going to be landscape format with Leeland (my marvel OC) on one side and Murial of some sort on the wall. I might still do that, but my mind wanted it to go this way for now. XD

So I made it for the most recent Babel Fish Chapter "The Salmon of Doubt" , which i have not updated in forever =(. Hopefully the X-mas holidays will give me some time.

Everything was made in Photoshop CS2 including the logo's...I hate bar codes. lol at almost bowling shoes. They where supposed to be high tops.

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Visual Studies...Thing

It's bad news when you actaully forget what the hell the brief is called. There must be a bit of paper around here somewhere with the information on but...My house currently makes "How Clean Is Your House" look like Buckingham Palace...Before hand. *shudders*

Anyhow, have some images made out of paper. Blinding Bright Paper!



(It's chair and table you perverts.)

I wasn't so fond of this lesson, mainly becasue I'm not to good with the whole cutting and sticking thing and ahving fun with it. Sometimes it's good to feel like a child but I just could'nt get into it. However, I did like this weeks =D

I made a bunny, a teddy bear and a worm. Life is good.

(I have created a new Digimon. BEHOLD: Plushiemon!)


(I didn't take a picture of the Teddy so have a screaming worm instead.)


Sunday 9 November 2008

Paul Kepple and other such...stuff

So we've been doing a brief of poster design for the guardian articles we researched during reading week. I decided to go with the train quote as it seemed rather relevant too me. Damned rail people sucking away my moneys. ¬ ¬

Anyhow. During the crit on Friday, Johnny, Vicky and pearl all agreed that as my posters had an almost "toilet door man feel" I should try and incorporate that into the poster with the train conductor. I'm going to elaborate on "Toilet Door Man" and ensure you (and myself) that they weren't just calling my work shit.

This is Toilet Door Man:

And his lovely wife in tow there as well. Now trying to think of an artist like this stumped me for a few hours until I remembered about a set of books I had kicking around my bedroom.

I present:


I have tonnes of them, but I remembered about how the artist used those kind of Mr. and Mrs Toilet figures in his work so I went stalk-searching for him. =D

Kepple's website and he has some really funny illustrations knocking about on there. Here are Just a few:












I've changed the colour scheme for my posters as someone colour blind put on my crit sheet that "perhaps change the black." I distinctly remember picking BROWN!

Also, if you type "Cuttle Fish Agrees" into google, my blog comes up first. Failed meme is failed.



I have also found that making Pixel Base Dolls at 3am after a long shift at work is very therapeutic. I am the barmaid that polishes knives and forks at midnight in a haunted pub kitchen. ¬ ¬


"Give me those big anime eye's!"