(From my unreleased book; “Things I’ll only ever say when drunk”) 😀
From my previous post I started to look at sketches and ideas for postcard 3. As I have stated I want postcard 3 to be raw, honest, and an insight into who I am underneath the “aesthetics”. As I previously wrote, I haven’t included so far in my designs a reference to Graphic Design, an era or any particular designers. What many people do not know about me is that I love alternative/rock music and this links in nicely to my interest in the grunge type movement of the 90s. I want this postcard to still tie in with the other 3 but show rawness, sensitivity, a deeper vulnerability and a sense of who I am underneath. Again, As I stated in my last post I found on pinterest some ideas which have helped me in my first few rough drawings.
From these first thumbnail sketches I started to experiment with the type, paints, post-its… I am waiting for a typewriter ribbon in the post for my typewriter input on it and I need to lino print some letters when I get some more free time.
Starts off with a simple hand drawn type writer text and the basic wing shape that I want on my designContinues on to break rules; Making the text a part of a design and not just to be legible and easily read.Introducing “who REAL ly am I.experimenting with some neon pink acrylic paint. Literally just getting a brush and aggressively running it down the page.I sat and thought that the “Pink” didn’t look very “Pink” and “fun” so tried to use my hand lettering from before to make it more appealing… I decided it wouldn’t work.Instead I just opted to splash it with the pink paint and incorporate some of my favourite alt bands. This was a rough list I used to write down my list of bands and then actually decided to use it for the actual piece. It is raw, edgy, grungy in appearance.One of my vunerable moments. I write my emotions/moments/how I feel at certain moments in my life in my sketchbook. I wrote this randomly one night – It just poured from my mind. I decided to use some of these moments in this piece. An insight into the real me.This is what I have so far.
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