Exercise: Visualising your ideas
These are my sketchbook pages with the ideas and development work for this exercise.
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Learning log sketches
Sketchbook pages
Book Cover Design: My learning log sketchbook pages
Book Cover Design: The sketchbook pages
Design Development – Ann Veronica
After a long break away from this exercise I have decided to get back into it and draw up a potential design for the Ann Veronica book cover.
As I said from my research I wanted to incorporate the preserved frog she keeps in a jar in her room as part of the design.
Last night during a personal life mental break down (another 2020 nightmare dating story and idiot boy I’ll save for one of my posters!.. *eyeroll) I decided to draw up the first potential version of this.
So far I do not like it as much as my first design – However this could be due to the fact that I have not yet added enough shading and pen work. I think that by the time it is edited in Photoshop it could look potentially good.
I also want to incorporate the Pirate theme within it; In the book Ann Veronica wants to go to a Pirate fancy dress party that her Dad greatly disapproves of and tries to make her not attend, this is the basis for the rest of the story; to rebel against the expectation that was put on women of their era.
I thought about putting a pirate flag inside the jar… so that the design is similar to the first one with the dead flowers coming out of the top. I think that this is what I shall work on next.
Hello and welcome 2020!
Sorry I’m late to the party!…
Apologies that I am a little late! (22 days!) I have been a little bit M.I.A lately… I feel like I haven’t written on this blog now for so long! Not going to lie, my uni work has taken a massive back seat since Christmas 😦 Completely unintentional, In fact I am going to have to massively backtrack and catch up with where I left off just over a month ago! Still!… I needed the break! Although in all fairness I am not sure it has fully been a break :s I have worked non stop at my “double life” and my personal life has been up and down more than the Nemesis at Alton Towers! :s (*dating in 2019…..well, let me tell ya I was sooo over it!)
Anyway! I’m backkkkkk! 😀
I have also stuck to my “a poster a day challenge” which at first the concept and thought of absolutely scared the crap out of me! I am on day 22 today and so far I feel like I have hugely benefited from it!
The posters are far from perfect but I feel now I am confident with spending an hour a day (that’s all!) coming up with the idea and producing them. My perfectionism I feel has turned down a notch. I am getting used to producing designs that I might not love but that I am happy to showcase to the world on my Insta! I have also uploaded them all onto this blog also! I am trying out different techniques, media, ideas and layouts with them.
I refer back to my personal life being up and down which actually in a funny strange kinda way massively helped my creative process! 😀 I even make a joke about how I am the Taylor Swift of Graphic Design; she writes songs about bad men and plays them on her guitar, I simply design a naff poster about them! (lets call it – “Doing a Taylor Swift!”) :p
Creative genius! In the words of Kurt Cobain – “Thanks for the tragedy I needed it for my art!” Vent the anger and frustrations into something a little remotely positive!
For some reason I am at my creative best when I have fuel ready to fire up!
Anyway, please have a look at my poster art and see what you think!… any suggestions and ideas for future posters are appreciated! I feel like I have “poster plateaued” as of late… I have really struggled with ideas as I have gone about my normal, everyday, mediocre working life!…
Here is to 2020! – A new start, a new decade, better designs.. and hopefully a better dating life! (*I have a lunch date Saturday so hopefully I won’t need to do a “Taylor Swift” for this one! :p)
//January 2020 Poster challenge slideshow
Book Cover Design: Inspiration and influences
This page features everything that I have found out and about on my travels that have inspired me in this exercise.
I have found influence and inspiration in a lot of places while I have been out and about and seeing different things. I have been amazed at that when you are actually aware of what you are seeing around you that you actually find a lot of relevant research and things which link!
I guess this page is like a moodboard of everything I have found!
Exercises
These are all the exercises that I have been given to complete in between all of my assignments!
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