Studio Practice: SUMMARY POST 1

Briefs Completed / In Progress:

Travelling Man Exhibiton
The Hamster Poster.
Fashion Student Collab.
Self Initiated Brief

Following on from my work on level 5 and my exploration of Gif creation over summer I was approached by a number of people asking to complete briefs for small projects. This was a big compliment as I felt at this point that my work wasn’t really heading in the direction that I was intending for it to go. I was creating simple line work and although I felt my work had elements of comedy and meaning behind it, I felt this it didn't aesthetically look how I was wanting it to.

My first completed piece of work was a piece of fan art for the comic book shop ‘Travelling Man’. I created a Phil Mitchell Eastenders posters, although I was really happy with the reaction to this and Comedian Russell Brand purchased a print of the work, the line work, colour and even media and ‘style’ just wasn't what I was wanting to make and create. I also felt that I slightly rushed this brief and I was worrying about the placement of the work within the comic book shop, I was worrying and comparing myself to the style and media used by others who were also putting work in the exhibition. I felt very lost at this point as to where my practice was heading, I wasn’t really enjoying drawing in the traditional sense and felt that I could create work in a different method.

EASTENDERS POSTER

Following on from the Eastenders poster I was asked by a group of film students to work on a poster for their final year film ‘The Hamster’. This was a paid commission which was a compliment, however, they wanted to see my work in the same ‘style’ as the Eastenders poster which, again, wasn’t the direction that I wanted my work to be heading towards.

I used the same process to create the poster through sketching, scanning and adding digital colour I was able to create the poster in a similar aesthetic style as before. It was interesting to be creating work for someone else as I found that I judged myself a lot more as I really wanted to impress the client. This wasn’t necessarily something that I enjoyed in the sense that, through making work I wanted to be able to like it myself and not have to worry if its similar enough to previous work or if someone else will like it. I had to keep reminding myself that they wouldn't have asked me to complete the poster if they didn't initially like my style. This was a big battle and challenge for me at this point. It was also a challenge to use the text in the poster so that it was appropriate as a film poster for the students. I studied existing posters and was able to learn and examine how font and sizing of the text is used.

THE HAMSTER POSTER

The film poster was quite a quick turn around so I was able to complete it within a few days, I wasn’t nessisarily very happy with it myself but the film students were really happy with it.

Another brief that I was approached to do was by a third year fashion student, she had seen my experimental gifs that I had completed over summer and was interested to collaborate with me and use some of her fashion photos in a way that combined moving image. This was a really existing prospect as it was stepping away from the line drawings which i really wasnt enjoying at this point.

This was a slightly longer brief so I took time to plan and consider how I could use the images in an exciting and different way.

EXAMPLE OF EXPERIMENTAL GIF FROM SUMMER