Profile - Initial Development

Leah can be broken down into a few basic shapes which make her very easy to create. They're all very geometric without much shape and this allowed me to easy construct her from shapes.

I wanted to keep the features to a minimum, sticking with only anything that makes them distinguishable. (I.E: eyelashes that are exaggerated.)

Bender again was very simple to create, however, I really wanted to get his personality across which is hard with a few shapes. I liked how in illustrations of him the use of the eyes was very important in establishing the emotion in Bender.  I tried this to my advantage, it worked really well. These illustrations would be very charming to have animated.

Fry Followed a similar shape as Leah, so it was just adding in his features to match. I hope this makes creating other characters just as simple.

These are a collage of characters I would like to make later on, mostly cartoon characters, I would like to however expand it to feature famous cult characters which come in trio's such as the good bad and the ugly and Sam, Frodo and Gollum. They're famous for being together and I think it'd be a good way to display them instead of been singular.

DBA - Capital North Meeting - Thursday 5th

Our group met together to discuss our concepts for the DBA brief, no one had really any solid idea's as of yet. However, the one I brought forward was to have the logo to be layered using the identities for the other cities. 'They work well on their own, but they work even better together'

 Layered logo, identities of each city coming together. Work well on their own, but they work even better together.

YCN – Yorkshire Tea Brief

Yorkshire Tea: February 4th – Initial Direction

Before I start my placement at Analogue, me and Ant got together to come up with some initial ideas for the direction we wanted to take the Yorkshire tea in.

The first call of action was creating a more aesthetically pleasing logo.  It's the first thing we called out, and as a starting point is a great place to get a general idea for what the rest of the box looks like. 

What we disliked about the original was the lines around both the text, and the white box. Although, the box it's self is nice, we wanted to strip it back to concentrate it and then apply elements that we thought created a look which was more modern, yet still applied to a wider audience.

We both loved, this image below. It was quintessentially Yorkshire. Yet, the logo overlaid really sealed the deal, instead of illustration, photography seems like the route we need to go.

As a quick mock-up, I put the image onto a box just to get an idea of how It might look.

Anona: Tote bag/ Bag for life

Using the excess fabric, I thought it'd be a good idea to make a bag. Sort of like the bag for life you can get in supermarkets, just more luxurious. The reasoning behind this was, if you're buying bread on a very regular basis. It'd make sense to have a bag specific to the shop, or it'd be an incentive over having to pay for plastic bags.

NSS BRIEF - LCA

I used artwork created for my practical aspect of dissertation, this was because I’d recently finished it and I wanted see what other applications they had. This was more of a personal experiment than how I usually undertake a brief, just to see how well they can be applied to something other than their original purpose. 

I created simple posters, using their heads, I think they where really successful in my own personal aims. However, they may not have been their actual aims at fulfilling the brief set and it's target audience.

Although it was just an experiment, it was enjoyable to see how illustrations can be applied to different situations. Although I didn’t win the competition for the brief, I was really happy with the outcome on a personal level. It may not have been the most appropriate, but I believe It was the most positive. 

Anona: Wood cuts

Inspired by the wood I saw in the window display at Betties, I asked my dad to cut me some wood up into slices. These are intended to be used for photography, the wood will give it that much needed rustic look when it's complemented along with a wicker basket. 

I wanted pieces which had bark, thick and thin to create variety as well as just to have as options when it came to actually photographing it'd be helpful incase one isn't as good.

Sanded down the pieces really looked lovely, using the long side, I wanted to have some long slices incase I make a olive board anti-pasti, just in case I want to take it the deli route.

Varnished for that rustic look, the wood really came out nicely, it will compliment the fabric I had printed really nicely.