One of the Discussion forums

From what I can remember there was  discussion forum on how slight animation shots were taking over and put in newspapers to how technology and new media is going to be a lot bigger in the future to what it is now and how illustrators wont have a say  but I think that we will always have a say when it comes to any type of animating to illustrating. Technology does have that slight help of creating something that makes your work stand out but all I think technology is there is for us to 'tweek' bits of our work. Technology and computers we use don't have the imagination we come up with so with out us the media wouldn't where it is now.

"I wish I'd Done that " and pieces of advice

If I was to go back and change up on things I did it would have to come down to how I organized my timing, my time management and organizational skills were very weak and I’m always known for leaving "work until the last minute". There were the odd few times where I would sit back a few weeks before the deadline and get everything done but thinking back I predominantly messed up my timing with a few pieces of important work, for the times for when I’d got pieces done earlier with the given research and image development it seemed a lot healthier then panicking and rushing to get everything done in one day. I had a tendency to think that I’d have enough time to it 'do it the next day' which never happened which put me in a position to be always fallen behind, there was never a time I worked past the deadline but just never used the timing to where the brief was given to when that certain project finished. Another weakness is trying other things in my work, I wish I just gone back and tried different things with mark making and even with media, that slight change in your work can give you that better mark, I always stuck to that same consistent style which did started to get annoying, if you can change up your style now and again, it makes your work exciting and other people are going to want know what your getting up to rather then just people knowing what your doing all the time. Having a decent style is good but it needs to cover all types of drawing and you should combine it with other ideas you have. I also wish I had a broader imagination because I had a fixation with drawing out portraits and just faces which also started to get a bit boring but if you look through my posts to where I started you can see that my work starts to get a bit "samey" to where it awakens and I try new things. My DNAD project took a leap onto my work because my tutor said that the DNAD competition brief was ideal for me and she also had an inspirational artist to look up and work towards and he is now a favorite in my inspirational artists column at uni !! Heath Robinson who is an amazing illustrator is capable of almost anything when it comes to drawing but his sense if creating busy images caught my eye and I started to want to do work just like it but in my own style. The leaf I took out of his book made a turnover in my grades and also made my work look a lot stronger, 'Mcbess' another illustrator made a small turn in the way I work also because of his way of putting the dark areas in the right places. But Heathes illustrations had me gazing at his work most nights, he would put together a small group of people in his illustrations and make it look like their doing some 'crazy activities' because he'd have string lifting something up like a wardrobe or a bridge or just something you wouldn't think of and it almost looks like some sort of crazy experimentation. So looking at other illustrators can be inspiring and can tackle out the boring stuff and awaken a style in your work. I used to be one that wouldn’t use any reference for when I would illustrate but things can get a bit bland when not using anything, I was doing this for a while and I couldn’t see that repetitive streak everybody was telling me about. And then everything changed just because I had to act go and look at other people’s work and how they would always change it up and not have the same portraying image. Also I think that I would always go off in a tangent and always restrict myself to work and doodle all the time which would come to a point where I would be doing my work I’d just doing bits of my own personal work, its good have personal work but to an extent where you have enough time to get your own work done as well. Also not sticking with the same idea, I’m not going over what I’m saying its just when I do figure out something I don’t run with it just stays the same and it never continues. So if you follow up on my errors you'll see where your work goes to how it improves, everyone has there own mistakes so it takes getting them done for you to realize what you shouldn’t do so that you learn for next time.

Creative Review

There’s a book I bought from amazon called 'Behind Illustrations' and it covers most of the top artists/painters/sculptors and also talks about what historical artists influences our contemporary illustrators of today. I know I've mentioned him a few times through out my study but before I came across his inspirational drawing style the book mentioned a guy called 'Luke Dixon',  It just talks about how he came across his style to why he draws like how he does. Most of his work relates to portraits and famous people, there are loads of illustrators trying to portray the same message with what Luke is trying to do but I think only Luke can do that. Meaning when he does a portrait his twist of getting the person looking just like how they are with his conjoining consistent thick line style is 'painfully' amazing, the reason I say painfully is because I've tried to cover a portrait but with how he combines the resemblance with his style but its not easy and I don't know any illustrators that can pull it off like how he can. When I carried on reading I was even more inspired with what he's come across as of today because from him starting from so little to where he is now is truly fantastic!! He now has his own international Clothing Line, he's done collaborations with Nike, and he’s collaborated with some of the biggest clothing companies and set up his own foundation. I find this very motivating and it motivates me to do well and I'm not saying I'm going to end up where he is now but if I at least get my imagery out there I might come across something like how he has. Making that connection with the outside world is difficult and reading this book reminds you how it can be done and how having that success is reachable. He mentions how these connections in his life were like a miracle coming true to how he didn't expect anything like this, he says from his own perspective that he just liked creating beautiful images but from where he was sat he didn't think that his work would go anywhere but from where I was reading and to how I viewed his work I think me and many others could see that his work was going to make a change in his life. After a few reads I could see that there was more to illustrating then just drawing a few detailed pictures, I could see that if you make the right choice and believe in yourself you may head down the direction you want to go down. It just takes dedication and for you to think about how your work could be relevant in the art industry, there’s a lot of competition out there and there’s loads of illustrators and I just see it as how your style and imagery differentiates from another illustrator. I don’t think you should be to competitive because I see that as a target for another illustrator to beat you, I’ve seen artists that don’t even take up the subject and their work is just phenomenal.

8 by 8

This is the chosen banner I created for "paid in full", the imagery is highly to do within the story from where he is in shape to here he puts the weight back on. "After and Before"

eight by eight (8 x 8)

This is my storyboard for my eight by eight, "paind in full", the selected images are the ones that mainly kick the story off to where it heats up!!!

w e l l s p r i n g

This wasnt selected from the wellspring because of the relevance, they liked the imagery bu didnt think it was hitting the point to 'Benefits'

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This was one that was choosen for the wellspring that they were more then greatful and were pleased with.

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This was one of the pieces the wellspring group chosen which i thought worked really well with what the they were asking or, some o the pieces i did were a bit contempary and the ones that werent chosen wernt neessarily bad images but just target at the wrong thing.. I'll show you some examples.

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This was another piece directed for the wellspring Center which was just a sampling piece to see how the logo would come out to how the imagery would fit with it, once I had hit what i wanted I then began to create the posters as told. 

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'Maths And English Advice' was a piece I did for the wellspring center which they were greatful for when I had shown them. Also i was happy that my imagery was used for something rather it just being another doodle I do on a day to day basis.

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This and a few other pieces I did alongside were asked by wellspring if I and a ew others could support them with some posters to do with drug advice, housing advice, domestic and many more. Unfortunatley I was that motivated I did it all myself (greedy me). I did ten images and they picked 5 out if the ten I did

gospel album over

The same piece but wih colour, the artistt asked for a few images with and without the love and vice versa with the colouring, so I sampled the colouring and sent him a few of the images i came up with. 

gospel album cover

This was a piece done from my 1st year of uni, it was put on facebook and was asked by a facebook friend gospel christian artist 'Luke Benjamin Nelson' if he could use it as his album cover, he just wanted the image, the type and sampling he will be doing himself. 

club promotion

The same night but just more promotion, 'Andy walker' the guy in charge of the night was amazed with what I came up with and has asked for me to come to future event meetings to also see where I can use my imagination

an outside piece.

This was a piece done for a night at entourage manchester (night club), the person in charge of the event told me to create something that will motivate people to come to the night club. This and another was created.