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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Gingerbread People - School of Art & Design Magazine: Finished Project

It's a shame I didn't have longer on this so that I could have got more spreads done. In the end I went for quality over quantity; I'm pleased with what's there but it would have been nice to get at least 1 more done. Maybe over Christmas I will though; I want to get it printed and distributed around the art building, although I have no idea how much this will cost. Getting 1 copy (albeit on nice paper) printed from our university print services cost just under £10/ Can you actually believe that. So unless I can find a way to print it cheaply (might even have to be B+W... maybe I can covertly use the free B+W printers and print it myself, DIY punk zine style...ah) then there's no way it can be distributed physically, it'll have to be emailed out as a PDF to everyone.

I really don't understand why blogger sometimes makes the colours go completely... wrong. Sigh. Anyway, here it is:




This spread is supposed to have a yellow theme; yellow ink, yellow text. I have no idea why it's uploaded like this.

And again, why does this look brown when the first spread was the right colour? Black black black.


This is just weird. Psychedelic colours. Sigh. How frustrating. I'll try and sort this out later.




And here; why has the text randomly disappeared!! It's a jpeg for god's sake. No layers involved here. Silly.
But yet you can see the text here?

Aside from the minor technical bafflement, there it is. I'm so much happier about it than I thought I'd be. It needed handing in this morning but it's still not back from the printers; once I've added it into my folder then I am completely done. I love that. Now I can read lots.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Seven Deadly Sins: Finished Project

I never actually thought I would be able to finish this in time for deadline. This project has been so stressful; fun though. And even though I had to rush these a bit, I'm really pleased with them. Here we go:








I won't put the titles up; one of the ideas of the project was to create a sense of ambiguity with the sins; I know some are more obvious than others. I was looking at perception and the way text can influence an image, so I suppose it's interesting if people have their own perceptions of which Sin each image represents. My three favourites are Pride, Sloth and Envy; they definitely came out the best.

I also want to upload this image as well, it's my favourite drawing from the project. I've noticed I have actually improved over these past 12 weeks. It works quite well as a piece on it's own:


I handed in today; such an amazing feeling. Now I can have a bit of a relax over Christmas, while I start applying for my MA. Scary stuff.

I'll post my finished magazine next...

Friday, December 05, 2008

More Deadly Sins...

I have less than 2 weeks to finish all of my work and I'm getting more than a bit scared. But I'm getting lots done too which is always good. Here are two of my latest Deadly Sins, Wrath and Greed. Both need an extra bit of tweaking but the main ideas are there now.


I've got about 3 more to do now. I should be ok. Stressful times.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Honestly, I really thought this was where places were.

I've never really had a good sense of geographical direction over long distances.

This is where I thought cities were, in my head without looking at a real map, right up until I was about 17. So I thought I'd do a little diagram to explain exactly where, and why.