Studio Brief 2: Individual practice

I chose to work within adult publishing as i wanted to do something a little explicit with this project for example an adult style kids book. i initially decided to do an Anti - joke book but decided that writing the jokes was taking over the illustrations. I was fixated on drawing a dead dog like this one below. Therefore, i thought it would be beneficial for me to transform my project into something based around all these dead dog drawings. Which is how i acquired my idea for a book of roadkill.

 It was hard for me to realise how i wanted to present this as a book as i wanted it to be violent without being so disgusting it no longer became funny. Therefore, i orginally thought to make it informative like an observers guide.
From my early sketches this is the direction i was going for however, once i developed them i realised i would find it easier if i just had a book of cars of dead animals.





From my experimentation and research of this project I have found effective ways of paper cut and adding texture to it.

Here is an example of it.
The process started with the cars. I found it a really effective way to create a detailed car as most paper cut cars looked the same once put together. Adding pencil crayon helped me add the details and texture to create specific kinds of cars.

I then used this method for the animals and felt less satisfied. I think more development on the animals may of ended up with better results. However my early sketches really helped me chose the level of gore of my book.
Once i started doing the experimental animals with pencil crayon the gore of it was decreasing. Probably down to the crayon on the paper cut looked very cute.
Therefore . i went back to my old sketches i realised i found it funniest when the animals where completely splattered.
This made me get out the red gouache cut up all my animals i had made and it instantly increased the image into a more disgusting but stronger image.

For my other pieces i tried to think of humorous promotional gifts to apply my drawings with.
I had ideas such as cooking untensils or a raodkill salt and pepper shaker to push the element of cooking with roadkill.
However, in the end i decided to make car accessories such as an air freshener and bumper sticker.

 I think I developed my paper cut skills within this project and i will enjoy using this method for any other detailed images in the future.
Overall, i like the book produced However, I don't see this as a finsihed project as i still think it could be much better and might take this on personally in my own time to get a book like this together as the naive violent images have a dark humour to them that i like.

Studio Brief 1 : Live brief

Hookworms

These are my final posters for the hookworms brief.

When doing the sketches and the initial ideas for this project i really wanted to steer away from doing worms. I think it's easy to get carried away and take something as easy as a name and make a poster from it as from research i realised a lot of band posters have nothing to do with what the band is called. I did many sketches of worms and birds but none of them felt good enough to become a final outcome. I started to just think of something that would go with the aesthetic of the band therefore, i created this image of a burning limo  which not only visualises a worm in a form of a limo but setting it on fire makes the image more fun and goes with the vibe of the band.

I also created another 2 more from finding some images in an animal book that i thought would make for interesting collages. These ones didn't take me as long as the first 2 as it was mainly just playing about with found images. I think the humour behind these is good and i prefer them. However, I think i would like to develop my graphic design skills in order to make posters like this look a lot more professional. I would also like to collage more with these images and develop having fun with them for further projects.


Animal Farm






When it came to my animal farm project i had similar difficulties as hookworms as i didn't want to include a pig in my final book cover as it would seem pretty obvious and i think it's about time animals farm had a cover without a piggy on.
I was very conflicted in any ideas that explained the book without making it look like a Russian farm.
Towards the end of the deadline i took the idea of just the farm and developed it into a paper cut image.
this late became the final cover for my book as it was most subtle as an idea

I would of liked of had more time to develop this idea even further and used the form of screen printing to add more texture and craft to it. However the deadline pushed me for time.

Summative Project report