Study Task 2

Ryo Takemasa

http://ryotakemasa.com/works/ahead/

Ryo Takemasa's work has a lot of narrative in all his editorial illustrations. Each one is composed in a way that makes certain objects or characters become a lot more interesting and make you think  further beyond the drawing, displaying that composition is important within editorial. His illustrations have a paper cut out effect look to them however there isn't any info on the process on his work but it is very nicely crafted.

Paul Blow 

Paul  Blow has done a lot of editorial especially for the Guardian and it also emphasises the important of the composition. Aspect such has the big hand or the small people really help build a narrative for the article. One element of Paul's work i really like is his use of colour it is consistently bright and help bring out key elements of the image.

I imagine there is a lot of thought process behind Paul's work as it well thought out both in the image and making process of it. i imagine most of his work is done digitally but his use of half tones and textures can give it a screen print aesthetic.  

Study Task 3

 Blexbolex

I received his book "people" as a birthday gift one year and i have always been interested in the printing style of this book.

The shapes, colours and textures are all enhanced through the process of printing. all the shapes are smooth and bold, like blocks of colour moulded into different shapes to make up a person. some of it has subtle over lapping too to add a darker tone for shades and outlines. this is a technique which i think would be useful in my process. Most of these prints range between 3 to 4 colours which helps me look at effective ways to limit my colours.

May 68 students 

Mai 68 is something i am studying for cop after finding loads of re prints of the posters. I would say my work has taken a big influence to this after being introduced to it. The immediacy and simpleness behind them are a good example of printing being able to spread a message fast on a large scale. It's made me focus a lot more on printing bold shapes and thinking about an effective lay out for my images which are definitely present within these prints.

Nathaniel Russel   

Nathaniel Russel uses wood cut techniques in his work. Although this a form of printing i don't think i will have the chance to try within this brief seeing these positive propaganda posters really inspire me to try it. Bold shapes in woodcut are hard to do this therefore adds interesting textures to the prints. The playfulness of all of these prints make wood cut seem like a good development step as i am use to see wood cuts in a very detailed form but in a child like way they can look very fun.

Sudio Breif 1 editorial finals

Here are my finals, they come as a set as i wanted to have a continuous theme flowing through the images, each image connects through the wire and starts with the mice to then finish the set with the earth as a sort of punchline to my editorials. I wasn't fully satisfied with the final image as the blues clashed and the stars need more blue in them but i think once the colours are adjusted it would make a stronger set of images. I wanted to give them a slight screen print effect, for example i didn't line up the mice perfectly to give it more of a analogue effect.
Overall, I think the idea could be visualised a bit stronger but each image individually works well and makes a playful set of images.

Studio Brief 1 editorial development

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This is some of my editorial development, i didn't create too many thumbnails but i thought it would be easier for me to make a lot of images related to Douglas adams and then pull an idea based on there. I mainly ran with the idea of mice and there involvement in creating and controlling the world. I tried a few different medias and experiments on textures. I think overall the more simple shapes work best for me and will be easiest to collage with later on photoshop.

Douglas Adams zine

I enjoyed doing this zine even if it did feel a bit rushed. I selected various amounts of research that i gathered over the summer such as, his TED talk and elements of his book such as the meaning of lyff and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. I was up for doing the whole thing mainly in paper cut out just because i thought it would be a good idea to stick to what i know and maybe develop it. I personally like the hanging falling whale and the pop out map. I did a lot of experimentation with textures and shape in the zine to outline some shadows and textures on the rocks and clouds.
I think there is some imagery in this that i would like to further develop into a more refined piece.

Angela Carter

I was interested in the idea of Angela Carter's books as i liked the idea of the short stories. However, from reading the first short story in "The Bloody Chamber" i kind of realised that i was in for a dark and gothic ride.
Angela had a very fortunate childhood in the sense that her family where very well off but she wanted to break away from all that and she had some confusing and mentally challenging relatoinships and was a strong feminist voice in society especially through the forms of her books.

The bloody chamber

I approached this book as a starter to see if i would be interested in any of her other work. I did find the whole book to be beautifully written with detailed language of places, characters and emotions which where all heavily supported by mostly gothic but sometimes lovely metaphors. However, the subject of most of these short stories as a whole are as far away from lovely as you could ever get.


I'm not a big reader as a whole, but i wouldn't really say these kind of books are my thing. After reading each story i found it to get more and more disturbing and very dark. Obviously the subjects of most of these stories are metaphors of disturbing situations and predators (much like the original fairytales that these stories are based off) just maximised such as men being represented as beasts a lot throughout the book.which i think is translated well over these rewritten fairy tales. However, I don't think Angela's overall aesthetic of the bloody chamber and after some research some of her other books it's perhaps a bit dark for me. I think a challenge on this brief to move away from something happy may be a good idea but a lot of the subjects of her stories may be a bit too much.
I was happy to read a masterpiece in english literature though as devastating and disturbing as it might be.

wolf alice story response with ink and inverting

oliver sacks

Oliver Sacks is an established British neurologist, historian and author he believed that ''the brain is the most wonderful thing in the universe." 

i have come across Oliver sacks before through other books on mental health but have never looked to thoroughly. I think the brain and how it works is a very interesting concept and an exciting subject to learn about, so i was excited to read the man who mistook his wife for a hat. 

After reading the title i wanted to draw that scenario pronto. This book is full of interesting knowledge, humour and melancholy at times. The book is split up into 4 different parts focusing on various kinds of disabilities.