14 posts tagged “uni”

Can you tell I'm a Londoner?

These are for the new issue of the zine the students on my course produce (Meow Magazine). This month's theme is I Love London so this was what I did. I'm also on the editing team this year and we have big plans for it.

This was my first project at uni. Everyone was given colour to research, to be inspired by and to create a piece capturing the essence of. Mine was scarlet and I went down a little red riding hood avenue. I'm getting very into the darker side of fairytales and their prevalence in our culture. This bit in the Guardian about fairytales is definitely worth a read.

Anyway, ironically for a project about scarlet I draw it all in black and white. I carefully cut red riding hood out so that last red page would show through all the way to the first. 

 

 

 

 

 

This book is supposed to be a wander though my mind, so I hope you enjoy it. Images are best viewed large. This is my third summer project.

My second package contains three coffee drawing and little handmade sketchbook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the last month I moved out of my (rather nicely decorated) room in halls of residence.

And into my grandparent's baker street flat for the summer

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My summer project set by my second year tutor was to create six bits of work from six different times over the summer. These then needed to be posted to our second year tutor, with the packaging an important part of the project. My first project was to record things about my last weeks at halls. Little things like how I decorated my room, the pens on my desk, the people and met and the old photos my boyfriend gave me. Here are a fews bits of that work. 

 

I was going to make the most of the uni's screenprint facilities and screenprint myself some t-shirts. I had them all designed but then I had to have a lot of emergency hospital, doctor's and optician's appointment about my eyes. I had my eyes dilated, ultrasounded, completely numbed and thoroughly checked in a myriad of different ways. They're fine but I missed my opportunity to screen print. Anyway, here's what I was going print on t-shirts. They're in black and white so I could expose the images onto the screen.

 

My last project of the year was to produce two pages of graphic novel. And remember those books we all had to write about a memory or event in our lives? We all got given someone's else's book to work from, which certainly made it interesting. I won't tell you the story I got because hopefully my comic should do that for you. Click larger to read it.

We had a very tight deadline for this project which resulted in my consuming a litre and half of coffee in one day in order to get it done. To my great surprise I got a first, which was one of the highest grades in the class, which definitely makes rotting my insides with coffee worth it.

Yesterday was my final hand in date. Now I have more time than I know what to do with. Okay that's not strictly true because I'm already planning collaborative photography illustration projects, designing t-shirts, modelling for photoshoots, thinking about doing some freelance editorial work, and let's not forget all the parties planned. And of course I will be updating my blog much more frequently.

Here's a snap shot of my first year at uni, told in polaroids naturally.

 

Here are the pages for my memory based book called 'I Heart NY'. I'll write more about each page on the individual image description. It's concertina bound with a thick white outer cover that is embossed with the New York sky line, but unfortunatly my tutors still have the actual book. My tutor gave it a provisional 2:1 grade but when he showed it to my second year tutor he said he'd been stingy and said that he would have given it a 1st. Firsts in the first year are very rare and it was a big enough deal that my tutor came to tell me this himself. However the second year tutor isn't marking it so I shouldn't get too excited. If you'd like to see some my friend's books they've posted pages from theirs on their blogs here and here (blogs belonging to Gemma and James respectively, two very talented people).

I really haven't kept up with my blogging at all this year. Hopefully I'll get better. I've been working hard though. Briefing on Monday at 10:00 am, research and 20 thumbnail sketches to be done by 2:00 that afternoon, final artwork ready for a 10:00 deadline on Thursday, new project brief at 11:00, 20 more thumbnail sketches done by 2:00, final artwork for 10:00 next Monday morning, next project brief at 11:00 etc, etc. Plus a day of life drawing, a day of 3D Design and a day of History of Art and Design.

Here's a piece of work for an editorial project based on the word Pandemonium:

Pandemonium

 

I went with the first meaning and interpreted it as someone's personal hell because I didn't want to just draw lots of red, flamey, pointy stuff.