Wates Poster

I was given a brief to create a poster for Wates Construction to promote healthy eating or safety on the site. 

After drawing some thumbnails I decided the good from the bad out of my designs and decided to produce this piece. I thought that to create a Healthy Eating poster it would be suitable to add an Apple to the page but instead of doing just an apple of which would be plain and simple, I decided to then produce the apple with the use of words repeating Eat Healthy the whole way through the apple. I thought the cream background would be suitable as it is a colour of nature and brings the colour of the green out more.
After finishing this I added my "footer" to have the company name on. This piece did not need a heading due to it all being displayed with the imagery and type. 

Web Design

Today I created my first website using TextEdit to write down the basic coding for the website. The code looks very complicated but if you know what each thing means then it should be very simple. 

The image to the side is of the code without the use of styling coding used, this code is very short and simple which would be good if you wanted an extremely boring and simple website. 








To the side is what this code produces without styling, it is simple. boring and poorly set out.





 





The picture to the side is the code we used to add the style to the website. This code is much more longer and looks more complicated by is very simple if you know what everything means and if it is set out nicely with the use of spaces. This adds more depth to the website and makes it more interesting and modern. This is just the basics to how to create a website.

The picture to the side is of the website with the style added, comparing this to the image without style, this website looks much better and more effective.

To create the website we used HTML, this is a web language of which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. 

Websites that helped me create the website are linked below:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp

They helped me due to the example codes.

Work Simularities

I found the picture to the left, done by Kelli Murray, on her blog in sketchbook pictures. I have made this blog entry because looking at this piece it reminds me of another piece of art I have seen.

This piece reminds me of Rapunzel in the disney film Tangled. This is because in the film, Rapunzel hides in her hair like in the Kelli Murray image.

The image of Rapunzel is located in the link below:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/ashley_serena/hairhut2.gif

Peace One Day Poster

I have created a poster to promote Peace One Day.
To start off I created a mindmap of which helped me to come up with ideas for thumbnails, the mindmap is about peace which comes in different forms whether it be a flower, object, symbol, colour, quote or location.

I got peer evaluation on my thumbnails by Katie and Nathan in a small group crit in which they selected my best thumbnail idea and gave me notes on it, they said what was good with the idea and what I could add to the idea to make it better. I found this very helpful because it was nice to find out what they thought about my idea and to give me ideas to think about when creating it.

I created this piece in illustrator using the pen tool to go over the image of a lotus flower, I picked a lotus flower because they are a beautiful flower in which represent peace and are themselves peaceful when they float in the water. I changed the brush stroke to marker smooth which gave a ink look making the flower look more beautiful than just line work, I then added a quote said by the founder of the company Peace One Day and thought this would be very suitable to go upon this poster. I added gradient to my text to fit in with the logo as well as using the exact same colours which are located on the logo. When the text was all layed out I then decided to set out the pattern of my flowers of which I would like nearly touching the type or the text going over the flowers. I have used both of these methods located at the top and the bottom of the poster.

Blood On The Dance Floor

Drawing of Dahvie Vanity drawn with HB and 4B pencil. Coloured pencil background.
















Singers of band, Blood On The Dance Floor





Drawing of Jayy Von Monroe, drawn with HB and H pencil.

Inspirational Artists part 3

Kelli Murray is an artist I studied in secondary, she was an Artist in which I based my final piece in Graphics on.

Kelli is an artist born in San Diego, CA in 1984, her work is styled to fit fashion which is because this is something she enjoys and something she can do when designing outfits. Her style is illustrative and cute of which works well to produce pretty and effective fashion pieces.

Kelli is now the head designer of Jedidiah Clothing Company, it is her illustration, design skills and style which produces a fashion line that speaks to the heart of its devoted clientele. Her style displays a distinctive hip and urban feel which has been shown by the imagery showing innocence and hope.

I like Kelli's style because it is a different and fun way to show a fashion clothing line with the use of imagery you would not see anywhere else, the colours are girlie as well as the clothing style which of course shows that the clothing is created and designed for women. The images are unique with a background behind it matching the image perfectly of which I have found is shown in the bottom two images, it shows what inspired her and how she has used the design material to make her own.
The top image shows a model and the drawing next to it, this shows that she designed the outfit and then created it for the clothing line, the model is herself.

Her work can be found on the link below:

http://www.kellimurray.com/

Inspirational Artists part 2

This work was created by  Oliver Winconek,  an artist of which has been working in Kent for the past 5 years since moving there. His work is inspired by his everyday encounters of people and events, his work is a signature of how he sees the World in his perspective.

His work is in a street art type of style if looking at his work you can see the street art influence, the link below has his gallery of work located on it:
http://www.oliver-winconek.co.uk/index.html

His work is created from stencils of which are hand-cut from  original photographs, his painting materials are a combination of spray paint and acrylic paints.


The pictures to the left are paintings of which are of a person called Emily, they show a good use of tone and colour but the fact that the imagery is rather dark could mean that at the time he was feeling depressing or when he saw the photography he felt they were depressed. Emily is looking down and her stare is looking empty which could show she was upset or depressed, although this could have been a pose I believe it was taken as a depressing state by artist Oliver Winconek of which he then thought about and it appear depressing in the painting.

My Progression Goal

My progression goal is to gain a high grade in my Extended National Diploma Level 3 Graphic design course, my main goal is to try gain DDD grading which would help with opportunities in the future and for when I want to go to University after a gap year.

I am planning to have a gap year so I can improve my thought generation as well as my drawing and computer skills for Graphic Design working. I would also like to take this gap year to move to Yorkshire, settle in well and get a job in which would help me to get some savings to go towards University.

The University in which I would like to study at is York College doing a course of which is validated by York St. John University.

The course I would like to study is located in the link below: 

http://www.yorkcollege.ac.uk/courses/description.php?id=243

Inspirational Artists

This work done by Rome-based artist, Silvia Pelissero is truly inspiring with the use of bright colours adding interest and capturing the eye. Her work is beautifully effective and something always interesting to look at.

Her pieces are created with the use of watercolour paint and white fine pen. The idea of the water running the paint down the face is her way of making her work different to every other artist, although the paint running down the page can be classed as messy it works very well with her pieces and makes them look more beautiful and unique. She likes to flick the paint upon her pieces also known as something messy but made beautiful with her creative mind.

She is my favourite artist of which I shall use as an influence in my hand created work. She is a very inspiring woman who lures you in with her beautiful, realistic art.

Her professional DeviantArt is linked below:
http://agnes-cecile.deviantart.com

Her youtube showing her speed painting is linked below:
http://www.youtube.com/user/agnescecile?feature=watch

Her Website is lined below:
http://agnes-cecile.cleanfolio.com/