Visit to Borough Market - Sep 2012

On thursday 20th september we went on a trip to visit  borough market and the southbank area. whilst visiting the market we had a meeting with a representative of the market, kate howell and she told us some information on the market and told us how many customers they can get on an average day, she also gave us a information pack with various posters and flyers from 2010 and 2012. after our meeting we were allowed to spend an hour touring the market taking pictures, trying the food and asking the traders some questions about their food and they come to borough market to sell it. once we had finished at borough market we visited the tate museum, whilst walking we walked past the globe theatre, once inside the tate we had to take photographs of work we liked and collect information such as leaflets and maps . after visiting the tate modern we entered the bankside gallery and this was full of prints and illustrates, we also took pictures and collected leaflets. we then walked to the oxo tower to see the ampersand in the middle, next along was the skate park that was full from top to bottom in graffiti, this allowed us to get some really shots on our camera, the second to last part of the trip was viewing the punk art piece 'someday all the adults will die' the final part was visiting the london eye.

Today i had to create a website using codes and keytags these would help seperate the page into headings, subheadings and paragraphs aswell as learning how to change fonts and colours of fonts in the process. I also had to create a ink to a website and links between images.

I have taken a screenshot of an unstyled version of my website:

Here is another screenshot of my website using colours and enlarged text:



























HTML : HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

<P> : DISPLAYS A PARAGRAPH OF TEXT

Here is my final poster I designed to promote Peace One Day which is a organisation that encourages a global truce for one day. that day is the 21st september. My idea came from research and various thumbnail designs i created. i then had a group discussion with my classmates vicky and Becca where we decided which designs were the most successful, my research on peace one day and symbols of peace helped with my design as i needed to look at doves and a certain position for the dove i also needed to find out the website address aswell to include on my poster. overall i am happy with my outcome as i really like the dominating message i have produced aswell as the pattern in the background.

Inspired by these Two Illustration Artists

My Style Of Illustration I am Interested in and want be involved with.


Becoming an illustrator is my dream and i would like to cover many aspects of illustration, my main style i would like to be a profession in is digital illustration as i like the way you could draw a design or image and then retouch it on the computer programmes such as photoshop with many techniques and methods.

I would like to create many designs ranging in cartoon designs and realistic designs I have looked at various illustrators with felix laflamme's becoming a huge inspiration into the style of work i would like to develop. he is a digital illustrator that creates designs for bands such as 'bullet for my valentine' and also creates many other pieces of work such as his famous fugly mugs.

Below is a piece of his work that i like the most and also a link to his website.

This is one of my favourite pieces of laflamme's work as it
shows realism and cartoon at the same time. i think the use
of colour is well thought out and makes the violin stand out.

I was also browsing a illustration website with various illustration artists on it and found a digital piece of work from an illustrator named Tianyian wang who looks to have used photoshop to finish up a drawing of 'Wayne Rooney'. I liked this piece because it looks like he could've used a bit of paint aswell in the process.

whilst i was looking at this piece of work i noticed the
effect of the shading being used in blocked colour and
shapes i think this works really well as no shading
would just create a cartoon image.

Progression

I am currently on a graphic design course and in the second year of the course but am beginning to start thinking about my progression after the course. I have been considering a gap year as i would like to explore more of my options and also become more financially stable in the process, i am looking to have a steady job and a good income.

i have been looking at bournemouth university mostly as i am determined to become an illustrator and they have the best course to offer and i think it applies to my strengths. i am not looking to apply there just yet as i want to become better at my skills and be more comfortable, i am thinking of attending university when im a mature student and around 21 years old as i feel i need to experience the pressures of work before i can fully commit to university.

aucb.ac.uk

This link is for the arts university college bournemouth.

http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/W224/2012

This is another link to a illustration course at bristol university.

Finally the second year of my graphic design course has arrived and i am already looking forward to the new project of advertising. i am currently working on some thumbnails to develop a final design for peace one day, which is a one day event that happens on the 21st september every year and is a day where the whole world comes together to cease fire on war and politics. the aim of the poster is to promote and advertise the event to encourage more people to come together and make this yearly event become bigger and more common in the calendar, instead of one day turn it into a week and so on....
i will post my final design when submitted.

Over the course of the summer i have been creating various sketchbooks of illustrations and tattoo designs, i have also been developing a messy sketchbook with a series of marks and techniques using a variety of materials. i am going to post some selected parts of my sketchbooks over the coming weeks.