123- Part 3

"Be yourself and value your own ideas" I heard this from an Illustrator named Sholto Walker who I had emailed to ask him a few questions. This 'saying' relates alot to me, I believe strongly in being yourself and not someone else, or changing yourself to impress others etc. The same with ideas, If I like an idea, but others don't, why not develop this idea, and show people that it can work, Instead of changing things because others think it's the right way to go. I know sometimes, it is good to listen to peoples opinions and advice, but if you think strongly about something, you should stick by it no matter what people say, or try to improve it, this will show people what you can really achieve! :)

Music- Rough Sketches

Block squares, possibly with flowery backgrounds, with images such as hearts, flowers, lips, rings (romancey stuff). Hung from each other. Things dangaling, round a girl in underwear. Sexy/Romanctic.

Pair of lips. Squares inside the lips with things in, collagey!

This is a piece out of the Love Sick book. Really liked this page, thought about having girls dangling down on the glass, possibly with backgrounds. Obviously, creating our own girls in a similar style.

Making the girls abit more modern. Very Rough

Music Brief

For the Music Brief I am working with Chloe, the song we have chosen is "Kiss" by Prince. A song about love, romance etc etc. So our first obvious idea was to do something with lips and 'kisses'.

We looked at a book called Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust and Marrige, to get some more ideas.

8x8 Live Brief- Junctures

Met the writer for the story I have to illustrate yesterday, Lovely lady, Anna Paldanius. She liked my idea for her story which is brilliant! Story: Girl (Joy), Seeing two guys (Frank and Jack), doesn't know who to pick, she has a choice. In the end her choice is taken away from her. Death. Baby. Emotions. Idea: Games of chance, Fruit Machine. No choice, it's made for you, you don't know what you are going to get. Put faces on machine to represent the guys and main character Joy. Other things on there to represent other parts of the story. etc...

I can sketch too!

Sorry for the bad photos! But yes, Got bored and decided to draw Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow and Rob Zombie!

123- Part 2

'Always do what you love. If you don't love what you are drawing then change it.' Tansy Myre said this to me in one of her emails. I thought it was very useful and something I can relate to. If you simply don't like what you are doing, stop and do something else. Change your idea or just take a different approach. With my editorial piece, I loved what I had done, pretty simple and a good shape to work with, but every time I tried to put something in the background, it just didn't work at all. So I thought, stop, and just carried on playing around with the main element making that look stronger on its own.

Editorial in Layout

Decided to make my own layout in InDesign, having just the gun as the shape and placing the text around the gun. I'm not great with composition, so thought I'd keep my illustration to a simple shape and this way I can place the text around it instead of it being a block shape. I really like working like this, with a simple shape as It limits compositions and helps with the use of white space!