Thursday, 31 October 2013

Assessment Week - Self Directed Task.

For this task we have been asked to create a piece of artwork that shows our interests within graphics we could have used any medium that we wanted, i decided to crate a piece of work through photo shop because i really enjoying using it but i do not know how to use everything properly so i thought this would also be good practise for the near future.

I came up with the idea of making my image look like it was made up of smoke, this is my first attempt at it, i found it quite hard at first to figure out how to do it but when i had it was really easy to do, i also played around with changing the colour by adding a colour layer which then made the smoke look like it was a different colour.

This was my first few attempts at creating this smoke effect, i am happy with this out come but i think that i could produce something better.








Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Summary of the exploratry Stage

Over the past 6 weeks i have been experiment with different art and design pathways such as fashion and textiles, 3D Design, Graphics and Lens based media, i have learnt a grate deal  like how to use graphic soft wear as photoshop, illustrator and in design properly, i am also a lot more confident when having to stand up in front of everyone and explain my work.
The 6 weeks started off in fashion and textiles which i really did not enjoy at all before but i ended up really enjoying everything that we did in fashion and textiles, i produced a head piece out of paper which i was quite proud of in one day.I then went on to do 3D design which i had not done before and i really enjoyed this i loved being very hands on and not much time to think about things just getting straight on with it, i found it quite challenging but when i complete the task successfully it was a really good feeling.I then went on to do  graphics which had the most fun doing for i am picking graphics as my pathway i really like playing around with different type faces and creating my own typography.then it was the last pathways which was lens based media which i had no interest in at all but i did enjoy the week of lens base, i really like being in a group with some of my class mates and coming up with some good funny stories, it was a struggle to come up with my own story that would be interesting and would have a problem and solution.
Over all i have really enjoyed the 6 weeks of exploratory it has taught me a lot and a lot of stuff that i can use in the future, i am really excited to start the graphics pathway.

Monday, 21 October 2013

Day 18 - Lens base media final story


Bobby the newt lives in the bushes on the themes bank with his parents and his 16 siblings. One day he got home after a long and horrible day at school and had a massive argument with both of his parents which made him extremely angry so he decided that he need to go for a walk to cool off.


He decided that he was going to take a slow walk around the O2 to laugh at all the silly humans, but on his way to the O2 he was so scared for his life by a human who almost killed him by stepping on him.

Luckily before the human put her foot down she saw Bobby and picked him up to make sure that he was not injured.

The human found a nice safe place to put Bobby so that he was out of the pathways and out of danger.




Luckily Bobby knew where the human had left him and knew how to get home so as soon as all the humans were out of sight he ran home as fast as he could to avoid almost getting killed again.


Bobby made it back home to her family safe and sound and told them all about his terrible day he had.

Day 18 - Lens Based Media

Today task was to create our own short story that had a begging a problem a solution and a end, we then had to make a 6 image story board to go with our story.

This is a rough sketch of what my final 6 images will look like and a rough idea of what my story will be.


Image 1 - Bobby the newt lives in the bushes on the themes bank with his parents and his 16 siblings, after a bad day at school he came home and ended up having an argument with his mum which sent him over the edge so he decided he need to go for a walk to cool off.

Image 2 - Bobby decided that he would take a walk round the O2 to have a look but is almost stepped on by a human on his way.

Image 3 - Luckily the human spotted Bobby before putting her foot straight on him, so she picked him up to make sure that he was okay.

Image 4 - The human then found a small bush near the O2 and placed Bobby in there to keep him safe.

Images 5 - Luckily Bobby knew the way home from where the human left him.


Image 6 - Bobby found his way back home safely to his family who where very happy to see him as they were all worried sick and told them all about his adventure out.

Once i had created this short story i then had to go out around the O2 and take 6 images which would fit the story correctly. i am now going to put the images and the story together.







Friday, 18 October 2013

Day 17 - Lens based media

Firstly we where put into groups of 4 and given a A1 sheet of paper on which we all had to draw 6 people from our past, 3 thing that we are scared off, a place of happiness, a place that makes you feel sad and our favourite place.
These are the things that i have drawn on my quarter of the paper                                         
6 people from my life: My mum, dad, nan, grandad, brother and sister 
3 things that I'm scared of: Spiders, things under my bed, a scary man with no face.
A place of happiness: The beach
A Places that makes me sad : The graveyard
My favourite place: My bed.  

This is our A1 sheet with all of our different small sketch's on.


We then had to crate a story using a different image from each of our individual sketches and then combine them.
These are the begging of the stories we came up with;

1. The scary figure lives in a spider infested cave in a graveyard, he sleeps through out the night and works during the day.Hes job is to once a year make everyone in the world there favourite breakfast and bring it to them, the other 364 days of the year he spends preparing all the breakfast's. He travels around on a black cloud of mist.

2.The frog lived in a fridge, he eats all the rotten food for all the normal food is like Poisson to him, he cleans all the vegetables with his tongue. when the fridge door is opened he pokes his tongue out to make  the fridge light up for his tongue is glow in the dark, letting out a cow moo.

3.The clown that went to Hogwarts studied magical design and media was taught by professor voldamort, who's class is taught on a beach.

4. The Afro man lives in a fields full of sunflowers in a coffin, he makes a living from selling sunflower oil and he is highly addicted to smoking sunflower seeds.

5.There was a condom who protected the music notes from bad music notes written by bad music artists.

We then had to create a struggle for 4 of our stories and the make a solution for 3 of our stories.

4 Struggles;

1.The scary figure mist does not work on breakfast day so he can not deliver breakfasts to anyone.

2. The frog eats blue cheese thinking it was rotten and he is seriously poisoned.

4. There is a heatwave and all of the sun flowers burn and die, now the Afro man has no where to live, no way of making money and can no longer feed his sunflower seed addiction.

5.The condom splits and is forced to listen to Justin Bieber and all the bad notes kill the good music note the condom was protecting.

3 Solutions;

1.The scary figure calls his friend Santa to help him out by lending him Rudolf but in return he must have kinky sex with Santa.

4.The Afro man find another field where there is a marijuana farm, and he becomes extremely rich and becomes highly addicted to marijuana

5. The condom stitches himself back together but it too traumatised to ever protect another music note so he just relaxes in hospital.

Our next task was to them create a story board with 6 sketches using 3 of the stories we had just made.
Stories 1, 4 and 5 were to stories that we decided we was going to make story board for.




This is our finished A1 story board, the top row is story 1 the second row is story 4 and the last row is story 5, i really like the outcome of our story board, i think that the stories worked really well and the sketch's tell the story well with out words.

Day 16- Lens based media

For this next task we had to bring in a range of different photos from our past, which we then had to select one image to then draw on a A1 sheet of paper in any medium we wanted.
Here are images that i have chosen to bring in.

          





This is the image that i have chosen to draw in A1 for it is the image that has captured my favirote memory for me at the time and even now.
i have decided that i would draw this up in just using pencils, HB pencil for the outline and then 2B, 4B and 6B pencils to do the shading and the typography.














Here are the images of my A1 copy of my selected favirote memory photo. i am really happy with the outcome, if i could change anything different i would try and get the proportions exactly right and take more time doing the type face.

After we then went out and took a image that would capture each of these emotions/actions;
Fall
Echo
Crush
Happy
Sad
Jump




This is the image that i have take to capture the word Fall


I have used this imaged to capture the word Crushed 


I have used this image to capture the word Echo


This is the image i have chosen to show the emotion Happy


This is the image i have chosen to show the emotion sad






Day 15- Graphics finish

We was asked to create a poster which would be for an exhibition of our own in the future, the poster should include our name, what the exhibition will be for, where the exhibition will be held and the date that it will be held.
My poster will include;
Name                            : Ann Ghafur
Gallery exhibition held : V&A
Job title                         : Typography
Date exhibition held     : 2033

My poster will also have very limited colour, only using the colours Black, red, white and blue in which the back ground will be one of these soild colours and then the rest of the colours will be used in with the fonts, my poster will have no images only words.

Here i have played around with the structure of my poster, trying as many different ways as making the poster look visually interesting.














Other Posters.








Day 14 - Graphics

Our first task was to create a range of letters using a range of different mediums to test and see which medium is best to use in typography. These are the mediums that i decided to use; Felt tip pens, Charcoal pencils, 2B Pencil, 4B pencil, 6B pencil, HB pencil, Biro, Water colour pencil, fine liners and i also made a letter by dropping a pencil to make several different dots then joining the dots up to make a letter.I think i could have used more of a range of different materials like Paint, Water colours, Newspaper/collages, crayons, ink, chalk, cutting in to the paper and making a stencil.



Here i have now created my own two alphabets, i have decided to use the same type of typography in both of these alphabets but in two very different ways with two different mediums Felt tips and fine liners, one being very colourful and bring and the other bold and one solid colour.




Here i have made a small box with different type of fonts inside using a light box of already existing fonts to see which font will be best to use for my next task which is to create a poster.


These are the fonts that i used; A - Chopin script by Claudep.
                                                 N - Intrique script by Mans Greback.
                                                 N - Linux libertine by Phillip H. Poll.
                                                 G - Cardinal by Dieter Steffman.
                                                 H - Northwood high by Pi Luo Chinu.
                                                 A - Aon carl celtic by Cario Buziak.
                                                 U - Burton's nightmare.
                                                 R - Beyond wonderland by Christopher Hansen.