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More School

Story

We had to make a book in our workshop today based on the research we have gathered for our project so far. Yesterday when I was drawing around the school, I overheard some kids having a spelling lesson. One of them was misbehaving and the teacher said 'If you don't finish your work, then you won't get a cuddle' which I found highly amusing as the little boy was distraught and got on with his work right away! Here is the book I made using this as a starting point.It is in the form of a concertina book so it would be seen in one long strip normally!

School

Been struggling with the Reportage project we've been set at uni but finally started filling up my sketchbook with school related drawings! Some of the images have a shadows as i scanned then in from my sketchbook!

Pencil

Couple of pencil drawings I did on the train.

Christmas

Some special Christmas card designs I've done for loved ones :)

Sketchbook

Dogs

Not seen my dogs for 66 days, which is a joke. Miss them so much. These are some old drawings I did for Mum as a birthday present a few years ago.

Cover

Gone with a simple design for my front cover after the feedback i gained at my review day at uni the other week!

Finals?

These are some potential ideas for the inside illustrations of The Swimmer. I've tried to be quite daring with the use of space and wanted the images to feel isolated on the page like the character in the story.

Legs

Probably not going to use any of these but tried out a bit of mono printing at home last week and there are the odd few paintings/drawings of legs thrown in that I did a while ago!

Development

Few latest ideas for the project.

Graham Rawle

We had a workshop on Monday with artist and writer, Graham Rawle, in which we were given two words which we then had to make up a visual story with. I was given 'ambitious table'and with the limit of 100 words or less, I came up with the following response.

We also had a very interesting lecture from Graham in the morning, he had a lot of great stuff to talk about and he has really inspired me to take an interest in collecting something, not sure what that will be yet but I think I should have a project of some kind.

Personal Journal

Don't want to get entirely overtaken by my project so finally got round to starting a personal journal again!

The Swimmer

Today I had a contextual presentation (about the reinvention of classic book covers) which I enjoyed a surprising amount! Topics are so much easier to talk about when you're actually interested in them. Anyway I can now fully concentrate on my project! I've come up with a few initial ideas, been focusing on themes within the story such as maps, alcohol and obviously swimming, which will hopefully help me progress through to some final outcomes later in the project.

Personality

Workshop focusing on personality and character. We had to create a life sized drawing of a character from our chosen story. I chose Shirley Adams, someone who i imagine to be young, seductive and at this particular time, confused and mildly angry!

Visualisation

Workshop to show and develop visual ideas coherently