ASS1 - Final - Say Hello

Say Hello

   For assignment 1 this exercise is to create a greeting card for the tutor to understand more about myself and introduce me to her.

   I used to do a lot of greeting cards before I started doing my dergee, so I was quite excited to start this assignment.

    First of all I brainstormed in my sketchbook my ideas such as my favourite things, what I like to do, what I want to aim for in my life and what I enjoy doing most. I then decided on what I want to say in the card, to my tutor. 

 I have just done a few examples of layout of my card:

     I like number 3 the best because it's more an ideal layout for my idea and also it opens up upwards instead of from the right to the left, which gives a different aspect to it then just a normal card. I also have decided that I want to create my card as a pop-up. I want my tutor to open it and be surprised with me standing out of the card.

    When I was younger I remembered about a game called 'who am I?' that I used to play it at school and decided this would be a great idea to put on the front of my card, with illustrations around the question of things I like.

       I am now going to do some sketches of what I want to do and scanner in the computer and work on them to see what I can come up with.

Ive now decided what I really need to do is understand how my popup in my card is going to work. I decided that I wanted my name in there too and in just behind that I want myself. I decided that I needed two tabs on top of each other, to create depth in my popout. I then  looked and decided on the final things I want to share about myself in my card which is: 

• My love of animals
• Going to the cinema
• My friends
• Travel
• Nature and the sun 
• Gaming 
• Disney 
• My fiance
• My pet rabbits

Those are the images that I want on front of the card surrounding the who am I question. I  have been sketching and decided that I wanted the text 'Who am I?' in Cloud forms, just like thinking bubbles. If you look in my sketchbook you can see my cloud layout that I created. I have scanned it into the computer and added colour to it and I added some images I found off the Internet to go in the bubbles.

 I decided that this was wrong because they are someone else's work and not my own so on the next page in my sketchbook you will see again the same clouds, but this time with my illustrations for the items that I wanted people to see on the front of the card:

     I also left two of the clouds blank as I wanted to add photos, one of my friends and one of my fiance. 

    Now I'm happy with what I'm going to do on the front the next part is the inside of the card. I decided that I wanted to illustrate my body and hair but then use a photo of me for my face area, so I am mixing them both together. Also in this area, on the background, I want to put a profile just of certain facts, such as where I live, what I like, what I dislike and my inspirations in life.

       I decided on my message I wanted to give to my tutor and also the background of my card just to add some extra illustrations onto it. I have tonight put all this into the computer and played about with each area to come out with a good design for a card.

As you can see below I have now done my final idea of my card:

 I am now going to print this off and put it together to create my pop-ups who am I greeting card to my tutor

          As you can see I have finished my card I am really happy with the way it has come out and my pop-up works just great. Some issues with the glue, such as causing wrinkles in the paper but I think this is the trouble with creating a pop-up card because you can't just print it, there is some crafting areas for this to be made.

        I think this card definitely hit the assignment 1 objectives which was to introduce me to my tutor. I have also made a unique idea where I am asking who am I on the front with illustrations and photos of things about me and then when you open the card I pop out from it. There are extra facts and a bit of a profile about myself to understand me better and relate to the images on the front of the card.

      I think overall I have created a really good card and a good first assignment in illustration. I don't know much about Photoshop illustration or InDesign, but whilst doing this course I am also training and researching for myself to get to grips with these programs a lot better and understand their abilities more to help me create work and improve on my illustrations. I am looking forward to carrying on with the next part of this course.

ASS1 - Project 1 - The Key Is Communication

Exercise: Getting the gist

    For this exercise I have to look at an article read it, highlight the main words in the article and look over it again. Then take the words I have chosen as my brief, to create an illustration.

      I decided on an article which is to introduce a new Zoo into the area:

   Whilst reading it, it informed me that the animals weren't in cages. It told me about the types of animals that were there and some mishaps about a wallaby in a broken down car and a hornbill that flew away and was flying around the area.

     I decided that an illustration would be quite fun too do towards this brief. I decided that I wanted to make the illustration with the animals and humans in an open area together as there were no cages. 

     Also decided to include as many animals as I could off the list in the article and to add some humour to my illustration such as the Wallaby fixing a broken down car and holding the traffic up that are trying to get into the zoo. I want to put the hornbill flying away and also showing animals just enjoying themselves and relaxing.

    I did a few sketches in my sketchbook as you can see below:

     I decided to create some funny sketches such as a kangaroo playing football, a crocodile drinking a soda, Wallabies flying a kite. This helps giving personalities to the creatures.

      I am now going to do a rough sketch of my illustration and see how it turns out:

      As you can see above, I have done it really quickly and just got in the basics of the figures and animals in my illustration. I am now going to use promarkers and fineliners to create my final illustration I am going to make it quite colourful to capture the humour in the illustration. I just want to have a go at colouring it in by hand rather than the computer.

    Here is my final illustration:

      I think it turned out really well. I feel that I included all the main key points in my illustration from the brief that I chose. I also scaned this image in and sent it to the zoo just to show them and offer my support. They really liked it and said if they ever needed any hand drawn illustrations they will be in touch which I thought was nice.

     I really enjoyed this exercise, I liked that I had a brief to work with and it was exciting to see what I could come up with and create, based on the brief that I had given myself. This really helps in helping you to use your imagination and understand the brief to create an illustration that is appealing and truthful to the text.

 In some spare time

I decided I wanted to have a go at making a poster, I decided I could look at jokes and use them as a brief toward an illustration.

     As you can see I drawed my illustration, scanned it in to the computer and used text and edited the image to create my simple poster. I think it is really funny and I enjoyed giving myself this task. I may try to do some more illustrations for some jokes in the future.