Tutorial from Grace, 03.10.11

Back at the beggining of the month, when i had just handed in the "crisp and map" project, i had the following tutorial;
Make 'Chrispian' some friends
Put a narrative behind the character
Different versions of him, knitted into tubular patterns, paper, card, fabrics
Can these be worn? Made intercative somehow?
They have a sense of humour
Sell the balaclava 'Chrispian', with a book, child-like, but for adults.

What does he hate the smell of ? ;chip pans, cooking fat.
What are his greatest fears ? ;fires, fat people.
What does he do in his spare time? ;look after his crispy goldfish, "seasalt".
What is his biggest dream/ambition in life? ;To go to Vegas and gamble his 'chips' away!

I drew up a Facebook page for 'Crispian' in my sketchbook, with this information I have imagined.

One of the ideas that kept cropping up in my tutorials, was to up-scale my summer project drawings and incorporate Crispian into them.

So i have looked at posters with a graphic sort of feel to them, for abit of an idea how i could make my own posters look, and so that im not just making things up off of the top of my head!!

looking at artist's sketchbooks

Linzie Hunter

I came across Linzie Hunter's hand-writing and illustration website today. Her typography is the type that is becoming popular in advertising of all types, television, magazines, book covers, dvd covers etc.


Harry Nesbitt

This artist was new on the scene in 2009, he is based in Liverpool. His work is a mixture of photoshop, illustration, animation and design work.

chrispian is here

Artists for me to look at...

Paul Davis

Luke Best

Donna Wilson

All of these made me laugh, so so muchhhhh!!!

My balaclava crisp man!

29.09.11

Tutorial with Richard;
The main part of my summer project was a book, which had pen and ink drawings of my facial features. I am to expand on this, by scaling them up on an OHP, using a paint brush instead of the pen, and maybe take them into the print room.

Then we went onto look at my brain, and the first thing that he said was that it reminded him of "Loose women", on ITV1 at lunch time on weekdays. I hate this show, but must admit that i do watch it now and again. So this led us onto thinking about T.V and soaps. Back to "Coronation Street", which i looked at and did work about in my first year.

Looking through my sketches for my "2 week project", he told me that the humour within my work was similar to that in Harry Hill, The Mighty Boosh and Sarah Lucas.

My drawing of the "balaclava crisp man" made him laugh, i didn't intend for it to be funny, but the more i looked at it, the funnier i found it too! It looks a little like Edvard Munch's "The Scream".

One of my obsessive collections.. tins!

I have been collecting on and off for about 4 years now, when i get bored of one i'll give it away or sell it, then the next time i get a sweep of the obsession, i regret getting rid of them!

This is an image ive just quickly found on google. But this is how i'd like my collection to look one day!

These are the sorts of tins which interest me most...

I love old typography, the colour pallets they used, i like how they age.

My balloon portrait photographs

I've only just uploaded these photos onto my laptop, which is why its taken so long to put them up on the blog.

I think that they resemble me quite well! I wanted one front on , and one in a cameo style.

I also made some balloons of the facial featyres alone, i did this by looking into a magnifying mirror and drawing as closely as i could to what i saw in the reflection.

When i'd finished photgraphing them, i did the research which is on this blog from July (i think), and i found the balloon which had been drawn on and then all of the air was let out, so the image shrinks. But when i tried to deflate both of mine, they poppped. So here are those photos.