presentation round two

i have decided to revamp my presentation a bit. i feel like it didn't have any of 'me' in it and felt really robotic and boring. i also presented it in front of ben and he said that there wasn't enough imagery or pictures to keep him interested. so i went through and decided to add more imagery into the mix. i also added little funny comments here and there because i thought this would give the personality that i wanted to come across.

presentation

the illustrated self

 

here is my finished poster! i really really love how it turned out. i think it properly expresses what i wanted it to express. i love the thought of myself wrapped up cosy. it could insinuate that the feelings and work is on the outside whilst i am on the inside warm or that i am completely wrapped up in my work. both are true. i think using quotes from my blog was a really good idea and it worked out just the way i wanted it to. i also think using watercolour was a good idea too because it gives a really nice effect to the actual poster with the texture and stuff. 

really pleased with how it turned out !! i love blanket beth

the illustrated self process

i started off this poster with my initial idea of the blanket beth. i was then wondering what i wanted to put onto the blanket as some sort of pattern. i started out by taking inspiration from the word poster that i did - drawing some kingdom heart related items. however as i started drawing them i began to not like the idea so i decided to look at different angles.  

came up with the idea of doing text instead of images. quotes from my blog!! really liked this idea when it came to me because i thought it would be personal and also professional at the same time. because i'm writing about my work and my feelings on it on my blog. i really liked some of the quotes and i think they really fit the mood that i was going for. 

as i started to do it all in different colours, i found that i really didn't like how it was going. i think i should've kept with a colour scheme. it also really annoyed me how you could faintly see the pencil lines through the watercolour even after trying to rub them out. thats when i decided to use the lightbox instead and i went with the colour scheme of blue because i think its a really relaxing colour and me in my blanket is relaxed.

after finishing it it looked really cool when you could see it through like this! i dont know why i took this picture other than purely because it looked super rad and i wanted to.

really happy with how the poster has come out now though, and now it's just onto printing so that it looks clean and is in A2! excited !!

the road to illustrated self

it me

here are some of my drawings that are leading to the final drawing of my poster. i have decided that i really want to go with something blanket beth related. i want to do this because i think blanket beth has become who i am as a person and an illustrator. i am lazy. i like being cosy. i like dog. i like blankets. throw them all together and boom its me.

not good

this weekend has probably been the hardest weekend that i've had since being on this course. i've come home and realised how sad i am. it's really shit. i hate being sad and anxious because i like people to think that i'm the happy one. i'm the one that cracks jokes and awkwardly makes people laugh (hopefully). i want nothing more than to cover my recent depression in stupid jokes but its got to that point where i'm so lost and surrounded by my own sadness that i don't know where to turn. 

i know this post is probably stupid and pointless but i just really needed to get this out of my system. if i can't tell anyone i'm sad then at least i can write it on my blog, right? how very 21st century of me.

SOS

notes for presentation

i have begun answering some of the questions that i found on estudio, i found that this is helping me to decide what i want my presentation to be about. i think the way that i want to go with my presentation is kind of a personal & professional side of things (duh thats the name of the module) but what i mean is i dont want to just talk about my year in class, but talk about how its effected me as a person. what have i done this year that is just about me? what have i learned as a person? 

learning as a person will help to inform my professional practice, which is why i want to focus on this. if i'm growing as a person then i am growing as an illustrator too.