Author: raraillustrations

This is my final countdown. Its near the end. I have handed in my portfolio, portfolio book and my statement of intent that I made for semester 2 and my evaluations. Its coming up to that time where I don’t know what to write about now. I think I’ll start with my semester one feed back I found that I did really well with my experimental work but I need to express my work further. I couldn’t agree more. I am willing to take this on board and spread my experimental work further for the future. I have done this sort of for my work in semester two as I experimented with my story boards but I want extend my development and experimental work for when I go into my teaching. Speaking of teaching I have had work back from my PGCE interview with Newcastle college and I’ve been asked to extend my essay and hand it in on the 3rd of June. My tutor says this is a good sign it means they have potential and think I maybe allowed on the course. Fingers crossed. I hope I’ve got a place. I am on going with adding detail to my essay and making sure I reread everything I write before handing that in. I have moved into my home now. been living here for a week. Its cosy and filled with my partner and I’s personalities. I have to sya it looks like home. Work at the Artrium has a lot for me in the summer. I have more outreach projects coming up and i’ll be working with the children of ST Hilds again. I am extremely excited for that. I enjoyed it last summer as I found the talent of children and their imagination to be amazing. I have managed to do this blog. I have actually found a love for words. I’m no expert at writing and due to my dyslexia I will always find it hard. But I wouldn’t say this has stopped me. I have found to be more confident in myself and writing. I have gained extreme respect for those who can mock up a essay in days without fail. I have found myself to be more demanding in myself and the work I have produced.

I have found that giving myself a goal in not only a week but in life. That I am able to do anything my mind sets me to do. I don’t feel obligated to say I am only good and one thing. I now say lets give it a shot. During this year I have had so many ups and downs from academically and home life. I have challenged myself to the extreme and have found that I can do it. I am in the last deals of my driving lessons. I hope to finish by the summer. I have a good relationship with my Job at the Artrium where I have respect and honour for my members who I help every Wednesday. The experiences I have gained from this course is that I have a clear pathway towards my future. I have gained determination and have a mature mindset. I have allowed myself to gain communication skills of which I managed to get from doing my commercial and collaboration projects. I have wrote about this in a previous blog Evaluation: Life update into the future for me. I loved every minute of this course and found myself along side it. I am confident to pursue a career and to help others.

I am finishing my academic year. I am now planning my sensory board. I am currently finishing my line work on illustrator. That will be ready for the laser cutter. I have stated this in a blog which you can read here My Portfolio Journey  but I will give a run through of what I am doing for the laser cutter. I am including my line work of my scenes like the woodland, houses and space scenes created in illustrator and all done in line work (this means i will be creating outlines of the trees for example with out any colour in-between them) Once I have created this file I will be measuring to 60×40 so that it fits the laser cutter. This is obviously too small for a sensory board so I will be doing 3 individual files one being woodland, the other being houses and the last one being space. Once I have done these the laser cutter will be able to cut out different type of materials an example being wood. The laser cutter will place my shape on that material and then I can build up a scenery board from that. This is created for the intentions for interactivity. This can help with educational purposes and beneficial for me in that career purpose. I have found some inspiration for this board from a website called weareteacher.com (Tornio, 2019). From this source I found that someone had created a “Kids at work” style board to teach them how to work basically. I found this to be fasicating and made me come up with ideas for different materials to use. I would recommend looking at this website and I will leave a link down below. I will provide an image of the sensory board here (Tornio, 2019).

As you see here this is the sensory board of which this person is has made. I personally think this is a really good way to help teaching children about the tools at work. Therefore I am taking this inspiration on the roll for my sensory board for children and children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities. I think that this is beneficial for children especially children who have disabilities and their educational needs. An example for my sensory board could be using wood type material for a woodland scene. To me this make sense for educational purposes as it can teach children and children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities on what surrounding feels like in real life. I am taking on board my case studies and research for my sensory board as I wish to proceed in creating a content for my direct audience.

I hope this blog was useful and Hope you enjoyed my journey of my BA Hons Illustration degree and my aspirations to become a teacher.

Until the next time

Rach 🙂

bibliography

Tornio, S. (2019). 16 Genius Ideas for Creating a DIY Sensory Board in Your Classroom. [online] WeAreTeachers. Available at: https://www.weareteachers.com/diy-sensory-board-for-classroom/ [Accessed 19 May 2019].

 

Its that time! Portfolio week.

This blog will cover my portfolio, portfolio book and my final show and what I am going to do for my final show. I will cover first my portfolios and what I have done for them and where I have gathered my inspiration for them. I found on YouTube an artist named Laura Price (Price, 2018) and another Youtuber called Studio Jess (Jess, 2017). Price’s channel talks about how she was hired by Disney with her portfolio and Jess states about presenting yourself as an illustrator. I have took the two and combined this towards my own work and a strong portfolio evaluation which I can show here Portfolio Evaluation. I have found their YouTube channels to be interesting and love watching their content from now on. I recommend checking their channels out. I will leave links down below.

I will now state my portfolio and present what I have placed into my portfolio. I will leave an image here.

As you see here. I have placed my pages of my book and some of my commercial work to place in my portfolio. I have an A3 portfolio and I wanted to place my pages in a large scale format so that  when my audience look at my portfolio they will see  each and every little detail of my character and its environments. I found this experience to rather simple yet effective. I feel like I have reached my breach for my multi textual children’s book. I have managed to create pages to go along side of my story and placed them in my portfolio. If I was to do this differently I would of included my turn arounds for my character. I forgot to do this but in future references I will make sure I do this for my portfolios. I can take this advice of which I’ve gave myself. I can take it to students and reassure that doing turnarounds and additional sketches will look good for companies to employ you. 

 I have talked about my A3 portfolio. But I have created a portfolio book of which I have placed my pages and my story. I have placed my zines, turn arounds and my work from 2018-19. Also including my commercial projects. I created a front cover of which I felt fit to look like a children’s book. I did this to link with my studies and my goal from the start of my semesters to create a children’s book. I just haven’t included the multi textures. This is explained due to time and dedication I have places for my PGCE interviews and time management for other commercial projects and collaboration. I wanted to create a portfolio book which was also aimed for my children’s book. I have gained this and I will show images of my portfolio book. 

Here I have shown my front cover and back cover for my portfolio book. I have placed my character on the front cover with rosy cheeks. I found this to help with the advertisement for a children’s book. I used the pace for the back ground to resemble a cool ending for the story. I believe that if this was to be published that maybe my book cover would blend in with other children books. If i could improve my work and my decisions for the front and back cover i’d create a continuous cover page which is not based on any of the scenes but with it being more of a mystery. I think this would make my book more exciting and have parents and children craving to read it.

Here you see the pages for my book and underneath has the story of which goes along with it. I think the pages have turned out great and I like how I have placed them either side to go with the ideas I had with my storyboards and script. I found myself extremely proud of my achievements and think I have gave a good ideas for a potential children’s book. I would love to get this story published one day with a professional publisher and someone who is an expert with fabrics. If I was to do things differently I would of loved to try and find a publisher to create the multi textured for the children’s book but I did dedicate my time to focus on my career and that of which I stated in my proposal and treatment. I have focused to gain a high grade and my PGCE interviews this also made me lead to getting my first home to start a future with my partner. Other than that I am extremely glad with the opportunities I have gained and the experience of studying children’s needs and from this I am now educated about children and children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities which is beneficial for when I go into teaching.

From creating my portfolio book I did think. How am I going to present my initial thought for my final show? An from that I came up with a plan.

I will talk about my potential idea and how I have decided to change my idea for a more interactive purpose.

As you already know my original idea I had at the start of the year was to create a book for my final product of which help with the interactive and educational needs for children and children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities. I wanted to create this book to state that I think anyone can read my book as I don’t believe in singling out people for who they are. I came up with a script and storyboards of which help with the layout for my book. Along with 6 pages with illustrated content. The books name is Where is Mr Fox?. I chose a fox for my book as I found from research that animals were the best character for a child and a child with specific learning difficulties and disabilities to follow as they were fluffy and was cute in features. I chose a fox so that I could place the animal in different situations and have him hidden. This was done to go with the idea of book being interactive. The educational purpose was to help children and children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities to know about surroundings and being aware of whats around them. 

I will provide the story in script form here Where’s Mr Fox? script. I am showing the potential for the multi textual children’s book as I was in post production and did manage to create the story with the script along with storyboards. The method behind this script is like a guide for the child and the parents/guardians who read the story to the said child can help follow where Mr Fox could be. 

The idea I have thought about is to create sensory/interactive board. The board will represent my multi-textual book pages in a jigsaw style sensory board which will be filled with different textures. I wanted to keep the fabrics and the different materials as I researched this in my case studies and research file in semester one. I wanted to keep my studies and have my promise for children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities to be included to read my book. I am pleased with my decision and find that I have thought clearly and with understanding for those who I have dedicated my project around. By this I am excited to start creating my sensory  interactive board which includes my story with the different environments. I do believe that my board isn’t going to be overly difficult and will have the best interest for my younger audience; and the adults who love playing with toys and interactive object secretly.

I have also provided a Digital Portfolio. This of which I have my work from when I did Graphics, Poster designs, Photography and My illustration work. I can provide my digital portfolio here My Digital Portfolio. I have provided this to show off my work and my skills set of what I can do and I think this can Benefit me to become a teacher with my experiences and skills.

I hope my blog was interesting and I have gave enough ideas for my final show

Until the next blog

Rach 🙂

links to the YouTube Channels

Studio Jess

Laura Price

bibliography

Jess, S. (2017). Putting Together My Illustration Portfolio! | Flip Through & How To. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK62fSRdZtA&t=279s [Accessed 14 Apr. 2019].

Price, L. (2018). THE PORTFOLIO THAT GOT ME HIRED (FIRST ANIMATION JOB)!. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78HmmR9Jvy4 [Accessed 14 Apr. 2019].

This week I re-read a book I found in Newcastle library and I also found that I have read this book before as a child called Goth Girl by Chris Riddell. I actually have found a massive obsession for his books and art style. I only found this out from doing my research file for my semester one and noticed my found love of his books. I’ve provided his book (Riddell, 2013).

On this topic about Chris Riddell I find his work to be my inner creepy style found love. meaning I adore the sweet but sinister appeal he goes with his work.

I have stated about other books in a blog A massive Reading reviews I have stated before that these books have no relation to my multi textual children’s book. However this blog I me explaining my interest to this book in its self. I haven’t read it per-say since I was in secondary school but I have reviewed his illustrations. So much so I started following him on social media via Instagram. In this book there is a page that I have admired from this book and it is this one.

I love this illustration. I am going to present what I like about this book from my notes of which I gathered from the library of which I got this book from. Lets start. I have stated that I love the historical aspects to this illustration. I’ve always been a fan of historical art and with Chris Riddell’s artwork I like how he’s made a little girl look like a old Victorian maid. I feel this fits extremely well with the story and the aspirations of the creepy tale. The way his shading and drawing methods for this illustration have Applied. I feel it fits really well and that it keeps its child friendly appeal and the sinister side of things.

In other notes that I have provided. I say that I like the sketch drawings. I feel like the sketch drawings from Riddell’s work gives an older feel, by all the feel I mean periodic feel. Granted I think this is what Riddell was trying to get across for his illustrations in this book. If this was his intentions I am a fan for sure. The last note that I have mentioned in my list of notes is that I enjoy his work for the creativity in children’s books. I have followed his social media of which I stated earlier and have found that his work has a sweet/weird feel to it. I personally think this fits along side my own work as In my brief description of this blog that I am “the weird and wonderful, dark and sweet. a little indecisive” (Davies, 2018).

I actually found his work and his sketch shading similar to a artwork of which I found from one of my favourite concept artist named Laura Price. Price did a follow tutorial of Bob Ross. However she did hers digitally while Ross did his with oil paints (Price, 2019). I clicked on thinking that his method and her’s for creating shadow style trees to be like hectare sketching or in some cases cross hatching.

As you see here the method that they are using for the trees is simile to Riddell’s artwork. I found this strangely amusing how I could find the resemblance to these two artists methods. However when asking other peers they said it wants quite similar. I argued a point saying nothing is similar but only to be recognised. I find this for myself to be a great way of teaching fellow artists that there is no such thing as a right way to do it as both end up quite the same. Like for example this tutorial made me think of Chris Riddell’s work.

Overall I find his work to be a huge inspirational aspect into my own work for future referencing. He has inspired me to use his as an artist research for my teaching methods. He has inspired me to use social media to represent my own work and how to pursue it in the art industry. I overall think this artist is a divine guidance towards those who are wanting to pursue a career in creating children’s books and illustrations.

I hope this blog was useful and that you liked my in take on Chris Riddell.

until the next blog

Rach 🙂

bibliography

Davies, R. (2018). My quote.

Price, L. (2019). DISNEY ARTIST FOLLOWS A BOB ROSS TUTORIAL (PHOTOSHOP). [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHHUWY-Jxg [Accessed 17 May 2019].

Riddell, C. (2013). Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright. London: Pan Macmillan.

 

This week for my reading I found an artist in the Juxtapose illustration 2 book named Rachel Sumpter (Sumpter, 2011). I looked at her work for inspiration into colour and using colour for shading. As you see here.

One illustration that had court my eye the most is this one here.

I am going to explain in this blog what I like about this illustration and how I am applying this into a former study and future referencing for my own illustrations and career aspects. I am going to start off with the background colouring. I am in love with the colour pallet I think it is exciting and mystical. I look at this work and it makes me think of what dreams would look like after a few to many coffees on a late night. Its trippie sure but I think thats what is most attracting. The other concept of this illustration that I like is the men. They look like 6 wise men of some Chinese folklore and that to me is appealing. The cloaks are beautifully designed and have some form of magical aspect to them. I think of wizards. Harry Potter mostly you know this guy (Dumbldore, 2019).

I love how I can make anything I look at into some Harry Potter fan art. Any who. Back to the illustration. I was talking about the men in the picture and what I haven’t talked about yet is their fantastic beards. Such amazing, rainbow, unicorn style beards, Yep them beards. I found them at first as an eyesore I thought they took too much of the beauty of the background that the mens cloaks. But the more I looked at this image. The more I grew to love it and the more I thought about wizards. Preferably this guys beard though (Bernews, 2013).

Yeah. Definitely a resemblance there. I loved this movie as a child. Disneys sword of the stone (Disney, 1963). Merlin had to be my favourite. The water scene was cool where him and Arthur turned into fish, swimming away from the mean fish. I’m sat here wondering if I still have this movie on dvd.

Back to the point of this illustration. As you see this illustration can take me back to my childhood. Here is how I can take this work for inspiration to future illustrations piece that I could create. I am basing my work for mostly children and my fault is that I do make my work just specifically for children to find finny. I could try and adventure out in different methods for my work. Example this work takes me back to different memories that I have of different characters and how I can fit it to my favourite films and genres. I would like to spread this out into my illustrations. I could look on how to make them more bedtime friendly or settled for a dreamy feel. Like Sumpter’s work.

If I was to take this on board for my teaching I would provide this as an example of using colour and digital techniques to create a mystical background. This can be done within Photoshop using the smudge tools and the spray-can tool. I could also use this as a reference of using a colour pallet and learning what enhances a colour or how to create complimentary colours. This as an digital teacher could benefit from as its hard to always explain and compromise an example of complimentary colours without having to say cool and warm tones or pastel colours. Its always better to show a class what you can do than trying to sit there and explain it. Therefore as an example I would use Sumpters work as mine with the high gratitude to her colour pallet choice.

Overall I found her work to bring back a lot of fun and exciting memories and That I could use her as a guidance to using colours. I hope you found my work to be useful.

Until the next blog

Rach 🙂

bibliography

Bernews (2013). Video: Merlin’s Excellent Bermuda Adventure – Bernews. [online] Bernews. Available at: http://bernews.com/2013/05/merlins-excellent-bermuda-adventure/ [Accessed 13 May 2019].

Disney, W. (1963). The Sword in the Stone (1963) – IMDb. [online] IMDb. Available at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057546/ [Accessed 13 May 2019].

Dumbldore, A. (2019). 7 things that put the twinkle in Dumbledore’s eye – Pottermore. [online] Pottermore. Available at: https://www.pottermore.com/features/7-things-that-put-the-twinkle-in-dumbledores-eye [Accessed 12 May 2019].

Sumpter, R. (2011). Juxtapose. [Book].

The concept of being inspired as an artist is to know my style or what I like.

I’m just going to point out here that my fashion style and my music taste doesn’t show with in my art work. But shows with part for the colour palette. I describe my fashion style as very diverse from being 70’s to 80’s grunge a bit of 90’s grunge/ bohemian and lazy artists. My music style is 80’s hits to alternative grunge/punk. I like rock too which I’ve already spoke about in a previous blog called Get to know me! I’m only stating this as the style of work I produce is a bit all over the place but I guess so am I.

Here is an example of my work and how my style compares with my own personality. You wouldn’t think with the music I listen to or the YouTube videos I watch that my illustrations are based on animals. However my Pintrest says a lot more with that.  This is my character designs for my multi textual children’s book called Where’s Mr Fox?.

However if you look at Mr fox in space.

You can see my personality more with in this illustration. I’m very proud of this work and I am able to show my personality within these piece of artwork. However I did focus on what children wanted in the multi textual children’s book as it is aimed for them. I did show my skills an d attributes to the illustrations and found that I am able to create environments other than characters. I like how I used my simple format of which I gained inspiration from a cartoon I liked as a child called Rolie Polie Olie. The cartoon was about a robot call Rolie Polie Olie. As sources described it being about “a plucky robotic lad who lives on a magical, mechanical world.” (Olie, 2019). I will place imagery of the cartoon here (Joyce, 2019).

 I’ve used this cartoon not only because it was a favourite of mine as a child but I like the character design of Rolie. I wanted to use this as an inspiration for my work. 

Ive been a fan of children’s books since I could remember and I still like them now even though I’m in my early 20’s. I find the illustrations have progressed since I was little and have more fun and smooth finish to the characters and their settings. A book I will always admire is Dr Suess’s The Cat In The Hat (Suess, 2019)

When I was a child I found this book to be overly fascinating as I loved the shape of the trees and the shape of the characters And I found an artist who I also got inspiration from for my trees and he’s called Patrick Hruby (Hruby, 2018).

You’ll see where my inspiration came from by the imagery you see here.

As you see here I took the inspiration from cat in the hat with my trees. I like how I focus on a child friendly piece and wanted to show this into my work along side the research with Children and children with specific learning difficulties and disabilities of which I stated in my Case studies and in a blog called Weekly Reflection: Managed my case studies.    

As you can see here my work has manifestoed into what my personal project with my reflective style and how my childhood has helped with the creativity of my multi textual children’s book. I am going to mention very short briefs of which of the children animations and books came across while I was looking for inspiration.

BarBar (Ross, 2019)

BarBar is a children’s cartoon about a king elephant and his little family. I remember this show as a child myself and thought about the design when creating MR Fox character. I am including this into my reflective style as I see some inspiration for children books and characters.

Pablo The Little Red Fox (Giffard, 2019)

This is a children animation which is based on a little fox called Pablo. I looked into this tv show purely because I remembered waiting this as a child myself and its about foxes. I used this as content because my character design is a fox and to me made sense to look for fox character designs. So there for I used Pablo as inspiration and liked the idea for the colour choice as it was simple yet vibrant and figured it’ll be the best combination for a children’s book.

Maisy (Cousins, 2019)

This is a animation about a little mouse called Maisy and friends, they go on adventures and explore. I looked into this cartoon because I remember looking at books of this character in the library and figured that children must love this style. I found inspiration to continue with my book being about an animal because children see to like cute and fluffy things. I believe I am able to use this for extended realisation for my project.

Until the next time

Rach 🙂

bibliography

Cousins, L. (2019). Maisy. [online] En.wikipedia.org. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisy [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].

Giffard, H. (2019). Pablo the Little Red Fox – Google Search. [online] Google.com. Available at: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=strict&client=safari&sa=X&rls=en&q=Pablo+the+Little+Red+Fox&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3sEwqMzFVgjANUjKMtKSyk630S8qAKD4vtaQ8vyjbqqRMoTgjv7z4EeM7Rm6Blz_uCUs9YZy05uQ1xruMXGIe-UWZVfl5JYk5LoklqUGpxSVFmcklQqFc3MGpJSH5vvkpmWmVQm5CLlx4jBZS42JzzSvJLKkUkuHilUI4TYNBipsLwRXK4GIBWSOUwMUhxWJkYGCgwaQUwmXBJcVxgV-AUYIxiNe1tCi_IFXfJz8vJT8viUmCXQgsxyMhj0VOiYuDW4AFYpIWBwcT0AhuBRYjJg52KyYJRp5FrBIBiUk5-QolGakKPpklJTmpCkGpKQpu-RUA9ZEUFkEBAAA&ved=0ahUKEwjfkv-k4qLiAhUYSxUIHW7BDhQQ-BYIngEwWQ&biw=719&bih=504 [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].

Hruby, P. (2018). Patrick Hruby Illustration. [online] Patrickdrawsthings.com. Available at: http://patrickdrawsthings.com [Accessed 26 Sep. 2018].

Joyce, W. (2019). Rolie Polie Olie. [online] Simonandschuster.co.uk. Available at: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Rolie-Polie-Olie/William-Joyce/The-World-of-William-Joyce/9781481489584 [Accessed 7 Mar. 2019].

Suess, D. (2019). Cat in the hat. [online] Amazon.co.uk. Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cat-Hat-Green-Back-Seuss/dp/0007158440 [Accessed 17 May 2019].

Ross, C. (2019). Babar (TV series) – Google Search. [online] Google.com. Available at: https://www.google.com/search?q=Babar+(TV+series)&newwindow=1&safe=strict&client=safari&rls=en&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3sEwqMzFV4gIxjcwMy3PStKSyk630S8qAKD4vtaQ8vyjbqqRMoTgjv7z4EeM7Rm6Blz_uCUs9YZy05uQ1xruMXGIe-UWZVfl5JYk5LoklqUGpxSVFmcklQqFc3MGpJSH5vvkpmWmVQm5CLlx4jBZS42JzzSvJLKkUkuHilUK4TYNBipsLwRXK4GIBWSOUwMUhxWJkYGCgwaQUwmXBJcVxgV-AUYIxiNe1tCi_IFXfJz8vJT8viUmCXQgsxyMhj0VOiYuDW4AFYpIWBwcT0AhuBRYjJg52KyYJRp5FrPzJmTA3KoAUAQD6OT5LOQEAAA&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjbWX4KLiAhWc8uAKHcuaBe0Q_AUIDigB&biw=719&bih=504 [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].

Olie, R. (2019). Rolie Polie Olie (1998-2004) on Netflix UK :: New On Netflix UK. [online] New On Netflix UK. Available at: https://uk.newonnetflix.info/info/70227950/s [Accessed 7 Mar. 2019].

 

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This blog Is a massive reading review on books and pictures including study for semester 2: Storyboarding and other reviews. I am doing a massive post of what I think on each book with a rough description and a thought and intention of what I want to do or how its making myself involve as a person for my future career into teaching.

My trip to Newcastle Library (on the street near Five Guy):

Who Wants To Be A Poodle I don’t:

I found so many books in the children’s section in the library I found Lauren Child’s work. She’s the woman who created Charlie and Lola. I found her book Who Wants To Be A Poodle I don’t (Child, 2011), I liked looking into this book because it was textured (as seen in image the front cover) it was also texture through out. I found ideas for the multi textual children’s book and figured that her style of work can be incorporated into my own. Her name was mentioned before to me in a one to one session with my skills support worker on campus. I thought it was a sign to find her book and place it into my research pile.

Goblins vs Dwarves:

Continuing into me being nosey and in a kids section at the library; I got some really funny looks. I came across this book by Phil Reeve called Goblins vs Dwarves (Reeve, 2012) Its a funny book with some really simple illustration and personally it has no connection to my project however I did like the contrast in colour and the block style layout. I have came to an idea for my final show that I could create a multi textual feeling board with layers and textured materials and this book has the style layout of which I could incorporate into my work. With thought and consideration this book could help with my further ideas for the project in hand.

Billy and the Mini Monsters:

This book is just a mash up of crazy and fun; My kind of style. I love how the monsters look and the colours combination with the blues, pinks and greens just screams to me kids will love this. Again this book Billy and the Mini Monsters by Zanna Davidson (Davidson and Williamson, 2018) had made me think about my final show and how am I going to grab a child’s attention to my multi textual children’s book (or feeling board/banner) and my final thoughts are colours make it as bright and as big to help with the connection to children and children with learning difficulties and disabilities.

Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror:

Yes, I know. This book doesn’t seem to fit the theme I am going for with the multi textual children’s book however I am just staying open minded. As an artist you do have to cross some boundaries into our research before make a complete final decision and that for me is looking at a few books like this one which is Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror (Priestley and Roberts, 2016). I did pick this book up with a large form of do I review or do I not. Until I looked in at the inner cover and I was in-love with the bright red and line work inside of this book. I didn’t manage to find out what the story is about; Yet again I have not read the books. Only figured how and what can I take from an artist perspective. My intake was by the inside cover, I had a brilliant idea that possibly I could do this line style in my project to help with outlining the fox character and the background so that children who are visually impaired are able to feel for the fox and which ever environment he is in. All this from an inside cover of a children’s horror book. See being open minded with your research can turn an idea into possible investment value.

Pepe Takes A Tumble:

Animals. Thats correct, I looked at this book and first thought “I’m doing a multi textual children’s book about an animal” which is how I am now doing a review on Pepe Takes A Tumble (Gray and McQuillan, 2018). I am going to review more on the character layout pages and the environment pages than the front cover. I liked the layout on getting to know the characters and having an idea on myself creating a layout page of foxes to help with the multi textual children’s book. I found an idea for my final show and have the layout on a single board with raided outlines and fur attached. The background idea came with what I already have done for my multi textual children’s book but wanted to find some shading and highlighting inspiration for my final product for the project I am doing for the end of the year and final show.

You Choose In Space, The Dangerous Alphabet, Where teddy Bears Come From, Oh No, George! and Touch and Feel PlayTime:

I mentioned before I a post I did, that I looked at Wheres Wally books. From that I now found a book called You Choose Space (Goodhart and Sharratt, 2017) from the illustrator of The Story Of Tracy Beaker Nick Sharratt (Wilson and Sharratt, 2013) they presented a chaos book about a space adventure and you picking where and what you want to do in this space made for yourself. I loved this style of book as I made an illustration called spot the fox and it was styled like Martin Handford’s (Handford, 2019) work. Taking on board that I have already created an idea for this style I am considering for my final show the spot the character or feel for the character style hence the reason of looking into this book and noting down what I could take from this. Looking further down the line of research. I came across a few other books like The Dangerous Alphabet (Gaiman and Grimly, 2008), Where Teddy Bears Come From (Burgess and Ayto, 2009), Oh No, George! (Haughton, 2015) And Touch and Feel Playtime (Feel, 2013). I looked at these book in a wide mind set as I wanted to note that all children’s books have a different agenda and what is out there in the publishing environment that can help with my work getting noticed or even maybe published. An example of different is the Dangerous Alphabet (Gaiman and Grimly, 2008) the grimy and rugged style reminds me of the Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (Rix, 2011) I know that this doesn’t fit with the theme of what I am doing but I am basing my book about every child so this does include children who like a little bit of gore. I did only just look at this book due to the fact that I liked the art style and not for my project, this is why its included into my research.

However these books Where Teddy Bears Come From (Burgess and Ayto, 2009), Oh No, George! (Haughton, 2015) And Touch and Feel Playtime (Feel, 2013) are quite similar in theme and what I am looking at for age group and for my target audience therefore I am include these into my research. Touch and Feel book is perfect for the idea that I am pursuing and this one of the collect of the Touch and Feel book is quite different I looked through it and was amazing that the paint pots were sticky. Never over my time of doing research for my multi textual children’s book have I came across a book that that this texture, I did like it though. The other two books I looked at for the art style and the choppy yet slick character design took an interest to me. I think I looked into these book more for the respect of the illustrators work than taking on ideas for the multi textual children’s book. Although I do like the contrast of colours and since my start of the research I have came to really appreciate how much colour is important for children’s book and how its needed for my studies into children with learning difficulties and disabilities. My overall thought analysis is that my studies I did for my case studies is that I understood that colours are important to children with visually impairment but now I have came to an understanding that colour in books are highly important for children in general. So therefore I am taking on this study and incorporating it into my multi textual children’s book and my final show.

Story Board Research:

This is the section that I am showing my research into story boards and will be making another post on the actual story boards that I have done and the script for the idea for my multi textual children’s book which will have the name reveal for the book also. For now this is the research of what I like and what I want to intake from the books.

Illegal:

Now with this sorta title I have to admit I was really surprised this was in a kids section of a library. Then again I did think maybe it was for educational purposes. Which is partially a reason of why I picked up this book to look at, I thought that My multi textual children’s book is intentionally to help with educating children and children with learning difficulties and disabilities on their awareness with animals and their surroundings hence the reason its multi textured and potentially include braille. Illegal (Colfer, 2018), Is another reason I picked up this book is for the layout of story boarding. Now I could go into so much detail and individually pick out each book stating what and why but I think its best to just go through what I found had what I looked at in this one section. (don’t worry I’ll provide the imagery)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson, 2018) is another comic that I picked up from the children’s section as just like Illegal I found the layout to be identical, as seen Imagery below.

I also looked at a book called Footpath Flowers (Lawson and Smith, 2015) of which I found a section of the book with panelling which has gave me an idea for my storyboarding, I like the idea of the sectors being black and white with a hint of red representing the little girls coat. This is an idea I want to include with my development and experiments with my own storyboarding.

by looking at Footpath Flowers I thought about different methods on how storyboards can look which lead me into looking at books on story boarding like Don Bluths the art of storyboard (Bluth, 2005) and the storyboard design course (Cristiano, 2008) . Both books made me look at what type of storyboards there are like from block boards which are private audiences, sketched boards which are for notes and sketches with details, action sequences which is a full sketch scene and cleaning up which is a clean drawing. Sources from Don Bluths book I found that he was Disney’s illustrator his creations are from A Troll In Central Park (A Troll In Central Park, 1994) and All Dogs Go To Heaven (All Dogs Go To Heaven, 1989), the book taught me about sketches and layouts which teaches about how camera structure is important its the same with a children’s book, Finding the key point in what you are looking for and how to express it. Of what I can take away from this book is that it has shown how to layout and structure a storyboard of which will guide me to the book in the end run. I have been taught that creativity in storyboards is key to a good book or film (in Bluths purpose). My favourite quote from this is “read the script and come to believe it” (Bluth, 2005) I think this is amazing quote to live by as a person who studied Film and Tv before going into animation and illustration. Script is the vital part for production and post production and from what I can see its the same for my storyboarding it can become a visual script and guideline to the multi textual children’s book.

Bibliography

A Troll In Central Park. (1994). [film] Directed by D. Bluth. Hollywood: Walt Disney.

All Dogs Go To Heaven. (1989). [DVD] Directed by D. Bluth. Hollywood: Walt Disney.

Bluth, D. (2005). Don Bluth’s the art of animation drawing. Milwaukie, Or.: DH.

Burgess, M. and Ayto, R. (2009). Where teddy bears come from. Atlanta: Peachtree.

Child, L. (2011). Who wants to be a poodle, I don’t. London: Puffin.

Colfer, E. (2018). Illegal: A graphic novel telling one boy’s epic journey to Europe. London: Hachette Children’s Group.

Cristiano, G. (2008). The storyboard design course. London: Thames & Hudson.

Davidson, Z. and Williamson, M. (2018). Mini Monsters to the rescue.

Feel, T. (2013). Playtime. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Gray, K. and McQuillan, M. (2018). Pepe takes a tumble. Get well friends.

Gaiman, N. and Grimly, G. (2008). The dangerous alphabet. New York: HarperCollins.

Goodhart, P. and Sharratt, N. (2017). You choose in space.

Handford, M. (2019). Martin Handford | Kidsreads. [online] Kidsreads.com. Available at: https://www.kidsreads.com/authors/martin-handford [Accessed 17 Mar. 2019].

Haughton, C. (2015). Oh no, George!. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press.

Lawson, J. and Smith, S. (2015). Footpath flowers. London: Walker Books.

Priestley, C. and Roberts, C. (2016). Uncle Montague’s tales of terror. London: Bloomsbury.

Reeve, P. (2012). Goblins vs Dwarves. London: Marion Lloyd.

Rix, J. (2011). Grizzly tales for gruesome kids. [United Kingdom]: J. Rix.

Stevenson, R. (2018). Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. US: Tritech Digital Media.

Wilson, J. and Sharratt, N. (2013). The story of Tracy Beaker. London: Vintage Books.

 

Hi-Fructose Magazine Volume 49.

This week I have been assigned to review the Hi-Fructoses magazines. I looked on the Hi-Fructose website of which gave me a little more information about the magazine. I found that “Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine, founded by artists,  Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005.” (Seifert and Seifert, 2019). I came across Hi Fructose from my tutor on the start of my two year course of animation and illustration. I still read Hi Fructose and have used it for my final year of my BA Hons Illustration degree. I looked into the latest issue which was Hi-Fructoses magazine Volume 49. I recommend Hi Fructose the same way as I recommend Juxapoz in a blog called Reading week #4: Juxapoz. I say this because like Juxapoz (Magazine, 2019) the magazine has a lot of artist content which range from illustration, graphics and abstracted work. In this blog I will be reviewing an article which I have chosen from the magazine, I will be stating my reasons to why I have chose this article.

This is the front cover.

I like how the cover looks as its inviting and full of interesting content. The bright colours. This is usually the case with Hi Fructose their bright and wild front overs which drawn everyone’s attention. including my own. Which I will show an example of my work here

This is my interpretation for my front cover. You can see the colours stand out of which is similar to the HI Fructose front cover.

 

This is an article that I found interesting to read is about Ori Toor (Toor, 2019). I was interested in the creative content of the illustrations in the magazine. I wasn’t so hyped on the article itself but I did come across a quote from the article which intrigued me. The quote that came from Toor was ” I’m not even sure I have an imagination anymore” (Toor, 2019) I was fascinated by his response as I was skimming through his artwork thinking are you joking me. His work is so diverse and full of interest that how could he state he had no more of an imagination. But then it made more sense when he’s state afterwards ” I need to draw to see thing in order to imagine new things” (Toor, 2019) I understand this as being an artist your most creative content isn’t to blurt out from your head but just grabbing a pen and draw how your feeling. I found that In the end Toor is a very clever guy and I would want to take personal inspiration for not his work but for who he is and how he sees the world. You can see this within his work but more from them smart quotes. I find myself taking on his words and enhancing them into my future career as a teacher. I could present myself for a lesson plan where I could teach students to place there feelings onto paper before even thinking about it and draw whatever comes to mind. This actually I think creates a more advanced imagination and is quite mature for an illustrator or artist can be when creating content.

I have placed here two sections of the article to show his work as I am going to go through what I like? What I can take from this? How can I use this within my project or in future work?

I want to start with what I like about Toor’s work in general. I like the jumbled chaos. His work looks like a creators brain and that to me is quite inviting. His type of illustrations and using colour is marvellous and gives plenty of inspiration for those who loves art. His work expresses my inner creativity and find that I can use his content with my own work. The style doesn’t fit with my personal project of the multi textual children’s book however I am wanting to become a teacher. I want to enhance my creativity and skills for when I come to teaching. I am able to do this by looking into artistic flares like Toor’s. I want to look more into collage work as looking at Toor’s work it gives me a feel for collage for an example Richard Hamilton’s work. I will show an example of his work below (Hamilton, 2019). I find his work in the mix with Toor’s work quite similar and I think if I am able to enhance myself further in my collage skills and being able to present this to a class.

As you can see I have taken Toor’s work and being able to manipulate his work with in my own work but I do find that its his personality that has shown how to see art and how to be creative. From his train of thought I am able to use him as a guidance towards becoming a more of a fully fledged illustrator going into the world of education. I believe the more experienced and grown I become the more trust I will gain from students and a work ethic in a classroom.

I hope you found this review of Hi Fructose useful and I do recommend looking into this article and hope you love what I read about Ori Toor.

until the next time

Rach 🙂

Bibliography

Hamilton, R. (2019). Im Dreaming of a Black Christmas by Richard Hamilton on artnet. [online] Artnet.com. Available at: http://www.artnet.com/artists/richard-hamilton/im-dreaming-of-a-black-christmas-a-vjYAbTl8j9XCJigXnFKysQ2 [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].

Seifert, D. and Seifert, A. (2019). Hi Fructose, (49), p.front cover.

Magazine, J. (2019). Juxtapoz Magazine – Home. [online] Juxtapoz.com. Available at: https://www.juxtapoz.com [Accessed 7 Mar. 2019].

Toor, O. (2019). Ori Toor. Hi Fructose, (49), p.30.

Toor, O. (2019). Ori Toor. Hi Fructose, (49), pp.31,32.

Toor, O. (2019). ori toor. [online] Oritoor.com. Available at: https://oritoor.com [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].

 

 

This week I have bought myself a copy of the Juxtapoz  Magazine (Swoon et al., 2019) and had myself a little read while in the car back from York; of which I bought the magazine from. In this blog I am going to run through an article from this magazine and how I have found a liking to the new artist. 

I am going to give a brief description of what the magazine os all about Juxapoz. Juxapoz is a magazine which holds together art and culture. The magazine covers all forms of art from street art, illustration, fine art and even animation (Website, 2019). They provide subscriptions and a website of which you can get the latest issue at your door. I came across Juxapoz in my animation and illustration course as our tutor provided us for research content in journals and magazines. I have only started reading Juxapoz for about a year or so. I find that the magazine has help with my creative ideas and have a sense of what trends are around for the month. I find that using Juxapoz is able to insprire creativity and have understanding of what the creative industry are wanting in future content. I as someone who is going to pursue a career in teaching, will be using Juxapoz as research content for students. I strongly believe along side other journals i have read that being subscribed or owning a copy of the Juxapoz magazine can help with guiding artist to the correct content when becoming a freelancer or working for a company.

The article I have came across is about an artist named Sofie Ramos (Ramos, 2018) and the article is called Drama in the Detail (Ramos, 2019). I was first drawn to this article when flicking through the magazine and came across the bright 60’s aesthetics. I love the funky art pieces that Ramos has to offer and I found myself interested in reading her story. In the article I found a sector of Ramos answering questions and I loved when she state “Cotton balls dipped with latex paint is my jam right now” (Ramos, 2019). This is a method that I have never heard of but it does make me want to try however I have an allergy to latex and I don’t know where to find the paint from. although down the years I would love to try and do this method and see what result can come out of it. From this quote it has made me think. Ramos has shown that your able to be creative out of things you would never think would go together. I have taken inspiration from Ramos’s quote to be more adventurous with techniques and methods, by using materials and art supplies to create content.

If I was to take somethings from this article is for one an artistic flare. I find from reading this article I have found a love for artistic flare and being creative with new materials and experimentation gets you somewhere. I want to improve on my experimental skills with materials and looking at Ramos’s work I can use her as a form of inspiration. I found that Ramos’s inspiration can with her and interior design incorporation with her personality. I believe I am able to achieve this with my personality and my interests with 80’s flare of which I stated about my interest in a blog called Get to know me!. I want to express myself future and have further skills of which I can use when I become a teacher. I also gained charisma from Sofie Ramos’s work as her work is quite delightful to look at. This make me want to indicate my work in the same way. I can use this with the next inspiration she’s show for me is colour. Using the two together can benefit an illustration. I already have some knowledge on these topics but I want to demonstrate these skills further and develop more experienced work. I can do this to help with demonstrating ideas for when I become a teacher. I could present an illustration of which can help with creative flare of which I mentioned earlier.

This is my review of the Juxapoz magazine and an article in the magazine. I hope this blog was useful and makes you want to go and buy a copy. Trust me its worth the money if you have a passion for art or wanting a career in the art industry.

until the next time

Rach 🙂

Bibliography

Ramos, S. (2018). Work. [online] Sofieramos.com. Available at: http://www.sofieramos.com/2018/ [Accessed 7 Mar. 2019].

Ramos, S. (2019). Drama in the Detail. Juxapoz, p.50.

Ramos, S. (2019). Drama In the Detail. Juxapoz, p.51.

Ramos, S. (2019). Drama in the Detail. Juxapoz, p.52.

Swoon, Revok, Warhol and Kaws (2019). Juxapoz. Juxapoz, p.front cover.

Magazine, J. (2019). Juxtapoz Magazine – Home. [online] Juxtapoz.com. Available at: https://www.juxtapoz.com [Accessed 7 Mar. 2019].

Website, J. (2019). Juxtapoz Magazine – Home. [online] Juxtapoz.com. Available at: https://www.juxtapoz.com [Accessed 6 Mar. 2019].