Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 March 2015

OUGD602 - PPP3 - Inspiration and Development - Drawing tablet

Recently, I have been revisiting my old Bamboo Drawing tablet, which I received for my birthday about 4 years ago, before I even came to university. I had never really got into it, because my direction was always with design, and I didn't get the hang of drawing digitally, as I think I was pushing for results similar to that of real pencils and pens and was frustrated when I wasn't achieving results... But recently, I have been watching a lot of online lectures on Skillshare and after the Creative Networks event back in November and seeing Babs Tarr's amazing work, it really inspired me to give it a go again. 

I can feel my heart tug my career in a different direction and I'm coming to the realisation that I have always favoured more illustrative work over more type based work under the Graphic Design umbrella, and in retrospect I might have been better suited to the BA Hons Illustration course. But I also believe that everything happens for a reason, and the Illustration course didn't exist when I decided to pursue Graphic Design at Leeds College of Art... And so now, as I am nearing the end of my time on the course I think it's wise to broaden my skillset and in addition to my illustrative skills concerning hand drawn type, and more graphic-design based skills, I want to develop some basic skills with digital painting. I think this is very useful if I want to pursue a career in the Themed Entertainment industry as that concerns a lot of concept art.

Examples of how concept art informs the Themed Entertainment industry as a Graphic Designer:



http://melodymatheny.com/



http://www.wrenhouse-design.com/#!universal-creative/cm4j


http://www.minalima.com/film-work/prop-design/prop-concepts-harry-potter-2



I attempted a go at this over Christmas when I was developing ideas for my Context of Practice module however this time I am revisiting with a bit more ideas as to what I can achieve.

I found that studying Babs' work not only gave me inspiration, but some pointers as to how to go about mastering the drawing tablet as a medium. I also watched a few of these tutorials on youtube:



I found these tutorials really helpful, particularly the landscape tutorial as it taught me that the main thing with drawing on the graphics tablet is the ability to layer up the different strokes, even utilising the different layers in Photoshop to create a solid, dense effect.

I decided to draw something I knew how to draw and that I doodle often - a human eye:




It's not brilliant or by any means a finished piece, but it taught me quite a lot about the tablet. It's based off my own eye as reference, I was using a mirror. I decided to have a go at some more facial features as practice for shadow and light.



Then I decided to join it to a mouth:


And then into a full face:



It strangely bares resemblance to my own face in a creepy, starey way. I decided to call it a night, but this is definitely the start of a new skillset that I wish to develop and add to my portfolio - I need to develop these skills further.






Thursday, 19 March 2015

OUGD602 - PPP3 - Inspiration - Tombow Brush Pen

Today, I received my Amazon order of a Tombow ABT brush pen. After working on this collaboration with Roxxie Blackham and using her brush pens, I was impressed of how it helped achieve script writing effects, as I had always used a pencil (probably obvious but anyway). 

After watching this video on youtube ...



(excuse the language) I decided that a Tombow ABT brush pen was my best bet:



Here's a few of my first doodles:













I mean, these are all pretty naff by any means, but I really want to develop this as a skill, as it can assist with hand lettering with type as image. I am going to keep developing this whenever I get time - most definitely in summer after I have completed my degree (!).



An example of brush lettering in Graphic Design.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/cardon-webb-ralph-ellison-covers


The versatility of producing lettering by hand means that the logo/ design/ title is unique for the client.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Brushpen-Lettering-set-02/8309133

I have ordered another set of coloured Tombow brushpens but I think I also want to get a Copic Sketch brush marker because they seem to be firmer, so I can try out more mid-century style lettering such as this: 




https://www.behance.net/gallery/Brush-Lettering-Collection-No-1/14266643?

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

OUGD602 - PPP3 - Inspiration and Development - Life Drawing Society

I have recently joined the Life Drawing Society at Leeds College of Art because I want to get back into drawing again, what with my dabbling with my Bamboo Tablet  - I think that being able to draw people will help with my concept art. Plus, people are really hard to draw and I think that it's always useful to be able to have this skill. Drawing hands isn't my strong point!

I attended the session yesterday and was a little rusty at first, but then seemed to pick up where I left off in college which boosted my confidence a lot. Plus, I wrestled with a HUGE spider which fell off the lecture theatre's ceiling, which is an achievement in itself.

Here are some pictures of my sketches produced in the session:


In the first part of the session, I was a bit rusty as I had not drawn like this in years - I tried to focus on the parts I had trouble drawing like hands and feet and I usually had trouble drawing the correct length of limbs.


the second part of the session was a bit better, and I produced something that actually bared resemblance to the man in front of us! 


The final part of the session was the most successful, but it didn't really challenge me because the most difficult parts - the hands and feet, weren't on show so much...


Unfortunately, I doubt that I'll get much chance to attend many sessions, but I'll try to go as often as possible.