Another life drawing session

This was a fifteen minute sitting that I used to focus on the face - I was pretty happy with this :)

CAAD class doing a short ident in After Effects

 Okay so this might be a little too bouncy and may need to be calmed down a bit but for a first attempt at doing it I'm really pretty happy with it =D

More sketching

Just a quick post with another life drawing... Again printed from google

New sketch book

So life drawing started on Tuesday for the first years and I decided to go along. So glad I did because I'm dead happy with how I'm drawing now - I can finally draw again!! I bought a new sketch book so I can put some work together to take along to my interview - it was mentioned sketch books are interesting discussion points in these things so if my work is good enough I think I will take this with me in April.

I also printed some life model images off the internet, I know that's probably a mega weird thing to do (it was solely for the drawing I swear) and it's bad since they're a flat image rather than a real 3d human but I wanted the practice so tough.

Candy hearts is the title of the greyscale gorilla competition which I'm currently puzzling over - I'm considering a real heart exploding into little candy ones... Not sure how I could do this - but I'm working on it :)

Meantime,
Cheers

A trip to Seven Stories

It was our luck that Seven Stories in Byker was holding an event about getting your childrens picture book published tonight. We we're given tips for excellent texts, getting noticed, and how not to annoy publishers and got an insight into the world of Axel Scheffler - illustrator of the Gruffalo.

His sketch books were left out for us to look at and his work is so beautiful it's inspiring, the fact it was there right before our eyes gave it a more real feel, again like in Berlin giving the position Axel is in a more human appearance. Again I feel like it's possible to be so successful with the right balance of hard work and good fortune anything could happen. I'm really pleased I went to this event and now that I know what to expect I bet I will return for more.

And what's more I had two books signed by the man himself!! I was thinking of perhaps giving them as prizes to the children best behaved or hardest working in my classes but I think I might just keep them myself.

Business Card designs

These are my rough business card designs (of the front and back in respective order) - I can't find the memory stick that has the original illustrator files of the logo on but when I get home I'm going to replace these logos with hopefully less pixellated versions...

Until then...


Cheers

Better late than never

PPD task one - today is the day I finally embark on the dreary and wordy journey of a real SWOT analysis...


Overall my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are going to be listed alongside job roles I could fall into and am interested in... I then work out what skills I'm missing and work a plan out to fix this so I leave university with the most skills I possibly can...


Strengths - Storytelling, composition, drawing, communication, presentation, digital skills, patience amd acting.

Weaknesses - Software skills, model making (sculpture), lighting and drawing skills.

Opportunities - Sneaking into life rawing classes with the first years, work on software available - Maya is free online on which to practice and learning to model make with Dave.

Threats - Time element (not much time left?), deadlines - things will take priority if they need handing in, lack of inspirations and for a lack of things to list, bing ill...

Specialist Job roles I like the sound of

Storyboard artist
Layout artist
Compositor
Editor
Animator
Model Maker
Illustrator
'Lighter'

New skills I need for these job roles

Storyboard software skills and knowledge!!
Premier pro experience
Better Drawing skills - incl. light and shadow
Flash experience
Photoshop and After Effects improvement of skills
Shake understanding
Model making
Greater Colour Theory knowledge
Understanding lighting to represent daytimes - or a more technical understanding rather than theatrical...
Maya understanding


Learning plan with this in mind

Model making class with Dave
Research and document Colour Theory and lighting
Download and play with the Student Maya package
Research the software called 'Shake'
Steal Andrew to teach me how to use Flash
Practice Photoshop and After Effects further
Try out and improve my skills in Premier
Sneaking into life drawing classes this week with the first years...


These targets will be easy to cover in one way or another before the course ends this year...


Long typed up post over


Cheers