Bonjour, I'm Luke & I'm currently studying Interactive Media/ Graphic Design, Extended/ National Diploma in Chesterfield College. I am 16 years of age, & near enough a full time student. Please take time, not only to view my own work, but to also look at other people/ artists I blog about. Thanks a lot, appreciate it guys.
This is a great image of the famous Darth Vader made from great typography. Using the edges and shapes, then inducing lettering induce the shades, texture, & size of the image, all using the same text but different sizes & shades.
Using a simple gradient background, using shades of red & black, really make to grey/ white text stand out, and also the gradient of the text helps with the structure of Darth.
Here is a slightly detailed drawing/ sketch of a Dust Mite.
First i drew the layout/ basic parts of the Mite, such as the body, legs and pincer like face, and then drew into the drawing, whilst adding shadings and texturing as i went along. Type of pencil I used was a HB regular, and was drawn into an A4 sketch pad, & used a simple image from Google which can be referenced from.
In the top picture is a quick doodle of a chicken i drew whilst watching a film. Nothing fancy, just literally a quick basic body parted drawing of a plain old chicken.
Below is a Photoshopped version of the doodled chicken. Firstly i drew an outline of the drawing, with a few inline markings of the wing, head and legs.Then totally filled the blank areas with shades of Orange, Red & Black, using the brush preset 112, to create a feather like texture on the image.
Comments:
- Spend more time in media & texture choice.
- Add more in-depth of colour & shading.
- Think more about meaning & style.
- Use more media than pen.
Article Review: ‘Greenwash Guide’.
‘Greenwash is with us, and unless we take action, it is likely to be with us to stay. Greenwash is an environmental claim which is unsubstantiated (a fib) or irrelevant (a distraction). Found in advertising, PR or on packaging, and made about people, organizations and products. Greenwash is an old concept, wrapped in a very incarnation’- The Greenwash Guide.
After thoroughly reading through the Greenwash Guide, i’ve realized by this guide majorly pointing it out that Greenwash is just a false environmental phrase which was made, or is used still to cause a distraction to the audience. The concept was established a while back and can still be found today n most packaging products, and be found on organizations.
Just found a really good Blog by The Robot Guy, the guys over there post literally a piece of art near enough every day, of just robots that they’ve join, they’ve read about, or even re blogged someone else art. And it’s always about robots, obviously.
Here is an image I found on DesignersOfTumblr’s page, I find this really interesting.
What I really like about this image is the combination of Typography on something as common as a damaged phone, especially when almost everyone always asks “How did that happen?” and “Does it work?” - I think this is a clever and intresting way of playing on people’s predictabillity as well as displaying it in a perfect way.
Totally agree with @paintcansandpapercuts, typography is excellent, and the cleverness of what the meaning is, is brilliant. Great piece.
Reviewing blogging.
I think the way of blogging, like blogging your work, seeing other blogs & other peoples work really is the way forward in careers. Near enough every piece of work people do, can easily be blogged about, on any blogging site. Simply uploading a work of art, and then explaining, it, or even just uploading the picture itself.
Anyone can look back through all your work thats been uploaded of course, and not depending on time you uploaded it either. Whether its someone from Uni, or your grandad at home, anyone can see it, anyone can re blog it, & any one can comment.. Just what other way can someone do some things?
The Festival of Britain.
The Festival of Britain was an Exibition in London, & opened 3rd May, 1951.
The Graphic Designer for FOB was called Abram Games (a artist I’ve spoke about on eariler posts) & created official war posters & design the Fatival of Britains symbol/ logo.
The Festiva itself has over 19 main places which you can look upon, like the Skylon, The Dome of Discovery, The Royal festival Hall, The Telekinema, etc..
More can be looked at through:
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain
- Sponsered website: http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/
- 21st Century pack: http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.238
- And google.
A finished photoshop montage from an assignment I had to complete at college.
Using scanned images of album covers, both fron and back, using a recent photo shoot, I managed to create what you can see above, using layers, rasters, overlay, filters & basic side tools, & creating something that has a little bit of everything this band, Green Day, has done within the last 23 years.
University course review: Leeds.
Course placement: Leeds Met.
Course name: BA (Hons) Graphic & Communication Design.
Course content: Take on historic, culture, technology aspect of Graphic Design, branding, advertising, animation.
Reason of interest: Another Uni that’s a little bit further away than the courses i’ve been looking at. Which is the main reason of why i looked & researched about this course in particular.
Course Requirments: N/a.
Own Opinion:
i personally think that they should put the course requirments onto the online information about the course, mainly for the fact that some people would know for deffinate that if they’re interested in going there, they would know literally know what they have to do, instead of sending off for a more ‘advanced’ info pack about this particular course.
University course review: Manchester.
Course placement: Manchesterfield.
Course Name: BA (Hons) Graphic Design.
Course Content: Graphic Design, print based or digital media, technical & concepual skills.
Reason of Interest: Further away from home, been rated a good clean uni.
Course requirments: 240 UCAS points.
Own Opinion:
Like i said, Manchester is slightly further away than most uni’s i’ve looked at before, but im still unsure whether or not i want to be going further away. The Uni is said to be good in Art & Design areas of there, and would be good to carry on with.
Google Reader vs Tumblr Dashboard.
Recently I decided to use the Google Reader, which (i must admit) is pretty useful. As useful as it may be, I think I would continue to use Reader in the future, IF i was using Google Blogger. But seen as though I’m currently using Tumblr, (a different blog site) I much more prefer the standard Dashboard, ready made for Tumblr.
The Reader is very useful, I admit, but seen as though I’m using Tumblr, & the blogs i’m following are on Tumblr, i would say it’s just much more appropriate for myself to use the Dashboard.
I found this video whilst researching a well known graffiti artist called ‘Banksy’.
This guy really knows how to show off his talents not only by graffitiing, but by making himself known world wide, coming from literally nothing, & making himself to what he is now..
No other word can be used than perfection to explain how meaningfull & thoughtfull his work is, in near enough every piece he’s done. Using stencils & spray paint (mostly) he manages to create something unimaginabley different, every, sing, time.
Back to the point, the artwork in this video is partly to do with Banksy’s doing, but he doesn’t get credited about it.. Some say it was himself who wanted no credit for doing it, but either way, the artwork is almost identical to his other work.
Doodle Number Ninety-Seven. Muppets.
