'interaction'

I want to go forward with this project and expand my thoughts and view on how I envision interaction and the qualities within the idea of it and which versions of interaction appeal objectively to me. I want to use and draw and develop the necessary images of interaction I capture and transfer them into images that I can develop. The platform I want to display my series of images on will be digital, so I want to venture more into digital forms of media and explore animating to a certain extent to transform the original drawing's I will create into the final outcomes. I think that focusing on the theme and exploring the differences and new forms of interaction that I haven't covered will be necessary, but I also want to focus on development and techniques of producing my collection of images.

04/15 - robots

A look at factory workers in Shanghai and how they interact- or actually how they don't. Some really interesting stuff about Apple and their maybe-kinda-sort of brainwashing. Most workers choose sleep over food.

04/15 - drawing sketchbook

   

Examples from my observational drawing sketchbook for my final major project, 'Interaction'.

04/15 - observational research, artist: charlotte ager

I looked at Ager's illustrations originally as I knew a focus within her work is observational studies and that that related to my project directly. The style in which her drawings are created is particularly unique and something that I haven't seen excessively before. The distinctive artistic style and the way Ager has represented the subjects she has studied is eye-catching and the areas in which detail is lacking is made up for in other areas, I am particularly interested in the composition of her illustrations and I am interested in experimenting similarly. I think that particularly because of the limited use of outlining mostly people but as well the surroundings within the illustrations, the illustrations themselves look considerably childlike and quick, which is a quality that I think works in Ager's favour as it is refreshing and doesn't require an intense focus on the details that are presented.

The colour palettes presented throughout a large quantity of her illustrations that I found on her blog are very limited and pastel like and I think that this is a redeeming and popular method of adding colour to illustrations, and I think that my work relates similarly to Ager's in this sense in a few ways.

final major project - test animation

I created the preliminary version of this animation from observing people in the high street and began to want to test out how I could be able to animate further the observational drawings I was creating. I began by scanning this drawing into photoshop and then adjusting the size of the image. I maintained a focus on 3 simple frames sequenced at 0.5 seconds apart from one another and began to re draw sections of the original observational drawing that I wanted to showcase the movement of the people I drew. I think the overall result and the length at which the animation took to complete is substantially sufficient but for further animations I want to focus on a closer relation to the original drawings and manipulating the movements, especially to capture the exact likeness of the original drawing and to create a more fluid animation.

'the sequential image': project evaluation

After being given the brief for the Sequential Image project, I looked forward to being able to create imagery that was not only sequential, but that portrayed my original chosen narrative. As this was something I hadn't done before within my work for this course, I felt it would benefit me should I choose to include a narrative in my final major project, and I wanted to take advantage of as many different techniques within my imagery as practice steps for my final pieces of work in the future. I enjoyed the process of coming up with ideas for narrative and then expanding on them. Character concepts and designs felt especially new, however I really enjoyed this aspect of the project. An afterthought from the project would be to in the future consider the focus on sequential imagery more within the images I am creating. To some extent I think I achieved this, however I could have put more emphasis on this idea.
 I think my use of animation within my images have potential and could be taken further, and the techniques I used are definitely an aspect of the project that I will take forward to use with later pieces of work. Concerning the images themselves, I think after looking at them after the porject, I think I should have scaled the composition a little bit smaller as this would have improved the overall look of the collection of images, however I think as a whole they are still successful.

'the sequential image': project outcomes

For the sequential image project, I chose to form a series of images focusing on a narrative around the theme of family. I began drawing up conceptual ideas around a set of characters that I could create to portray the narrative I aimed to use, and came up with the mother & son. I wanted to use an odd and peculiar family set up to portray the importance of family and how unimportant differences between individuals are. I wanted a wholehearted set of images, and in doing so wanted to use some form of animation to highlight this. I went on to draw up the original images and then animate individual aspects of them. I think that the outcomes are generally a good representative of the original idea I had at the beginning of the project, and I think I will be able to use the techniques I used throughout this project within work later on.