Tuesday 28 April 2015

Project: D&AD Awards - Future You

One half of the Future You project was to create a digital image to represent yourself in 10 years time.

I developed the idea of me just being a massive hippy!!! But covered in the tattoos from the previous post.

The idea is that I am not necessary physically covered head to toe in tattoos, but more the symbolism of what each tattoo symbolises and the person I have become throughout the journey of getting them/creating them/doing them/achieving these goals.


I quickly compiled some ideas with my very, very limited Photoshop knowledge!!



I then ran out of time! But compiled this image using the coloured in tattoos from the final flash sheet with the intention of colouring it in digitally.


I thought I could use this for promotional materials. 

Project: Promotional Materials

Promotional Materials runs along side our Final Major Project.
I am choosing to use nature materials for my promotional work.

Here are some pieces of inspiration...

painted goose feathers : Kirsten Rickert

Paint that cool driftwood you found on your amazing vacation and hang it on the wall!

Manitas de Plata Marina Puche Joyería

Wonderful autumn leaf tags...color photo copy leaves and cut out into tags.  Could do this with everygreen, etc. for Christmas?



Project: D&AD Awards - Future You

I have been asked to do an extra module to help make up marks for my Professional Practice module from the second year.

The brief stated that we were to imagine ourselves in 10 years time - what would we be? who would we be? what would our world be like? and then produce both a digital and printed image of our outcomes.








I experimented with some outcomes and settled on the idea that I would be covered in tattoos, each one representing an achievement or a goal that I wish to have achieved in the next ten years i.e. graduate from uni with a masters, live on a houseboat along with some more humorous ones (like being a spinster!)




I made a flash sheet of these tattoos by planning out what each one was going to look like, hand drawing them and then scanning them into Photoshop to arrange into a flash sheet. I then printed this off and hand coloured the images with pencil crayons to give it that American Traditional painted affect without actually having to paint it!
 

Meanings of each of the tattoos :

1. Beetroot/ Carrot - the idea that in 10 years time I will hopefully be completely vegetarian, or maybe even vegan!
2. Spinster - I'M GOING TO DIE ALONE!!!!!
3. Goat/Chicken - I want to live self-sufficiently and have pets (obviously I will only drink the goat's milk and eat the eggs if I'm not vegan!)
4. Hand with Pencil - Hopefully I will be a successful illustrator.
5. Graduation - I would love to have done a MA within the next 10 years.
6. Born Free - The thought that I will be a free spirit and have enough money and time to travel and go where I please, which leads me onto....
7. The Globe - I'M GOING TO TRAVEL THE WORLD! (or maybe conquer it!)
8. Peace - Hopefully my illustrations can be used for good! Like charity and political activism. So Don't Hate, Illustrate.
9. Boat - For years, I want to live in a bus, but that has altered to wanting to live in a house boat, on the canal, just free to draw and come and go as I please. In peace. Alone....
10. Plants - I want a vegetable garden and a roof garden on my boat!!
11. India - I love India and Indian culture. I have never travelled there but hope to visit. I also sponsor a child who lives in Sri Lanka, so I would like to visit there often too to see her progress.
12. Om - See abovc ^^^ :-)
The rest are just little fillers!!