Adobe Induction

Graphics Day 3. "Its No Joke"

I really had fun doing this protest project. We had to pick a social indue that we feel passionate about or anything you feel passionate about and to create a protest sign. So with all the commotion going on in America people are dressing up as clowns, carrying weapons and trying to scare people in their surroundings. Most cases people end up being chased and are scared for their lives because they do not know their intentions. So the message behind my protest is that its not a joke woth the wording on the back and an image of a clown on the front. Before we got to work on the actual outcome we had to brainstorm and research into our protest. We also had to come up with different concepts, different drawings, different designs so it makes it easier on us when we are drawing it out on the cardboard. I really enjoyed this task simply because we were free to do and come up with anything we wanted to. And by the end we all had a chance to look at each others work and it was very interesting to understand what people feel is important to them, We also took a group photo together of everyones work.

Graphics Day 2

FINALLY MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GRAPHICS PATHWAY. Today we were given a very insightful talk about graphics and what we could go into, what links we are open to, Animation, motion graphics, promotion, illustration, editing  and more. I think this is what the whole class needed too because a lot was going around that graphics is mostly typography but now we know... WE KNOW!

Second half of the day was similar to life drawings, we were told to do various tasks from drawing ourselves to other people in the class and their facial features. Like last week it has given me more confidence in my pencil to paper skills because I am better than I think I am.


In my spare time I hopped on photoshop and just made something a bit weird from what I drew.

Graphics Day 1

Finally coming towards the end of the foundation rotation and this week we have graphics. Today w each table was given a word and we as a group had to come up with a slogan and a logo for the issue we chose our outcomes. My table was given the world health, it wasn't the most interesting out of all the other words that the other tables received but we worked with it and made it work.

So the word we got was health and we had to brainstorm what we want our camping to be about, it went from pet insurance to free health care and more but we just kept it simple, something us teenagers can relate to and must be informed about, so it ended up being sexual health.

Our slogan wasn't the best because we couldn't think of anything that hasn't already been used, eventually we were forced to come up with one on the spot when our tutor was asking for feedback from each group. "Put a sock on it"...yup that was the slogan we went for and surprisingly  everybody was feeling it so we went along with it.

So the main task was to create a logo for our campaign using typography, to begin with it was quite difficult, not to make a logo but to make it unique and not just plain old text so we all took time to create our own individual logos and when we were done we'd pick the best one and use it as our outcome. Because we are focusing on sexual health I decided to use a condom as inspiration and made a condom packaging with our slogan "put a sock on it"

By the end of it all we ended up going for Nicole's design because we all liked hers out of all of ours so we got to work on it. We made it all out of cardboard, when we were done we had to find interesting places in the university to put up our work and this was the outcome.

I guess it was insightful to know more about typography and the different ways it can be used to promote things. One thing that i would change is to flip the 'P' the right way around, I don't know why it was upside down. Other than that it was great working together as a group to make this campaign logo.

Fashion and Textiles. Day 5

I don't think I have ever worked so hard at something i have never made before and been so proud of it. Yesterday I stayed in the university until 8pm starting off my dress so i knew what i had to do today. Like i mentioned in my previous post i explained how i liked the idea of simplicity. Turns out i made it more complicated than i thought, complicated enough for me handle. My inspiration stemmed from the men character night crawler and his outfit. I was inspired by the v-cut that is original outfit had (right) it was the shoulders that really got my attention and i really wanted to develop it in my dress.

The idea of straps that surround the dress came from the film "The fifth element"(1997)

The character LeeLoo's costume was a representation of how people in the future will dress. People becoming more revealing and unashamed. I didn't want to copy the outfit directly so i used different colours for the straps and angled them differently to create a patters throughout the dress, almost like a corset. Taking this idea merged it together with nightcrawler outfit to create this outcome i am very proud of.

Fashion and Textiles. Day 4

Today was when I started to get my hands dirty and really express my creativity. It started off with taking an image and adding cut outs or even drawings on them to make them seem a lot more interesting than they already are. I was not thinking outside the box to begin with i was only thinking about cutting out shapes and sticking them down onto the image. Our teacher was encouraging us to step out of our heads and use the skills we learnt yesterday by making something 2D stand out. So i began to create 3D shapes the will come off from the paper almost like it was real I even added some masking tape to add bit of graphic designs to one of my pieces. When we were all done we made a little gallery at the front of the room to exhibit each others work and look gain more inspiration from.

Later on we began to come up with ideas for the following day when we begin to make our own outfits. I didn't want to jump straight in so i planned what I could make, I even started making sketching and drawings of outfits i could make. I usually like the idea of minimalism and simplicity so i began to make sketches of normal primary shapes and slowly started to put then together.

Life Drawings

Life drawing i must say helped me a lot, I've always been the type to draw my work on a graphics tablet because I am much more free at what i can do, from vectoring to blending colours. I was scared to put the pencil to the paper because i was afraid of making mistakes and messing up my work. But today i was forced to push myself to use as many medias as possible and to keep practicing. Drawing the female body was always easy to me but i would take my time as I am drawing but today we were given time limits on how long we can spend on our drawings.

Starting of with a pencil was standard but then using pens made me uncomfortable because you cannot rub out pen. At this stage i was frustrated because i kept making mistakes but our teaching kept encouraging us to keep going and just keep drawing she always said "let your pens be free". So i focused less on making mistakes and stopped trying too hard and just go with my instincts, i was focusing a lot rather rather than trying to rush and get it right. 

At one stage the model was asked to make constant movements for about 5 minutes and this was very helpful because it engaged me to move faster with my media. I enjoyed using the charcoal the most because it made my work look more original and unique. I was very pleased at what i was able to accomplish by the end of the day, it started off stressful but now i am more confident in myself drawing and i was able to convince myself that not every drawing i do the first time around will be perfect. If thats the case i have to keep on going.