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Reflection

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 It is time to reflect on the work I created last term and overall on my time spend in collage. It was a very challenging time for me as I have changed my life completely, from difficult and exhaustive job as a Teaching Assistant working with SEN children I became a full time student at DMUIC. Moreover follow dreams to became qualified Graphic Designer in my age is unusual and felt weird surrounded by young people. Somehow I managed it with satisfying results. I love the time being there and I appreciate every moment and the knowledge that tutors shared with us. I learned how to create the website, how to make a mock ups in Photoshop and what is most important, how to talk about and to describe my own work. Which I am still finding difficult but I can see a small progress in my writing. It was an amazing feeling to try a life drawing again or to create my own mug in the workshops. I had a moment when I was very close to give up but luckily I didn't and I am looking forward to exper...
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Polish Punk

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  Poland 1978 The Polish Punk began in Poland in late 1977 when barley anyone heard of Sex Pistols and famous punk bands from different countries. Situation in Poland was really tough because of the Communism and poverty.  Rebellious music found a strong support in Poland under the communist regime, and its beginnings included big-city art galleries as much as small-town cultural centres.  At the beginning, young people gains knowledge about punk music from the newspaper clippings. The famous Polish songwriter Lech Janerka wrote his first song, Klaus Mitffoch’s (Muł Pancerny) while he was still in the army, after reading an article about the Sex Pistols. Surprisingly he’d never heard of the band, but he tried to imagine what their aggressive and noisy music would sound like. The article about Polish Punk Rock in popular newspaper Warsaw Life (zycie Warszawy) stated: The movement started in Poland a little blind. I remember I found an article in ‘Warsaw Life’. At the ...
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God save the Queen!

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 Jamie Reid, British artist born in 1947. Mostly known by designing the most iconic and famous punk image of all time, the cover for the Sex Pistols album "God Safe the Queen". Created in the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Jamie Reid " God Safe the Queen" 1977 The black and white photo of the Queen is disappearing on the top of colourful Union Jack flag which shows importance of the monarchy to the punk ideology. Another message saying that the monarchy should be abolished is  ripping away Queen's eyes and lips, showing underneath the Sex Pistols name band with the title of the single "God safe the Queen"   Reid lived during the Punk and Anarchy movement within the UK and his work is inspired and soaked with punk attitude, protests and rebellion.  I am writing this post during the Platinum Queen's Jubilee week, 45 years later! In the TV Adam Lambert and Queen sang "We are the champions" front of the Buckingham Palace, when I am w...
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Changes on the Website

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  Previously my homepage looked like this, with my sketchbook open and my art equipment next to it photographed in the studio. I like this picture because the open sketchbook with a white pages invites and inspires to new the project, however this term I decided make some changes on my website. Unfortunately during the process I was so focused that I forgot to take a screenshots.    The homepage on my Website looks like this now. Is definitely more graphic and clean. I changed background for clear white and I used  my own drawings to it. I purposely zoomed in the girl's face to show  her attitude and also because I really like this picture. Moreover I changed the top bar colour for the wine red, which unfortunately looks much lighter or darker depends from the screen. I like this look much better as is bold and clean, also links to my last project were I mostly used only those three colours.   I also made changes in the Portfolio page. Previously was the sa...
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Punk's not Dead tattos - 3D outcome

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  The temporary tattoos I have ordered from a little shop on eBay. I have message the seller and attached two files with my drawings. On the next day , the postman delivered the envelope with my very first temporary tattoos and short instruction. As it is shown on the picture, there is a mirror reflection of my design because to stick it to the skin I nedded to peel off the first transparent layer and stick the tattoo straight on the skin. Apparently it is exactly the same process how we stick on our hand colourful tattoos as a children. After I chose the right place on the model's arm, I put the tattoo straight on (was extremely sticky) and I used wet tissue to wet the back layer of the temporary tattoo sticker. After that process, the paper layer came off by itself and the tattoo stayed on the skin. I repeated everything with my second design, however now I placed it on the model's leg. I love the final outcome and I am surprised how good it looks on the skin. I am so glad th...
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Further Exploration 3D tattoo

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 My 3D exercise was to create a 3D tattoo which I trough would be easy, however the reality was different.  I drew a simple project of punk skull tattoo and I cut out template.    I used the template to draw every single element of the tattoo on the foam board, the foam board gave me a structure and was thicker than a cardboard. However cutting out small elements was very difficult and the foam crumbled even though I used different types of craft knives.  I used black ink to paint all elements, which turned out to be a bad idea afterwards as the ink faded and I painted everything again with a black permanent pen. The clay was perfect to create teeth and also to build up different levels of 3D tattoo, such us cheek bones and pupils in eyes. In conclusion, I drew the punk skull in a few seconds, when creating the 3D tattoo was much more difficult and complicated. Starts with a good type of material to cut and the shape and good  covering black paint. I consid...
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The Zine Library

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During the Bring the Paint Festival , alongside the Badge Making Workshop was a small Zine exhibition. The Zines were separated into a groups: music, events, mental health and mixed topics. I looked trough all of them which was very inspirational experience, the range of colours, techniques and Zine sizes was impressive. Some of them were hand written, or made in collage technique, other looked professional, depends of the target group, their age and topic. A common factor was that the Zines only had a few pages and were creatively design to attract attention or highlight the magazine topic. I think, my Acid Drinkers Zine would fits there really well. This Zine cover definitely stands out from all the colourful and bright covers. The light silver font colour on the white background makes it very interesting.  I also like the sentence "Art is the thing that nobody asked you to do".  I like the choice of colours used on this Vague Zine cover. The main article is about Donald Tr...
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