Illustration Cloud

 In week 2 tutor introduced three main themes for our Main Project. Purple Haze.  Use the colour purple as your theme, consider what it represents and how it can be incorporated into your art or design project. Earthly Delights . Interpret this title as you please to represent, incorporate or express the nature of earthly delights in your art and design project. Expressionism . Look deeply into expressionism and incorporate this style into your art and design project. It seems like ages ago when I decided to choose Earthly delights theme for main project. Back then I had no idea what I would create , I only knew that would be something related to Nature. I started with drawing simple flowers, plants and botanical patterns which I wanted to use on the shoes, curtains and clothes. I thought about creating new shoe company, but I couldn't find any purpose and it was more for someone who's progression route is fashion or product design. First exercise "Martians have landed...

  I found this football t-shit on  Mock up World website. I downloaded the picture in psd and I was able to opened it in Photoshop to start editing. The orange background was to bright so I change the colour for black by choosing the layer with the background colour, right click , convert to smart object. My firts idea was to use the green colour for the t-shirt as it is for the Eco School  team and the green would fit well. Then I realised that, there is a lot of green in the logo.   I converted to the layer with a t-shirt and I changed colour for blue. I wrote down all colour names from my logo to use exactly the same blue as it is it the Eco Academy logo.  When I placed the logo on the t-shirt, the blue colour on the logo blended with the background. I tried to use the logo with the white background but it doesn't look well. I decided to change the t-shirt colour again for the light beige, same as it is on the school leaflet or stationary.  This light co...

I worked on my website and I basically changed everything. The colours and pictures which I have used before it was not me anymore. I started with changing background. I chose something like this from the gallery as it is simple and quite nice. I used a similar picture on each page, however I felt there is still something wrong.  I took my sketchbook , pencils and brushes and I took a picture of it. Then I changed it to the black and white and uploaded into the website. It turn up well and I think is much better than picture from the Wix gallery. I have changed the font colour and the menu strip as the brown colour doesn't look good with black and white photo. I created a new sub page called Eco Academy and started looking for  a good background picture. I needed something quite dark because the main important would be the gallery with my project. I though that picture which I took earlier in Aylestone meadows would be perfect for that. And again I uploaded it into my website ...

 On Friday 11th of March I went to the Sketchbook and Poster Show in Gateway House. students from Year 2 and year 1 exhibited their sketchbooks and posters. There were many open sketchbooks on the tables available to look trough them and be inspired, posters were hung around the room. All the visitors vote for their favourite sketchbook and poster, I vote for Michal Heca's poster because it looks different then other poster, basically it was a transparent rubbish bag with text on it and some stuff inside. I had a little chat with Michal when i find out how is like to be in the "big school" and how they working.  However sketchbooks also shows me how the students work, how the creation process looks like and what kind of topics they are covered. There were many interesting pictures such us process of logo designing, different types of fonts in posters , logos and so on. I was able to see students thinking process and how their idea developed. There are some photos which I ...

 Patrick Caufield (1936-2005) English painter, studied at the Chelsea School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. Became popular in 1964 after "New Generation" exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, which was a beginning of British Pop Art. Caufield's used bold colours and thick, black outlines in his works, often painted interiors and familiar objects, rather than people or landscapes. Perhaps for this reason he was the best person to design the set and costumes for Party Game, a ballet by Michael Corder performed at the Royal Opera House in 1984 and in 1995 the set and costumes for the Royal Ballet’s new production of Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody. Caufield usually painted with acrylic paint on canvas adding his characteristic black outline, however later on he has stopped painting bold outlines.  “ A simple description of the way I’ve worked is to say that having painted and drawn in a linear way, without shadow, I gradually abandoned the linear structure and began t...

  This time I used Freepik website to find the stationary for the mock up.  I downloaded the png picture to be able to work in photoshop.  The picture was ready to edit and divided on many layers (bottom right side in photoshop) Every single object is a separate layer such as envelope, paper, mug, badge, notebook and so on. I clicked on the layer which I wanted to transform and I changed the picture to the smart object (right click - transform to the smart object). I double clicked on the layer and its created new layer where I was able editing the picture by changing colours or adding logo and text. I repeated that with every single object. I decided to add a different colour to stationary because everything looked similar and boring. In procreate I opened Eco Academy poster which I created earlier and I chose the colour. Every single colour has a number which is very useful because I could use exactly the same colour as it is on the  school logo or posters.  B...

 On my way back home I took a picture of a sign post in Aylestone Meadows. I thought that would be perfect spot for the Eco Academy. I uploaded photo to the procreate and I added the Eco Academy poster on with additional 2km and an arrow This picture is near the car park, where the parents can leave cars and drop off children to school

You will be looking at your partners blog.  You need to add these questions below to a blog post so that you can then go through these while looking at their website and testing it. The Homepage 1.  Is the homepage pleasing to look at?  Yes, it looks nice. Alina used her own pictures on the background. 2. Does the homepage clearly show both visually and with text what the website is about (i.e represent the students progression route?)? Yes, I can see that is about the architecture by a logo and picture on the background  3. Is there a navigation menu on the homepage? Yes  4. Is the navigation menu clear and easy to use? Yes, clear and easy to navigate!  5. Are there social media links on the homepage? Not yet. In progress…  6. Do all the menu links and social links work correctly?  Yes 7. Do you have any comments or suggestions in regard to the homepage? No because Alina is still working on it The About & Contact Page 1. Is the About page ple...

This text was displayed on the whiteboard and we had 20 min to draw the image on A4 piece of paper. I started with simple sketch with a black maker and I finished this off in my study time. Drawing with felt-tip pens is so different than using procreate, I basically forgot how different it is and actually more difficult. The felt tips left marks and I manage it somehow by drawing straight lines and tried to not drawing one on another because that changed the colour to darker one.   As describe on the text I drew emerald green eyes looking straight at me. The mouth is only black line in the cheeky smile, and the hair are just a mess.  Below is a short gif created by our tutor Sam. He mixed up together text and pictures which we drew earlier. I think it turns up really well. I love it!

As a base I used the Eco Academy leaflet that I drew before and I cut out the address with a magic wand tool and moved it a little bit down.  The white background is filled in with the same colour as is in the poster. I added a text, remembering to use separate layers to everything.  I drew gingerbread man and some delicious cupcakes with a thin black brush. Everything stays in the same colour tone and the same style.