final major project
some visual experimentation i have done this week in my sketchbook. the idea was then generated that i should play with these sentences in series of images (in 3’s). i am going to play with their meaning, working as an illustrator should: “going through something to become something else”. i need to work along the ideas of “things becoming clearer”, for ex. just for a split second you might believe the fact your parent tells you, but things become clearer over time. i have been playing with the legibility of words, nonsense, and it not making any sense through the first 2 images (my fragmenting the text or making it disappear), and then in the 3rd it will become a clear printed text image (as a whole). somehow i much preferred the final image just to be left as a whole ... need to talk to my tutor!
today was spent in the studio. we had a book making workshop and we were taught how to make zig zag books. i was really impressed with my outcome and how professional they all looked!
i then spent a looooooot of time discussing my next steps for my final piece. my visual experimentation had worked well, and the tutors enjoyed it so i was very happy! what im trying to say (mainly through my visual experimentation) is that cautionary advice is wrong. in the sense that the advice we are given (that have consequences) are completely ridiculous and banal. even though my experimentations had the intention to abstract the message so much, it was raised that for my final piece i need to try and convey the message more clear. the italian artist, bruno munari once said that the “perfect poster is a big dot” and that is exactly what i want to achieve.
i have decided to create 3 large posters (possibly printed on newspaper) of 3 of my different visual experimentations. the printed mono print text will be clearly written out underneath the image but UPSIDE DOWN. i am literally turning the idea of cautionary tales on its head, and making the audience question it. accompanying it will be small “business”-like cards (which i want the viewers to take away with them). they will have folds on them which fold out to reveal the cautionary tale message inside. on the front i want them to have the image from the print, and then another linked to it on the back.
my next steps: as the apple pip and thumb image is finalised i need to work more on the building page. i should play more with perspective and take pictures of what buildings actually look like. i will then plan out my prints on photoshop and get them ready to be printed!
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