Final piece for American project

I struggled SO much to think of something to do for this project, for whatever reason i literally couldn't come up with anything at all. Last monday i had a tutorial with Ruth and out of nowhere came an idea i was really excited about, i just wish i would have thought of it sooner! I've been kicking myself because i could have produced so much more work and more final pieces that i think i would have been really proud of.

To think what i've achieved in 6 days (although as Perry pointed out, they've been long days with no breaks and major eye-strain - i actually had to invest in some eye drops- haha) and then what i could have achieved in 6 weeks, i am pretty dissapointed in myself because i could have done so much more...

But never mind, it's too late to worry about it now! I don't think i could have done anything differently because it wasn't for lack of trying that my idea took so long to come up with, trust me, i fried my brain trying to think of what to do!
Anyways, here i am writing an essay again... I'll get to the photos now!

I produced a cardboard boombox tape holder and then customised 13 tapes and made 2 mini consantina books to go alongside. I'm really pleased with the results and here they are...

Eminem song titles: design covers both sides and all edges of the tape...

Experimenting with a 'scruffy' design

Music sheet, all hand drawn

Air Force 1's, repeated design



Lyrics notepad, again all hand drawn (i didn't stick the paper on, my mum didn't believe me....haha)



Rap battle & crowd...



Neon spray...











I drew on the 'normal' tape parts

I don't really like this one, the cracked effect looks quite cool but i don't like my text design







My photos keep 'jumping around' and i can't fix it so see a few down for the other side of this tape(!) i wanted a rough/zine/home-made/realistic mixtape and this is what i came up with...



I liked the colour of this one so i just left it blank...







This is the last design i did and the one i am most proud of. It was inspired by an illustration i found in one of my books. It's all hand drawn in pencil and surprisingly only took 3 hours.....

My final piece.... The tapes do have cases but they're just clear (so you can see the tapes without having to handle them) so they're not in the photo.


I would have liked to have made a book of illustrations or a zine or something else to go with it, if i would have had more time but i don't, so i'll just have to get over it!... =)

Boombox 2.0

Ignore the two massive photos at the top, i don't know how they got there and i can't delete them!....
So anyways, i've been a busy little bee today, having finally sorted what im doing for the America project... better late than never! haha

I've made another cardboard boombox, neater and slightly bigger this time, which is going to act as a tape holder. Here are some pics...

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A lovely tidy dining room....

Little and Large - my mock up version from before and my final one...

Ciara Healy - yesterday's seminar

I don't know about everyone else but i throughly enjoyed Ciara's talk yesterday, it was really interesting to hear about her work and what she's experienced so far in her career. I particularly liked her collage and butterflies made up of the old love letters and found objects. Although i thought it was very brave of her to cut up the carbon copies! I don't think i would have gone that far! Also the pieces in which she melted asotate appealed to me, that's something i haven't tried before and so i am going to attempt it, hopefully without setting my house on fire...

She mentioned a few artists that i was drawn to... Andi McGarry, whose artists books have a very gritty, hand-made aesthetic - that rough, flow of the mind technique that i so greatly desire!

I love the close-up detail and textures in this cover...

Sara Fanelli whose illustrations remind me of a cross between Lauren Child and Oliver Jeffers, again the combination of mediums and hand-drawn type give an exciting look to children's books...




 She uses collage a bit more subtly than Lauren Child,
                                                                    i'm not sure which method i prefer...



http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/mar/31/childrens-books-7-and-under#/?picture=372987789&index=0    <--- a great collection of Fanelli's illustrations with a mini article that explains the images as you go along...



I can't copy any images from Ciara's site but i strongely recommend you take a look, whether you were there or not. There's the wierd and wonderful (knitted bird coats!), simplistic/innocent illustrations, book work and generally an admirable example of minimal use of detail and just strong watercolour/ink linework.
http://ciarahealy.com/index.html  

I'll stop writing now......