fine art animation (so i can show at assessments)

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daily doodles 1

Okay so ive started doing this thing where i take some of my doodles and do some digital stuff to them for practice, i thought might as well post them here, i'm trying to do at least one a day.

yeah well... this is kinda lame but i may as well post it

All my work is illustrative; therefore it makes sense for me to go into a pathway that would support that and inspire me to push my work further and eventually gain a career from it doing something I love.
I have tried my best to embrace the essence of each of the disciplines as I went through the rotations but I always found myself returning to narratives and communications through my work. I’ve always wanted to say things with my work, and for my a level essay I wrote about how Paula Rego uses narratives in her work to instil them with a deeper meaning and draw in the attention of the viewer and intrigue them. For this reason I was considering the fine art pathway, of course only slightly as Paula has said herself that she disapproves of fine art snobbery and believes that illustrations are some of the best artwork.
In vis-com for example for our first task (creating work based off a random word) I decided to make a narrative storybook exploring the ideas brought up by our group discussion. For the second task we were told to use found images to crate a narrative; I approached this in a slightly different way but found again that I was illustrating a short story, for the last project which was a communication I decided to make a fish and some other animals out of paper to show the fish imagining itself out of its bowl, and I’ve considered making this into an animation (I’ve finished the storyboard and hope to pick up on the project later)
The next pathway was 3d spatial, which personally I didn’t engage with at all, I’ve always prided myself on my ability to make things so that I could use them as props in paintings I made but the idea of the installation or the smaller modular designs didn’t really speak to me. I really enjoy figurative work, so inventing new and abstract things in 3d didn’t appeal to me, and I wasn’t too happy with the drawings I made there either for the same reason- not figurative.
As you might imagine this was the problem I had with fashion textiles too, I ended up making some very illustrative works for that experimenting with fragile cutouts. And while I enjoyed the way they made us draw allot because of the great drawings I got out of them and learned about making smaller sketchbooks (which is something I’ve started doing in my normal work now), I think that it will be an experience that I learn from and don’t return to, it was actually very useful to be working in a really disciplined and directed way expanding my artistic vocabulary. Still since I struggled with making anything for the body other than my sunglasses, I don’t think this are is for me.
Finally in fine art I found myself wanting to paint a portrait, because that’s what I’ve always done any why I’ve considered myself an artist instead of an illustrator for so long, then the tutor came over and said in not so many words; no portraits… I was stumped and disappointed, I kind of lost my train of thought with the project, in the end I found myself making another little storybook, this time I thought I was quite successful.
So all in all i’ve been making storybooks and illustrations this whole time whatever i’ve been doing, so why stop now? My choice: vis-com.

animation project

here are some animations based off that hoop video, its for the viscom animation project

click on these 4 for the animated gifs

also been listening to this non stop theres something i love about it that i just cant put my finger on


w c handy's loveless love ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-iKxHL6oP8&feature=related

okay so i havent written for a while (also i can add pictures now so lololol)

i havent been updating this blog for a while and i know thats very bad.

okay so ive been doing lots of work blah blah blah fine art is smelly.

they wont let me do portraits, and thats kindof all i do so... yeah, its not an option anymore really, which pretty much makes up my mind. i'm gonna do viscom.

in related news ive been to allot of exhibitions recently

firstly the harrier jumpjets hanging in the main hall of he tate britain are terrifying, one is hanging by just a cable and kinda swings to and fro.

ive been to the tate modern to see all of those seed  things too, they look really nice, i wish id got a chance to walk through them before the exhibition was fenced off for health and safty reasons, one of my favorioute sensations it plunging your hand into a bag of seeds.

ive been to the move exhibition at the hayward gallery which i would highly reccomend. its very fun, i went with my friend as part of the press which was a new experience for me as while i just played with everything she wrote notes and came up with some quite clever remarks, i was impressed. while there i wore a gorrilla costume and someone thought that i must be part of the show and took my picture and decided to send it to the gallery. i also showed off my hulahoopingskills, heres a quick video and pics from the day

lets make some clothes already and stuff

so yeah i havent written on this thing for a while. maily because i have nothing to say, i'm working very hard in the studio, but it seems everything i'm doing is 3d, so i got concerned i'd be steered that way come assesments. but actually the fashion ppl say that my work is illustrative :)

UPDATE: here have some pics of what i did :) some of these are pretty funny

 i did more cutouts (better ones too)

 okay, so this is cool.

 you can just tell from mackenzies face that women would love to wear my designs

 Mic, an appropriate model for the sunglasses i was worried about getting paint on them though.