Pathway

I have come to the decision that for the Pathway stage of this course, i want to go into 3D Design. I made this decision mainly because i want to progress further and study Architecture at university.

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So from here on, all blogs will be regarding 3D, CAD/ICT, Conceptual Studies and Visual Studies.

Reflection - Vis Com

just finishing of my magazine today and it looks great so far so yeh :)

reflection - Vis Com

Yey i now have a theme to work from. i am going to look at the contrast between sefty and danger and looking particularly at terrorism. my inspiration came from reading an article about the reacent ink cartridge bomb plot. i want to question the modern image of a terrorist. so i was just starting worlk on my magazine design today. i have even made a dummy bomb to take photgraphs of and to put on my final magazine piece.

Reflection - Textiles

wow what a day! spent all day leaning over a table printing my design onto sheets of plain white cotton. this is to be my lining to go inside the hood, around the cuffs and across the hem. after printing, i died the fabrics to experiment with colour to see which would work best in my design. i decided that the green was the best so i died all my fabric that colour. but yeh i really enjoyed printing. i used the silk screen method using a screen that John (one of the technicians) had already prepped for me :)
i think my fabric came out realy well for a first timer and i am very pleased and proud of it.    :p

Reflection - Vis Com

wow i got a lot of stuff done today with newspaper. by cutting pieces out and making a collage. i then scanned it in and used photoshop to make different versions and copies. i loved how the images and text were layered on top of each other. but i still dont have a proper them in mind to work from

Reflection - Textiles

yey i got all my pieces cut out for my jubba today (not including lining) and have even started to sew them together. my hood is complete and so are the arms. just need to make and cut the lining now so i can get this thing finished.

Reflection - Visual Communication

well today was a very good day. got a lot of work done. we started of by looking at fonts by cutting up news paper articles and creating a collage. my collage was a bit too plain so i decided to scan it into a computer and layer it up on Photoshop. i then did a bit more on photoshop by adding effects to make the pages more interesting.
we then experimented with a media called dry transfer where you have sheets with letters on and you just rub them onto a page. that too was very helpful and i want to use it in my final.

Reflection - Textiles

week 2 of textiles and i have a slight idea of what i want to make by the end of the project.
after researching about lay-lines and energy points around the world, i found that there is one specific place in particular which has the most amount of lines crossing and that is exactly at the position of the Holy Ka'bah in the Holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. However, it wasnt this that gave me inspiration, it was actually the clothing that the arabs were wearing that inspired me to design a modern Jubbah (arab dress)

Reflection - Visual Communication

today was our first lesson of Vis Com. Clair is so so so thoughtful she made a cd full of all the details and information that we might need. the main aim of the lesson was to get some ideas running. i wanted to link the theme into architecture so my first idea was to look at the contrast between night and day and how buildings look so different.
we then had a group discussion which was very helpful and i got another idea which was to look at the contrast between urban and rural and to see which was the best place to live.

Reflection - Photography

The first pic is of random lights and was done by just moving the camera around with a long shutter speed. This worked very well. The second is done in the same way but the camera was kept still while a car went past. This piece didn't work as well as i wanted it to because it is too dark. enjoy :)

Reflection - Textiles

well i didnt think i would be doing textiles  ( : - o)
we are looking at the theme Energy and i am thinking about positive and negative energy but i dont know yet...
but weirdly, i am starting to look forward to next weeks sesion....

Reflection - Digital Apps

to day was the last day to be working on our zines and it was another very usefull day because not only did i get my 2 zine ideas finished and completed, we were also shown how to make animations using a program called Adobe After Effects. at the moment, my animation is only about 5 seconds long so i need to work on that so i can play it as part of my presentation


Update:

i have now uploaded my final 15 second animation enjoy ;)

Reflection - 3D Design

yey my model is looking great! but OMG i havent finished it yet and next week is the deadline and i have got loads to do :o
i am going to have to stay for a full day on wednesday to get it finished. slightly woried but i think i can do it. i also got a chance to see some examples of the portfolio sheets so i now know what to kate is expecting to see so i have got to do that too.

Reflectiion - Digital Apps

today was a usefull lesson because not only was i working on my final zine idea, we were also taught how to use Adobe Illustrator so that we can make our own fonts however, i think i will need a bit more practice using the program

Reflection 3D Design

wohooo. i finaly started my final model today and i cant wait to get it finished. in my opinion i started rather late as i now only have one whole day left to complete it but not many others in the class have started theirs yet so i dono. first i did some test pieces using copper (because i have decided that is the material i wnat to use for my final model) and rivits. the first one i did i didnt like because you can see the rivets so i had a think and came up with a simple but efective solution. instead of riveting the pieces to each other, rivet them to a seperate piece. i also did some soldering today to make a rectangle out of copper and it want a bit wrong as it just broke straight away :( but i know why that was now. i didnt heat it up enough because when Kate did it, it went proper glowing yellow. but now i know how its done.

Reflection - Fine Art

today went well as i got a chance to experiment with new techniques such as etching and scratching. i also got to use the saw in the workshop so i now know how it works.

Reflection - Digital Apps

today was an ok day. got to learn a few tips and tricks for using Adobe Photoshop and i look forward to the tutorial on Adobe Illustrator next week. got some prety cool images done to day but over all i found it boring. :(

Reflection - Visual Studies

finally completed my very large drawing of a adjustable pipe cutter in the style of the fantastic artist Jim Dine. i don't normally work on such a large scale and my best pieces are usually very small in size but this drawing actually doesn't look too bad. well it wouldn't if you spent over four hours on it. i think for next week i am going to try sitting down a bit more because my feet were in absolute agony  from all that standing.

Reflection - Contextual Studies

Another Fantastic lecture by Graham today learning about how to look at paintings and the deeper meanings behind them.

today we studied this painting by Hans Holbein who is a German artist. this painting has an anamorphosis in it.

An anamorphous is a distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion.

here the anamorphous is in the form of a skull at the bottom of the painting.
'The Ambassadors' by Hans Holbein

The skull at the bottom, which would be seen from standing on the left side looking from a 27° angle downwards.

Reflection - CAD/ICT

an OK lesson just a bit boring because we were only learning the very basics of Adobe Photoshop (which i have already learnt) but i suppose it was a very useful for the students that haven't had the privilege of using the software in the past.

Reflection - 3D Design

Another fantastic day with a lot of progress being made in terms of a final outcome. I am now dead sure that i am going to design a residential building and make the 3D model as my final outcome for the project. I made a realy fantastic looking test model using some copper and aluminium scrapps so i know what the skeleton of the building looks like. I was having problems putting my designs and ideas down onto paper so decided to make a model and work from that. I am not yet sure about what material to use to make my model from (cant decide between wood or metal) bit i will soon come to a decision about that. But other than that, its looking good :)

Reflection - Fine Art

What a bloody fantastic day! My shadow art worked very well and was very efective. Not only did i manage to make some faces, i also made the Empire State Building and the Taj-Mahal. I am now looking to develop this technique and make it even more intresting. This technique and my inspiration came from studying the work of Kumi Yamashita who is a fantastic artist and i think is very talented :) please do check out the artists website

pics of my work

        

Reflection - Digital Apps

Digital Apps went very well today and all the mood boards looked VERY intresting. i was men  t to finish mine off in the morning befor class started only to find that colour printing is only available AFTER 09:00AM :-( so instead of printing of my image of "bad architecture" i used the space with the frog that Kerry had got me :-)  i am looking forward to this project because its all starting to come together now and i know what we are all aiming towards (and most importantly; what a 'Zine' is)

Reflection - 3D Design

what a loooooooooong day! today was my first time table lesson and i had 3D Design all day with Kate McAngus. the title for the project is Negative and Possitive and we started of with doing a group brain storm. we were also looking at resistant and none resistant materials. over all the day was a bit boring but i guess the first day always it.