Graphics Punk Drawing Illustrator

 Using the punk drawing in my sketchbook, I photographed it as I wanted to create a graphics piece as I was inspired by the graphics work of Jamie Reid.

I then photographed this other punk painting/collage from my sketchbook to incorporate into my Illustrator graphics drawing.

The final outcome.

Punk Drawing With Light

Using the technique of using coloured gels with light, I created this technique of drawing with light.

I firstly had the idea to create a piece inspired by the neon work of Tracey Emin. The choice of colour was influenced by the british punk colours.

Tracey Emin "More Love"

I then had the idea to create a light drawing around an actual person to create a silhouette look of a punk head with a mohican. I think this was a very successful outcome.

Using Photoshop I then edited both the word drawing and the punk head together by layering both images on top of each other and then making the top image opaque to show the bottom image.

Graphics Creating Pattern

In Adobe Illustrator I created a pattern, using the new skill to complete this task I can then further it into my FMP.

I firstly created a simple shape and used the distort and transform effect to create a complex shape.

I then added color onto the complex shapes.

Then making this into a pattern, scaling and rotating it to look unique.

This is the final outcome pattern. I really like it as it it complex and interesting yet simple to make, I would like to use this pattern and the skills I have learnt to use a digital pattern in my FMP.

Russian Constructivism (Art History)

Russian Constructivism

What period did the Constructivists make work?
Russian Constructivism was a movement that was active from 1913 to the 1940's after the World War 1.


Who are the key artists that are involved in Russian Constructivism?
Famous constructivist artists include, Kasmir Malevich, Aleksander Rodchenko, Jan Tschichold, Naum Gabo, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Varvara Stepanova.


What is the aim/ideas/inspiration behind Russian Constructivism?
Constructivist art is committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity, themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional. Objective forms carrying universal meaning were far more suitable to the movement than subjective or individualistic forms. Constructivist themes are also quite minimal, where the artwork is broken down to its most basic elements. New media was often used in the creation of works, which helped to create a style of art that was orderly. An art of order was desirable at the time because it was just after WWI that the movement arose, which suggested a need for understanding, unity and peace. 

What media do they work in?
Russian Constructivists work in materials such as plastic, metal, glass, screws, workshop wood and wire.

This is a piece of work by Rodchenko. He experimented with photography and photo-montage. The key features that make it a unique piece of graphic design because of his use of striking composition and colour.

This piece is by Lissitzky. He uses his work to approach equality of living within society. In his early years he developed a style of painting in which he used abstract geometric shapes, which he referred to as "prouns", to define the spatial relationships of his compositions. The shapes were developed in a 3-dimensional space, that often contained varying perspectives, which was a direct contrast to the ideas of suprematist theories which stressed the simplification of shapes and the use of 2D space only.

This artwork is created by Naum Gabo. He uses both abstract & figurative form, angles to create tone, tone using light, intelligent design and steel material.

Graphics (Using Illustrator)

Using Aobe Illustrator, I tried using the pen tool to create simple shapes. I then used the colour tool to color the shapes.

Using the pen tool I completed a starting activity to get to grips with the pen tool on joining points to make a drawing.

I used effects on my drawing by using artistic brush strokes.

The difference between the selection arrow and the direct selection arrow is that the selection arrow is white and it selects multiple points whereas the direct selection arrow selects one point at a time.

I used the pathfinder palette to draw and edit paths into shapes.

I used the layers filter to help use my own observational drawing to trace from to create my digital drawing.

Final Drawing

Narrative Photography

Plan
To start my narrative photography I am going to look into the theme of movement and growing. For these themes I will think about what will be moving/growing and what will use to explain the story. The idea of using myself to explain movement and growth is something that I want to incorporate into my narrative photography because it links with my brief of figure.


Digitally capturing images of narrative photography explored the themes of moving and growing.

From these narrative themes I chose my favorite story.

My favorite story are these which have the theme of growing, i like this because the brief of figure makes me firstly think of the human body growing which links to the theme i have chosen.

The final outcome was good, i enjoyed both experimenting then putting the final images together to make the narrative, if i was to do this again i would try doing a similar theme and develop them in the dark room.

Narrative Photography

Narrative Photographers Research.

Definition of narrative
The definition of narrative is a spoken or written account of connected events, e.g. a story.

Cindy Sherman
Sherman poses in cramped interiors, her own apartment, and vast exteriors (mostly in and around New York, some in the West) as a film heroine stilled in action—heroic, in light, in shadow—the images untitled. 

The reason i like this photographer is because i like the use of limited color within her images, the black and white theme make the atmosphere a gloomy old look. I also like the way she poses in her own apartment as the images then become very personal, as she is the subject matter.

Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson reworks the American suburb into a stage-set for the inexplicable, often disturbing, events that take place at twilight. In creating what he calls 'frozen moments', he has developed a process akin to the making of a feature film. Operating on an epic scale, he uses a large crew to shoot and then develop the images during post-production.

I like this photographer because his work almost looks surreal, the bright use of color makes the atmosphere more of a strange than warm and bright as the use of bright color should give, this creates  unusual feel towards the audience when viewing his work.

Cubism Research (Art History)

Cubism
Cubism was created in Paris between 1907 and 1914. 
The key artists involved in creating this art movement were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. As cubist artists, they dealt with their subject matter by emphasizing the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening and modelling. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour, and space, this is the technique in which they used.

Key Artists

Georges Braque

Pablo Picasso

 In Braque's work of landscapes, the volumes of the houses, the forms of the trees, and the tan-and-green color palette deeply inspired the Cubists in their first stage of development, until 1909. It was, however, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" a work painted by Picasso in 1907, that started the new style. In this work, the forms of five female nudes became angular shapes.

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso

Influences
The work of Cézanne was an influence behind Cubism, the geometric forms and compressed picture space in his paintings appealed especially to Braque, who developed them in his own works. 

Also "Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon" painting is one of the most significant examples of the art movements influence.

Finally, African sculpture particularly mask carvings, had enormous influence in the early years of the movement. 

Types Of Cubism

The first type of Cubism was "Analytical Cubism" it is one of the two major branches of the artistic movement of Cubism and was developed between 1908 and 1912.  Cubists "analysed" natural forms and changed the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture. Colour was almost non-existent except for the use of a monochromatic scheme that often included grey, blue and ochre. Instead of an emphasis on colour, Analytic cubists focused on forms like the cylinder, sphere and the cone to represent the natural world. During this movement, the works produced by Picasso and Braque shared stylistic similarities.

"Ambrose Vollard" by Pablo Picasso

The transition to the synthetic phase was determined by collages since it 

created the possibility of working from the abstract to the particular, as demonstrated in the "The Musicians Table" by Braque, in which pin and tack marks remain in the corners of the shapes that form the basic composition.

"The Musicians Table" by George Braque

Analysing Cubist Portraiture

Cubist Self-portrait by Pablo Picasso 

Above is a self portrait that Picasso created. Personally I think that his technique that he used was to use large and free brush marks with a wide use of oil paints. For this particular piece of work I think he used a flat brush as there many sharp fine lines to create cubism within the work.

Cubist Portrait of Maurice Raynal by Jaun Gris

Above is a cubist portrait of Maurice Raynal by the artist Juan Gris. The technique I think that Gris used was to use a limited palette of oil paints, a small brush to create detail and simplicity within his work. Compared to Picasso's work, Gris uses a more realistic palette range and therefore his work shows less emotion towards the subject matter within his work.

African Mask

My own tonal drawing of an African Mask using pencil only