Leeds 1st year, outcomes, semester 1

With my second year soon to start, I thought I'd show some first year stuff. Here are some outcomes from semester 1.


a) Envelope project, to send something in the post and get a reply. I asked completely random people about their thoughts on why mankind exists. I only got a couple of replies unfortunately.





b) City book project. A group project...we had a short story of a fictional town which we had to rewrite the text for and illustrate. We wrote the text using hand typeset and embossed rather than inked, and did a series of postcards which went in the page pockets.







...and here is the back of the postcards, which I designed.


c) We did an audio book on alternative/improvised versions of little red riding hood, and each made cd covers/inserts. Here are the templates of mine.







d) For a Christmas panto (small project) we did a puppet show based on a painting. These are my puppet designs.

Layout sheets

Last year I worked mainly in sketchbook. The year before that, whilst at Kingston doing my foundation, I worked mainly on A2 / A3 sheets such as this one. I want to do more of these this coming year.

Secret Art Show submission

So over the summer the plan was to do a few graphics related competition entries. However I got caught up in work and such and ended up just doing the one submission. Here it is. They are 2 cd cover designs, which I submitted to the 'Secret Art Show' in York, which will be running from 7 - 13 November, and aims to raise £10,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Trust through sales of donated CD cover art donations such as this. The artists are to remain anonymous until the show has ended.

Here's their website.

My pieces are supposed to work together, with the message being cut such that half is on one cd and half on the other, making it difficult to decipher on their own. Computer print, card, foil, elastic bands and staples are used.

cdcover1


cdcover2


cdcover1 mocked up in cd case


close up shot of cdcover2

Old Church, Cheap Hotel

Chopstick drawings

With my second year of uni approaching, here is a sample of my work from first year.
Following my acceptance to the StudyChina programme I have previously talked about, I decided to do a project based around it.

I drew things with chopsticks and ink:









I built structures with chopsticks, challenging the function of the objects:


Evidence of this and more became part of this book - a finished piece:





Oh and by the way, I've added a few more China photos to my Flickr.

Austria

Well hasn't it been a while...

Here are some photos from my recent family holiday to Saalfelden, in the Austrian alps.


Panoramic view from the hotel balcony


Totem of some kind...there were quite a few of these happy chappies


Clouds and mountains. Ive tried to capture these as if the clouds are more like the base from which the moutains rise from.



We visited the longest known ice cave in the world. Photos were supposed to be forbidden and our guide warned us many times during our tour. However, there was no way I was going to miss out on capturing these fascinating forms. Without flash and a tripod and the need to be discrete (the caves were pitch black apart from the flame lanterns some people were carrying) getting a good photograph proved difficult. Here are afew of those that came out well/look interesting


These two aren't so related to Austria... I took a photo of a goat, which blurred oddly to make it look vaguely alien. I did some photoshop work to create the below left image. In the right image you can see that I gave it a body. I don't think it looks good, but it looks odd nonetheless.

Onion in the dark