"How To..."

For this assignment, my objective was to create a creative piece of artwork using whatever media that I wanted and show a person how to do something. There was a list of 5 things that I could choose and I went with "How To Replace a Light Bulb" because it seemed like it would have been one of the least popular choices that my classmates would have chosen.

 My Idea was to simply show how to replace a light bulb by making a comic out of it. This idea came to me because I have recently attended a talk by Krystyna Baczynski who is a comic artist/ illustrator. Seeing her artwork and listening to her stories influenced me to create a short page comic.

I feel as I have slightly rushed on making this comic but nevertheless, I still think that I did a pretty decent job.

Magazine Collage

For this brief, I had to pick and buy two magazines, one that I would buy and one that one of my friends or family members would buy and make a series of 5 collages with the images provided within each magazine. I went out and bought a Play Station magazine which is the one that I would read and a Cupcake magazine that my brother would read. Below you can see my attempts of what seems to look like "advertisement" collages. I've not made collages often before but I did find that this project was rather quite fun and enjoyable.

 

'Everybody's Crazy For Cupcakes'

'Cupcake King'

'Pac Man'

'Sweet Gaming'

'Come At Me Bitches'

Reportage Brief

I drew these observational drawings for my 'Reportage Brief'. The aim of the brief was to draw 3 drawings a day throughout a course of 11 days. The minimum amount of drawings that were to be produced was 30. All drawings had to be from observation and any media could be used. I have selected these 8 pages from my sketchbook as my best ones and I had included them into my mini zine book which the brief stated that we should make. I didn't stick completely to the brief, I drew things on random days and therefore lost track of what else needed to be drawn, but it was fun because that meant I only drew stuff when I felt like I was in the drawing mood.

I did have fun with this brief as it got me into drawing from observation a bit more but I also found it rather difficult. I found it hard to draw objects that were moving such as people and running water. The only bad thing that I can say is that I feel like I didn't use enough mixed media as most of my drawings consist of only pen and pencil.