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Our first Illustration practical project. We had to walk around Southampton City Centre drawing different landmarks and buildings and creating illustrational reponses to certain places. Kind of like an illustration scavenger hunt. It was good fun and it helped me find my way around much easier...

One of the tasks was to redesign an old record from a charity shop.

The Bargate lions which guard the Bargate memorial.

A shoe from the fancy shoe shop on the high street.

The Southampton Titanic memorial... i've made it look like a fairy..

Mayflower park we discovered wasn't the most interesting of parks, being just a stretch of grass by the sea.. but we made do.

Drawing and collage of interesting outside the art gallery.

Ink and stick drawing of the view from Mayflower park out into the river Solent.

A continuous line drawing of Clarence Hardware shop in Southampton.

I did these paper cuts in response to the task of creating a new carrior bag for the shop "Clarence Hardware" and I put them together in a design..

Anouther record I did..

For this task we had to go into a charity shop, by any book and redesign the front cover. I decided to do a non fiction book as this was different to everyone else. My tutor said it looks very professional which is nice to hear.

Foundation Work.

Heres a selection of images that I selected from my portfolio, thought it would be a good time to look back at some of my old work to see how i've improved...

Foundation Blues.

I am missing my Foundation year quite alot at the moment. Not the course itself, (although it was amazing) but my friends I made there and my little studio space tucked up in textiles. Without a doubt the best year in education i've ever had. University is fun but freshers is way too laid back for me. I like it pacey and stressful when it comes to art with as many deadlines as possible.

Darey reading my childrens book! I'm still so proud of that!

Lindsey with her horrific tortued puppet. Super douper stuff!

Me and Harley with his amazing crosses. I like Harleys work. I don't always understand it mind...

My lovelys in the V and A on our London trip. One of the bets trips ever. Four good friends and lots of art. I slept for about a week after that. We walked ten hours a day, ended up in the red light district of London and smuggled coco pops out at breakfast. It was a giggle.

My little space tucked up in textiles. I am a messy worker. Four tables was essential.

Another one day project...

We did a one day project at the start of our first term to accompany our "Ghost Stories" Project. (I may post that up at some point) We were all given a book title, and we had to create a new front cover for the book, however we could only use black ink, and it had to be A3 size. I was very apprehensive about this as I haven't done hardly any ink work at all. I decided to keep it simple and concentrate on creating flourishes and swirls and added block text which I added spikes to as my title was a book of voodoo spells.

I then decided to use a container to put my swirls in, so I created a silluette of a medicine bottle.

I think for a days work my outcome was quite successful. The final outcomes aren't anything special but I learnt heaps about using ink and single colour in my designs.

I really enjoyed this project in the end and I feel much more confident in using ink and use it in my project briefs. Shows it pays to be at university after all!

Miaw.

I'm definately a cat person.

Jim likes to pose for portraits.. well he has no choice.

I sure do love dog walking.

At least I did when I was back home...

And now for something completely different..

I've actually taken some photos that aren't of animals! Thats a shock. Heres my attempt at anouther type of photography...