Graphic Arts Projects: A General write-up on: starting points, creative processing, progress and work produce.

My Graphic Arts course work has come to a close for this semester although i shall be continuing with my work through out the summer and into the third year, as  i feel my methodologies and practices are now discovering its potential maturity. The theme's i have developed through research interests, concepts building, reflective critique have introduced source's of narrative to go by and have created more specific avenues to potentially investigate further. These ares have become strong now in a direction for my working progress. I have touched on these interest and it is some what reflective in my work of recent, i have reached only the the tip of the iceberg. What i mean is that i am developing reflections within my work in regards to the narrative and conceptual themes. I have also been developing my creative practice's through various fields of media along with the techniques i have employed to process them. 

Paint, sketch, and print is where i have stemmed from. Digital-painting, sketching and collage, photography and filming (with what ever i can get my hands on i.e. phone cam) have been newer ways of trapping images, developing and producing them. Also, there is a creative style that i am working toward by way of experimenting throughout these field of medias. I have produced satisfactory work within these areas, but i believe i am still yet to merge a stronger common language between the technical style of media, conceptual idea and narrative of work within the notion of my practice. Within this last academic year have found my feet, the strengths i have developed, the visual communication i have found and perceived through these experimental and researched processes have influenced me further so to establish this idea and style i have in mind.

My recent 'Practice and Processing' activities in reflection:

*I started early in work by reflecting on some older works and tried to make sense of what i was doing and where i intended to go with them...

*I discovered underlying theme's and concept's such as Alienation, translation of language, abject hardship within those works.

*I then spent some time collecting and collating sources of interest: images (moving image) and text. They were all to provoke a way i wished to work by.

* Again i reflected on what i had conjured up. From that point i started to research more specific into ideas in and around the original found subjects and interests through an eclectic world of writings- reveiews/various texts, poetry, novel, song lyrics and again image. 

*As i go along i also realised that i had a fascination with lighting, shadow and space also the linear object that interferes with such, within ambiguous environments.

*I picked up a book that caught my eye called 'Gender Voices' , which was about male and female identity with the personal, social and cultural environments and that how a lot of if not all of which is determined by the many languages and communicative form we connect by or not connect by. This was a major influence to me as i picked up newer and further articulation of my initial subject interests which in turn would stimulate my, response and reflect my idea (as sometimes in a round about way).

*I have generated an interested in: creating an image which reflects communication and languages of an eclectic world of form that contain and have knock on effects within the personal, social and cultural, highlighting  the juxtaposition Alienation and Involvement within these environments.

This is a program about use of light in art televised by the BBC , this really conveyed my underlying interest in light and shadows, traveling and still within space.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fm1vb

My Workshop practice

This is trail animatic produced for a workshop involved with our seminars at UEL. This short project was assigned by our tutor Pia Borg.

...It is my seconnd attempt at making an animatic. The technical tools i employed to make this was free-hand sketching, photography and editing software Final Cut Pro. The aim was to create a storyboard to inform the production of an animation. This would be a basic moving image sequence accompanied with audio. This practice is intended to serve a direction of visual language, timing and a conceptual idea by projecting a general outline of the animated film.

The first attempt of an animatic i made was last year. This was more of a brief animatic as it was a sequence of stills set up in Power-Point, not as effective, but i was still able to convey the idea and direction of the storyboard.

 

My concept & narrative investigation

 After looking and collecting initially for this years project building, these pictures had become one of a few focal points of my creative investigations for my projects of this academic year (and may continue to be throughout next years practice also) . They convey an idea and a feeling which i have been trying to grasp and capture within my work.

In response to these pieces of artwork, or more so the idea i had thought of them to give, i had taken initially several photos at various occasions.

Project work footage:

this is one of many pieces of raw footage which was part of the 'Town & Country" production experiment.

My gallery:

These digital images i re-sketched based from an image i fished out of the original montage sequence i produced.

This is a montage i produced which animates and recreates a moving images like affect of little Zac in a series of still photos i

 captured with a slr digital camera.