FMP Brief

The aim of my final major project is to make the unhappiness that people feel because of life, to go away. I would like to create an installation, preferably a section within the show; where people can go and chill out and forget their problems. Many people feel uncomfortable because their mind is constantly in over-drive so by creating an installation that take their mind off of their issues would make them a part of my installation.
I think that by creating an installation so different than all the others within the show would be a good change because constant repetition with looking at intense artwork pieces could also put a strain and make people think. Essentially my aim is to make people go into a stage of contentment.
To do this I am to record a video of somewhere I am when I feel most comfortable. I plan to go camping in the middle of nowhere soon with a couple of friends, so say for hypothetical reasoning that I feel unconditional contentment in that moment - to make my installation completely 'real' I will record something in that moment and edit the video and potentially loop said video.
I'd like all my installation to be completely natural, too. Lots of nature and nature related studies to influence my work and even possibly include something I create within it to make it that little more personal. But for this installation to work, I aim to make it all very personal with it being personal to everybody else, also. I also aim to not use any form of measuring equipment and to keep the consistency with being spontaneously natural.
One of my main influences could potentially be Cornelia Parker; Parkers work is the destruction of something man made out of natural recourses and it being created into something beautiful (such as her Cold Dark Matter installation. The concept will remain the same as Parkers.

Cloey Zikmund

I adore these teeny illustrations by Zikmund. I am typically a line work person myself and these are very 'me' when it comes to doodling nature (but hers are a lot more technical than mine.) I would like to stick to a drawing style somewhat simple but mess it up a bit. I love that the tight line work creates darker areas where it isn't typically meant to be! 

Water colour is a very good thing to use when adding colour to linework. The subtly doesn't over-ride how unbelievably delicate the line work is here. The bird is very technically drawn and accurate which is an amazing thing to grasp. I like the spacing between the nature drawings, too because it shows how uncrowded the sections are.

Jaeyeol Han

Hans painting style intruiges me. It's very sculptural; very controlled. I like the way he drags out the splodges of paint and makes, somehow, the splodge that you would not initially believe it to be, a face. You can tell by the shape, the way he maybe accidentally created the shape of ears on either side, somehow you can distinguish this from being just a mess, to a genuine face. 

I adore how his illustrative pieces become a sculpture, then they become a photography piece. The transition between it going from an illustrative piece, to a sculpture is based on the impact through nature and the way the wind moves the image. But then because he takes a photo, the illustrative piece is suddenly a photography piece. It's well edited and make to compliment the centre point of the illustration/sculpture.

This is an example of another set of scenery than Han uses. The raw public setting makes the illustration a bigger part of it's surrounding. I love that it looks lonely - like an abandoned area and the centre piece is the illustration which makes me feel somewhat comfortable with looking at it in it's state. It has a very calm ora about this image.

This one is more recognisable for a face. You begin to see the definition of the face and the way the face is grasped through the contrast in colours on top of each other. I love the light and dark area's because Han used negative colours such as blues and deep reds and brown for the areas that would usually be the shadowed area of a face. The yellow and lighter shades are a good way to highlight the areas that are of brighter.

Progression with sacred geometry and doodles

This is the seed of life - the seed of life is more of a tarot as appose to it being mathematically included within nature. I have decided not to use the seed of life within my actual work because it isn't something I enjoyed doodling and doesn't really fit as well as other sacred geometric symbolism.

This, for example, just did not work. I could easily grasped the concept and proportion it right; but it just wasn't something I could subsequently do as a final because it aesthetically just does not work for me.

The Metatrons Cube is made up of

The Five Platonic Solids:

The Five Platonic solids are crucial as they form the building blocks for all organic life. They are found in all organic life forms, minerals, music, language and sound.  Fire, Earth, Air, Aether (the material that fills the region of the Universe above the terrestrial sphere), Water. 

I want to keep with my unmeasured automatic drawings, so I decided I wouldn't use a ruler or compass (which you'd use typically since the metatrons cube is something that is perfectly accurate otherwise. I tried to get it as accurate as possible, though.

A quick automatic doodle of how I could incorporate the female form and minority touch on feminism - destroying the ideology that we aren't anything other that as much as nature as any other human or non human species. I have decided; however, that I am not going to typically use that and stick with the theory of nature instead.
The drawing on the magazine clipping is a quick doodle that doesn't really mean much - but it got idea's flowing.
I also took a piece of bark and decided to paint a stem and leaves upon it because I found it ironic and that's when typically my idea's began flowing.

I painted a different version of the quick feminism doodle above, but it didn't go to plan and I'm going to stay away from the human form for this one. I like the leaf with the little monster inside, though! The idea of disrupting nature and doodling upon it makes me excited.

A little doodle of the leaves I seemingly doodle a lot.

A hanging array of dying plants - I like the idea of letting the plants die, but it's quite sad. I think it's important to remember that, despite not being sentient; plants are living and without the right nutrients - they correlate to us because they also cannot survive. It's a sad concept to comprehend.

I was suddenly inspired by folk art and decided that, doodling on bark could be a really fun way to get my ideas out. I finger painted some little robins on the bark found outside and like previously said - the idea that nature dies slowly is sad but something I love to watch and I quite like the idea of my art dying with the art of nature.

A little rose I doodled. I thought maybe this would imprint a way of drawing the rose for future reference.

Zine Doc

A zine is a short 'self published' magazine so to speak. They're relatively easy to construct but the content usually includes personal, political, potentially story illustrations and it's a good way to get your work out there. This specific video explains a lot about zines; especially touches on how cheap they are and how flexible they are! How you can put ultimately anything in a zine. The front cover is typically, like any other book, draws your reader/looker in so your front is one of the main focus before going into the inside of a zine. A lot of zines are hand made, too!

Freelance illustrator research

It's strange to comprehend, but being a freelance illustrator definietly doesn't appear to be a walk in the park but she seems beyond happy with it. This video is very informative; it show's just how much work goes into being freelance and the dedication you have to have. The comprehension and reality is that you begin as essencially nothing- working an awful day job on the side. But that means that you learn how to manage your time and be confident with your work. You have down falls, rejections, people not responding - but it doesn't mean they hate your work or that they don't want you; it can be that they're just too busy to look at it, that the exhibition or the work that you applied for has been cancelled. There's so many reasons and you can never take it to heart because rejection is a step in the art world. You start with a poor load of work because you haven't found your style completely but as time progresses you stick to a certain way and you will be picked up on it for what it is. You'll probably come out of uni with a degree and still work for Jean at Asda for £6.70 an hour stacking shelves most days for a few years until you find your feet (is what I'm getting from this video) but I'm ok with that. You have to be ok with the reality behind it and you have to realise that this is what it's all about or you are just going to fail. So I'm not going to be dissappointed if I go to uni for 4 years for £12,000+ per year and come out with a degree, an Asda badge and a few loafs of bread discounted if it means 10 years from not I'm going to be chucking some rad ass illustrations out at some high almighty art lord who's gunna pay me for doodling happily! 

Helpful influence

This video is about this girl that I sub to, Holly, has developed as an illustrator. I have gained a perspective of how it's something that is very slow progressive and not be scared to do terrible work because it's all a learning curve and that's how you find your end result. To produce good work, you have to do a ton of bad work to know what's wrong and doesn't work and what does.

So the way I have been inspired by this video is; for FMP I have decided to try out doing lots of illustrations that I love in a sketchbook then potentially do little story based books. I love illustrating stories, I love creative writing (that's deffo what I'd have gone into if it wasn't art) therefore combining will (hopefully) keep me well motivated and inspire me. I adore nature, animals - but also spirituality so maybe I can combine and experiment with different little illustrations on that behalf. Maybe I could also illustrate on t-shirts and cups and mugs etc, too to see what works well!

Second FMP with Davelaaaaar

FMP Plans - Davelaaaaar's lesson (feeding into Jon's too!)

I am basing my FMP on illustration and potentially photography combined, too. I enjoy a lot of different illustrative artists and I am a big fan of photography, too! I intend on filling a sketchbook with many, many idea developments - trying out many different designs. I could do with potentially doing a little bit of doodling on my iPad, too because thats something I really enjoy doing. I intend on sitting around, doodling my way through and trying out many different ways of illustrating with materials for Daves because that's how I work best; lots of research and lots of doodles. 

1. Explore subjects and concepts on specific theme
2. Be able to gather research material for fine art
3. Experiment with methods and materials to generate ideas
4. Know how to develop and present ideas for fine art work

I could potentially doodle on top of photographs that I take - I could scan in or draw digitally on them too. I could do with picking an over-all theme for my illustrations and stick to a style I feel comfortable with because then I will work better and find the over-all project mega chill and pleasant.
I need to get over a Pass because when I don't, I lose motivation and feel incredibly sad. So it's definitely time to pull my finger out.

Inspiration from a museum in Sheff and my little doodle

Although I didn't quite capture the name of the creator for definite - this is situated in the Ruskin museum (Millennium Gallery) in Sheffield. I like'd it because the flowers and leaves; despite being slightly off centre, are relatively symmetrical. I have a complete obsession with the visual aesthetic symmetry gives off. I also love it because I like the shape of the flower buds before the bloom, the leaves are incredibly simplistic but I love that the leaves aren't particularly detailed. The flowers resemble the yorkshire rose, too.

This is a quick doodle I created. I wanted to see what a 10 minute automatic drawing in my comfortable line work style, would look like. I don't really think I'll be doing much in this style all the time for this unit, but I have a complete obsession with nature. I'm going to create the mushroom a lot larger and with acrylic paint to experiment.

Hand Drawn/Photography Poster 3

A hand drawn poster created on a graphics app tablet. Photoshop was also used to construct it over all and the colours were all put together to show shape and form. I tried to do a take on the hand that's in the Buddhist religion and replace the flower with a paint brush, which I think worked really well actually. I showed diversity through gender and race with my human figures, which are the to represent how free and unrestrive art is over-all! I incorporated "Art" so it'd be a little more obvious what it's about and I reused the important statement, too.

Cornelia Parker - Cold Dark Matter An Exploded View

Cornelia Parker exploded a shed and went on to gather the matter that came from the Shed and the parts and constructed such art piece. This then projected the parts all over the room, which created a beautiful pattern and you became part of the sculpture upon enter. Parker inserted a light in the centre of the art piece to project the art all over. It can be depicted in many ways - personally I adore this piece and it gives a very cluttered yet tranquil effect on myself. I feel as though it could potentially reflect how life is so compressed, structured and we are all trying to figure out a way to break out of this tiny box (shed). In order to do this, we have to break everything in sight and wreck everything to piece together something beautiful that we feel fulfils our life. That is just my perspective on the piece.