Commission part2

After getting the approval of the design, I was excited to get started! But, things don't always work out the way you wanted them to... I got the flu pretty badly from 24th - very end of December, the days in which I wanted this commission completed.. Luckily the client understood and I still had time for the work to be completed by.

I managed to get this done in 2hours(ish), so didn't take up a lot of my time. I went to show the client the work over the professional use of social media and they never replied... this meant I was unsure about continuing the work, because it seemed like they didn't like what I produced so carrying on would have been a waste of my time. A few days passed and I decided to message the client again asking if it is what they wanted... it turns out they just forgot to reply... This is frustrating and is making me think is this what it's going to be like in the real world? Are people going to mess me around a bit? For now I'm just going to have to get on with it, time is running out!

Commission part1

I wanted to get on with it fairly quickly, because i had my own dissertation work to be getting on with and I knew I could quickly knock out these two illustrations. So I did a quick sketch of what I thought the client wanted with what she had briefed me. I sent them what I had done and they were very happy with the result! This is a really great feeling and a taster of what it might be like in the real world (well hopefully anyway)! Luckily they liked my initial idea saving me a lot of time, knowing straight away what I was doing so I could just get on with it. 

Commission!

My first commission! Timing may not be the best, but because my time keeping for my dissertation hasn't been that bad, I've got some time this christmas to do this work- and it's paid!! It'll also be good to be doing a brief that isn't my own for this module, as I haven't done or even attempted to do one yet. 

I've been asked to do a protest poster promoting vegetarianism as well as two illustrations of ugly women in fur coats. The only thing that is a bit annoying is that they have asked to draw the two illustrations in a typical fashion illustration style, which isn't what I do and what want in my portfolio... I think in the future I wouldn't say yes to something like that. I'd show my portfolio so the client understands my tone of voice and how i approach a subject matter, but because this is just for a friend, I don't feel like I can do it in the approach i'd want to do. 

Weekly Affair - Week 13

>Christmas edition<

This is a completely self indulgent attempt for this weeks affair... I suppose it is relevant as it is Christmas this week! But has no article and is my classic subject matter which I really should be trying to avoid because I don't want to just be that girl who draws Donald Trump. It also doesn't speak volumes and is pretty predictable, so I'm not that impressed by this attempt. 

Although I have really enjoyed painting onto the somerset paper I bought for my last weekly affair, and I'm definitely going to keep painting onto it. It creates such a lovely texture and adds another layer of depth to the illustration. 

Weekly Affair - Week 12

12th Dec BBC news Article: Squid may become favourite UK meal as seas become warmer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38265395

I wanted to do something a bit different for my affair this week (like I always keep saying). But I wanted to challenge myself with NOT including people in my illustration and NOT having it in the same portrait format. And I like to think that this was a success! It's important to work with a range of formats when thinking about editorial, because you would never just work in one format, you must create work that would work with a variety. 

I also realised now, and I have no idea why I haven't considered this before, the choice of stock is very important. For every other painting I have just painted on cheap paper that I found in the paper draw... But for this weeks (and for every other week from now on) I will be painting on a soft white somerset paper, which gives such a nice texture.  

Weekly Affair - Week 11

Something that isn't of Donald Trump or politics!?!?! woaaahhhh! I thought that I really needed to show that I don't just do politics and that I do actually have other interests! So I had a look through the BBC news website and tried to find an article that I would have a personal interest in and is for my generation. Within my searches I found this: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38172253

"Art history A-level saved at last minute"

I thought this would be a great article to illustrate because it's about something I personally find very important and get very frustrated about when people don't take it seriously!!! I had also made a LinkedIn blog post about how Michael Gove wanted to get rid of a level art history, so to find this article was great! 

This was also a different colour palette to what I would normally use, but the greens and browns seemed more appropriate to keep the likeness of the original image, making it instantly recognisable. But I think for my future illustrations I should explore different colour palettes more, as I found this exploration enjoyable. I also think having a different shades of a colour with one spot colour which compliments the main colour is a successful colour choice. I think I will do this again in my future work also.   

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