Since missing it last year due to closure, this week kicked off with us going to the New Walk museum. It in honestly wasn’t as fun as I’d imagine, and what I mean by that is it was full of kids... screaming kids. We just had to go during the half term break didn’t we? Well my idea of what would have been better was if it wasn’t full of kids and was a more peaceful place to draw, it was too crowded, too noisy, too uncomfortable environment to draw in, I prefer something more peaceful where I can sit and concentrate, it just wasn’t possible though. On top of all that there really wasn’t much we were allowed to draw either, there was practically about 5 dinosaur structures we were limited to and a few dinosaur heads to. With it technically being first year work we were meant to look at rendering techniques as this would have come just after one and two point perspective it was nice to get back to a bit of basic stuff actually however since our heads have be bombarded with looking at colour a lot lately. I’ve caught up in visual design though after last week being stressful, my train prep sketches are complete, I’ve worked out the composition, blocked out the colours and ready to go in and detail my final piece, which is a digital final again.
In 3D this week, I continued to unwrap my treasure chest, it’s really tedious as the legs to the chest are annoying, I ended up having to pelt map them which seemed the easiest way to do so, and I had to look at a video tutorial on how to pelt map, to my surprise it’s really easy, I thought it was something complex. I’ve gotten the point where I’ve pretty much unwrapped the full thing and gotten most of my textures done and it’s just finalising it. I managed to even take out a lot of triangles from my previous model and got it down to about 1300 triangles used on the model itself, which in terms of trying to use as least triangles as possible, I’m happy with but I could of used the extra triangles to add more detail in, I definitely want to revisit this project soon. It will be nice to move onto the trash project next, just to do something different and maybe a little easier by the looks of it? I think the next project will be an easier one I think, so I think that getting it done quickly will allow me to catch up on other work and hopefully get more time to do personal work I’ve been wanting to do.
In critical studies we talked about planning and concepting again along with Art direction. Art direction is what is coming up quite a lot of recent. We talked a lot about selling things visually, for example how can we tell a story without actually saying anything/talking about what it is or what is going on. How can an environment have an impact on the viewer, how do we give an impression of what characters are like immediately without having to explain it. We looked again at how we manage time this week, looking at how much time we spend doing something and how much it adds up to, I think a lot of people found out in the end that they wasn’t spending enough time working in the week and was forgetting what they were doing at certain times. I myself am constantly working, even on the weekend; it just feels as if when I’m not working, I’m constantly falling behind. We was told how on a weekend we shouldn’t really be working and we should be having some free time to yourself, however for myself I get up and all I do is work though having a break every now and then. I’m not complaining or anything it’s just it feels like all I’m doing is working and not having the time I want to do some personal stuff.
Anyway I did manage to draw a piece of fruit this week. I’m using the fruit as a way of trying to get me to work faster, as in the past I’ve spent ages on drawing a single piece of fruit, this time I didn’t spend as much and I was really happy with the result. I’m also using it to improve my colour theory as well, one technique this week I’ve looked as is using darker tones of a colour to make shadows instead of always going for black which is what I usually do. I use black to darken things up in areas but I had again I used a small colour pallet for this.
Tangerine, not an orange!
After a couple hard weeks in visual design by the end of this week I’m glad that I’ve finally been able to get quite a lot of work done, I feel better for it to and ready for next week.
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