Year 2 - Week 18 - February 27th - March 02nd

So basically this week, we’re continuing with projects. One project given to us is the text project, were we’re designing whatever we want based on a book. The book of choice has to be something that doesn’t have too much illustration involved in it; else you’re basically just copying what has already been done.

Personally I never read books, I’ve always learned better by looking at things visually. So I work better by drawing things and looking at how something is done practically rather than reading a bunch of text. I think this is what makes me more creative, this will be a good challenge however I’m struggling for ideas on what book to go with, because I don’t remember reading any book that meant something to me or inspired me, so more thought on that at this time.

We got given a project based on cultures to, it doesn’t seem anything like it would be related to gaming however it’s quite interesting because it challenges us to be imaginative and construct together a final piece that can affiliate with different walks of life. At this time I’m thinking of something like a small park that possibility be centred in the middle of Leicester that people would walk into and by every day of the year. Leicester seems to be a city where many different types of people from different walks of life and all over the world seem live in, so embedding the idea directly here would seem the best idea. I’ll be definitely looking at an environment as you know I like environments the best.

I think that’s pretty much it for this week, I’ve done a bit more still life in the meantime and obviously done some life drawing, which seems to be getting better. I’ve been using coloured pencils in my still life work recently. I think it’s definitely working, I need to vary my work a bit since I’m constantly just using pencil and working in greyscale, you can argue that it’s basically all still made up of one colour but however gives it variation with greens, reds and blues etc. Other than that, I’ve been looking at how these objects maybe designed in 3D, and making polygon drawings of them and how they would fit together in a mesh flow to further my understanding of objects.

This is a very good technique that if you’re struggling in 3D, your 2D can allows you to works things out. Much like concepting, it’s another way of getting things on paper to help you apply it to 3D.