evaluation

What have I done?
I have worked on five briefs through this module, three short and two long. These briefs were;
• Long brief – Hercules, produce a series of illustrations. This brief expanded vastly as my illustration style and quality advanced. I designed layouts and books before finally resolving the presentation of the illustrations in a poster format.
• Short brief – lazy oaf, a competition brief to produce a t-shirt design, it included colour restrictions for print and stock. I spent some time over two weeks on this brief, I drew hippos, had fun with it.
• Short brief – don’t panic, a second competition brief, design a poster, I did this as a set of four one day briefs. I produced a series of A2 poster sized illustrations. This brief gave me a break from the main brief at the time (Hercules) and allowed me to produce work for a different audience with a more mature/trendy style.
• Short brief – Paul’s 50th invite, very short brief, produce a cheesy picture, resolved within a week over Easter.
• Long brief – mythology, this brief was the culmination of my design context research and design practice work. I produced spreads with content, activities and pop-up cards. In this brief I intended to produce work for five different myths from different geographical and historic societies, about halfway food the project I reduced the myths to four to better handle the workload in the time I had.

Design context
My design context was mythology in primary school education. My research involved a number of trips to exhibitions around the UK, interviewing teachers as well as a work placement over Easter. I also collected a large number of children’s illustrated books and websites.
The product I produced was a small book, from lulu self publishing, the book was produced to be a simple and clear means from which a someone could quickly understand where my fmp work has come from, it uses a simple ‘mr men’ style layout, to both avoid any mistakes at lulu and because type and layout isn’t really my thing and I didn’t want something so boring and menial eating into my drawing time.

Design practice
My practice is illustration primarily. I also have fairly good 3-d design skills with regard to paper craft and engineering. I have worked with character and narrative techniques with consideration to page layouts, palette and type content.
I have developed my illustration skills and gave my self a “style” to use through the final major project, this style was based on paper craft and utilised a large collection of hand made and interesting papers that I have gathered. The style was defined for use in context to the briefs I worked on and can be applied to illustration for various subjects and age groups.

Project management and evaluation
The majority of my project management was conducted through daily and weekly plans wrote on action plan sheets and as lists in my sketch and layout pads, these allowed me to successfully handle my workload over the course of the project. I posted evaluations to my blog alongside the progression of my work.

pop-up cards- thor and camelot

pop-up cards- hercules and horus

final activities pages

pages final brief myths

these are the final story pages for the myth book brief

post crit evaluation

i feel that my current workload is going to be unachiveable, don't rub it in, i am going to reduce the number of myths i am working on by one.
sp i am producing illustrations, content, activities and pop-up cards for- thor, hercules, horus and set and king arthur myths
i am pretty much finished on the illustrations now so i am just going to be completing the activities before the fun times of pop-up production.

pop-up herc

activities time

early plans for some thor activities, taken lots of influence from the usborne things to make and do books, tryed o use bold colours etc... thing they look a bit crap now so that will need changing along with text, will make and photograph the doings rather than the illustrations i think.

context pages

context pages

context pages

context pages

ball brother

hourus and seth

king arthur

hercules layout

thor layout and loki

trying out a layout black lines represent text yeah.

thor

thor and the world serpent

hercules evaluation

Hercules evaluation

This has been the most important brief of the module as it has allowed me to greatly develop my illustration.

This brief took a lot longer than was originally intended due to the development of a style playing a major part in my planning and the large quantity of work required by the brief.

I had started with intent to produce a book, thus affecting the composition of the imagery. I have now presented the 12 of the illustrations on a large poster, as I feel this will better display the work and my talents, although I was a little bit uneasy about excluding some of the imagery (4 illustrations) from the poster, they were clouding the narrative and taking up too much space up.

This brief has defined my last brief, where I intend to produce book spreads applying the same style and approach to illustration but with more in the lines of content to apply to the work. The final brief will also contain some pop-up work (about time).

ROAR!!!

last briefs

BRIEF TITLE
mythology
The Brief Background
Produce an educational mythology book for primary school students.



Blue peter, interview with ben, tigerprint
Concept/Proposition
The book will have to be educational, challenging and must relate to the pop-up cards.



Considerations Mandatory Requirements
Illustrative style
trivia
Size
Type
Craft instructions and kits

A large printed book
Layouts
Relates to card brief

Target Audience Deliverables
Primary school students



Book
research
layouts


BRIEF TITLE
Pop-up myth cards
The Brief Background
Produce a set of 5 pop-up cards.




Concept/Proposition
Pop-up heroes and villans cards.

Develop a series of cards with familiar mythological characters popping out of em.

This brief relates to the final book brief



Considerations Mandatory Requirements
Illustrative style
Pop-up mechanisms
Size
Type
Potential professional proposal.


Set of 5 cards

Mythological character on each

Body of practical research into pop-up mechanisms
Target Audience Deliverables
Primary school students



5 pop up cards

hercules evaluation

Evaluation-Hercules

What have I done?
A series of character and narrative based illustrations for use in a children’s mythology storybook.

What have I learned?
Over this brief I have developed a strong illustrative “style” where I have made my imagery from collected papers.

Where do go from here?
Next brief-with some pop-up cards, retaining the same, or a similar style as this brief.

hercules- full collection

hercules ending

king in a pot, nasty centaur and funeral pyre

hercules-cerberus

hercules-greynon and atlas

don't panic-feminism

hercules-amazons