Tutorial with Glyn

Today I had a meeting with Glyn to show him my Zara mock up book and get some advice on how to develop before printing the final version. I have prepared most of the page layouts and text and I think the ordering is almost right as it flows nicely between the illustrations and pieces of text promoting Zara.

One of my development illustrations for this project

After speaking to Glyn I have realised that the basic structure is there but it needs to be a bit more exploratory and edgy so I am going to play around with composition and the placement of my text. At the moment it is all fairly conformative in layout and I liked Glyn's idea to make the scales more extreme and play around with how much of the model the viewer can actually see- I forget sometimes it's OK to not have all my illustration in and cropping can make a huge difference to the success of a piece- sometimes less is more. I realise all my text is also straight and it could be nice to have things at angles so that the viewer is more involved in the book, turning it around to view things which will mean they interact with the feel and flow of the book more.

I want to get this book finished by Easter so it's a final push for the next week.

Change of plans

After submitting my Hermione Hammond award I was hoping to move onto a D&AD brief but after some deliberation I have decided to continue my fashion project as I feel it is not yet exhausted or concluded and I want to push it forward into a new project to replace the D&AD one. I also feel uninspired by that brief now so it seems a bad choice to drop a project that is already pushing my skills and methods whilst also inspiring and exciting me.

I am hoping to move this project towards a book after the success of my UEA project and I want to explore collage, layering and texture more and the use of different surfaces and paper stocks after it worked well before. I plan to get this project resolved as soon as possible to move onto my fairy tale project but realistically I will give myself until the Easter break to finish.

Antonio Soares fashion illustration

I think the next stage is to continue with my research and start formatting some ideas for the direction and conclusion of this project as currently I don't feel finished but also don't know how to finish. After a tutorial with Glyn I think I need to find some more substance and themes to the fashion to give it a context and substantial content.

Hermione Hammond Entry

I have finally finished my Hermione Hammond competition entry after spending hours painstakingly drawing hair. I am really happy with my final as I feel it does how good skill and representational drawing as the competition asks for. I hope that it will be memorable and striking enough for the judges to favor it for winning! Going through the process of working to a competition deadline has been a good experience to prepare me for working to tight deadlines in my future career and preparing my files for submission will make it quicker for any future competition entries. This is the first competition I have entered and I feel it has been a good place to start as it is a fairly small competition and I now feel ready to approach some larger more publicized competitions.

My final piece