Portrait Brief - Graphite Visual Analysis

This piece of work is from a portrait brief, it is a visual analysis I produced of playwriter Samuel Beckitt. I created this using graphite sticks and pencils which was a great tool to use when trying to emphasise light and shade. I wanted to further the development process for this piece of work so I went on to scan it into photo shop, using the dodge and burn tool I enhanced the light and dark areas even more to give a good idea of the direction of light. Experimenting even further I began to drop colour using a very translucent brush tool onto the face in certain areas.

Society Today - Police Brutality Typography

I had a brief titled Society Today, for this brief I had to pick a subject matter from todays society which I believed was a major problem or has a major effect on the way the public run there lives. Police brutality is the theme I went down and I was really inspired by graphic designer and typography artist Luke Lucas and took inspiration from his work in forming shape and composition using text and typography, after doing so I developed this idea expressing the police brutality going on in todays society.

Photographs Colin McPherson Inspired Isle Of Man

During my first brief in my A2 graphics course I was tasked to find a photographer I was inspired by and produce work that had elements of there own techniques in my own photographs. I decided to choose Colin McPherson a photographer and visual artist, his work has several key elements that is seen in photography today such as the usew of, composition, content and colour, also the rule of thirds, use of lines/shapes withing photography and the navigation around a photograph. These are things I have tried to incorperate into my own photographs I had taken when I went on a weekend away to the Isle Of Man.

Crisis Today - Postcard

I was set a brief too design a range of development ideas for a new TV programme named Crisis Today that would be aired with the focus on issues in the world. I designed a range of development including posters, postcards and other advertisement tools, but for my first idea I decided to design a postcard focussing on war and conflict around the world. Using both primary and secondary source photographs I created a collage piece with a montage of images relating to war.

Crisis Today - Poster

This is another design for my Crisis Today brief I did during my A2 Graphics course, this piece is a poster I produced carrying the message of the dangers in the environment of a child. I mainly focused on things such as video games, television and the infuence they can have on children. For this design I specifically wanted a very basic but strong image so I included one of the many photographs I had taken of my nephew, this one with him holding his hand up to represent a gun. I thought this was a great photograph and I had took great inspiration from Oliviero Toscani and his use of shocking and controversial imagary. In terms of the piece on a whole I believe I have used negative space well and have obvious good use of photo shop tools and skills.
                      
                         Below is a range of other development work inspired by Oliviero Toscani.

Passions & Obsessions - Action Figure Mono Print

This is a piece of work from my Passions & Obsessions brief which I done in my A-levels where I had to pick something which I was either passionaite about or and obsession. For me this was a great brief to be given as I'm passionaite about several thing one being comic book/graphic novels and action figures. I decided to combine them both and I firstly brought In action figures of my favourite comic book characters from the world of Marvel and took photographs of them from different angles, different parts of there body and within different compositions. The work above is a mono print of one of the photographs I had taken, for this I focused on the basic form of the action figure and the negative space within the photograph.

Passions & Obsessions - Action Figure Controlled Paintings with Mono

I decided to begin producing a visual analysis of my action figure from a photograph I had taken. Before I started I inserted the photograph into photo shop and changed the levels as well as making the shadows and highlights more prodominant to give an extra sense of depth and a three dimension. Using acryllic paint I developed a very controlled and realistic painting with a multitude of shadows and highlights with a short range of colours just like in todays graphic novels and comics.

After several experimentation with different mediums I decided to combine two of the more successful ones which where my conrtolled style of painting and mono printing, together as a composition. Instead of painting straight onto the mono print itself I first painted the image of the action figure onto a piece of asotate, this was very challenging as I had to paint backwards putting highlighted layers as the base colour and the darkened areas as the top layer. Once flipped and on the dry side of the asotate I used a fineliner to pick out fine detail and form to give the painting that contour comic book impression.