in conclusion

this project has been different for me. Normally when i approach a project i produce as much sketchbook work as i can and then piece it together a few weeks before the hand in. this has gone wrong often in the past, where i feel i've not created enough work before its time to hand in, and have to work on my project when i should have been presenting and organizing it.

as i said this project has been different, in favor of the less is more strategy, i've been organizing and presenting my research and development (not a whole lot of development at this stage) into something much more presentable and much more readable. in doing so ive created something that to my eyes dosnt look like the 300-400 hours i was aiming to work for on this project, but i must admit the whole thing looks much tidyer and more organised. thats where i'm trying to get the marks from this year.

this year i feel ive made great improvements with my work digitaly in painter, its still not great but its coming on quickly. drawing people is still a little bit of a problem, but thats where i'm going to be working next year. i also feel my presentation has gone well so far, or at least its better than last year! and i think that ive made some nice looking peices of recearch.

its been a real strech to get out of my sketchbook, an artifact that has served me well in the past. but this has encoraged me (along with this scarecely populated blog) to digitise my work and to think about how i will be posting it online. however its not been a painless transition, as i said the blog is not as full as i would have liked. i used it only to post key moments in my designing, and not many of them made it online. also i feel that the volume of work ive produced this year has been considerably lacking on all the other projects that ive done, and i dont mind admiting that its worrying me.

all in all though im both nurveous and exited about this hand in, ive done something new for me this year by worrying about the volumes of work less and the presentation of it more. i hope the gambit will pay off!

ok so my last post was a month ago. and considering that the hand in is tomorrow i really should have kept this more up to date. but hey blogging was just a habbit i couldnt get into.
in the past month ive been focusing on working in painter, in kind of four different directions really.

one has been learning to do portraits heres my last attempt:
i didn't think it was going all too badly untill soemone told me it looked a lot like me... this freaked me out and ive not plucked up the will to continue this peice! i went on to other work.

like the composition work, all i wanted was to see if i could work out just a man standing around looking moody. and something that would look profesional. i... think that last one was too much to ask for! but here it is anyway:



im not all that impressed with my ability to work in painter, but its a defineate improvment. so at least its all going in the right direction. lastly i was seeing how i could use painter as a design tool. i was using a kind of a paper doll like method to layer clothing... you draw a tshirt and see what it looks like in different combinations with other clothes. its not much but this kinda thing could be used with all kinds of sketches and doodles and i think would save a whole lot of time designing and redrawing things (as i inevitably do!)
this is one of the images produced from this kind of design work:

and thats it for now... wish me luck with my hand in, i guess i will be continueing this blog next project.