Banksy!

I have always been a fan of Banksy! I own his book "Existencilism" and the imagery in it is amazing! I love his method of working and I feel some of the best work I've done is when I've done it in his style. I recently did a copy of his work and produced the image "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery" as I feel this appeals to me when I use Banksy as my inspiration. The work above is like his series entitled the "rat pack" . He feels that vermon will tear the city (world) apart. Rats are called rats because they'll do anything to survive. He feels this applies to the modern day world. In one of my projects, I had to gather research on things that angered me, and I took inspiration from what angers him.

Day Out

I went to Ilkley one day to go for a walk and loved the pictures I took of the sun going down. Living in Leeds its not often you see sights like these. I thought they were really good, and think photography will be something to do in one of my project next year, as I feel I'd be really good at it.

"Mail It" Brief

For this project, I was given an occupation as a starting point for this brief. I had to research this occupation fully gathering a range of visual information. I produced a series of graffiti based images using a stencilling method. I feel these were a successful outcome to this project, as I used Banksy and other graffiti artists as my inspiration. I felt that using spray paint and stencilling linked to this project to do with the police because of Street art and crime in London. If I was to do the project again, I would do more research and develop my ideas more.

Artists Who Inspire

These are a list of artists who have inspired my work and who will continue to inspire. Mr Bingo uses really simple techniques such as using a fine liner pen and a scanner to produce his work.
Vanessa De Silva produces Graphic prints and T Shirts. I like her work because of how she overlayers imagery.
Nineteenseventythree.com are at the forefront of cutting edge fashion and design.They are consistently evolving and bringing exciting new products. The produce cards, wrapping paper, and have really unique designs. I love the graphics!
Karine Faou works with illustration and mixed media. I think she uses really nice imagery and city scapes and outlines.
Reluctant Hero is a design agency, their work is mainly illustrator based although they also do graphics and print. I really admire their work that was recently published in Dazed and Confused magazine, provides good inspiration for my work in the future.
E-BOY is mad eup of three men from Berlin and one from New York. Their work is pixel art and is base don video games. They make their work really playful and colourful. Their art runs the gamut from simple faces, animals, and rampaging beasts, to giant cityscapes filled with isometric buildings, vehicles both worldly and fantastic, designer trees, and the occasional nipple.

Running

My passion for running has always had an influence on my work as shown above. Since getting my Nike plus sensor to help record how far I run and how well I do, I feel it has helped me with my work. The illustration above is from one of my projects an unofficial student guide. My keen interest in running made me think of this idea when applying it to the phrase "Lift from the knees". I recently completed my first marathon in Halstead. Due to the hot weather I collapsed and I fell seriously ill. I intend to use this experience in the future with my work.

How far I've ran:
500 miles, since September! Click on the link below to see.

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/v1/html/milestones/print_certif.html?id=9682711®ion=emea&language=en&locale=en_gb&dateFormat=DD/MM/YY

Mr Bingo

Found work by Mr Bingo really like his style of illustration, and the way he only uses pens and a scanner to produce imagery

Evaluation

In the past year, I have learnt that my ability to produce and choose final imagery that resolves a brief is beginning to improve. From the start of the year I was unable to develop my ideas and produce a significant outcome, however recently, I have been able to resolve final design ideas for each project. I feel my design practice over the last year has become stronger as I am able to produce a series of ideas and then be able to choose which one will be my final outcome.
My practical skills have developed further this year as II have been able to use Flash, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop. I am not confident with programs with these and my knowledge in how to use them isn't great however I feel I have grasped the basic concept and this has helped me to have other possibilities for final pieces.
I feel my main strength is my ability to illustrate. I feel I will follow through this way of working next year and hopefully, be more successful at it. I want to be more experimental with my illustrations, using a range of mixed medias, rather than the basic tools. I also think my design development is good although I need to be able to select a certain few to run with.
The most important area for me to improve is my computer skills and my time management. I need to be able to organise my time for each project not only so as I produce a greater quantity of work but also so I produce my final ideas to a high professional standard.
I think I want to focus my designs on current affairs, as I find my work is driven by the here and now, stuff going on in the news and stuff thats going on here and around me as I am very observant and am a visual learner. Before I move onto what I am going to do next I think I need to re-evaluate the process of how I work, I know I want to follow an illustration route through my future projects but in order to be better at this I need to from the start of each brief be able to allocate sufficient time and practice to each project.