Visual application - Daisy Jackson

Environments Daisy Jackson / 21/03/2022 In today's session with Molly and David, we focused on environments. Environments are very important as they help tell the audience more about what is going on. For my own project, the environment was not a main focus as I was creating a 'mix and match' book. However, for my animation, the environment may have a large impact. For my animation currently, I only have a dark grey background. This can be altered, however, I do like it as it is as it adds more focus to what is going on. For today's task, we were given either paint or pens to use. On the board were prompts for various environments that we only had a set amount of time to do. Here are my results:

Creating my storyboard  Daisy Jackson / 18/03/022 Today I decided to brainstorm ideas for a storyboard. This storyboard would be contributing to my introduction to animation module so I had to make sure I understood the concept and the idea I was going for. Originally, my idea was going to be a more scenic animation - focusing on the surroundings and then narrating the death of Marie Curie’s husband Pierre. However, I decided to have a different approach to this idea. The idea below is my original storyboard:                                                              I decided not to go with this idea as it was too bland for me. Yes, the angles were interesting and narrated the story in a dramatic and cinematic way but it was lacking some kind of substance.  During yesterday’s animation session (17/03/2022), Matt wanted us...

Life drawing - session 2 Daisy Jackson / 15/03/2022 Today was our second session for life drawing where we focused on shadows and colour. For this session, I used a range of soft pastels as well as mixing this with my fine liner brush pen - a great combo!  I enjoyed today's session more than the previous (01/03/2022) as I felt like there was more to draw. I do not like focusing purely on shadows as you are more focused on bold outlines which I found quite boring. Focusing on shadows in a variety of ways in general life drawing is definitely more interesting and experimental.  I definitely love the inclusion of props in both sessions however. This has made everything more interesting and makes you think more deeply about what you are doing! Here is my work from today: Steve said my work reminded me of an artist named Lucy Truman who has been creating fashion based art for years. I can definitely see where he is coming from as I have noticed how she creates bold outlines which ...

Marbling Daisy Jackson / 14/03/2022 Today we were placed into groups and did a marbling session with Molly. I really enjoyed this session as I have often seen marbling kits and been quite curious about them. I never knew how to marble and am very happy I learned how! These are the results from today:

Reflection Daisy Jackson / 14/03/2022 On this blog post I am going to be reflecting on my process of creating my children's book based on my historical figure Marie Curie. What did I do well? I think my research was clear and helpful. I definitely took large amounts of time to research into my historical figure as well as my target audience - children. As well as this, I also looked into children's TV shows (and cartoon shows in general) and looked at how they presented celebrity guests. This helped me to see whether I wanted to make my historical figure recongisable or just include distinguishable features. I then also created a survey which allowed me to understand what my audience wanted - I think I stuck to this feedback quite well. Regarding research, I also looked into other books that focus on mix and matching such as the book 'Farm Animals' by Sophie Corrigan. This definitely helped me understand the layout. My experimental process was well done. I experimented ...

CREATING MY BOOK - On going blog post *FINISHED* Daisy Jackson / 11/03/2022 This will be an ongoing blog post so check back to this post to see further updates until my book is finally finished! To begin, I referenced 'Farm Animals by Sophie Corrigan who has greatly inspired my work even with the colour choices (this was weirdly not planned either!). To start, I used a base which was cardboard. I cellotpaged this all together which looked like this: (I reused the cardboard from the original prototype as I really loved the way it turned out). For the official book however, I did modify this and make the spine smaller. This way, the book would close easier (that's the plan anyway).  After this, I then spoke to my Mum for advice as I had no idea how to create the base of the book without gluing materials onto it and making it look 'tacky'. I noticed when gluing paper on, you could see the glue underneath which made creases - I did not like this! This is when my Mum gave me...

My official designs for my book - the completed prototype Daisy Jackson / 11/03/2022 Today I created a small prototype which allowed me to understand the order and if the work I have produced is effective and interesting on a shelf. More importantly, I can also tell if a child would like this as the colours and imagery used will distinguish whether my target market group will like my product.  In this prototype the pages are definitely not the correct size as when cutting them out, they did not allign very well. HOWEVER, this does not matter! I only care about seeing whether my design worked and the pages were consistent and not boring.  I have not included the spine in this prototype as I was using treasury tags to put them together. This of course would make it very hard to put together with a spine. Also the prototype is quite small so this would be tedious and a waste of my time. The deadline is coming closer and closer but I definitely believe that I will have finished th...