Image plan idea

Ok so the images are going to be on A6 so that they can be done quicker and so that i don't have to buy extortionate amounts of paper. I'm working illustration on a budget.
Instead of a theme i'm going to have a recurring element. The recurring element will be free standing water which i've been playing around with in my work at the moment.
With each image the water segment can fluctuate up and down so that there seems to be a part of the images moving even though it will just be photos of different pictures.

I'm going to use the same colour scheme over all the images so that they link and then where the water is i want contrasting colours; like this:

Work look through video

So going on from my last post about people showing their sketch pads and looks through their work along to music. I have figured out the music and formatting of my video.

Im having it go along to the intro to the song Radar Detector by Darwin Deez. I'm using a 6 second cut. Im going to set up a little amateur photo shoot area. I will have a coloured sheet of paper stuck onto the wall as my base; on it will be marked out the corners of the format i'm using so that they will sty in the same place. The camera will be set up on something to make it at the right height and i will tape the outline of the camera so that it doesn't move as well, because i will most likely have to turn it on and off at some point as my camera doesn't like to play nicely.

The video will consist of ten images, for the first second it will  be my logo and illustrator name. From second 1 to 5, 8 images will flash up at half second intervals; these will be my illustrations. I need to make them detailed enough t represent my practice but simple and clear enough to be understood in half a second. I should probably make them kind of similar like all plants or all faces. something that makes a consistency between the images so that they work as a set. The last second will have my contact details and online media addresses because then when the video ends the last image stays on screen and they can be noted down.

Alongside the images there will be 5 circles either side of the images in a complimentary colour to the back ground. as the images change a dot each time will change to my face, this will happen in ascending order and then go back down. The face will be done either in white paper cut out and put on a contrasting circle or just made completely out of a contrasting colour.

Contact

A t shirt shop owner from canada contacted me through my instagram saying he liked my designed and would i be interested in being featured on his site. I responded saying i would love to and now he would like me to send some of my designs over and possibly have them sold on a t shirt. I get $3 per shirt which is pretty small but i think it'll be worth it to get some of my designs out there and just to gain some confidence in my practice again. The images remain my property and mister dress up is only permitted to sell them for a month at a time with my permission and I get paid bi-monthly for it. He also asked me to pass on his email to anyone i thought would have good designs for him. I am passing his email onto Hollie, Becky Firth, Adam and Rosie Wood because i like them and i would like to bring that man more designers but at the same time i don't want to invite too many incase they outshine me and he doesn't want to sell my T-shirt designs in favour of some one else's. Its a balancing act of sharing is caring and hoarding all the jobs to my self.

Musical pictures

I was having a little peer through other people's blog's and i came across this video;

A flip through of my first #book for #designercon2015 this weekend! Come visit me @ booth 1212. I'm so excited! See you this weekend 😊 #designercon #papersculpture #design #illustration #myfirstbook #artist sidenote: I just realized I play @pharrell for most of my video clips 😍

A video posted by BELINDA RODRIGUEZ (@beli.button) on Nov 19, 2015 at 2:56pm PST

I just really enjoyed the mix of music and visuals in this video. I think this would be something good to make and put onto my social media pages as self promotion, (and my site once it is up and running). It will show a selection of my work instead of just one image and the music, if timed right, should make it n enjoyable watch. So i think i might try to do something like this, as a mini brief in my deadline driven umbrella brief. I think I can give myself about a week and then as long as I get my hands on a decent camera to make the filming of a higher quality. Then pair it with a catchy track and it should be a hit, hopefully.

Some other examples of what im trying to create:

Cress possibilities

I was just thinking since my toy has been failing each time i could try something else. I've been doing lots of tiny pots out of clay over the last couple of weeks and, if packaged well, could be sent off with cress seeds and told to grow cress in them. I think they have a good sense elf charm and there is an interative element in the growing. Also crew is great on salad so salad lovers will greatly appreciate it. This is another chance too to include a silly poem explaining what to do.

I need to find out how much it would cost to have little boxes, or to make them. Making them would be cool because i could have little windows to look in at your pot but there can be things leaning over into the window like grass and whatever is appropriate to the pot inside. I may make it a mini brief for in my 603 brief deadline driven (where i just set myself small briefs and short amounts of time to do them in). 

I'm gonna do it

I'm going to contact someone. I've been wanting to hold off until i completed my video so i have something to send, or at least til my toy was sorted but thats beginning to feel like a  lost cause as i just can't get the design to work successfully. I'm going to start with michael reforge as he is one of my favourite illustrators. I'm not exactly sure what to ask him yet but maybe i'll just tell him how i have set myself the goal of him thinking my work is cool. I want to include a drawing specifically made for him as well so that it seems i made a specific effort to contact him personally. But i know to avoid these questions as they are on his sight under contact as FAQs which i assume are up because he is sick of answering those questions and doesn't want to anymore.

I'm going to work on my drawing to send him now. I'll probably include poetry, because i can word things better and less awkwardly if i get to rhyme.

WORDS

So i decided to mix in some 'at ion' words to my syllable words so that at the end i can say 'this is big ween illustration' and it will rhyme. And from my experience through cop making rhymes up entirely of words ending in 'at ion' i know that there are thousands of words to choose from. This decision lead to my string of words being arranged so that there is rhyming in it because i love having rhymes. It helps me understand what rhythm to be saying it at.
Words as follows:

Wake, Dress, Eat, Workstation
Pens, Pencils, Illustration

Arms, Legs, Massive Sharks
Trees, Fire, Alien Attacks

Blood and Gore while Kicking Ass
Apple Juice and Sugar Snacks

Cups of Joe, Five in a Row
Drawing so Fast my Pen's Aglow

Hats, Plants, Fish, Cactus
If You Like This, Come Contact Us

Visual Communication
This is Big Ween Illustration

Although i'm not sure about the second to last verse. I might change the first list of words to two syllable words to match the cactus.I think that would flow better. Next up on my development for this I will be creating the music to go along side it. I'm using a ukulele and a kazoo as its all i know how to play but also because i think the playful connotations of these instruments fits in well with my practice.
Also because i don't really like hearing my voice recorded and played back (who does?) I found out how to adjust it on audacity and possible even make it sound like a robot voice which is exciting and i think this will work well with the light silly nature of this video.

I have some sketches now of the kind of things i will be animating. I think i will be doing quite simple animations and relying heavily on my texture work and colours to bring the animations to life.

For this shark I think it will help my animating if for those verses i just animate a whole image like this one with all the elements within it and then i can use aftereffects to zoom in and out of the specific part that is being said at that point. I think this will save time and make me work more efficiently.

For the first few lines i think that it will just be some still images before i go into animating so there is a lead up. And i'll have a little animation for the last word i think to highlight it. Before flowing into full animation for the rest of the video.