Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I am going to use the imagery within this film as inspiration for my after effects projects of the effects of drugs. The warping and distortion as well as camera angles within this movie are interesting and something I would like to try and replicate similar styles.

"Take Influence from real life"

Today we interviewed one of the third years for the professional studies module. I found this extremely useful as it removed many doubts I had about myself and how the course would progress throughout the years. The main part of this interview I found interesting was "take influence from real life". This was important to me, as when given a project I find it quite hard to at first engage and think oh.. I have to do this.. and this.. and trying to find subject around that area, rather than just taking influence from things which I know and am already very aware about. This piece of advice would be the most useful for future projects, as a blank white piece of paper can often be intimidating to me.

Rebecca Kitchin

I discovered her work about a year ago when looking through for references for fairies. This piece in particular stood out to me as it has a very linear style and yet the washes of colour give it some sense of solidity. I like the subtle, natural colours used as I feel this helps add to the elegance of the image. With the colour only being in washes it looks very weak and not bold which could have been done to suggest the fragility of the fairy in particularly the wings 

Handmade bag.

I wanted to create something unique and cute for my mum for  mothers day and wanted to use skills I had learnt in the past, so I decided to make this bag. I know it isn't an influence as such, but it felt good to connect back to skills learnt in the past and practice these. I like the very simplistic nature of it, and definitely wanted to keep it for myself. The technique of felting was also very good for creating a soft texture to work with to match the theme of cute and soft. This has inspired me to make more of these little bags and possibly sell them on my etsy account. If I was to do this however I would take up their complexity by possibly adding  hand painted motifs of flowers and natural patterns upon them.

Lisa Solomon

I also discovered Lisa Solomon in "Illustration Play" and her work immediately stood out to me as it was in the similar style to the way that I had drawn my heart in my sketchbook for the current visual problem solving module. Her work shows that combining drawing and stitching can be very effective and I love her simplistic use of drawing with the stitching used for bolder outlines. I like the image above (top one) of hers due to the simplistic and decorative quality of a subject which can be drawn so grotesquely. I decided to include an image of my own work beneath to show the similar method of working which I had been doing. I feel that mine however is slightly less pretty and decorative. It's still got the simplistic nature but a little more detail and more colour range to try and define. I may try working with just a simple drawing or pattern to work over the top of and see if her way of combining stitching is effective for me, or if I should stick to this method of working and keep some of the linear qualities I have added to mine. 

Megan Wilson

I discovered her work recently in the book "Illustration Play". I like the inventive idea of creating artwork on the bigger mediums than what paper sticks to. The use of the entire corner of a room being used for this piece is inspiring to me as it shows it doesn't just have to always be small with it being illustration. The thing that attracted me at first was the nature themes as this is a common interest of mine. I also like the mixed media combination of paint and textiles as I like to work in a fairly similar way with incorporating textiles or other ways of working than just the traditional. I would love the opportunity to create a piece to these scale at some point within the future as I feel I would have much more expressive mark-making techniques and more freedom.