Week 6 - Workshop

Yesterday I decided to come into college early because I knew today we'd have a workshop that involved scanning and I didn't want to have to wait in line to scan everything. I had an I.T assistant help me find what file sizes were needed for my illustrations, I scanned my trees in and made sure the Height was 207 (although my blue trees were slightly taller so the height was increased slightly) and the width was the same length across them all, (as they are on individual sheets of paper.)



I also did a rough copy of my Final Illustration to see the outcome of what the forest would look like. (This isn't actual size, and isn't final Illustration, the trunks will be darker and the image will be a lot larger.)

I also took a screenshot so you can see the trunks a little clearer, as I can't make the image much bigger but I thought it would be a good idea to zoom in on the tree trunks so you can see the patterns on them. (They are in order from dusk till dawn, from warm to cold.)

 Warm Trees



Naturalistic Trees

Cold Trees



Week 5 - Formative assessment

Today we had a formative assessment with our tutor, the feedback I got from the assessment was that I need to do more overprinted trees, using the colours 'from dusk till dawn' in naturalistic colours. As the leaders from Hay said the same. I did some research into the kinds of colours trees turn during the day, night and morning. I look on the internet to do this, then took from that and started to use different kinds of green to identify the different shades.

I did try to experiment using only green, but I found it was a little difficult to find certain greens that didn't have blues in, although I found this difficult I still created an Illustration using greens only. Although these are different coloured green trees, my tutor advised that I focused more on the idea of it being from 'dawn till dusk' and the materials used to created these trees (oil pastel and acrylic) are too blocked and make the illustration too bold. It was preferred to be light and delicate.

Although my original trees are coloured, I decided not to go for a naturalistic look, because for me,  as it'll be a forest with green trees, I also considered the target audience and the fact there will be families there, (children to be more specific) and I think, as well as myself, that they would prefer some colour in the trees.
So, for my final illustrated trees, I will have the trunk stylised the same way as before, although i won't be sticking to the colours they want me to use, but I will be using the other feedback they gave me of having my trees start from dawn and fade to dusk. The way I will do this is start with warmer colours as a forest of trees, fading into green trees (although I am including colour trees, the majority of the trees will be green but only in between the warm and dark coloured forests,) and ending in dark colours, so the theme will still be from dusk to dawn.

Week 4 - Visit from the Hay Festival

Today we had the leaders of the Hay Festival visit, to come and look at our designs and choose which one with their favourite illustration out of the illustrations we took further and perfected, then pinned them to foam board to present them.
My foam board consisted of the swirly trees, the overprinting trees, and the patterned backgrounds with cut out trees in front of them. After a small talk with my tutor, a leader and a former tutor (who now works for Hay Festival) they gave me feedback on my illustrations.
 They took a liking to my overprinted trees and they particularly liked the patterns on trunk I created, using dots and lines for an almost tribal style. The leader of Hay (Becky) said that I should stick to my overprinting, and to use colours to represent a whole day across the banner (from dusk till dawn.) She wanted me to use naturalistic colours that are relevant to spring.

Original Illustration

Overprinted Illustration

I feel the overprinting for this didn't work because I used watercolour rather than coloured pencils, making the trees a little denser. I also didn't turn down the density enough making the image look solid rather than delicate.