So Far...

Everything up until I started this blog...

In the course so far we have talked about confidence and how we should always feel confident and not let others get us down. I guess it got us talking to one another on the first day and we now have loads of confidence when we are together so I believe it is worth while for the time being but I think it will get boring fast.

In 3D & 2D we have a brief which is to be based on transformation. With such a wide topic I had trouble picking at first but eventually I decided on technology, as in the evolution of technology through the last 50/60 years. So far we have created paper foldings which was more difficult than I originally believed, slotting sculptures, first with thin card as a practice then moving onto the thicker card so as we could attempt using the Bandsaw, finally we created silk paper & felt which was difficult and kinda sore, so I had to get Dee to do that for me.

Creative Concepts started with adopting a fruit which seemed strange as it was made to seem like they meant literally try and "adopt" a fruit. However, that is what made it seem even more fun to us. I bought a pineapple and named it Pippa and commenced taking selfies and telling everyone that I had a fruit baby... They worried for my mental health. Eventually we were told where that cooky idea was headed with our new breif, to design our own fruit. My concepts have gone a bit haywire but its generally a fun idea, and lets us be completely creative in a design-y way which I have never had before.

For Drawing we were given a very vague brief to "draw this box", were he brought in 2 boxes and then said we could leave the room... Which confused most of us but it made us come up with strange drawings whereas I just stuck to the literal meaning and drew the boxes, then went and found more boxes and then a skull as in it is like a box for your brain... Even I don't know where my mind was going. Now we are doing negative and positive space which is difficult for me because I am so used to drawing real pictures to grasp the idea of just the space thats there rather than the details of what is actually there. And EVERYTHING is in charcoal! I amn't the biggest fan of charcoal, it doesnt let you do that much detail and its so messy... I would much rather move topic to be honest...

Contextual Studies is generally covering the aspects of the 90s that might connect to us such as the fashions, the music & the art. On the first day we covered comicbooks, their artists, artists taking their work from comics and since then we have had a few guest lecturers from GSA talking to us about branding and such from the 90's and slightly earlier to show their meanings and the differences between then and the 90's.