Summer project to myself, for myself

A few may know that I am a surreal artist as well as a young designer. SO! I've decided to set myself a project to do over the summer.

What I want to do is to be able to view my art pieces and see what they look like as prints on t-shirt designs and or on jackets ie; denim and leather.

This will and may be a long process in getting everything done. Of course experimenting with my drawings and bringing them into Photoshop, then there's making flats, buying a a cheap t-shirt for a rough idea or placements, ect, ect. Then there's finding a place who would allow me to print and have it done professionally, models to wear them, promoting them and selling them. This would all be in the near future obviously but it's best to think of this now because you never know if it goes well or if it goes badly.

But this is what I'm wanting to do, it may take time, I may not even get to the stage of getting my ideas made but I wont know unless I try. Which I'm doing today!

One step at a time....

Final pt 2

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With this final, just like the other one i used my own drawing and used the same tool but this time i used the pen tool to outline her body, i also scanned my drawing into the computer. To make her body symmetrical i completed one side of her body, copied and paste the image drawn and reflected to the other side. 

Again i made this image slightly sketchy but still making her shape visible in the drawing.

This illustration came out well and goes well with what i had done with the first illustration. I did however draw another one that i was going to use but the out come didn't pair well with my other drawing, it was messy and quite child like so i decided against it.

I should be posting more or make time for posting, been jammed packed with work so hopefully i should be back to my one/ two posts per week. 

Final pt 1

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This image was part of my final that I have done for one of my modules, the module was about learning basic skills of illustrator and learning how to use the pen tool.
With this module I learned the difference between vector and bitmap images, paths, layers and much more.
In the past i had experience photoshop and i noticed that the two were the same, the only difference between the two is that illustrator uses vector images, meaning that the images are a lot easier to resize with out pixels being out of place.

With this drawing i used one of my own drawings from my personal sketchbook and scanned it into the computer, i then opened up the image on a new document to create my illustration. With this drawing i mainly used the brush tool it keep it sketchy, i prefer the sketchy look because it makes it seem unfinished and rough. This illustration came out well, with the original drawing there wasn't any colour so using colour makes it stand out from the background. I also used some shading with the brush tool, changing the shade of green but still keeping it rough and sketchy.

Glimpse of a line-up that I had done from the first project from Fashion Drawing and Communication.

This is a line-up I'm showing is from our first module, Fashion Drawing and communication.
The designs were based around a theme/storyline that we had to come up with and work around it. I decided to go with Modern Myth from macro trends on WGSN and I went down the root of Cosmic Couture.
 I chose these two because Modern Myth is based on mythology and scientific surrounds and beliefs, the fact that it is a mixture of religious and scientific views makes a story line interesting with the amount of stories that can come from them.

The storyline however...
I researched on some short stories and I came across Population 218 by Acacia. The story is based around a nuclear war that happened and the survivors live in a dome where the population is strictly 218! So, if a baby is born a member of the population must die. BUT!! Instead of using the tragic side of the story I thought I would base my ideas around the surroundings inside the dome and what it would be like not being able to enter the outside world.

Researching further with this storyline I looked into the Edens project with it's shape and the plant life on the inside to give me the idea of what it would be like if there was no green life on the outside of the the dome.
I then looked into the hexagon shape that appears on the dome, looking at architecture and bridges around Newcastle and into designers such as Gareth Pugh and DZHUS, looking into their collection that used a lot of laser cut and 3D uses.

I then went on to experiment with my own designs and illustrations by using water colour paints, photo copying fabrics and placing them on to my designs to help me capture what I would be looking at if I were to create the garments.

For this first module I really enjoyed it because drawing is one of my strongest points and being able to use my skills and ideas was good use to this project.

The other photo I am showing is one of the experimentations that I had done in my file to back up my ideas and designs, focusing on shapes and detail with the use of water colour.

From photo to painting... Thomas?

The other day I thought it would be a good idea to download an app called photo booth, and after playing about with the app I managed to capture one of the most oddest pictures I have taken. I'm not going to lie, I am absolutely loving the the image. It's creepy, surreal, interesting, scary, it's everything that you wouldn't expect to see in a picture and the fact that I've managed to create this is amazing. The quality of the image gives off a paint like texture which then gave me the idea to recreate the image onto a small canvas.

I used water colour and a 20x20 cm canvas from Wilkinson. Recreating this image onto canvas was great fun, I decided to change the second lot of eyebrows (underneath) and turn them into heavy bags and I also decided to turn the image into a surreal character.

How does 'Thomas' sound?

I like to give the characters in my drawings/paintings names. It brings them to life, makes them seem individual, free and special. That to me is what surreal art is like, you have complete freedom to change a perspective and make it your own, whether it is giving a character a name, a certain style or even deforming a face and making it seem abstract and unique. 

Surrealism has been around since the 1920's and is by far one of my favourite art genres to be involved in. You can have freedom in all art genres but there's something specific about surrealism and abstract like art that makes some sort of sense, it brings out the creative mind and makes you look at other things in a different perspective.

Art is in your hands and can be developed and created in anyway you want, experiment with materials, go out of your comfort zone and expand your mind to new things...

You many never what you can create next or even come across.