Sonisphere Postcard

Another little piece of work based on Sonisphere 2012 (d'you think I might be a little bit excited?).
To make the drawing outlines I cheated a bit by drawing lines over an image of my friends, then deleted the image itself which left me with an (ever so creepy!) outline.

As this piece began as a piece of experimentation to work out how to do a textiles piece, I then set about adding images of material into the image, erasing the bits that weren't necessary after that all that was left to do was add a bit of text.

This piece is intended to be a souvenir postcard for the festival, a few more bits and bobs are coming a bit later on.

Just a little something

This video features a japanese artist who does some really amazing work, i've knicked the link from a friend and I sincerely recommend you check it out. It's amazing stuff.

http://vimeo.com/32967940

"When struggling with artistic vision, Fukahori's pet goldfish became his inspiration and ever since his passion and lifelong theme. His unique style of painting uses acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional appearance and lifelike vitality.

This video gives you a glimpse of his amazing painting process.

Artist Riusuke Fukahori's London debut exhibition "Goldfish Salvation" was held at ICN gallery from 1 December 2011 - 11 January 2012"

Portfolio for Birmingham City University

Portfolio for Rebecca Farmer
UCAS PID : 1086298233
UCAS Course Code:W220 (Illustration)

Project Title 3 : "Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll"

These images are gig posters created to advertise Sonisphere 2012 a heavy metal festival at Knebworth Castle in England.The image below is targeted at an alternative audience (typically ravers) and was made entirely on Photoshop. For the second poster I was targeting a typical metaller customer for the festival and conducted a lot of research into relevant material. I focused on tattoos in particular, drew up a line drawing of the planned image, scanned it into the computer, coloured the image and added the typography.

A sketchbook sample for this project

Project Title 2 : A Conceptual Interpretation of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

This project required me to choose a 20th Century artist and use his/her work as inspiration for my own. My artist of choice was Lucian Freud and I looked carefully at his painting techniques and how he indicates the facial structure using the directions of his brush strokes. The image below is an interpretation of one of his prints. The digital image below the print was more photoshop work in which I used imagery from "Alice in Wonderland" to make relevant backgrounds for an artists book, using the wallpaper designs of William Morris to create a Victorian influence on my work. I used the print studio to create a raven silhouette and then scanned the image to create the work on the left.

Project 3 : Investigation into Still life (I chose to blend human activities into the drawings of toys I created, so that I was, in a way, creating life in a still image, but using inanimate objects).

Samples of my sketchbook work from this project, including some black and white photography (an experiment into developing photographs)

Samples of my life drawing work

Tattoo Based Snake Poster

I'm on a roll today. Finished another poster for Sonisphere 2012, it's basically just a quick sketch, scanned in and coloured in. Sounds simple but it was actually more difficult to imagine the lighting on the computer screen that it would be on a page. Got there eventually though.
Again, based on the influences of Sonisphere's target market, this one focuses on tattoo art and I did a lot of research into different tattoo styles, eventually I went with an asian sort of style and worked that into the flowers. Here's the complete poster. Tutorials for the style are available on request as always.

Every You Every Me Animation

Here's the stop motion animation I made for my A-Level Project. Came across it earlier today and decided to put it up here. It's a surreal collection of imagery which reflects being trapped and I was focused on creation/destruction as a sub-theme. Turned it into a proper music video when my art tutor commented that the piece needed a function.



Finally A Completed Poster for Sonisphere 2012

After adding the line up (don't get excited it's fake unfortunately), I realised what a big influence the typography has on a finished poster. Unfortunately i'm not quite at the stage where I can design my own typography, so instead I created my own style of font using OCR A Std, creating a copy of the text, rotating it slightly and changing the opacity of the bottom layer of text. The more observant of you will notice I've used bondage tape as a background for the text. I've been basing my work amongst the influences of those from alternative cultures. Many hours have been spent browsing fetish and body modification websites.

A tutorial of exactly how I did the entire poster is available on request, although to be honest, it's probably more entertaining trying to work it out.

For anyone wondering why this particular poster isn't perhaps as metal as it should be, more will be uploaded, never fear. I'm exploring the different groups of festival tourists and how best to target them, this is going for a sort of pill popping - raver type person. You know those friends you find having seizures in the corners of dark rooms? Yes. Them.