Rough Proposals...

Final Major Project
What:
A Zine (or two). Will have to look into what printing is available from printing companies (and how expensive it will be) before decided if I want it hand printed and bound, or done by a professional company. My Zine will be of the theme of flight (I have a huge list of possible expanded ideas - i.e. space, birds only, human attempts at flight, kites etc.).

How:
To decide on the medium to use, I will explore combining different materials (Research Project). I will take a look at artists' zines online, and by going to the Birmingham Zine Festival in October this year.

Research Project
Objective(s): as yet, unknown.

Experiments:
I want to try combining different materials - mixed media - a less predictable way of working. To loosen up. Collage, line, pattern, colour, stencilling etc. Slightly more craft/fine arty. I will look at mixed media/book artists. Try their techniques. Tweak it to make it my own. Look at art journal-ling in particular.

As prep. for my zine I will look at using text/no words. Using hand lettering/digital. I will look at using only black and white, and colour (opposites). I will experiment with different zine formats (size, dimensions, flaps, cutouts, etc.). I will try multiple layouts of each page etc.

Blog shuffling!

Hello! After a huge discussion about our third year (gasp!) of Illustration I decided to create two different blogs - one for my Final Major Project (which is as important as it sounds, and will be in this blog) and one for my Research Project. I'm creating two blogs to keep the projects seperate so I can keep a better track of things. There'll be some brief re-posts, so bear with me, but then things will hopefully fit into a flow. Stay tuned!