Visual Diary: Carrying On

There is an explanation for all this. This is right after they’ve cooked for the household. Techo insisted she wanted to stay up downstairs, and asked that they watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The boys concede.

Techo immediately falls asleep, and Ludwig carries her upstairs. They’re not invested in the film today. They begin to talk over it.

This art is about responding to feeling like I have to be brilliant and creative all the time in a very saturated and competitive industry. I don’t mean “carrying on” in the morbid way, I simply mean like doing the dishes, getting yourself up and dressed, tidying, buying and cooking food.

Visual Diary – My Tits are Freezing Off.

Playing with colours. Playing with face shapes and drawing tools.

This is stiff. It is not flooby, but all drawing is progress!

This art was inspired by a 1750s magenta coat (worn here by Mitzi) sent to me on Instagram. I searched for more 1750s fashion and found a wonderful riding outfit.

Paddington – Meeting with Roderick 2

Roderick was excited by the video! This is interesting progress with me, as although I haven’t wrested complete control over my creative practice, I can now look at something I’ve made and tell if it has that mysterious magic. I’ll call it flooby magic.

At a talk today, I felt that familiar feeling of being overwhelmed. The feeling of having a lot of thoughts, presented with people so much further along their journeys than you or talking about a thousand things you hadn’t thought of. And you’re inspired, but it’s all too much. This feeling has a very particular feeling and I’ve decided to call it “Flooby”. If I name it, I will be less upset by it.

So, similarly, I think this inarticulable sense where I see that I’ve done something very good, but I’m not sure exactly how, why or how to push it further, we can call flooby magic. These things come.

Notes from today, then:

More visual gags. See how the objects can interact, be more relevant, bounce off each other.

I want to do a writing session where I literally just list ideas. I write brainstorming better than I draw it. I’ll take these back to Roderick on Tuesday. Hopefully, while writing, something else flooby happens and I make something else cool. But the nature of floob is such that I cannot predict.

Paddington – Maquette

There’s a better word for whatever this is. Mock, idea spoot. Probably not idea spoot.

Watching my hands make this was utterly interesting. It was one of those activities where I have a picture in my head, a time frame for getting it across, and I just have to find some way of evidencing movement and everything in the most efficient way possible.

I felt new parts of my brain growing while I did this. I opened up photoshop for the first time in forever just because working on my computer to mock images up was fast. I learned how to draw with my mouse and a brush tool, how to erase backgrounds, polylines, all this. I learned how to export transparent .gifs (because premiere shits it when it sees a .hevc). Just throwing shots together experimentally felt like .. . . a creative process. You know, when there’s not the barrier of make-it-unshit that usually stills my hand. I laughed so hard at myself while I made this, but now it exists, and this morning it didn’t exist.

Lo Fi Printmaking- Kitchen Litho

Phil has talked to me about kitchen litho before, so it was quite fun closure to get to do a workshop on it with him.

A lot of the illustrators I’ve talked to that were in the workshop or have done this module didn’t like kitchen litho much at all. I really quite enjoyed the process, and was pleasantly surprised at how quickly and effectively it yielded results!

All of these images were drawn with chocolate! The chocolate was incredibly effective at keeping the grease marks.

The images were inspired by work I’ve done in my sketchbook before, specifically this double page spread.

The big thing that would stop me from continuing this line of printmaking is just how messy and contrived the process is. Of course it CAN be done, so I’ll keep it under my belt in case a future brief lends itself to creating images with this sort of quality.

I also made some notes on the process and drabbled a bit of writing after a scene came into my head.

Task 2 – Final Video Essay

I enjoyed making this piece overall. It was a blessing and a curse that we had so little time to do it – I would lean on the side of blessing. This is because it’s such a short word count that if I’d had any longer I would probably have overthought it, made too much good work, and have to slice parts off to get it to fit the brief. This is simple and clear.

Lo-Fi Printmaking: Composition Ideas

I picked what I thought was the most successful pose and colour combination, and mocked up a series of different compositions.

To get a few fresh pairs of eyes, I showed these images to a few people. The majority of people liked the first image, which is my favourite too. One person did like the third image.

I might make the “J” colourful, because that makes me happy.

Paddington – Meeting with Roderick

I found Roderick in the little staff cave at the top of the stairs, and after nearly fainting on him with how breathless I was from the stairs, he arranged to see me at 11.

The notes he had on my storyboard were thus:

  • Good!
  • Lots of emphasis on the scene with the four presenters.
  • Maybe cut down the first sandwich scene.
  • Indicate somehow that this is at the pavilion.

What I’m going to do before seeing him again on Friday:

  • Play a lot and make different maquette scenes demonstrating how I see it!

He will take a look at what I make and we can talk about sewing it back into the suit of comprehensibility ready to submit.

He says I have a chance! Champagne party at the pavilion, here I come!

Immediate thoughts:

squash and stretch frame by frame marmalade sandwich

simple two frame collage walking boot animation. Fuck, I’m going to have to open after effects for this.

simple boiling presenters.

Pan across presenters, stop on ed. second boiling animation as the marmalade sandwich hits him on the head.

It’s not like I needed Wednesday off to do the laundry, make mince pies and have my first quiet day in weeks anyway.

Butterfly Man – Day One

I signed myself up for the Broadcast and Documentation team. On my team is Niamh, Joe, Rory and Tia. I learned their names! I’m slowly learning everyone’s names!

Here’s a collection of images from the day.

For our group, we created notes and then a mood board.

We created an Instagram account for the project, @ thebu_tterflyman . Tia was right on it with the account creation!

The biggest accomplishment of today has been the creation of a reel – available via the link above – showing the activity from the studio today. It’s funny how the best moments ended up being the ones we didn’t plan for – the questions were quite boring, but when people don’t think they’re being filmed they’re far more themselves.

I also created a personal moodboard as the project requires one. I see the performance as a colourfully, dramatically lit stage. I am inspired by Hockney and, through Hockney, the colours and life of Matisse.

It’s a luxurious, decadent feeling. Deep summer, hot, leafy, fruiting. You can see my passions do lie within costume and set design, but I would have gone out of my head on one of those teams.

Finally, here are some notes I took during the meetings, to keep up and on the same page.

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