Maggie's PCA sketchbook

Student at Plymouth College of Art the doing the GIGA course.

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TASK 10

Interview a maker/ seller

I have decided to interview my godmother back in Poland when I visited for a couple weeks in the summer. I had to translate the original interview so this is the overall outcome. The original recording had to be deleted because of low memory storage on my phone but I was just in time to translate.

Q.Please introduce yourself and state what you make/sell :

A.Hello, my name is Kasia and I am Maggie’s godmother. I like to make bracelets as a hobby.

Q.So, how long have you been taking up this hobby?

A. It hasn’t been that long, maybe 4-6 months?

Q. What made you start it?

A. To be honest, I just wanted to try out something new and stress relieving and found out that one of my closest friends were into making them and I thought- why not give it a go.

Q. Where do you get your materials from?

A. I get it from local crafts store or online.

Q.What do you do with them after you make them?

A. I like to give them away to friends or family members.

Q. Any inspirations?

A.  I like to walk around and browse different jewelry/ second-hand shops for inspiration/ use my creative imagination.

Q. How many have you made so far?

A. Maybe around 20-50? I am not too sure as I give them away, I lose track.

Q. Any favorite ones?

A. Yes, my recent one is actually one of my favorites, it has small, red, glass beads with little roses painted on them. I gave it away to one of my friends. It is a shame I didn’t get the chance to take a picture of it.

Q. Do you think that you will sell them or go further with your hobby in the future?

A. To be honest, I don’t think that this will bring me anywhere money wise. I just like to make people smile when I give them a bracelet.

Q. Last question. If you were to be given a task to produce one of the best and most beautiful bracelets in the world, what would it look like

A. It would definitely be a bit on the expensive side but I would go for a floral, violet roses with maybe a gold finish.

Q. Thank you very much for your time and answering these questions.

A. It was my pleasure, thank you for having me,

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TASK 9:

Fill a matchbox with things beginning with the first initial of your first name: M

Money

Map

Matches

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TASK 8:

Collage your own name using waste packaging 

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TASK 7:

Baking 

My sister and I decided to bake a pizza from scratch (even made the sauce) but unfortunately, I made a mistake and deleted the first part of the making of the actual bread which is a real shame because it looked actually really good and that was actually the best part of it. 

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TASK 6

10 visually interesting doors

The reason why I didn’t take any photos by myself, was because I didn’t want to invade someone else's privacy and photograph their doors without their permission so I thought it would be safer to just google some awesome looking doors 

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TASK 5

4 local design agencies 

1. Prior Creative:

Brand creation & development

websites and digital publication 

Brand application for print 

Copywriting

2. n9

Create logos & brands

design & code websites

“Make images and interaction by any means necessary in order to market and advertise your business, event or product”

3. SHRED CREATIVE 

graphic design

Printing

Copywriting

Web design

E-commerce 

Mailchimp 

4. ADGECTIVE

Branding- Logos and how the company is viewed in the market place

Design for print (brochures, leaflets, banners, posters) 

Web

Marketing

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TASK 4:

Identity Packages - My pinterest board 

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TASK 3:

Follow 10 new creative professionals on Instagram

ataractia

dianapedott

ninastajner

carmensaldana_illustration

kokopie_shop

aki_anyway

nieris_art

upthehillart

cyarine

arucelli 

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TASK 2

For the exhibition task, I went to a polish Poster museum in Warsaw- where I was currently visiting my family. 

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SUMMER PROJECT

TASK 1:

My favourite piece of work must be Jess’s 3D hanging bear head. 

I have chosen it as my favourite because it is a very unique idea and it must have taken a lot of time and skill into making it. The patterns are very detailed and the colours are well matched and create a wonderful harmony. I have also found the composition very well balanced and overall very pleasing to look at from every angle. 

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EVALUATION - FNP

For this final piece, we were given a task to be able to come up with our own final projects from scratch. It was entirely up to us how we would go about it and what we could create. 

Since the beginning, I was thinking of producing something very emotional and that would move my audience. I thought about all the possibilities that I could use for my project whether it was going to be concept art, a digital illustration, animation or even a movie. I didn’t want to make it too complicated but I really wanted to push my limits for this project, since it’s the final piece. I thought to myself that I shouldn’t be scared to experiment and try out different things so I thought that I might give animating a go. 

My initial ideas have changed dramatically as the time went on. I have originally planned to paint a self-portrait and have my moods/emotions change in the background in different colours, patterns, textures. I even thought of animating a clock to show the time of the day as the moods change. But after much though I thought that even though I have really liked that idea, I somehow didn’t feel comfortable enough to go with it. 

It was during my own, personal painting time at home that I have actually produced something that I was very pleased about and wanted to use it as my final piece and develop it to it’s best quality. I started to develop it and add more and more details to the animation and started to change it to suit the theme of my project which is- moods. 

It was quite challenging in the beginning because I had no idea how to use this sketch that I had and make it into a top quality animation, especially as a final project. Luckily I believed in myself and just went with the flow. I experimented with different hair colours, sketches, changed the anatomy and added the fish. 

In my initial idea, I was going to also animate the hair but found it too extreme and would be too eye-catching, making the animated fish in second place and that was something I did not want since I did not want to overload my project and instead, wanted to go for something more simple and calm/ relaxing. 

The texture is smooth and I tried to go for more of a realism style with the colouring, shading. The colours are very vibrant and eye-catching with a contrast between the Red and Blue, making it stand out more. The composition is very relaxing and not too complex. The line is mixed between bold and very thin and even in some places- not even there. The tone is very contrasted, bold and sharp. I was reluctant to go for more of a painterly like style (Rembrandt's style) but I thought that this style will look much better as a final product.

Overall, I am very pleased with my project and with how I have planned my weeks during the production of it. One thing that I would/ could have changed was to possibly add even more detail to the hair/ fish scales but the given time just was not enough and I have found it much too complicated for a first animation. In the future though, I would love to try and experiment more with animation and push my limits even more to create something very professional and relaxing to look at. 

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Some WIP sketches of my original character- Magz

Just some warm up doodles to help me get started with my day and blog. :) 

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FNP- FINISHED!

This is my finished final piece. I have never produced such an animation and I am very proud of how it turned out to be. For some reason, Tumblr made the quality very weird and I am hoping in sorting it out/ fixing the problem very soon to be able let my audience enjoy it as much as possible. 

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8 min drawing challenge by Jake Parker for my 2nd Target- Secondary SMART target set by Tom. 

For this challenge I had to set a special timer which gave me 4min, 2min, 1min, 30sec, 15sec and 5 sec to draw the exact same image like in the 4min one. 

I have found it very interesting and very helpful to draw much quicker when needed to be and in a stressful environment, since 30-5 sec was a rather stressful and funny experience. The reason for this challenge was to draw as quickly and with as much detail as possible and to only focus on the details that are the most important, rather than unnecessary ones that you can always add later on. It helped me to really think about what is the most important thing in my character/ whatever I was drawing and helped me to focus on that perticular subject/ object. 

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Dress ideas for my final project. I decided to research some dresses that relate to my FNP. I wanted to search for some good examples of fabric that is both light and very flowy. 

I really liked these because they portray exactly what I was hoping for. I was thinking of adding that opaque layer to the dress to make it seem more “magical” and more delicate and elegant. 

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Here I have been trying to sketch out Cyarine’s art style (her most recent painting) and then my own style. 

I have noticed that she paints eyes much smaller than to what I do and her character’s faces are much “curvier” and she gives them chubbier cheeks. 

The noses are also different, I paint mine more “realistically” and with more details, while her’s are more “button” and “cute” 

She paints the eyes with an “eyeliner” finish and she only adds the bottom lashes, whereas I add top and bottom lashes with the top much more exaggerated and “explosive”. The eyes I paint also have more of a “manga” feeling. 

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PROBLEMS: 

I have encountered a problem with how I should go about with the animated fish. I tried adding a lot of details, scales, lighting, colour to one of the fish (like above) but decided that I just do not have the time to create 27 different fish in this style. Hence, I have thought about keeping the fish minimalistic and just adding a few scales, glow to make them seem more like fish and “life-like”. 

I have had an another idea from a friend to create each fish in a different colour or just a different hue, which I quite like the idea of.