Students hand book

We had to design a student hand book NNC that would be appropriate for the right audience and drag team to wards it we haw to do minimum of 3 designs.

Before i started i had did some practice samples with placeholders pictures to see if my idea will work well and also use them as a reference 

For the first one we used photography so had to come up with some ideas for it. I did some sketches to see how would it looks and decided that thing that i associate with knowledge and books is a wizard. So i grabbed a stick and a big book pulled my hair in to a beard and took multiple pictures to have bigger range of work i also did pictures of outdoors for some background. After i downloaded pictures to a Mac and selected ones i want to use i imported them to Photoshop to enhance the image i changed brightens and contrast of the image using different adjustments options on Photoshop,such as curves,selective colours,hue saturation,channel mixer,exc. I cut out the image of me and superimposed it on to the enhanced picture of some trees. I dad changed my hair colour to grey by desaturated the selected parts and a after increasing contrast. I had used the clone stamp tool to change the texture of the sleeves on mu hoodie to make it all have all grey tone of the hood. Then the layers been copied and merged and placed on guide lines i made before. In illustrator i had experimented with different type stiles and colours until i had decided what i want then it been placed on the image saying "Student Hand tome" along with college information ,year and college logo.

I experimented a bit with different effects to she different  potential of the picture 

Then we had to create a different design using Bauhaus for main source of influence so after researching Bauhaus and getting all the references i had to create a design i went for the sharp shapes design that would bi pointing to a person in glasses also coming up with funny long name for it "A book that student needs to be safe and well at North Nots College ". At first i made some shapes using pen tool that would all be pointed to middle of the front cover where the was a person in glasses illustration in Bauhaus stile in the b letter tilted sideways and i made the title go around it

using tip on path tool then added the information and college logo and year using Bauhaus tip stile.

some more experimentation i did with bauhaus design i did

then we went ahead and decided to work with some illustration and doing very expressive work and automatic work on paper working with paint relating to jean Michel Basquiat then taking the picture of it and then import it to photoshop and improving it's colour and sharpens and using a smudge tool as well then selecting good type stiles on illustrator and importing them to the picture on photo shop
i did some of experimentation with the back and the least expected to do good was a smug toll but it did well and became final one

this is an extra one i made. It is an amazed person that is overwhelmed by the power of the book of the NNC college book. I had separated the picture to  different layers to work around them increasing lilting on the face so it looks like the book is emitting light that why i also added beams on sides  then i had to clean  out the book and make it blank i did that with an clone stamp and then had changed the color of it with color saturation tool to change it then after testing different type stiles i chosen one and imported it in to the file

New materials willow

We been introduced to a new material which was tree branches that we had to tie together or if u preferred an easy whay using duck tape to create an interesting abstract object that reference t i our life drawing. Because we  mainly did skeletons sketches t decided to make a shild that would resemble ribcage. I used duck tape to keep the sticks together i used it because string didn't seem strong egnouhfe to hoold my construction as it snapped when my construction had more oval shape.the I had to use tissue paper to cover the negative spaces using pva glue mixed with water to stick it to the wood stripe by strpe wit green in the middle ans yellow on the out side and used some wire that i raped on it diagonally jyst to give it bit more heft. (All of that had been done with being aware of the hazards and taking all the safty steps)

Personal Profil

Specialist Art an Design interest

I am highly interested in animation and character development.

Personal skill

strengths
I am good with shading and knowing the light angles and how it can affect the picture.
I am also good at working in 3D with different materials. I adapt fast.
Good at team games.
I am ok with animating did some amateur first animations that is defiantly
something that I can improve on and I want to improve on it.

weakness
mixing colours is hard for me never can get a colour I want and that can always affect my composition. Working to fast which can affect my work. not having good enough research
reference to back up my work

Goals 
Improving on animating. Improving on getting more reference. taking more time to think about the work.


Personal attributes

strengths
I am creative and always try to come up with the most original ides.
confident , good speaker ,can be relayed on. thinking out of the box ,
trying to find other alternative ways to work things out,

portfolio for art

Mistakes to avoid 

• Not having an digital portfolio at all.
• Making excuses.
• Using confusing and unprofessional gallery sites
• Flaunting Flash.If (you are a flash artist or animator, by all means, have reels and samples of your work on your site. Just make sure itʼs an HTML site.)
• Only displaying samples of fine art when your goal is to work in games, entertainment, or any other commercial industry.(show all you can do in other aspects of art as well)
• Being unorganised  
• Not seeing strong and week aspects of your work 
• Not including contact details 
• including fan art and illustrations of characters that already exist (unless u actually worked on developing it )

what is good to include in portfolio 

• contact details email,phone number, address 
• personal interest /hobbies
• work from the past to show the development of your skills 
• Show how determined u are with your work
• Sketch books with personal ideas
• Work u proud of