Play Play Play Development

Initially I thought about papercut/collage because it was something I hadn't done much of and wanted to try but Matt suggested that inks would be more appropriate to the atmosphere of the images (dark and glum looking). He was right, using quink ink I got all this funky tone on the page giving it a shadowy look. After drawing this I got a reference image because this hand is just terrible. 

Making the floor in my pure image piece look wet was a challenge, I used ink again and tried washes and just strips of colour, on another page I used a silver pen which gave a wet-looking shine against blue paper. 

Type is my least favourite aspect of this brief, I have always been terrible at type. I changed my idea from being bubbles to being a puff of smoke, to create a link and almost a narrative between my two other pieces that matched in atmosphere. Making the letters look like smoke was so hard. Smoke is so light and airy, so it was difficult to make solid lines translate this. Above I did some research and looked at reference images to see how smoke moves to help me translate it to text. 

I loved working on dark stock! After the last project I really wanted to work on different coloured paper and since my images are set at night the dark paper worked well. I knew I wanted the light colours to really stand out so I had to find a way making the page white on top of the dark colour. First I tried paint pen but which gave a great texture but was very time consuming since the pen is so small. Second was ink which was quicker to get down and gave surprising tone and coverage.  

It was suggested I change 'What a Shit Day' to add more character to the person. Suggestions were 'Today is shit' or 'I'm having a shit day', but in the end I went for 'Sod Off' - funny and gives a sense of a pissed off person after a terrible day. I thought it was best for the text to have a handwritten style adding to the personal touch. 

Brusho experiments! I have just discovered this stuff and thought it may be good for creating a city or a nights sky or something to add some depth to the image. Tried both on white and dark blue paper, obviously the colours are brighter on the light paper - but could offer subtle texture on the dark paper.