Comic Strip - Illustrator Practice

Comic strip - Hand drawn.

Comic Strip - Illustrator colour.

Illustrator Practise

I've recently had Adobe Illustrator added to my laptop, it's software I've really wanted to be able to use for a long time and unfortunately the university only did one quick lesson with an introduction on how to use it - which for such a complex program was nowhere near long enough.

I took it upon myself to read lessons on the internet on how to use illustrator, here are a few examples of my practice work.

original photo. 

finished.

Fund Raising...

For the exhibition we all got ourselves in to groups - I am part of the Fundraising group, my group will come up with ways to fund money to pay for things such as the printing of posters, catalogs etc.

Ideas for fundraising:


Hold a clothes swap
Wear something stupid looking all day
Host a dinner party
Bake and cake sale
Organise a party
Speed dating night
Sell your stuff on e-bay
Sell a service (cooking lessons, baking lessons, language lessons, music lessons, craft lessons, manicure, massage, yoga classes)
Car boot sale
Car wash
Doing someone else’s chores
Bring and buy book sale
Craft sale
Artwork auction(only small pieces)
BBQ(grass outside the building?)
Cake Sale
Movie Night
Easter Egg Hunt(could tie in well)
Head shave/Crazy hair dye
Jumble Sale
Karaoke Night
Quiz Night
Longest Line of Coins(havea trail running around the building, at the end, we keep all the coins ;))
Raffle
Variety Show(people of all talents, coventrys got talent)
Guess the name of the bear
Calendar
Fancy Dress Party
Man waxing leg/back
Silly Race
How many ? in the jarSponging the staff  

Exhibition Time...

At the end of the year we will have an end of year exhibition showcasing work the class has done this year, each person was to put forward one piece of work which would be shown in the exhibition.
For the work we were asked not to put forward a finished piece but to choose something that had not been finished or something that could be developed further, to help decide what work to pick we all had to bring in 4 pieces to present to the rest of the group that we would then get feed back from.
I presented my manifesto, my Hey Diddle Diddle images and my comic strip - the group said either the comic or the images, when speaking more with them I decided that I would develop the comic strip further, I could add colour and make it more interesting and eye catching, I would do this using either Photoshop or Illustrator.

First 7 Months...

I think my first 7 months at university have gone ok, I am happy with the work that I have produced however I know that I still have a lot to learn, but this all comes with time.
Things I want to work on:

1. How to use the design software such as InDesign, Illustrator etc.
2. Try and use new and different materials when drawing.
3. Not leave things until the last minute - start as soon as I get the brief rather than leaving it and then having to rush as this reduces the standard of work I am submitting.
4. Start to read books and magazines which are design related.
5. Have earlier nights so that I am feeling fresh and inspired!

How to work with Creatives Marks

For my Add+ Vantage module I got only 56, which is my lowest mark yet however I wasn't expecting it to be very good. I felt as a group we didn't spend the time we had wisely and everything was left until the last minute which obviously reflects on our results. Coursework (Cw) - 56
Module Mark (Mm) - 56
Grade (Gd) - PASS
Credits (Cr) - 20

147 DVA Design in Context Marks.

147 DVA Design in Context Coursework (Cw) - 64
Module Mark (Mm) - 64
Grade (Gd) - PASS
Credits (Cr) - 20 I am fairly pleased with this result, only 6 off a first which is what I would have like to have got but that would mean producing a very high standard of professional work which I don't believe that i am there yet, I am still learning and understanding how to use the different types of software like InDesign, Illustrator, Quark Express etc, as these are all still very new to me I am still very much in the learning process, hopefully in time once I am familiar with the programs I will be able to produce a higher quality of work.