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Materials used : Photoshop, online sourced images

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Week 1 - Initial Research & Exploring Concepts

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Week 1 - Initial Research & Exploring Concepts

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Starting on week one, I wanted to get a feel on what I want my theme to be so I sourced pictures that have similar feels to them and something that would relate to me in some way. Once I had the images collected and sorted in a composition which I liked, I wanted to include words/a title which told the viewer how these pictures relate.

The word which I chose was "Nostalgia" as this is what the outcome made me feel. from then on i knew the outline of my them and i wanted to continue on building, and refining it during the next few weeks.

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Material used: pen, imagery, glue, sketchbook, potential sketch of assets about the theme, potentially some media experiment, potentially some artist responses

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During week two, I really focused on refining my them and making it more specific so I can keep my self on a straight forward path throughout the project. I wanted to focus on my nostalgia which for many wold be very recent as it would be set in the early 2000s.

I quickly realised how trendy it was to reflect and bring back trends from the 80s and 70s, so I wanted to replicate the same feeling but for the time I am focusing on. I want people who experienced the 2000s as teenagers to look at my work and be reminded of things they may have forgotten or feel nostalgic by my work. So by mind mapping I wanted to focus on how I can replicate this. I looked at:
- Artists
- Mediums
- Presentation
- Research of the time and its trends

For next week I will be focusing on further defining the theme of nostalgia within the 2000s.

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Materials used: secondary resourced photos, glue, pen, paper, tape, scanner, printer

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Within the third week I wanted to make some quick but efficient work by the use of colladging. I made magazine covers, to further feed into my project theme presentation, by collecting photos as well as searching up more specific ones all from magazines and such formats then putting the these elements together. The artists i was inspired by where:
- John Stezaker
- Laszló Moholy- Nagy

Once I was finished with the intial research of these amazing artists, I went back into my three outcomes and fruther developed on them. One thing I wanted to do was some repetition because the artists that I studied used it a lot to create some form of a feeling or a meaning to it and I wanted to do the same. What I wanted to replicate was the effect that DVDs would give when it was slightly scratched or damaged and the screen would ripple because of it. Although the outcomes looked good in my opinion I realised that it is too busy for a front cover of a magazine. That is something I want to look out for next time.

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Materials used: pen, pencil, paper, colouring pencils

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During the fourth week my main aim was to create at least one out come as well as look into more artists that will relate to my project and specialisation. One of these artists were @Cha._cha._ from instagram. Her style was something that I really wanted to study as her manipulation of anatomy was very interesting to me. I made a few outcomes of body studies so when I make a full out come it will look as accurate to her style as possible.

I made sure when making the final outcome that I used a primary photo of myself from 2007, also because that was the peak of my fashion within my life so I just had to.

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Materials used: pen, pencil, colour pencil, computer, Photoshop, Lightroom

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During this week i wanted to ease myself into some digital mediums but rather than using it for the full piece, i used it to perfect and touch up some parts of the art work i would produce by hand first. the artist i focused on this week was @Vinneart from twitter, their style is heavily influenced by the 90s and 00s retro anime style, which i used to watch from a very young age.

When making the artist copies, I wanted to focus on the specific aspects that give me the feeling of nostalgia and then replicate that for my response. i also wanted to see how they achieve their outcomes so this trial really allowed me to practice before doing an outcome from my own photo.

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So far I have experimented with:
-Composition
-Style
-Shading
-Colour Theory

-I thought it would be most approariate to start doing some character designs digitally using Photoshop. The artists I am refrencing at the moment are:
-Toma Nguyen
-Jason Nyugen
-Joel Santana

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In week 7, I set myself three digital artists I wish to study to then be able to use their styles when making my final outcome.

During this experiment I was trying to see how I can make a simple but effective backgrounds. This also made me think of the ways I can combine themes with the whole Y2K look.

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During week 8, I wanted to start looking at everything I need to finish off within my sketchbook as well as anything that I need to do to tick off those extra criterias. I also wanted to create some work that i can later utalise in some way for my final outcome.

I made an expression sheet to study how I can draw and exagerate as well as translate an emotion into a physical look.

Next week I plan to start thinking of my final outcome and organize the rest of the weeks I have left. This way I know exactly what to do and when.

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This week I have decided that my final outcome will be character concept work presented in the way of a 2000s fashion magazin. To start off, I made some character condept work, for now they are sketches. one big artist for this inperation is Joel Santana, I really want to replicate his style of colouring with these outcomes.

I liked this as it gave a taste of the production of a poster/magazine page as well as character concept work.

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During this week I was making sure to thoroughly plan out my final outcome, as I am amking a magazine, I wanted to make sure to study all the elements.ts and assesses that go into making one. This week I focused on the background and overall layout of magazines, regrencing many teen magazines from the early 2000s.

The intention of my magazine is to entertain younger and millennial people by making a fun and colourful teen fashion magazine. The same kind you would see on a store shelf before check out.

This week I have made multiple outcomes of which I had to re-do, such as; the title, page backgrounds, magazine cover thumbnail. For the title and the page backgrounds I have found that I havemade them look too busy so I simplified the backgrounds significantly. As for the title I changed the intire style to this Y2K style. I am very happy with the outcome. For the magazine cover, I thought the layout did not give enough space for the headlines and it was also boring so as a target change it next week.

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This week my aim was to finish the final out come which was:
- Magazine cover
- 9 Character designs
- 6 Magazine pages

I carefully planned ahead for this so every day I had something to finish.

Overall I am very happy with the outcome, later in the last two weeks I will most likely change some things but for now it is okay.

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Materials used: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

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This week I worked on fixing up the smaller details of my outcome such as wordings, spellings, headlines and title positioning.

This week I have also composed together the magazine pages, I initially was hoping to work by using InDesign but I just could not grasp it. In the end I used photoshop to compose it. I have to say using InDesign still taught me a lot, I think if I had enough time to experiment with it before hand I could have done it. I may dabble in it in a later time.

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Since by now I have all of my physical materials finished, I took this time to do my digital portfolio. I scanned in all of my pages from my sketchbook as well as some of my paintings and drawings.

Reflecting back on my work now, I am very happy with the way it has tunred out, I have learnt a lot of new skills and enjoyed most of the journey.