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my character for my comic

gave him long hair as he hasn't yet come out and hasn't had the chance to try and change his appearance to be more masculine but has been able to slightly appear more Masc with his clothes

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Synonyms of revolution to help us come up with ideas we could do for this project

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Had to do a mood board based on the things we wrote down in the first mind map

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Paper sculpture part one

a cone of paper strips of paper circling around it and a origami star

inspired by tornadoes and vortexes

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Paper sculpture part 2

paper cut in a swirl to make more circle shapes

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3D paper sculpture tornado /vortex shape

had to get it to stand up so i made a stick with paper and made stand out of cardboard with a hole in it

with the paper stick stuck to the sculpture and bottom of the stick through the hole of the cardboard stand

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I like how the view from the top of my sculpture you can see a lot of circling shapes

looks like a vortex

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Top view looks like the middle of a rose in the red lighting

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Experimented taking photos of it under a bunch of different light colours and position of the light

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We had to make another collage but this time on the more political side of revolution rather than the circle and revolving side of revolution to help generate even more ideas and possibilities for this project

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Peter Kennard

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Jamie Reid

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Reid 16 jan 1947- 8 august 2023 76 years old

english visual artist and one of his best know works were a record cover for the sex pistols single "god save the queen"

he grew up in croydon and went to John ruskin grammar school

in 1962 began to study at Wimbledon art school then at croydon art school

his work included newspaper cutout letters in a ransom notes style.

he founded a radical political magazine in 1970

he produced a series of screen prints in 1977 for the 20th anniversary of the birth of punk rock

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Had to make collages of a topic that relates to a theme inspired by either Peter Kennard or Jamie Reid

this was my first idea

inspired by Jamie Reids work

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The second and final idea

wrote the words climate change from cutting out letters from random pages. neon pink and orange paper for some bright colours as seen in some of Jamie reids work

words for impact linked to climate change

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Making collage using photoshop

Used things such as gradients, posterize and hue/saturation

learnt how to select parts of the image and copy and paste them onto a new page

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Used filters like gradient overlay and drop shadow

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First version of the collage

Used less filters and effects than the final collage

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Final version of the collage

Used 3 of my own images and took some parts of those images to make the collage

my dog

a detailed picture of a flower

and a wall of pride posters i took a photo of in brighton

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We chose a flag and had to write what it represents and facts about it

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Then after we had to change the flag in some way / make it using different materials

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We had to do 4 different layouts with the same words/phrases on our flags so i had photocopied my flag 4 times to try out different layouts. for 2 of them i cut out of paper with my phrase "your just confused" in 2 different fonts one i did digitally using photoshop and the other i wrote on with a white pen

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the main problems with AI is it takes from human made art merging it with other human made art it takes from produces weird images that make zero sense

i mostly had a problem with colours it always was way to colourful and even typing in less colours it still used way to many

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ai clearly cant generate proper words and just mushes them into unreadable gibberish

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while trying to generate images of pride riots the main problem was its over use of rainbows and seems to stereotype pride as just rainbows when its much more deeper than that

AI just cant convey the deep emotions that goes into an art piece like humans do

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smaller ideas for my revolution project

trying to focus on lgbtq but also have an idea with spirals and might attempt to combine the 2

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tested out the shape builder tool and made a cloud using the ellipse tool

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testing adobe illustrate

i did not enjoy using adobe illustrate the first time as i wast used to using this software and having to draw with the mouse added to the struggle but i hope as i continue to use it it will become easier

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first time using adobe illustrate

using any of our own images we used image trace using different presets this one being the 16 colour preset and the using properties and then using recolour to make my image different colours

made 2 versions, one being more of a pinky purple then slightly changing the colours to a more blueish purple

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then we did image trace but with our own drawings in black and white

to get rid of the background so we could colour it we went to advanced, ignore colour - white to keep the black lines

then with another layer i coloured underneath it

working with only the mouse to colour in i found it hard to stay inside the lines

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we practiced using adobe animate by animating a ball using tweening

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1st animation ball bouncing

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then on our own we drew a background to use for the next animation then drew something to move and animate at first i just animated birds flying across the screen starting on one end then making another key frame at the end putting it where i wanted the bird to fly to then using the tweening option for it to move the i did the same for the water but at some mid points tilted the boat and water to make it look like it was rocking

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second animation test boat and birds

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I did a life drawing workshop using 4 different techniques.

the first one i did (the middle) was a graphite drawing of the lady with her robe on. and was my best out of all the other 3 life drawings

the second drawing we did (bottom left) we were looking at negative space i first did by drawing the outline of the lady with a green felt tip and then with the negative space around it i filled with charcoal.

the third one i did ( the top) we were looking at movement so we had a minute each time to draw the subject before she moved into a different position each time. as we only had a minute to draw her the outcomes weren't so great.

the last one we where looking at light and shadow and i used black charcoal, white chalk and purple chalk.

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we went trip to white chapel gallery and technicolour studio. on our way to the white chapel gallery we walked by lot of street art and i chose some that i really liked. and then in the white chapel gallery we saw artworks by peter Kennard and some other artists

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i had to make my own illustration and i chose to do mine with shapes and of some pride posters i saw in Brighton

i used the rectangle shape tool along with the ellipse tool and the polygon tool. i got a bit more used to using adobe illustrate and am really proud of the outcome of this

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finished illustration

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jackson pollock

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born January 1912 and died 11 august 1956.

he was an American painter abstract expressionist. well known for his "drip technique" pouring/ splashing liquid onto a flat surface

he grew up in Arizona. in 1929 he studied at the students league in New York. during the 1930s he worked in the regionalist style influenced by a Mexican muralist painter and certain aspects of surrealism

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with my more refined ideas for this project my 2 options were LGBTQ+issues in society or swirls rotating / moon cycles and attempted to combine them and had to make stuff out of materials and use latex. i cut a styrofoam ball in 2 one half i made a moon the other half i poured latex on and made drips then painted it with the trans flag colours

then on a textured piece of foam made a swirl with latex then painted it in the colours of the pan flag

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charecter design concept

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charecter design one

trans flag

we had to design charecters liking to out theme

for mine which is on LGBTQ issues and rights i decided to design characters based on pride flags

on my first try of designing a character for my project i did the trans flag making a trans character using the colours from the flag however i did not like how this character was turning out

so i decided to move on to a different character based off a different flag

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charecter design two

asexual flag

i changed my mind on the flag i was going to make a charecter for and chose the ace flag. im still not to confident with the design but i like it alot more and it has a nicer colour pallete my charecter design needs some improvement and i might try useing a different art style next time

i experimented with different poses and different facial expressions

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character design on adobe illustrate

tried to make a digital drawing of my character design on adobe illustrate in 2 ways, by using the mouse and paint brush to draw and one with shapes

however i did not enjoy doing it and do not like the outcomes and maybe next time take more time with it

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i looked up some comics so i could draw my character in different styles

first in my style the others

i looked at the dead boy detective comics , on a sun beam by Tillie Walden and demon in the woods by Dani Pendergast then drew him in those styles

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made a 3D clay head sculpture of my character design

working with clay making this i didn't really enjoy and feel like my outcome isn't the best and that i could definitely improve.

first i started with a piece of wood with a metal structure attached as a base for the shape, starting with the shoulders moving up to the head then doing all the face details then the hair

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different angles of my clay sculpture

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i left it for a few days to dry but when i got back to it there where cracks everywhere instead of covering up the cracks i decided to keep them as part of the design so when i painted my character after i painted the skin and hair in the cracks i painted the colours of the ace flag. for his top as purple paint is hard to mix with the colours i had available i glued purple tissue paper to the area of his shirt by ripping small parts of the paper and sticking them on

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my first / very rough draft of a story board

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2nd attempt at storyboarding

for these story boards my idea was someone coming out to their parents but the being rejected by them and kicked out

and showing the emotion of the child showing how it negatively effects them by it gradually getting darker and more dull as the story goes on until the child is completely alone

in my fist attempt i did it all from the same kind of angle and pov

and tried to change it a little bit in my second attempt

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be gay do comics is filled with many little comics about LGBTQIA experiences from personal stories to queer history, it isn't filled with comics from just one person but by many queer people that previously posted these comics on the nib. it takes us from the American revolution through stonewall to the current and constant fight for equality and representation

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this short comic that was in be gay do comics was made by Sage Coffey who is a non binary visual artist who lives in Chicago. this comic shows the person getting their first ever binder from one of their friends and how happy that had made them it has a little information about binders , top surgery to educate the viewer and the artist shows how they feel with their gender and hoping one day they will never have to wear a binder ever again but have learnt to love their body

i like this comic because of the colours and that it shows how just one little thing that affirms their gender can make a person so happy

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idea for final piece

my idea for this piece is to aim it towards parents/ the viewer about supporting your children when they come out but can also be used to support friends in coming out and teaching them a little bit about the community near the end

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Molly Knox Ostertag who is well known for her comic a girl from the sea and the witch boy is a cartoonist and writer

born October 28th 1991 grew up in new York and studied illustration and cartooning at the school of visual arts in new York.

she has been drawing for a superhero webcomic strong female protagonist since 2012

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the day after our trip when we where back at college we did responses some of the work we saw on the trip. using the street art i tried to copy that but link it towards my theme

the top left mural i changed the colours of to be the trans flag colours and changed the flower to lavender.

the top right i just put my oc in .

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analysing of her style using parts from her comic the girl from the sea and her other comic the witch boy

the artist uses many different camera angles in her work like close ups and wide shots

she mostly uses bright colours her work but changes it sometimes to fit into the scene you can see that in the difference of the character design compared to the comic panels and can even compare it between the two different comic pages

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first I did a copy of the artist from one of the panels from her comic a girl from the sea

and then from what I learnt from the copy I did my own drawing in the artist style

the artist uses thin line art and simple cell shading. in the artist work in the comic panel i did the copy of the artist used muted colours to show her character under water

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Extended Diploma proposal sheet - katelyn (1)

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we did glass cutting and i tried to make somthing abstract and ended up with an abstract star or sun

for this glass cuttingwe used pliers qnd glass cutters from blocks of coloured galss and then glued and layed them on top a clear peice of glass to be put in the kiln and melted

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using my first idea i tested out a few dynamics/ staging of the charecters. i used close up- eyes , shoulder frame, wide shots and triangle

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from my idea and testing out different staging of the characters I did a simple rough idea of how my comics going to be and it will end up being 4 pages forming on comic

these are just the rough ideas and might end up changing

I will need to ad writing to the comic so it makes more sense to what is going on

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while in the kiln a piece of my work has gone missing a green circle in the middle

and one thing ive found interesting on my kilned glass work one of the glass pieces have turned into grey and no longer has the texture glass unlike the other oieces and might of been a pice of tile rather than glass

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Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp (2)