For my final live brief I was hoping to apply to the sustainability award. I had a conceptual idea to utilise the waste paper from different departments in the university to make recycled sketchbooks, involving a token characteristic of each department. However, due to the virus I couldn’t access the paper at university, couldn’t submit the books physically and didn’t have the resources at home to make paper. I was fond of this idea and will return to it when possibly.
Instead, I decided on another Free Sicker Friday. Similarly to my last submission, I aspired to create a piece of work I was proud of and use the opportunity to practice my painting. Once more, I drew inspiration from nature. Imagery of animals is widely appealing and to fit the contemporary style of the brief I chose an unusual red and green tree frog. Choosing a slimy frog what a fantastic chance to practice painting something with high reflectivity and a slippery surface. I tried to incorporate lots of highlights and gloss to accurately capture his texture, working closely from reference. I do feel I could have pushed this further, I think he does appear slightly more matte than I intended. Despite this, I feel that I have captured the colours well and thought about the harmony of the dominating colours in the image: red, green and blue. Another skill I tried to utilise from the course is desaturating colours which gives the image a more lifelike quality.
Secondly, I involved a Posca pen in my image. This was a nod to illustrative culture, where the pens are very popular. At the very least I intended to use this image as content for my instagram and thought that tagging the brand may win my page a small amount of attention. More conceptually, the pen offered a rigid shape to accompany the organic form.
Once more, no win. I didn’t feel confident in adding a colour/ shape etc around the illustration to elevate it into a sticker as opposed to a a stand alone illustration. This was due to my lacking design skills. Therefore, this live brief has revealed to me another gap in my knowledge to fill post university. I will find another course to supplement my design skills. This brief has also taught me about painting high shine surfaces. Light is of primary importance in painting and I now feel abundantly more aware of this, which I think is shining through in my work. I will definitely be apply to Free Sticker Friday again in future as the benefits have been profound. Also, as these paintings have been such great exercises, I may make a small series/collection of them for the intention of social media.
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