Georgina Hammond
Animator
Visual Communications - Give and Take
The aim of this project is to explore and challenge the concept of drawing in an Art Direction context and to think in more detail about the decisions I make and why I make them, thus helping me to refine my ways of working and improve my ability to adapt my skills to different challenges.
I'll be taking part in workshops and experiments that will introduce different ways of creating marks and allow me to develop aspects of my creative thinking. I will be using traditional forms such as using a drawing tool on paper but I will mostly be exploring drawing in a wider sense; arranging objects to form a line, collaborative drawings, tufting a rug etc.
Three words task
For this task I was given 3 words to form the basis of all my work within this project. The 3 words I picked out of the hat were; Give, People and Angry. Initially, these words don't have much of an association with me and I'm stumped as to what they are for and what to do for this task. However, I'm excited for where this project can take me. To start off with I need to research these words, their meanings, associations, shape, sound etc. My findings will then form the starting point for my entire project and hopefully turn it in-to something quite interesting.
Give
Verb: freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone).
Synonyms: present with, provide with, supply with, furnish with, gift with.
Verb: cause or allow (someone or something) to have or experience (something); provide with.
Synonyms: allow, permit, let have, grant, accord.
Noun: capacity to bend or alter in shape under pressure.
Synonyms: elasticity, flexibility, stretch, stretchiness.
Associations, shapes, sounds: Hands - one set of hands passing something to another; Presents, money, items etc. Donate, volunteer, help, share.
People
Noun: Human beings in general or considered collectively.
Synonyms: human beings, persons, individuals, men, women, and children.
Associations, shapes, sounds: Facial features, Skeletal structure, Female traits, Male traits, Weight, Muscles, Body posture and gait.
Angry
Adjective: feeling or showing strong annoyance, displeasure, or hostility; full of anger
Synonyms: irate, annoyed, cross, vexed, irritated, exasperated, indignant, aggrieved, irked, piqued, displeased, provoked, galled, resentful
Associations, shapes, sounds: People, Facial features, red faces, screwed face, fists, screaming/shouting, wide open mouthed, two people fighting.
 |
|---|
 |
Draw Everyday
For this task I need to create an A6 image everyday, relating to the three words I received in my previous task. These images can be observational drawings, a combination of collage and drawing, a pattern design, drawing of type, drawing of grids, experimental mark-making etc. However, all drawings need to be considered and have a purpose.
Image 1: People – A self-portrait. Showing; boredom, tired, restlessness, fed up, stressed. A face full of emotion. I think this image could be made into not only a good GIF but a useful GIF for showing how someone is feeling.
Image 2 - Give – A hand full of giving. A had the idea after seeing Kate Moross' typography work, I really liked the idea of using words to make an image, I took this idea and instead of having just words on a page i decided to have these words create a shape, a hand. After the quick sketch (pictured) id really like to develop this idea; different fonts, making some different shapes, using colours.
Image 3: Angry - As soon as I was given the word angry, this was the image that popped up in my head. A simple character with the anger building up in him. I really like this idea, I think its a simple way of putting across the emotion of angry and it will be easy to turn this into a GIF.
Critical & Design Thinking Workshop
GIF Making Workshop
In this workshop we learned how to make GIF's using Photoshop. A GIF is an image file that allows you to feature animated images, which makes it seem like the image is moving. GIF's provide a new way to capture a viewers' attention, and can have an emotional impact more so than that of a still image.
How to make a GIF
Step 1 - Upload images to Photoshop.
Step 2 - Open up the Timeline window.
Step 3 - Open the Timeline window, click "Create Frame Animation."
Step 4 - Create a new layer for each new frame.
Step 5 - Open the same menu icon on the right, and choose
"Make Frames From Layers."
Step 6 - Under each frame, select how long it should appear for
before switching to the next frame.
Step 7 - At the bottom of the toolbar, select how many times you'd
like it to loop.
Step 8 - Preview your GIF by pressing the play icon.
Step 9 - Save and Export the GIF.
Task 1
For this task I needed to create three different GIF's based on my 'Draw Everyday' drawings. You can enlarge the GIF's by clicking on them and scrolling through each one.
For this initial GIF, I re-drew my self portrait digitally using Photoshop and then made the eyes roll by moving the eye position each frame. I really like this GIF and I think its brilliant for a first attempt however, I think the weight of some of the lines are too thick so it could do with being re-drawn again. I also think I need to make more frames so that the rolling is a more fluid motion.
I really liked my initial sketch of this GIF so I knew that I wanted to develop this one into a GIF, it was just hard to decide what to do with it. Then I remembered old MSN Messenger 'nudges', something simple but affective so I went with the waving. Once I had the image made up on Photoshop, creating the movement was really simple and done in just 5 frames.
This GIF was the easiest of the 3 for me to make as there's no real movement, once I drew the character, I just needed to duplicate it 7 times then increase the red section on each layer. Like the Rolling Eyes GIF, I really like it and think its effective but it needs more layers so that the rising anger is more fluid.
For this initial GIF, I re-drew my self portrait digitally using Photoshop and then made the eyes roll by moving the eye position each frame. I really like this GIF and I think its brilliant for a first attempt however, I think the weight of some of the lines are too thick so it could do with being re-drawn again. I also think I need to make more frames so that the rolling is a more fluid motion.
 |
|---|
 |
 |
 |
Kate Moross
Kate Moross is an illustrator, art director, director and designer. working on music videos, textiles, identities, murals, fashion and magazine covers for big-time publications. Recently Studio Moross - which she set up to focus on branding, art direction and commercial projects - created the much talked-about tour visuals for One Direction.
Moross has such a wide range of works from; Geometric to Portraits, Editorial, Moving Image and more. However my personal favourites are her typography works (pictured). Theres so much work that has to go in to something that people think is so simple. Its not just words on a page, theres so many considerations that have to be solved before the work can even begin; What words will be used? What fonts? What colours? What font sizes? What positions? All of that is for just a word on a page.
I really like Moross' style and her work is what influenced one of my sketch ideas. I also like her Dream Come True poster and would like to do something similar in a stop-motion/GIF video.
Images from
 |
|---|
 |
 |
Sir Alexander Fleming - Microbial Art
Sir Alexander Fleming is best known as the Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of penicillin. He was also one of the first scientists to use microbes to create works of art, having created a series of “Germ Paintings”. This is something i have recently discovered and I am absolutely fascinated by it, just the whole thought and process by it, must take so much time and considerations, using living bacteria with different pigment colours, picking microbes that deposit different colours and timing their growth rates so that the picture would form all at once. Fleming was literally painting with bacteria and the art grow.
Images sourced from; https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/painting-with-penicillin-alexander-flemings-germ-art-1761496/
Maria Peñil Cobo - Microbial Art
Maria Peñil Cobo also create Microbial Art and her work is phenomenal. Peñil has attempted to "paint" with bacteria found on her own lips - which she collected after kissing a petri dish, as well as the germs that grew when she put her own house key on the dish. Maria works with a microbial geneticist, Mehmet Berkmen and together they have a mission to share with the public the beauty of microbes through the universal language of art
Images and information sourced from; http://mariapenilcobo.com/bioart
 |
|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |