Photography development

This one was taken of the Christmas stools in Bath. it was a little under exposed because the sun was really low at this point. I really like the expression of the person focused in the background looking up and how they all seem so engrossed in what they are doing.

I asked these men if I could take a photo of them, so they posed but this must have been captured in the middle of that. It was the most difficult one to develop because the hand was so light compared to the men's faces. I ended up burning the hand and part of the line of sausages to the right so I could get detail in the darker areas.

I was sitting in starbucks trying to take photos subtley. I particularly liked this one because of how she contrasts to the background around her.

My Commission

As mentioned in a previous post, i have been working on a commission where I will be drawing an image for each chapter of a Christmas Carol book. My try out was the carol Good King Wenceslas which the author told me he would like a black and white line drawing, 8/10 cm.

I followed his instructions, although i found it harder than expected to come up with my 'own style' to show him. The end result i produced was slightly larger as I wanted to add detail and I thought it could be edited down to size very easily on a computer. I sent it and was offered the job!

typography- geometric alphabet

We recently where given a project to design our own geometric alphabet from the basic shapes, and by using a 10mm grid we organized the size and shape.
To plan I sketched out the alphabet in circles, triangles and a combination of the before mentioned. I then tried out using one letter that i had created in repetition to create all the letters. Through this, it was obvious that the letter K that had been drawn worked best because of the tessellation. This was what I came up with.

Hannah Muller

I stumbled across this work while i was doing an image for a commition i have where the author wants me to draw some black and white pen drawings. I instantly loved the expression Muller can put across and how everything is perfectly proportioned. The use of the background has been added as skin tone in many images so effectivally, and with muted colour, they just look beautiful.

Nan Goldin- photographer

"My work originally came from the snapshot aesthetic . . . Snapshots are taken out of love and to remember people, places, and shared times. They're about creating a history by recording a history."

As a young girl of 14, Goldin went through a very traumatic time where her sister commited suicide. This led her to turn to her friends and in them she created an alternative family. As years went by and the memory of her sister faded, she began to take photographs of her friends to capture the present.

I really love these photos because of how they really effectivally capture the moment as if its a memory of a fond time your looking back on. The subjects seem like they are good friends or family and the lighting really comunicates a walm or natural scene.

Stop The Traffik design

http://www.stopthetraffik.org/default.aspx

STOP THE TRAFFIK is a growing global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to prevent the sale of people, protect the trafficked and prosecute the traffickers.
I have recently been asked to come up with a design fo a t shirt to premote this charity as part of an exhabition to rase awerness and inform people how they can help.

Negin Ehtesabian- Illustration

Negin is a contemporary illustrator who's work i chose to write about because of the attention to detail and variation of her work. She currently is doing an MA in Animation at Bristol UWE,  England and works freelance producing children's book illustration.

The layering of this particular image i think looks really effective  because of the muted colour, against different textures printed or drawn into a composition that works with the negative space.