Weekly Progression

This week I finished catching up on the research I was behind on last week and I have put together reference boards that I've started drawing my initial ideas off. Doing the research only took a day and a bit. I think my time management is a lot better this week as I have caught up pretty fast. 

Here's an example of the reference boards I've done: 

I have used these to trace over and do my own thing with.

Here's an example of a couple of ideas I have already come up with:

Catch Up

I have now caught up on the research I was slow on last week. I have completed the artist research and illustrative music poster research.

Here are few images of what I have done: 

Weekly Progression

This week I have done everything I said I would do. 

 First I looked at D&AD.













Then I looked at award winning work. I love the illustration techniques in these.

Then I did a quick bit of research into XL Recordings.

Lastly I used the information I had found on all of the events to create a timeline of everything and put it in order.









I think my time management hasn't been as good this week. I set a target of what to do and I have achieved most of it, but I haven't done the artists/ poster research yet. I will catch up on this next week.

To Do This Week

This week I am going to do the rest of my research. I am going to look at illustrative artists and illustrated music posters. I am also going to do a quick bit of research into D&AD and XL Recordings and events on a timeline so I can see clearly which is the beginning and which is the end. I am also going to look at examples of award winning work.

Inspiration

I love how this mixes different media, along with image and typography. I also love how the colors are very subtle. 

  

These are all done by an illustrator called mydeadpony.
I like how dark, yet bright and colorful these all are, and how he mixes his media, and mixes using a pc, as well as hand drawn elements.

Weekly Progression

This week has included a lot of writing. We chose the brief and have been researching for it all week. Since the XL brief has a list of events throughout their history, we have started researching every even on the timeline. We also watched two pencil panel videos where the judges for this year were giving us tips on what we should do to get their attention.

These are the notes that I took on the videos. I tried to pick out the most important information.










I think I have done well with my time management this week. I was in every day too, and therefore didn't miss anything.

Decisions

Today me, Andi and Ashley decided to work in a group. We also decided that we were going to do the XL Recordings Brief. I in particular wanted to do this brief because music is a big part of my life.

Alternative Techniques Brief Introduction

Today is the first day back after christmas and new year. We were given our new brief, which is the D&AD awards for 2014. We were given a booklet with all the briefs in. We had to read all the briefs thoroughly and then narrow it down to 3 briefs before choosing a final brief. We are now off until next week so that we have time to choose our brief and then do the research for it. The whole point of this brief is so that I understand the difference between award winning work and everyday client work. I am looking forward to doing this brief.