WEATHER PROJECT W3 D9

'Rained off' - referring to football match cancellations due to flooded pitches.

This is what I produced and I am happy with the illustration skill to create the supset individual and ipad full of information. However I am disappointed with the graphics of the lettering and clouds which are not as good as they should be. I think that I rushed the text and symbols without too much thought because I wasn't sure what to do with them; but now after some time out of this project and reflection I realise that I can improve this piece. All I need to do is scan this image into photoshop and edit the lettering and symbols by computer to generate a much improved final composition to be happy with.

Images: Authors own.

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WEATHER PROJECT W3 D8

Today I simply finalised my ideas into one ultimate design and drew out a pencil sketch plan as the basis for shape and lines to be coloured in tomorrow. I am happy with this final design but I am not exactly sure how it will look as a final piece with colour added and exactly what colours I will use I am not yet totally sure of but I am pleased that much progress has been made. Maybe I should experiment with colour formats before putting final pen to page on my final hand drawn graphic illustration.

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WEATHER PROJECT W3 D7

I experimented with changing colour on my original idea.

After some time to think, I realised the British weather was a bit too broad and hard to read; so I focused more intensely on the idea of how weather affects sport, particularly how football keeps on getting postponed due to waterlogged pitches.

Above is my brief photoshop reference picture that I will use to guide me when I draw out the final plan for the project. I am quite happy with where I have ended up in this project despite all of the twisting and turning and changing topic that has occurred. Even though I wasted a lot of time following loose ends I feel that it wasn't all to waste because I learnt from the process exactly what I wanted to do. So if this plan is drawn out successfully then I will be very happy, otherwise I am already glad that I have reached this point where the end is in sight and its completely up to my hand drawing skills to determine whether I am successful or not.

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WEATHER PROJECT W2 D6

Looks good but 'british' is hard to read and questions as to why yellow/ black flag.

Slightly less complicated but still looks like 'brush' instead of 'british'.

I achieved this creation today and some of the feedback I received showed light on some fundamental errors such as the 'british' being unreadable. The idea is understandable and it looks cool. I agree with this feedback and as a first draft I am pleased with some of the visual aesthetics but as a final piece it would be weak. From this I am going to make a more detailed illustration of the person holding up the weather forecast looking depressed using toning techniques similar to the illustrator: 'coop'. I am pleased with how my change in direction is going so far. I can only keep improving on weaknesses now and hope that I can eridate all basic errors by the end of the project.

Images: Authors own.

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WEATHER PROJECT W2 D5

I felt like I had hit a creative block with where I was taking this project, personally struggling to find a way to make what I had previous made look better with text. Also my enjoyment for the idea I had set myself was disappearing. So I started looking at graphic weather posters for inspiration and I came across a few examples which gave me some ideas of what to do. Something I saw was quite different to my original direction but I liked it and thought it was clever and could work as opposing route to what I had already achieved. What I am talking about is the film: 'cloudy with a chance of meatballs', silly as it may sound I thought I could enhance this concept with a more thoughtful and relevant replacement for 'meatballs'. This title is catchy and would provide an ideal starting point for a weather based poster. I have struggled a bit mentally with this project where I found myself uninspired and lacking in ideas; however in ideal time I have chosen to do something about it and explore a concept that I am much more interested in which should hopefully make my work better. I will start drawing out basic plans for the poster then narrow them down to the best idea and select that to use in the creation of a final piece.

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WEATHER PROJECT W2 D4

I created another lot of experimental compositions mainly focusing on lightning and its dangerous consequences in extreme cases (death).

In the end I began to work quite fast producing many of these experimental graphic pieces. I basically produced one which would give me an idea and would quickly lead me onto the next design which was adapted and connected to the previous. Overall I am quite pleased with the amount of experimentation's I produced particularly with the first on this post where the skulls are falling down amongst the lightning. I feel I have successfully covered the first aspect of the project I set out to complete and am looking forward to expanding further my ideas over the rest of the weather project. I need to take what I have learnt and produced so far and manipulate it into relevant more complicated/ well thought out version of what I have produced so far.

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WEATHER PROJECT W1 D3

I started to experiment with very recognisable images which could be adapted into signwork or symbols.

I looked into the powerful symbol of a skull and adapted a used image slightly in dimensions that measured more precisely to my visual preferences.

I then looked at adapting the portrayal of acid rain to this skull.

I then looked at adding text and seeing what this did to the composition.

Whilst creating the above images I made occasional undo-able mistakes but in the case of the image above I quite liked how this accidental creation looked. 

I have to admit recently I was not enjoying this project so much but I think I have found a possible route of which to take to improve the visual aesthetics of my work and my own enjoyment of this project. I am plowing down the graphic route aiming to achieve something original and striking. So far I am not amazingly pleased with my progress so I need to step up my creativity and thinking out of the box skills.

Images: Authors own.

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WEATHER PROJECT W1 D2

Today I researched further into the idea of symbols and graphic signs for floods and tsunamis. I found some interesting imagery which I will most likely take inspiration from and use in one way or another in my own sign creations. I am looking to be original and potentially comical in my sign making really putting some emphasis on the subject of flooding in the UK and looking at the extreme case of this natural disaster occurring possibly linking ideas politically aswell. So far I am pleased with the well thought out progress I am making but I think I need to experiment more with actual symbols and graphic sign text and formats at a faster pace to establish exactly what I want to achieve in the time frame and do so at a pace that allows me to complete work to a great standard whilst also not having loads of spare time.

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PROJECT 10: WEATHER: WEEK 1 DAY 1

Today I started a new project titled weather. For such a broad yet vague brief it was difficult to come up with initial ideas; so I did a brainstorm and narrowed down potential routes I could take with this project. Out of a selection of ideas my favourite option so far would be looking into extreme weather and possibly how bad it could get in the future. I could look at this in a propaganda style of graphics or not. After a while I am pleased to say that I was making progress. So far so good, I was not expecting the speediest of starts to this project which is a weakness however the pace is just right at the moment.

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