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.

Images: Authors own.

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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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