Week 7-Graphics

In the morning of the first day of Graphics we did some theory, which is in another blog post. In the afternoon we worked on some typography. We were given products such as Marmite and bottles which had fonts on and were asked to do 3 thumbnails from each product we were given. We had 4 objects, so ended up with 12 thumbnails all in all. We then transferred one thumbnail from each product onto an A4 sheet of paper. We used a different method for each image.
These were:

• Graphite with a continuous line
• Oil Pastel
• Ink and sticks with opposite hand
• Shoe polish and masking tape

I really enjoyed this session and think the work i produced is some of the best from the whole 8 weeks, even though it was done in one afternoon.

On the second day we started the bulk project of the week. We were given six words and we had to try and put the words into a thumbnail in a way that shows what they mean, without drawing any images. The words we had were Collapse, Slither, Flowing, Detached, Consume and Stability.

We then made backgrounds for the words to go on. We used cuttings from magazines to create shapes in our sketch book, which we then enlarged on the photocopier to A4. We could photocopy them into colours aswell if we wanted, but we were limited to 4 colours, 2 of which were black and white. I photocopied the background a lot so i had a number of images for each background so i had variety and then could chose the one i liked the most.
The words i chose to use were Collapse, Detached, Flowing and Stability.

I enjoyed the graphics week more than i thought i would. I have always thought of graphics as more technical drawing  but i now know its nothing like that and is a lot more creative. I especially liked the typography session and as i have said, i think some of the best work i have produced has come from that afternoon.