I thought once I'd got all my FMP done for college, I wouldn't be quite so busy but I've just had a very hectic five days from Thursday to today. And three of them were spent at college. I've spent more time there over those three days than I had in the last week ( Read more... )

The end of year show on Thursday night was... interesting. I got there just as it started at 7pm and it was already pretty busy with the Art & Design students and their families. I had hoped that some of the teachers would turn up seeing as the course had kind of fizzled out at the end and there'd not been any chance to say goodbye. One of the ( Read more... )

The past few days have been chaotic with trying to get the end of year show ready for its opening tonight. I spent Monday putting up all the banners - well, the 6 banners that had been printed that is - and then Tuesday was spent setting up my book on display in the cabinet. I had to run all over the college trying to find a book stand and then ( Read more... )

I've had very little work to do at college for the past few weeks so I've been playing around with Illustrator quite a bit. Generally, I've been going through tutorials I found on a website called vectortuts+ so I've been trying out different techniques and tools. Some of the results have been a bit hit and miss but these are some of the pieces I ( Read more... )

Friday was a nightmare. My usual Friday timetable starts with L at 9.00 till 11.25 and then D from 11.30 to 1.00pm, at which point I scarf down my dinner and get the bus home at 1.15. But it was FMP Deadline Day! The very final deadline was at 4.30 so I could go as soon as I'd handed my work in, whatever time that happened to be ( Read more... )

Today is the deadline for my FMP. I didn't have the time to redo my sketch for Eleven so I'm rather disappointed about that. I had several things to finish off yesterday, including saving the entire book (and banner) as a .pdf which did not happen because my laptop could not deal with a 200+MB file. Hopefully the college computers will be up to ( Read more... )

The deadline for my FMP is now just ten days away. TEN days. Seriously?! When did that happen?!?! Thankfully I am getting close to almost done. I'm in a weird kind of stressing-but-not-stressing place. I'm stressing because it's a big deal and the deadline has suddenly jumped incredibly close. But I'm not stressing because I'm almost done ( Read more... )

Up until last week I had been doing really well with my FMP. I was on schedule and was close to finalising the layouts of the book's page and the cover. N randomly decided last Wednesday that he would take in everyone's study sheets to make sure that we were all on track; that wasn't a problem in itself, the issue was that we wouldn't get them ( Read more... )

When I finished the sketch of the Tenth Doctor that I posted the other day, I was pretty pleased with how it had come out. But the more I thought about it, there was something about it that just didn't sit right. It didn't seem to sum up the character very well, I thought it was a bit too simplistic and childlike. I was going to try another ( Read more... )

Following on from the sketch of the Tenth Doctor that I posted the other day, I've now done a digital version. I outlined the sketch in Illustrator and added flat colour as that was my initial plan. However, on Friday, D suggested that I tried adding shading with Photoshop's dodge and burn tool so that's what I've done this morning. Here's both ( Read more... )