Mid Project

Finally we meet, mid term project. I choose street art for my topic and I have to do a research of 3 influential street artists and make a summary of them. I got Banksy, Swoon, and Stinkfish for my artists then lecturer will choose one of my mood board.

Moodboard:

There you go. I'm done with the mood boards now moving on to another assignments. Gonna update soon.

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I changed the artists! I'm using Anthony Lister and Mr. Brainwash instead of Stinkfish and Banksy. I changed them because I have to find 6 portraits of each artists and I don't find any of Banksy and Stinkfish.

Moodboard:

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I chose Anthony Lister. Why did I choose him? I don't know either, I just like his artwork and I think his artworks fit me best even he is taking influence from the dirtier and rough techniques of “Bad” Painting and merging it with the spirit and practices of graffiti art. One of my favourite of his artwork is the Ballerinas one.

So I required to do 6 sketches of my poster on A5 paper, choose one of them and make a rough draft of it in Adobe Illustrator CS6

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Here's the steps of how I make this, a bit confusing (or a lot). But I hope everyone who is now seeing this understand what I'm doing.

1. Trace the artist

2. Re-arrange the design

3. I coloured his pants! See the differences? (Honestly I was still confused about colouring the object)

4. We're required to use that Mad About Design thingy so I put it there with a big circle, for it is to be appeared softer (because I want it to be done in a feminine and neat way), I reduced the opacity to 50%

5. I put some details inspired by his artworks, and required to give a 10th Anniversary.

6. And put a some more details... My lecturer assistant gave me a comment that something behind him is look like I'm too lazy to do anything more so I just put that into my poster. And the reality is, I'm running out of ideas! :(

FINAL RESULT

I know, it's messy. I want it to be neat but it's getting messier. What an irony. I got so many revision about this piece of thing so... Challenge accepted.

DO IT AGAIN FOR A BETTER SCORE!!

1. Trace the artist

2. Start colouring it. (Now I know how to colour it! Thanks to my friend, Artisa. She taught me.)

3. Start making designs. Make it more than 1! For God sake.

FINAL RESULTS

 

"Add some more colours, make it looks nicer, since it's a poster you have to put a related sponsor, don't use fonts more than 2, don't make the artwork pop-up more than the artist, make sure all the audience could read it from a far." It's all done, hopefully :') sr. Prata said that the font I'm using on Anthony Lister is nice, so I use it for all. The font name is Didot. He was asking me what's the name of this font and I completely forgot. Sorry..

I made more than 1 design so I have something to be compared and some option to choose which one is the best and what's the differences. I choose the second one.

I choose Creep Machine for the sponsor because it's the only gallery I found that sponsored Anthony Lister. "Creep Machine focuses on young contemporary art in the mediums of painting, drawing, prints, and photography. The galleries goal is to be the worlds number one gallery when it comes to contemporary art." (Sep 7, 2011. Retrieved from http://www.creepmachine.com/tag/anthony-lister)

That's it for mid term project. No, It's not done yet. We have to print it in HQ and mounted it on a white A2 polyfoam with no border and do a presentation about it in front of 20+ people if you are (un)lucky. I was so nervous when I did a presentation of the first project about this. I've been thinking for what I will say about in front of my friends while waiting for my turn, and when it's time for me, my brain goes *poof* what you've been thinking had been completely deleted.

Oh, I'm using the Ballerinas for my background

My artwork is far from perfect but I put so much effort on it hoping it will get better from time to time.