“Sitting on the Water” My first digital painting since obtaining a new lovely big tablet from the geniuses at WACOM - via Trademe :)
WACOM Intuos 4 (Large) + Corel sketchpad + Adobe PhotoShop CS5
An Editorial Illustration exercise I did for University about the effect of digital media on literature and grammar.
A portraiture study I did of my partner, I find working on personal projects at the same time as professional allows you to feel intimate and motivated over the whole workload
Character Design and Life Drawing has dramatically impacted the way I draw over the last year, i am moving from a japanese -inspired approach to more european comic/realistic styles
Photography - Dark Days in Granite City:
A photo for the cover of Dark Days in Granite City, a Post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel.
Karma is your average above-average achiever, going to school… Sometimes, nursing her photography habit and basking in traces of the pre-apocalyptic world. A young informant to the authorities in the middle of a drug-bust spree of her city, Karma gets into all the nooks and crannies to dig out the dealers, and in return they turn a blind eye to her escapades in illegal streetracing, after-curfew roaming, and taking the very drugs they are trying to bust. Her parents are too high on the air-con of their office buildings and their high-rise apartment and their perfect, quiet little lives to notice that Karma is slipping further and further into dangerous ground with the druglords, the kids of the underground and the corrupted authorities. When a bust uncovers some confusing records, karma is drawn into a scheme that will take her into the shadows of the city’s past, and reveal the truth behind the city’s walls.
Starting Monday, A Concept for the disordered Creative.
This is a MONDAY diary, inspired by TePapa (tm) Diaries my mother uses, dotted with her doodles as well as a very accurate record of my goings on as a child, her diaries have been an icon in my life for a person very well put together.
This diary is intended as a tool to be carried around with you, ready to soak up your latest thought or subliminally genius doodle. Starting your latest page on a monday and seeing where are end up, and read back through it every so often, to see where you have been.
double-folded binding diary with hand-stencilled dates
Which me is my me
My first blog! Thought I’d give an introduction to my life in social media.
I am a student at AUT (Auckland University of Technology) and I am Studying “Graphic Design”. When people started asking me what I ‘do’, I was quickly faced with the dilemma of… well.. human nature really. I was very willing to explain what I did, But I didn’t have the right words to do it with, I knew that words like “Advertising” strangely could mean a cutthroat business type, and words such as “Graphics” could mean you sit in front of a computer all day shifting shapes around. “Design” has the potential to mean cutthroat unethical manipulative capitalist.. if you’re really that agressive.
After studying semiotics focusing on terminology, I understood that I had to “design” my words when explaining myself to people, to create a more accurate understanding of what i ‘do’. Hopefully using my current self-branding elective, I can replicate my own perception of design, and project it in a universal way. So that when people ask what I ‘do’ I can say;
I ‘do’ Creativity
I ‘do’ Invention
I ‘do’ Innovation
I ‘do’ ….
Painting reading researching illustratingbookbinding printing screenprinting lifedrawing Semiology Art history Design history portraits ethics characters heroes self marketing logos typography calligraphy comics childrens books Editorials textiles digital painting and MORE. ……
I’m on a bit of a quest to create a better understanding of Design as the huge topic it is. I think studying terminology has given me the view that people often come up with only one definition and a million associations with a word. I guess just keep an eye on me if you want to take this journey with me.
Morgana
