Week 2

Tuesday 3 March, Session 1 + 2

In class we made a 3 column 'mood board' for each of our options, however I didn't have much material to work with so I'm not satisfied with this iteration of it. Regardless, when we swapped our mood boards around my partner easily identified the locations and general feelings I was trying to convey.

In the next session we were tasked with drawing some illustrations relating to our favourite option of the three and using FADP's to inform the drawing. I did Cuba St and Lambton Quay because I couldn't choose which one I wanted to do more, and had a few designs in my head for each that I needed to get out on paper. I'll need to use these drawings to find a common thread between the designs of each street, so  my brochure will look cohesive while still maintaining a unique feel for each location.

With my illustrations I tried to have lots of straight lines and angles with the tall buildings that are unique to Lambton Quay. In contrast, for my Cuba Street illustrations I wanted to convey a very fun, lively, artsy feeling through lots of movement, such as wavy lines, splashed paint etc.

Fay showed me how to blow up and invert my compositions to test their effectiveness with the light and dark values reversed. I found this worked really well with the two compositions above.