Summer Project

So for Year Two's Summer Project, we had to choose between a range of given briefs. One brief was to use one word off a given list and explore. So I decided to create a project using the starting point 'play'. Straight away I thought of play, in the sense of play, stop, pause, record and just explored this idea, mainly using shapes, such as triangles and circles in particular. I also wanted to be playful in terms of colour, so I tried to stay away from black as much as I could. Here's some of the illustrations I created;

So this illustration was created based on the word record; which translates as vinyl record. So I used a combination of black acrylic and collaged papers.

This image came about as initally a pause sign, so just the two rectangles, however I didn't know what to do with the image, so I just started to create my own town in the middle using different coloured fine liners and just really enjoyed the freedom within these illustrations. 

I also extended them both using Photoshop;

This illustration came about after numerous 'experiments'. Originally the idea came from a circle, so the record itself is a circle, the centre of the camera is a circle and the numerous shapes within the cassette. I just wanted to see what this illustration would look like on paper, scanned it in and tweeked it on Photoshop.

This illustration was based on the camera in the previous one, I just wanted to play around with different retro colours and repetition.