Group meeting 17th Feb

Josie

. Trying to avoid the birds becoming too 'gimmicky'
. Need to make sure that the character of the birds do not become lost in the drawings
. Would be good to look at and draw the birds in a wider variety of poses
. Done some good primary research by going to Exeter museum and drawing the birds there
. Need to come to a conclusion of why you are drawing these birds. How will they be used in the final outcome?

Aims:

. To produce more drawings and to have final characters of the birds resolved


Amy

. The collaged birds are working very well
. Great use and experimentation with producing textures for the collages
. For more developed pieces need to plan out the collages before making them


Emmy- Lou

. Experimenting with colouring bird designs in Photoshop
. Resolved a good direction in the development of the project by producing a mini-zine
. Experimenting with combining traditional technique with digital


Jo

. Beginning to layer up the book pages. Cutting out the tops of each page to form reeds
. Was finding that the appearance of the birds came across as too 'serious' and so needed to find an alternative style. Resolved this by switching to drawing baby birds
. Developing colour illustrations to be taken into the print room


Andjela

. Really nice wood cut prints
. Will be taken designs and putting onto badges and envelopes to be produced as a editions

Aims

. Produce more wood cut designs
. Decided on what other birds to illustrate


Jordan

. Carrying on with finding superstitions linked to the birds
. Need to resolve a final style for artwork
. look into laser cutting designs to reflect the carving art of the maori
. collect textures
. Need to draw out designs to scale of final size.

JoLB - Group Meeting Notes

Todays meeting

Josie, Jordan, Katie, Amy and Jo LB

1. Blog

Jordan has set up this blog and can give everyone the email address and password so they can post up.

When you do post up remember to add your name to the title and also to add the appropriate labels.

Please follow this blog and then we can add your blog or website link to the page (this increases your page rating in google)

2. Research questions

Josie - reconsidering her research question from looking at illustrators involved in charity work to covering illustrators and community projects.

Jo - Look at Visual aids used in Illustration aimed at young children learning to read and what makes an effective children's book illustrator

Amy - Wants to research educational pop ups but is not sure how broad this subject would be or where to start.  Now has a list of books to consider looking at from the bibliography of Core Curriculum Books and thinks she might look at an older age group than the macmillan brief.

Jordan - has looked into developing a minizine app for his images which were going to be a series of posters, something similar to Jack knife posters  and Josie suggested he contacted them for possible work experience.

He spoke to Tom (who was passing) about maybe using learning app code as his research and Tom said he could look into the influence of technology  and what makes a good/bad use of illustration in apps.

Katie - Is creating crests which will tell the story of how each bird has gone extinct.  Metaphors would be an avenue for her research but having just bought a book about designer makers it might be worth considering the role of the illustrator in this field.

We have a couple of useful contacts re apps

USTWO  who developed Whale Tail and the mouth app - Neil McFarland and ex student Ralph Manning who is n app developer.  There is a link to him on the course website.