Reflective Visual Journal

Drawing

It’s your personality your own character. It’s your creative imagination your physical connection with your hands and what you see with your own eyes. This is then expressed through work of art. This can be on paper, cardboard, painting or canvas but mainly drawing. When we was younger drawing seemed to be the only thing that was easy, enjoyable and fun to do and one of the first practical activities you would come across, you don’t think am I doing it wrong is this the write composition, am I using the correct colours. Now we carry this negative relations about drawing ad let our self conscience have a lot uncertainty as a result that’s why having a reflective diary sketchbook it lets us over come those boundaries in a safe environment to take possibility and get over ourselves. It’s just generally ideas when your young an now from when your mature drawing gets your ideas out of your head so you can develop.

Drawing from your own ideas is very important you wouldn’t want to copy someone else’s work or ideas it wouldn’t be original having your own is unique. You can look and research others ideas to make yours develop in to better ones.

Exploring anyone can do this there’s no barrier or restrictions, it’s your own mark making using that right brain wisely.

Lizzie Finn – Drawing with Fabric. “I couldn’t draw very well, so I had to stick stuff down.” Lizzie Finn’s unique and stylistically sophisticated artwork a love of materials and visual informal expression within a language of contemporary design. She brings attention to detail; Lizzie Finn directs every step of the process guiding the artwork to a subtle and meaningful conclusion.  

Cultivate Reflective practice       

RVJ is like your journey through life but this one is journey through life of ideas and development creatively like your own personal diary. Engage become apart of what your doing, ask yourself questions ask other people questions that’s the only way you’ll get answers. It’s important every step on your way you are making brief notes on literally everything you do at all stages of the process this way you understand how you going about things also the viewers will get the same understanding.

There are two types of languages that you can use but you got to be careful with the advantage and disadvantages of both visual and textual but they work powerful when both together. I prefer visual, it’s a visual world tends to get attention a lot quicker. There’s always time to take a moment and think, ask yourself certain questions about your work ask: what if? What it is useful? Why? This is a learning rollercoaster whilst doing this you’re engaging and making improvements, developing thinking of different ways, methods basically evaluating planning all work seamlessly together.        

Visual Hierarchy

What do we see or read first? We tend to always look that the most obvious in front of our a face our eyes are focused on things that stand out, Big and Bright just like signs or symbols, shop fronts etc. later they pick up the least obvious in front of our faces that are smaller and less noticeable. These say to be low on the hierarchy.  Graphic designers create visual hierarchy using size, colour, contrast, texture, shape, position, and orientation.

IPod 4G this poster is simple, some text one image the text got me first bold and catchy you want to know more by then looking at the image. Just like the burger king advert the black bold outline is the first you see then the burger ad everything else with it.

Have words and images got a tone of voice?

Tone of voice is a bit like a visual identity, but in words. Some images and words know how to communicate with us through tone of voice; this is how they become appealing in order to stand out from the crowd. Using the correct type of tone will help connect to others with the correct information put across. If the incorrect type of tone is used this will cause a misunderstanding sending of varied messages which can baffle the audience that’s being aimed at, or feeling that the speaker or writer wants to convey to the intended audience, for example, the tone of voice used by a speaker could be angry, friendly or serious.

Typeface styles express different levels of tone within different words/texts. Typefaces can convey meaning for example if something is sharp the font can’t be small and Baskerville typed it has to be bold and big, whereas if something was soft it would have to be small and visual plus it all depending on the message.

Theses to sites I think majority people are signed up with and use on a regular basis or on the other hand just identify them with a blink of an eye. Facebook and twitter attract all viewers attention because of there larger bold font which is appropriate for websites. The tone of voice comes across easily because its precise, simple and helpful connects you to the right information and less confusion. Colour is important and the right use of colour is within text. It has to be eye catchy and attract the appropriate audience this will also help the audience to find there way much quicker to there designated part showing its importance.

Images are very essential being a picture, photo or sign or logo, this will help alongside with the text to convey what is trying to be said. A good example of tone of voice within image is everyday day signs that we come across our day to day routine being signs instructions showing us what to do, how to do it or even what’s right or wrong. Also front page of a magazine it wouldn’t tell us anything if there was just lots of text it always needs a image at least to make it complete.

Illustration

This is a definition of ‘Inspiration’ I found in the Dictionary: an agency, such as a person or work of art, that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or creative ability. This is how an Illustrator feels when they observe the world into different ideas surrounding themselves with stuff that inspires them, for example Paul Davis (illustrator) quoted ‘Notebook after notebook after notebook because I feel sick when I forget potentially good ideas.’ Its that inspiration they get from themselves or other sources that they do not want to waste, it has to all some how be jotted down, as in writing or by drawing anything. Jill Calder she is an illustrator she has little Sketchbooks and sketches her ideas, when she’s in a café on a train basically everywhere she goes. It’s finding the right things that move you as a person having a deep thought that sensation and passion to it. ‘I love drawing. I'd quite happily draw on anything (and quite often do). Inspiration is all around us if it’s hard to find, this is when research comes along. Why do they collect research? Well research is all about investigation studying, exploring, discovering, and interpreting like said in the presentation. Without doing this we can not compare different skills and approaches, explore different methods and learn from other people. Mark Wigan – thinking visually 2006, he is an illustrator Mark tells us how important visual practice is quote ‘Being observant, listening, looking and participating in the world are necessary. Learning to think visually is a skill that you have to practice daily.’





By Jill Calder - When I am putting together an illustration, I always see the narrative unfolding as if it was a film.

By Mark Wigan – ‘There’s only one way to get a really good idea and that’s to work hard’





Teaches major concepts in one tiny book. The story teaches counting to five, the names of the days of the week, and about different types of food etc. the illustration is amazing different colors and texture to the pictures.

                                                                                                    

Patrick Nagel 80’s Fashion illustration. This will capture the fashion audience and those that love the 80’s clothing/fashion.

An understanding of an audience can enhance and focus communication. Illustration can convey far more than a photograph or still image. An Illustration asks people to use their imagination more, attracting the viewer in a way which was unexpected. There are a lot of audience types with different illustrations for example posters, flyers, Magazines.  Children’s book and a lot more. Targeting certain audiences is very important, ages differences is important as well, children’s book has to be appealing colourful, very good storyline for the children to relate to and understand it can not be dull and boring the book wouldn’t sell out might not even be published. A good illustration can be striking, exciting, insightful, but most importantly unforgettable.

Notions Of originality

This is as majority of people know the Famous Hollywood Glamour woman Marilyn Monroe. Above there is a famous painting of her which is done by famous American painter Andy Warhol who was best known in the visual art movement known as Pop Art. Man with many talents, a few of the facts that need to be known. But what made him paint Marilyn Monroe I mean there has to be a reason. Its a very Commercial painting,why is it, because of his outstanding thoughts and ideas to put in to other words the originality. That something that makes it what it is today very popular that other people are inspired and using the old picture (original) into there own which is similar to the new picture. Just like the picture above on the right. “Is there such thing as originality” well I believe if a individual has or comes up with an idea, which is come is come from another idea maybe more. This is from our minds, we think it, which does make it 'original.' People use original ideas to strengthen there interpretations of there last idea and its like a repeated routine or step which someone in the future maybe think of adding it into there conceptions.

Unknown artist - Gabrielle d'Estrées – c.1594.This painting is reflected to an older audience well even younger to be honest because it tells a story to the audience even though some people would find something hilarious about it or even sexual. On the other hand I think its seen as more romantic if you really read into it, the summary of it is her husband Henry gave her a ring as a token of his love for her shortly before she died. People can somehow relate to this the picture makes you want to think and grabs your attention. Where as the people that have copied this and made it into the own to me it doesn't seem as (using this word again) 'original' the pictures don't look believable. Like this one Melanie Manchot – The Fontainebleau Series – 2001.