So here is my final piece completed. I'm really happy with it. 

The additional research before I started this particular piece really helped me judge what direction I wanted to go in before I started sketching. As soon as I did the doll mood board and really thought about it, I knew that is the route I wanted to head down. I really like her facial expression, as I think it's really spooky and very intense! and I also quite like the hair because it's fun and crazy and I could really play around making it. 

I'm starting to get there with my final piece...still have quite a bit to do before it's finished.

Slowly, week by week, I feel I'm improving a little bit. 

Here is a quick sketch I have done of a female dolls head, this sketch took me about 15 to 20 minutes to get to this stage, most of the time I spent on making the features more pronounced and less 'sketchy' looking . I'm not too happy with the mouth so I may experiment with different mouths and see which one I like best. At the moment I quite like this face as I think its intense as well as spooky. 

At this moment in time I'm not sure what her hair will look like, I've got a couple of ideas for it to be really curly and outrageous, but I'm also thinking of having a really slicked back pony-tail type style, but just like with the mouths I think I will experiment with different hair types as well until I find one that 'fits'. 

Here are some quick sketches which took about 5 minutes to do. I found some photos on the Internet and decided I wanted to do very brief sketches of them, to get an idea of how to make them spooky, and what 'feel' they should have. I definitely think I'm going to go down the root of a spooky doll. 

I wanted to stick to very basic colours because they're very basic sketches so I didn't want to over complicate them. 

For this Halloween assignment I thought it might be a good idea to look at China Dolls and Dolls in general as I used to find them quite scary when I was younger! (sometimes still do!!) and even though many dolls have been used for Halloween type things, its not a choice that people would necessarily think about off the top of their head. So I've created a mood board of scary dolls, still have not decided if I'm only going to do one of these mood boards, or if I'm going to do another.

To be honest I find all of them quite scary! I think that it would be an interesting route to take, but I'm not sure if I will definitely head that way as of yet.

The next assignment we have been given is to do anything we want for Halloween. So basically to create a Halloween Creature, it can be ghostly, zombie-like, witch-like and so on. So once again im creating some moodboards to create ideas and expand upon some ideas I may already have. This week im going to put more work in to the research side, and do some more research sketches before diving in to the final piece, as I feel for the past couple of weeks I rush everything in order to start the final piece as soon as possible.

I'm not sure at this moment in time what direction I will head in, so Im going to create some more mood boards in order to generate some more ideas of what I would like to do.

My final tree Idea I completed was from my second sketch. I'm pretty happy with how its turned out. I especially like the owl! I also really like the use of light. 

It's totally different from what i'm comfortable in doing, but I enjoyed doing this particular assignment. 

Here are two very quick sketches (both took about 5 minutes and under to complete) for the tree assignment. One is quite cartoony in appearance and the other is quite ghostly looking. I'm trying to play around with it, and if possible make it quite Halloween themed and spooky. 

At this moment in time I am not sure which one I will go ahead and use for my final piece. 

For the next assignment we have to create a tree character. This does not mean a tree with a face though. 

I wanted to do my second mood board with all black and white pictures, as I feel it makes the pictures very spooky looking, especially it being so close to Halloween!

To expand upon my dolphin idea I decided to do another mood board aimed at looking at the 02 building itself, cloud formations and reflections in water. 

Whilst doing this mood board I still wanted to focus on light pastel shades if I could. 

This is a sketch I have quickly done of a Dolphin jumping over a cloud. I might expand upon this idea and make that cloud look like the 02 arena, however it would still be in the form of a cloud. So far so good with this assignment, I'm enjoying being able to create whatever I want, with no restrictions what so ever. However at this moment in time I'm a bit worried to push my thoughts and ideas too far, as I have a feeling that I will be disappointed with my end result because of my drawing skills not living up to what I have in my head. 

The colours i'm going for are going to be light pastel shades, as I want it to feel dream like, like everything has been caught in a haze.  

Whilst looking at some images on google for my Surrealism assignment I came across a really interesting painting that I absolutely love. 

It's by Norman Duenas. I love the use of the butterfly wing and the colours, and the idea of using the clock as a tiara or some sort of head-dress. I think overall it's just a really interesting piece.

The next assignment which is due for next Thursday is again is to do something Surreal. I have come up with two mood boards already, and I think im going to have more than two to really help the creative process and help me think of something surreal to create myself. I think i'm going to find this challenging because there are just so many different things I could do for this assignment, so I think it's vital I get going on it straight away incase I crash and burn halfway through (like the robot assignment!).

In both of these mood boards there are certain images that really stand out to me and that I like alot. The main photo out of the mood boards that I really like is in the first mood board, the top right hand image because it's very modern, not like the usual images you would expect when someone says Surrealism and I also really love the use of colour.

I have re done my robot assignment because it was just horrendous and I couldn't stand to even look at it. I have still stuck with using animals, but I have experimented with the idea of Frankenstein. 

Here is a quick sketch of the head. I was still unsure as to whether I wanted to do it in 2D or 3D but I thought it was a good idea to have a rough sketch of a chimpanzee as I had never drawn one before.

Here i am playing around with how i want the body to look, where I want the light to hit and that sort of thing. 

As well as doing this, i tried to do another crab robot:

This robot is actually finished, unlike the chimpanzee; however I still am not happy with it. This assignment i really didn't enjoy. For some reason i just couldn't do it to a standard i was happy with. I think i tried to be too creative in my ideas, so that when i finally came to do them they fell very short of what i wanted to achieve with them, and don't look very robot-y at all. 

This is a quick sketch I did for my robot assignment. I like this one as I think it's quite cute and I like that its simple.

Because this was just a quick sketch I quickly did some shading just to give myself an idea of where the light would be coming from.

Here I just added a background colour which enables you to see the shading. 

This is my mood board for the robot assignment, I might make a few more just to give myself a broad range of ideas and this way I will also be able to see what has already been done.

At this moment in time I am thinking of doing an animal robot like the cheetah in the top left hand side of the mood board however I am not certain yet if that is what I will do for my final piece.

These are some additional mood boards I decided to create to help my thinking process of what robot I could make.

For our next task we have to create a robot concept piece, and the mood boards and sketches are going to be uploaded before the final piece. We're allowed to create cyborgs however they have to be at least 75% robot. Like last week we are allowed to do it in Photoshop or 3Ds Max whatever we prefer. For this I might do it in 3Ds Max to challenge myself and stretch the skills I have accomplished so far.

My Tentacle Creature.

First photo without a texture, second photo with a texture.

I decided to do one version with a texture just to experiment with it and see what it would look like.

 

 I spent a lot of time focusing on the light and shading as I found that was a vital part I needed to work on over the summer, as I tended to struggle with it in last years tasks and assessments. I wanted my tentacle creature to look like an alien version of a normal jelly fish/ squid, and by playing around with the textures I just wanted to see what I could create and see how it would look in different ways. 



For this week we have been tasked to make a tentacle creature, we can use either a 3D software (3Ds Max) or 2D software (Photoshop) to do it. I have opted to it in Photoshop as I couldnt decide how I was going to go about constructing it in 3D. In the end I have come up with two idea/sketches that I like, and from there I will choose which one I will finish off from my final concept idea.

I wanted to do two completely different ideas, and I feel I have achieved that. For both of them I included colour samples and notes about each idea.