andy vella tutorial – 20-03-17
Today I had a one on one tutorial with Andy Vella. I went into it with a lot of starter ideas about what I wanted to do for my Art of Accident project. We focused on the drawing to music ideas. It was interesting to talk to Andy as he has done a lot of work for musician, creating their album artwork. He had loads of helpful advice for me, especially what to do in order to take steps towards a final outcome. Heres some of the notes I had following the tutorial:
- Research Jean Cocteau (line drawing)
- Work in larger format, blast music and go for it, have a set up and go mad.
- Draw with eyes closed and just feel the music
- Use the same tool for different songs and see what lines/textures are created from each song
- Outcomes – A2 fold out magazine? 10 small books with different covers?
- Print out lyrics and draw over them, large and small type
- Letter press
- Books within a book, contained pages in a smart, slick front page
- Wrap lyrics around front page
- Little tracing paper playlist incorporated in the book
Whilst researching I have found a project on behance which is very similar to the vision I have for my final outcome. Books within a book, with type incorporated. You can see it at the following link: https://www.behance.net/gallery/48011927/-T-R-I
My following steps will be loads of experimenting with larger format, using the same tools for all of the songs, to create a consistency in colour but different textures and marks on each piece. Also experimentation with incorporating text/lyrics into the drawings.