printing draft one –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photoshoot one – pre production

For my photoshoot one I am focusing my photos on male gender norms to achieve this I am having my male model wear drag makeup. For this photoshoot I collaborated with Evan (my model) I let him take most control in what style he wanted to do and what he felt most confident in. before the shoot I did some research into the kind of make up I want to have and worked with Evan to see if he had ideas to add or if he felt we could improve the look.

when researching I was mainly inspired by 90’s glam as well as editorial looks. some artists I looked at were Alexa Demie and  Donna Davy, I was mostly inspired by their extravagant looks of sharp eyeliner and deep colours. Alexa Demie is a well known actor but inspires me mostly for her courageous make up, she mostly uses dark colours but can be occasionally seen adding colour or glitter to her looks. I wanted to focus on Demie’s neutral looks as I feel those colours will look best when I edit my photos, which I’m planning on doing in black and white.

 

               

(images from Alexa Demie’s instagram)

Donna Davy is well known for working as a make up artist on the show Euphoria, I took a lot of inspiration from this show as I love the aesthetic and the make up is always different and out going. I think Donna Davy’s looks are a lot more colourful than I want to attempt but a lot of the structure was inspired by her work.

                                      

(images from Donna Davy’s instagram)

another makeup artist me and Evan looked at was Crystal, Crystal is known from the season 1 of RuPauls drag race uk- season 1. I felt it was important we looked at a drag queens make up look as that is what I am inspiring to do. We are planning on making the look extremely extravagant by gluing Evans eyebrows and making them longer to completely transform his face.

                         

(images from Crystals instagram)

 

 

 

Typography 

In today’s workshop we worked on typography, we first used an example to copy the layout to get an idea of where the letters should be starting and ending as you can see in (figure one). As typography is something I want to include in my own Zine I tried experimenting with more styles. Although I enjoyed the work we did in the workshop I feel that I want to work with a different style of typography, I feel that the example is quite elegant which is not the atheistic I want to achieve in this part of my zine.

(figure 1)

When looking at different fonts I wanted the end result to be eye-catching. I first looked on Pinterest to get a better idea of the kind of thing I liked this could be colour, shape, size, patterns, and so on. From this I found that I was more interested in bold, colourful typography, I also felt that by using colour I could link this in with my topic of gender and how there are stereotypes around colour towards different gender. When looking on Pinterest I found different examples that I wanted to copy just to get an idea of what I felt I was good at and what I struggled with.

The first example I used (figure 2) I thought was successful I really liked the idea that the letters curved to fit into the shape of the box. when doing this I changed the colours from the example from Pinterest to get an idea of different colour pallets I could use in my end results. I liked this colour combination but feel that it didn’t have enough colour for what I was imagining.

(figure 2)

The second typography I did was like my first as I liked the idea of the letters curving with each other so did a similar design (figure 3). I started by drawing the letters normally the over the top made a wave effect. To finish I filled in the letters in a bold pink. After completing these two designs I found that I like the look of the letters curving with each other but still feel that there could be a range of more colours in the final design.

(figure 3)

The next two designs we’re in my opinion unsuccessful, in the first design (figure 4) I felt that the end result was too boring. I tried looking away from colour and more into the structure in this design, meaning where the letters were placed and how they worked around each other. I think this is something I want to bring into my final design, I like the idea of the letters overlapping instead of around each other. The second design (figure 5) I wanted to try something different, I tried printing the letters by using card and cutting into my letters, adding paint and pressing it onto the paper. I wanted the letters to look un finished so I made the paint thin and didn’t add too much. I also added some darker paint along the corners to make the letters standout more. I don’t want this to be the design I use on my typography page but like the idea of using it on other pages of my zine.

 

(figure 4)

(figure 5)

After looking at more designs online and seeing what I liked and disliked from my designs I came up with the idea of doing graffiti. (figure 6) I thought this design looked the most interesting and I was able to add a lot more colour into my design unlike the others. I also like the idea I was able to add layers, I think this gives the design a lot more texture and give of a 3D effect. I took inspiration from my other designs with colour combinations and the structure of where my letters were placed. I think this would look interesting within my female shoot as graffiti is stereotyped as a male art style, and this links in with my theme of crossing gender norms. I also took inspiration from my art page in my sketch book, I really liked my distract piece (figure 7) and wanted to combine that into my typography work somehow. I think this adds more to the final design and makes it a lot more eye catching.

(figure 6)

(figure 7)

(full sketch book page)

 

Flat lays 

In today’s lecture we looked at flat lays, I think this is a really easy way to organise the plan of the zine and a way I can put what I’m imagining and completed in an order. By doing the flat lay I was also able to get an idea of how I’m imagining the final editing would look.

As I have done one of my photoshoots already, I was able to plan how many photos I’m planning on adding and how I what them placed in the Zine. I am planning on adding six pages based on my photoshoot one, the crosses in the boxes represent a photo this also gives me a better idea of where I am planning all my photos to go. This method is also very helpful while I’ve been working on InDesign due to the fact the set out is similar.

 

 

 

workshop

In today’s workshop we worked we worked with an A3 sheet of paper. We started by cutting a hole into the paper that would fit our faces. The aim of this workshop was to create a character that would at the end look like it is our body. I decided to take a comedic attempt to this workshop and turn myself into a mermaid character. To do this a first drew out my character I then added hair, to make the character appear like it is in water I drew it going upwards. I wanted to add more detail to my hair so I drew lots of fine lines to make it look like the hair is moving in the water. I then added colour to my characters body and made it look more animated by adding scales to the tail. I like how my end design looked, I think the colours and drawing was accurate and would be able tell it is a mermaid. I think if I wanted to improve I would add some sea life characters or bubbles just to add to the scene and make it so there is more to look at in the background.