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The Visual Narrative and the Written Narrative of my concertina. 

FINAL DESIGNS. HANDED IN. FINISHED.

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Mini Evaluation of FMP

Of all my projects I have had in my three years of study, I have enjoyed my Final Major Project the most. It has been a journey of self-discovery for me since day one, and along the way I have found new ways of expressing myself as well as the themes I am passionate about.

 This final project has allowed me to bring everything I have learned together. My passion, my interests, my inspiration and my motivation. I feel I have connected more with my illustrations than before, actively gathering primary research through on location and observational drawings. I am more confident in the work I produce on location, using pencils, pens and watercolours, as well as gathering other materials and taking photographs to use as secondary research at a later stage. This is all demonstrated within the 9 sketchbooks I am submitting and loose pages of mono prints, experimentation and the blog I kept.

 My decision to travel abroad and volunteer in Africa was completely the right thing to do for my progress and journey as an illustrator. I found the motivation, inspiration and active role I needed to complete a successful body of work and a final outcome that I am happy with. I have enjoyed exploring new areas of illustration where I can apply myself, particularly during the researching and writing of my investigative study. This was an eye opener in to the career path I could follow as a professional illustrator, but also as a self-authored illustrator. Although the trip is something I have wanted to do for myself for a while now, illustration aside, it has been eye opening in the possibilities and areas I can use my creativity. Where I can fuel my passions and source ideas that will connect with my target audiences, with the ultimate goal of inspiring others through the visual medium of creativity.

 For my body of work I have illustrated and documented in a variety of sketchbooks with different paper and of different sizes. I have used a range of materials and ways of expressing myself and the surroundings I was in, sketching fast and loosely as well as spending more time on illustrations and composition of images on a page. I have also explored form and tone, something I would like to experiment more with. This was particularly successful in my mono printing, and I am looking into using more accessible materials such as carbon paper to achieve similar results whilst travelling.

 My final concertina has been printed with a separate front and back to optimize the quality of the print under the time period of finishing and handing in. It was printed on 2m paper and cut up and folded by myself. Due to the self-handling, there are a few scrapes and marks on both concertina booklets which I am not overly happy with, however they do not affect the aesthetic of the overall product. If I had more time and money, I would look into getting the concertina printed more professionally with double-sided printing for one concertina, something I hope to be able to do in time for the exhibition.

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Hollie Clark Professional practice

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I have printed out my two final concertinas and can be seen here, precisely cutting them out with a ruler and scalpel. 

I am a bit of a perfectionist with my work so I tried to take great care in cutting and folding these up. However there were a few marks on the visual concertina from the ink, something that can naturally occur when handling and formatting your work. I am a bit annoyed, however the whole product still works visually and aesthetically. This is the same for the written side of the concertina, as the ink has been scraped off in tiny areas.

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I have bought some business cards via Moo.com today. I’ve decided to buy the Green Business cards in rectangle, because they are environmentally friendly, made from 100% recycled fibre. And on the off chance someone throws my card away (how rude) it is 100% biodegradable. 

It is important to give off the right impression, and because I care about the environment, these cards are perfect! I also went for 2 designs to show off different styles of the kind of work I do. People can choose which one they want to take on preference. 

#business cards #illustration #student #grad show #art #hollclark

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Been writing up a rhyming story for the back of my concertina.

Using a calligraphy black ink pen on A2 paper. 

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Getting so close to finishing my final concertina! 

The leaves really help to bring the whole thing together and there are many different aspects of collage and materials used to create each character and background. Few bits of tidying up to do and I will hopefully have it printed on Monday after the weekend.

#student #collage #concertina #wildlife #volunteer #conservation #material #lilongwe wildlife centre #illustration #art

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More mono printing and experimentation.

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Exploring textures and patterns using mono printing. 

They have good potentials for the forests and landscape aspects of my concertina. Ot could be used to create interesting textures with other shapes and forms. 

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Using tone in mono printing to create body forms of animals. I wanted to be able to create the the animal using simple tones that focus on the recognisable features of individual animals.

I feel like the hyena ones are the most successful of this experiment.

I worked on size A5 and A4 paper, and on the top left monkey I have also used some white paint. 

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Fantastic form of inspiration to start changing the way we treat our natural world and its inhabitants.

#conservation #generation #inspiration #natureisspeaking #natural world #sorry #notsorry #make a difference #save the world

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Did some mono printing all morning and in to the afternoon today.

I tried to be a bit more experimental with this session, focusing a lot on the form and tone of animal figures, and using little fine lines as possible. I also drew into the paint and then printed on the paper, played around with the white spirit to create textures and patterns and worked at some larger scales. 

The print room has been a fantastic place over the last three years of my degree, and I have enjoyed learning how to screen print and mono print to use in my practise. It has really helped to loosen up my style of working, creating more experimental and engaging illustrations that can be used for a variety of things, such as posters, children’s books, banners and campaign work in the area of conservation that I hope to go in to. 

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I don’t like being called a street artist. I hate that phrase. In fact, it’s stereotypes in general I have serious issues with.

Fantastic interview on artist Louis Masai on how he finds “countries that have populations of people piled on top of each other and a lack of horizons, I find people care less about what lies beyond.”

Something I very much agree with. When surrounded by urban culture, people forget about how important the natural world and habitats are to animals and peoples lives.

#street art #conservation #inspire #art #save the bees

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Artist Inspiration.

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Artist Inspiration

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Inspiring article by Chris Weston on why he feels it is important to tell a narrative within his photographs and how he does it. 

#Chris Weston #photography #wildlife #wildlife photography #nature #inspiring