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[bethfuller]

the wayfarer and their destination

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#inspiration behind this one is the 26k walk i did around the irish countryside on saturday #anyway i missed drawing my hooded wandering dude!! those of you who have followed me for a while may remember him #also this is very important : i will not upload any more art before i have all my commissions done and sent. you've all been incredible #and so patient #ok goodnight #art #sketch #landscape #artists on tumblr #krita #bethfuller #Digital Illustration #digital drawing #digital art #Illustration #fantasy #ireland #djcad

[notbyjamiej]

Allen Ruppersberg' One Of Many - Origin and Variants

#djcad #graphic design

[rchrgd]

Lost In Limbo

The beginnings of another photo zine, cause I’ve become obsessed with folding paper, but not skilled enough for origami

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #artists on tumblr #zine making #zine #photo Zine #art #fine art #Scottish artist #djcad #art student

[bourachart]

a project about sleep

#my final for first semester of third year #it was a very shit start to the year had a lot of health problems but i pulled it out the bag at the end and got a C1 #continuing this project next semester too #djcad #art #artist #acrylic #sleep #sleep problems #art about sleep #abstract art #conceptual art #modern art #scottish artist #collage

[coreyduffmacleod]

Week 1

January 15th - January 21st

If my short film is to be considered to move into a stage of development, a solid pitch must be prepared. Writing, rehearsing and finalising the themes and ideas in my creature feature took up the majority of my workload, this week. 

After putting my poor flatmates through a mock-presentation, through feedback, I’d identified my innate trait of rambling on (and how it could curb my chances of successfully showing the ideas of my film)  – if the pitch was to be limited to a five-minute slot, per presenter, this had to be fixed. Cue cards were the answer, to help me keep concise, precise and unambiguous in what I wanted to get across.

However anxious, I’m eagerly anticipating my time to pitch. Excited, I’m interested as to what ideas that my coursemates have, for their films, and the glimpses of their personalities that will shine through! 

I can only hope that the specialisms (of myself and others) will translate to the teams that people are drawn to.

These specialist skills were another focal point of the week. Both requiring a concrete quality of solid drawing; I’m wanting to specialise in storyboarding and 2D character animation. To prepare myself, and create some fine foundations for these skills, I brought a more consistent attitude towards life drawing outside of the studio – drawing full figures, during the breaks of lectures and out in public.

#animation #djcad #djcad animation #stop motion

[animatedshortoftheday]

ChemisTree (2019) [5 min] by Gosia Chlopek and Lukas Gecas | Scotland

#3D #3D Animation #2019 #5 min #Gosia Chlopek #Lukas Gecas #Scotland #Animated Short #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #DJCAD #Trees #Nature #Seasons #Youtube

[ionafc]

Doing one last cheeky wee attempt at fundraising!! Link is in my bio!! I’m so nearly 50% funded, thanks SO MUCH to everyone who has supported me thus far, your commissions are nearly done!! The djunkelskog raffle will be drawn soon but you can still enter! Only 5 days till I leave YIKES ((also look at the temperature for this week I’m going to MELT)) #msu #montclair #montclairstateuniversity #uod #universityofdundee #dundee #djcad (at Dundee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0VTTrK8gC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#msu #montclair #montclairstateuniversity #uod #universityofdundee #dundee #djcad

[ox24g]

Bready to Cry

Costume and performance based on the catastrophisation and depersonalisation felt by those of us who struggle with anxiety. It was inspired by a panic attack I had in the bread isle of a supermarket.

#performance art #performance costume #mixed media #mask #DJCAD

[ohitsmendonka]

a first date guide book for dundee [2020]

#first date #guide book #illustration #illust #digital #digital art #dundee #scotland #djcad #first love

[quindriepress]

This week's spotlight is on Beth Fuller and her comic Witching Hour. Beth is an illustrator and concept artist from Dublin, Ireland. She’s considering putting down the stylus pen and heading off into the wilderness to live as a hermit, but likes hot showers and horror films just enough to keep her in civilisation. For now, anyway. (@bethfuller | website | instagram | twitter)

"Witching Hour is about a young girl sent on a mysterious journey by her father. Two pale trees with intertwined branches form a strange gate at the edge of 12-year-old Esio’s town, and beyond it lies an old, ruined land. Over their pints, as dusk falls, the villagers say it’s where lost things - and people - eventually end up. She’s got sandwiches, an apple, plasters, a bottle of Tipperary Kidz water and a Horrible Histories book in her rucksack and she’s heading off into the unknown, with only a talisman to guide her. There’s no telling who she might meet along the way."

Read the spotlight below the cut!

"That’s the initial rundown, anyway. Speaking more subjectively, I wanted to create a setting where two totally different characters - as different from each other as you can get - are forced to work together and end up changing each other’s lives. I really do think you can get on and find common ground with almost anyone, in the right circumstances."

Witching Hour took several years to incubate. "I’d been working on a comic slowly and haltingly since I was 18. There are pages kept deep, deep in my computer with old, badly drawn versions of Esio in a radically different setting, but it never really made sense as a story. I don’t think I made it past page three! Still, the fantasy atmosphere and character of Esio stuck with me over the years. Plus I really like to mix the dull, routine and mundane aspects of everyday life with things that are otherworldly and strange."

"Eventually we had a visual narrative module as part of my degree, and while recalling my old comic pages (I was mulling over it in the shower, which is where I think many of us do our most important thinking) an idea came to me that would form the basis of Witching Hour. Adding this to the embers of my previous project gave me more than enough fuel to sit down and start drawing.

"I have plenty of ideas for what I want to get up to next. I’ll work on a tarot set, keep working on freelance concept art and illustrations, design some tattoos, maybe try my hand at another comic at some stage. As always, feel free to get in touch and let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see from me!"

Beth draws inspiration from many sources: "The landscapes of south-west Ireland. Horror films, foreign language films, fantasy films, anything animated. The writing of Michelle Paver, Neil Gaiman and Ursula LeGuin.

"For me, though, it’s primarily the work of other illustrators that has inspired me the most, and it’s often only through seeing and evaluating lots of different brilliant styles that you can start to discern your own tastes. As a child, the obligatory Ghibli film catalogue. Then the work of Chris Riddell, Max Prentis and Ian McQue were enough inspiration to foster an interest in art school. I went, studied Illustration at DJCAD, and discovered Jake Wyatt, Celia Lowenthal, Juliette Brocal, Linnea Sterte, Jack T. Cole, Evan Cagle, Alphonse Mucha and (of course) Moebius. Seeing their work is like taking the creative spark and making it into a deodorant flamethrower."

Beth's work often centres around fantastical worlds and sweeping landscapes. "I think somehow you always come back to what you know. Sometimes you don’t even notice you have a fascination with something until you start to create and it keeps returning.

"My family and I spent a lot of time around Irish coastlines growing up, especially during the warmer months. Kerry, in the south-west, has mountains that turn brown in winter, then when summer comes are carpeted with a haze of purple heather, not unlike the hills of Scotland. There are crumbling ringforts and monastic ruins on isolated hilltops. I could be in the most beautiful place in the world but still miss the coconut scent of Kerry gorse. The fantasy aspect is fun to play with, and it adds a nice sense of mystery, but fundamentally I think the landscapes I draw are an attempt to capture, and return to, the shores I kicked about on as a kid."

For aspiring comic creators, Beth has this advice: "This is a common one, but I think it’s still worth saying: if you have a story, get it down. You don’t need to consider yourself a comic artist to make a comic. You also don’t need to wait around for the right time, or enough expertise - nobody is going to give you a nametag with ‘comic artist’ on it. If you can draw, and you need to say something, just start drawing boxes and see where it goes. Also, ‘Necropolis’ by Jake Wyatt is really good."

You can pick up Witching Hour, alongside the other three comics in our 2023 collection, right here on Kickstarter! 

#witching hour #2023 collection #beth fuller #bethfuller

[c-kiddo]

im sorry if this is personal, but i remember you saying you went to uni for illustration? if that's actually true and not my brain doing things, is it okay to ask which one was it and how did it feel to be there? i am looking into art universities right now bc my current one seems to be kinda terrible. you don't have to answer if you don't want to

ah i havent been to any yet :-o started at ECA (edinburgh college of art) in september but i didnt like it and then didnt have anywhere suitable for me to live so i dropped out after a few weeks (rly couldnt stay where i was any longer, and it was just so crowded in the classes and bleh).. im applying for DJCAD (dundee) now though and people seem to rly love it and i had a nice time at open days befoer so.. hopefully thats good. (i only chose edinburgh over dundee bc it was nearer to home and thought it'd be fun to be somewhere so different but T_T it was silly. and deferred my place by a year too so idk i'd changed as a person by the time i left.. . and then th housing situation went to shit so, not worth staying or trying to stay. its vry expensive there. yeesh) .. i might apply to GSA and university of the highlands and island just for the heck of it.. im not sure tho, maybe not

(sorry , i dont know about non-scottish ones at all)

#UHI feels a bit isolated.. also dundee just has rly good student reviews so. ye .good idea #gsa has pretty bad student reviews sometimes but idk. people like vis com there so aaa. not sure. may as well try ?? im not sure #asks

[notbyjamiej]

Blog Reflection

Maintaining this blog over the semester has helped me learn more about what influences me and what my personal tastes are. I've noticed my design preferences lean towards more experimental and overwhelming works and how this has the power to alter mood and change perception. I also have explored a lot of Fine Artists, I think looking into this has made me both appreciate and consider what the boundaries of graphic design are and how a designer can be influenced by more abstract or experimental forms to create more interesting and unique graphic design. I've developed a newfound interest in type setting and publication layout design, something I once found constraining but now appreciate for its liberating aspects. Working on our publication project has also played a role in this shift. Printed, physical design has also become a focus of interest for me. Exploring the tangible and visual aspects of print has added another layer to consider within the design process.

Using this Tumblr blog as a concise way to gather and showcase my current influences and future aspirations has been beneficial. Reflecting on my choices and curating content has contributed to my growth as a designer. I plan to continue this practice in the future as it has become an integral part of my design development.

#djcad #graphic design

[rchrgd]

Absolutely disgusting week setting up my prints for degree show! V excited to go back to being an outside artist after this.

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #art student #emerging artist #djcad

[bourachart]

a little lazy evening wip

needs a lot of work still but its just for fun

#wip #wipart #acrylic #surreal #collage #painted collage #djcad #key #card #goldfish #leaf #love painting #gonna keep adding random things on until i get tired

[coreyduffmacleod]

Week 13

April 8th - April 14th

As well as working on my assistant brief, I finished my polished storyboards for Crèche and Burn, completing a scene that Frank (the film’s showrunner) requested that I add back in! I utilised a dolly-in that closes into an endangered Joshy, to create a sense of tension, in that segment.

Just as I wished, I was assigned animation work to do, for my assistant brief: Baobhan Sith. As was expected, it was an inbetweening job to be completed on traditional animation paper. Having only used a lightbox outside of my DJCAD work, I was excited to begin.

The animation depicted a mischief of rats emerging from a singular point; spreading out, over a short span of time.

When taking a look at Katy (the keyframer)’s initial frames, I noticed that new rats would appear suddenly, throughout the sequence. Because of this, I would need to pay extra close attention to how many rats were in frame at once, so that I could in-between them squeezing into view; as opposed to them suddenly being shot into existence on the page.

As traditional animation lacks a digital timeline to scrub through and keep myself right with, I would take pictures of my completed frames and turn them into GIFs on my phone, to make sure everything was in order and avoid handling the animation paper too much (potentially sullying the quality of the outcome by flipping through the frames manually).

To keep a good dialogue with (Hannah) the showrunner, I made sure to send her these GIFs. Hannah was happy with the final outcome that was sent to her (over Microsoft Teams, in the form of a GIF).

#djcad animation #creche and burn #storyboards #animation #baobhan sith

[libbydd]

I present my first ever printed comic: ESAU!

If you want a copy of ESAU or want to see more comics by my amazing classmates, come see us at the DJCAD/University of Dundee table at TAGS Fest on December 2nd in Edinburgh!

This comic is a real labour of love, and I'm so excited to finally be able to share it.

#At some point i'll be selling copies online as well so dont worry if you cant make it!