Task One: Group Zine

PLymouth City Museum: Group Zine Task 1

During this stage of the final project we were assigned various activities and workshops for development into the second stage of our self initiated project.

We were allocated groups and sent to the Plymouth city museum for observational drawing activities, in our groups we explored the gallery and gathered various images and evidence of our trip in our sketchbooks, working strictly in only black and white media for a consistent look and style. 

Our task was to create a zine in our groups, by collaborating all of our work after touching up on photoshop. four pages per person was set as our goal to create a little booklet celebrating the museum.

I started sketching various artifacts, the skeleton section inspired me most as i enjoy capturing natural forms and structures to develop my drawing skills. There were different types of skeletal structures including various species of monkey and human skulls.

I experimented using black pen and sketching pencils for a diverse approach and re-edited my artwork on photoshop. I cleaned up the images and combined them as one final piece as one of the pages for the zine.

My bird sketch was one of my favourite images drawn from the stuffed animal section. I feel i captured the shape of the bird well here and the detail around the eyes and face of the bird looks realistic.

 

As an illustrator I'm very interested by patterns, shapes and decoration, so the cultural sections of the museum held some eye catching pieces for me to draw. Here is my African tapestry which i drew from a piece of ancient African clothing.

 This piece was drawn from an ancient ornament from Greece, I really liked the shapes and the carved detail on this vase.

After meeting with the group we decided we plucked out our favorite images for the zine and started thinking about front covers, titles and back covers. 

My ancient Greek vase pattern was chosen by the group for a front cover. I re- edited this on photoshop using various techniques for repetition .

After my feedback it was noted that my front cover does need fit in with what is in the zine. It also read back that I should have used typewriter font instead of the boring font that I had previously used.

I decided that given the time frame available and taking the second of the project on board that I could re-do the whole thing but instead I could re-edit the piece to change the font to a typewriter style which works a lot better.