Other Possibilities (post#17)

Looking at examples of David Hockney's works helped me came up with other ideas that I could possibly do for my mural.

Here, I've created it as joiners. In this illustration, I've zoomed in the interesting parts that I want to emphasized to make it more creative and interesting. 

I've also came up with an idea of making its sections as polaroid photographs. Unlike some of Hockney's work, I haven't arranged them into a grid layout as I want it to appear that they've just been randomly stuck together.

For this idea, I was also thinking that it would probably be great if the bottom part of each photographs got a handwritten note that indicates how people find their day when they visited the Yo! Sushi!. I want it to have an impression of, dining at Yo! Sushi will provide them with a great experience. These notes have got to be handwritten of different people inorder to make it realistic. Then, inorder to consistently reinforce the brand, each of polaroids will going to have the Yo! Sushi logo.

However, after a day, I've realised that this idea would not work, that's why you can see that the above illustration is unfinish. This is because I'm thinking that, if its sections are going to be polaroid photographs, my illustration should not have poster edges effects. In other words, they should be ordinary photographs just like the ones that we have in our photo albums (Polaroid photographs doesn't have poster edges effects). So I guess I'm probably better off with the joiner idea.

It's a shame that I couldn't apply this idea because I really like it. Probably with this, colours of the tacks should either be Blue or Red because they're the colours of London.

Which one's better? (post#16)

At the moment, I actually can't decide which of these two to use.

Which one do you think is better?

My mural (post#15)

So this is my illustration for my mural

Again, inorder for all of the images to work together, I've posterised the whole thing a bit. Then, to give it a modern look, I've kinda altered some of the colours of the illustration. I think now it looks more contemporary.

Get the London look! (post#14)

I'm actually having second thoughts about including a picture of the Queen in my mural. Because my mural is basically aimed at 18 to 24s, I think that it would probably be a better idea if I'm going to use images young people, instead. After all, they are my target audience!

They don't have to be London looking as long as they look trendy they would work.

My reason for this is, I think that my mural would attract more audience if what they're going to see in my mural are funky, and fashionable youth!

I also want to use Kate Moss' image because I kinda remember her appearing in Rimmel commercial a number of times. I think in one of these the advertisement, she got "Get the London look!" line, which is the brand's tagline. Therefore I think, having her would help reinforce the Yo!Sushi London brand a bit more. She will quickly remind people of London because they've seen her in the commercials, promoting a London theme brand.

Probably, what I want for my mural is to have the impression of Cool Britannia. It's sort of saying that London is a fashionable, cool and exciting place to live, where lots of youngsters are having fun. It's trendy and youthful.

David Hockney (post#13)

Last week, I've been introduced to an artist who has done kind of work that is sort of similar to mine. His name is..

DAVID HOCKNEY

He is a British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, designer and photographer. According to Wikipedia, Hockney is considered as one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.He specialises in photo montages, which he referred as "joiners". Below are just some of his works:

Each of these works is made up of a series of photographs which are taken from different perspectives and arranged to form a composite image.

It was believed that Hockney's creation of "joiner" was not intended as it happened when he was in L.A. working on a painting of a living room. As a preparation, he took polaroid shots of the room then pasted them all together. Upon looking at them, he realised that it formed a story, as if the viewer was actually inside the room. This discovery made him left his passion for painting for a while, inorder to fully concentrate on his new photography form.

I understand why this artist has been introduced to me as his techniques will help me develop my mural further. I actually like the idea of having images taken into different perspectives in a way that it conveys movement to the viewer. I'll probably use his style to my work.

Which one's which? (post#12)

So here's my image

It's more London looking because I now got that Routemaster bus, which is one of the real trademarks of London.

Inorder to determine which of these images are going to be a drawing, a photograph or grayscale, what I did was, I've printed each of these images thrice. (Please look through my sketchbook to see what I've done)

The visual style of each image varies between each print-outs. For example:

On the first print-out, the image of the London Phone Booth is in coloured



On the second one, the image is in grayscale

For the third one, I've printed a drawing version of the image.

To be honest, I'm not really going to use the grayscale image of the phone booth because for things like the London buses, phone booth & underground sign, they are all either gonna come as a photograph or drawing as I want to keep their redness.

I've also printed a grayscale version of the whole illustration as my guide.

Once printed, I've cut these images out and laid them all on the table. This way made it easier for me to fiddle with images and decide which combination of visual style goes well with each other.

Since at the moment, I still haven't made up my mind on whose image I'm going to use, I've just brought back the photograph of the theatrical woman.

Just incase you're wondering why the ensign flag had disappear, this is because I've already decided that it is going to be set in Overlay sort of effect. And I think, if it is going to be set in this effect, I would prefer it coloured.

If I am being honest, looking at the image above, I actually quite like what the cut-out effect is doing to my illustration. However, I do not think this would be ideal because if I scanned this in, all images will going to come as a single image.In other words if I want to do some adjustments on a particular image, i.e. London Bus, this wouldn't be easy without affecting the rest of the images in the illustration.

I think I will gonna settle with the one below. In this illustration, St.Paul's Cathedral and Swiss Re building appears in great detail, which to me is interesting, and the redness of the London bus, phone booth, underground sign is maintained. I've got no worries when it comes to making it contemporary because I'm going to change its saturation later anyway.

The Chosen Style (post#11)

During the past few days, I'm actually torn between the ideas of whether I'm going to have my mural as some sort of a joiner or just leaving it as it is but with iconic things breaking out of the edges. In the end, I've just decided that I'm going to have it as a joiner, after all this approach is much more representational of London.

 

However, with this illustration that I have at the moment, I need to make some changes. These are the images of the London bus and Queen's Guard.

This is actually the sort of bus that we see in every parts of the country. For this instance, I've got to be more traditional, I've got to use image of a bus that can only be seen in London. Therefore, I'm probably better off using an image of an old school bus like the Routemaster.

This is very traditional, very London.

Same thing with the image of the Queen's guard that I have used.

I've also got to look for another image as those guys needs to be less military.

What I'm gonna do now, since that my tutor has said that the way that I've laid out the images is fine, once I've replaced the images of London bus and Queen's guards, I'm gonna go back to where I was.

I may add a bit more relevant stuff like the ensign flag and the Queen, then I'm gonna plan which of them are going to be a drawing, photograph, vector etc.