Presentation of TASK 4

1. The quote I chose to do my own interpretation of is “you are my
sunshine”, I know there is a song with this line in it, covered by
many, many people, so there is no real telling who sung it
originally, but I did find out on-line that it was a very old song,
sung in the countryside. The reason I decided to do this as a
quote and not a lyric though is because I hear it being said all the
time, by loved ones, and I can say that it is probably a pretty
famous saying, people say it many times with out knowing the
origins. As rude as this sounds, I though my grandmother would
know something of the origins because she’s really old, but she
did not, she just said it’s one of those things that will never die,
after originally deciding to do a character design, I wanted to do
about this quote because I’d tried to look into it but couldn’t
really find an origin, and that intrigued me.

2. .
My drawing came from a life drawing I did in a field by Knowle
Primary school which is a school I used to attend, I saw a couple on
a bench laying there, enjoying the view on a bench so I did a very
quick sketch of them. When I chose to use the quote:
“You are my sun-shine”, I decided to base it off of that sketch, two
people, secluded in a field, though it’s winter and the leaves are
dead, I decided to make the bench a blanket and remove the
trees, the style I went for was going to be summer colours, simple
and cute. I wanted to add some ‘Typography‘ to it too, so I added
some over the clouds along with a comic book style cloud to make
it fit in with the picture.
Since I put it into flash to make it a vector style, I made major
changes to the initial idea.

3. I did a very quick and very
simple sketch because I did
not want to intrude on a
couples ‘moment’ and soon
left them to it.
But I liked the idea of a
couple secluded on a hill.
The second slide with all the different variations of the
idea, was my thought train on how I would actually depict
this image. I finally went with the boy glowing because the
others weren’t realistic and I wanted it to not be too silly.
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6. Strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths:
I think the strengths in my development is that I have explored different ways of depicting
the quote.
I think that the strengths are how bold it is and how I have also included the quote in my
drawing.
I also like how it was exactly how I was imagine it would turn out.
I like that I painted my image first and chose certain things to move around later on in
Photoshop and Adobe Flash.
Weaknesses: I feel like I should have developed the characters in my quote design a bit
more.
I should have picked a style that would be more pleasing, not many people are a fan of
simplicity.
I think I should have devoted more time into developing this piece.
I think next time I should try and create characters that look more realistic, I feel people
may understand it better this way.

7. What I wish to develop further.
I wish to develop the characters further and possibly explore in a
digital medium, the different ways I could depict the quote
because the sketches in my book seem like they are just doodles
and may come across as not really explored enough.
I also wish I had more time to work into it more and maybe develop
it into a more realistic style as I prefer realism, but I wanted to
explore doing it in a simpler style as I haven’t really done this
before, also I found it pretty difficult to keep it simple because I
kept trying to add more tedious details like shading.
I wish that maybe I could have created a series of images like the
ones I sketched to create a somewhat compilation of images so I
was able to choose from ones that worked and ones that did not.

8. What has changed through exploring different
methods of mark making?
I’d say that the style of my design has changed due to the
different methods, I wanted to create a simplistic style to
emulate the slight limitations to detail that comes with screen
printing and using Lino and plastic to print.
I guess what sparked the idea to make the design simple was
Printing using block shapes with paper and ink, I
experimented with blending the colours in that lesson and my
image came out pretty nicely.
Though I liked the style that come of printing, I’m not the biggest
fan of the style I explored in my final Quote design and will
probably not explore it further in the future unless it is to do
printing work.

9. This is my final design.
Thank you for listening. 