Week 6 - Big Issue

We had to choose our areas (eg. Graphics,3D,Textiles & Fashion or Fine Art), I did have a bit of difficulty choosing at first but settled on Graphics/Illustration. Our first project was called 'Big Issue', we were told to choose an issue we felt strongly about and illustrate it in an informative way. I chose the Stigma of Mental Illness and chose quotes from a mix of people (Stephen Fry,Sylvia Plath, R.D Laing etc.) to illustrate. In this week I was directed to use a system of production - a day each on backgrounds, text and image, which I found pretty helpful in getting work done for a deadline.

I experimented with a few different drawing styles (continuous line, dotted/broken line and vibrant watercoloured shading). I really enjoyed the font experiments as well, and I tried to use photoshop for the first time..which went reasonably well.