TAFE - Produce Drawings to Communicate Ideas

Assessment Tasks

The assessment evidence required for this unit is that you will have to produce a set of four drawings –

    Drawings that use the Shape Tools as the main feature
    Drawings that use the Pen Tool as the main feature
    Drawings that use the silhouette techniques

The themes or ideas that your drawings have to communicate are:

A celebration (Xmas , New Year, Birthday, Valentines Day etc)
Food or Beverage (Cake, Biscuits, Coffee, Wine, Cheese etc)
Animal Pets / Human Figures (Cats, Dogs, Birds,  silhouette figure scenes or groups etc)
One of the Learning Assignment tutorials – its your choice or either the RC Airplane Tutorial or Ocean Liner Tutorial using any of these drawing techniques in combination or individually.

Before Images

After using the pentool and creating a silhouette.  I used shapes to create Hello Kitty and the pentool for her whiskers.

No befores for my ocean liner, created from scratch, which my teacher loves the way it turned out.  Hope he likes the new improved version.  I just changed a few colours and added a city skyline, made the smoke look less like clouds as well.  Will upload the two versions.  The landscape version is the one submitted for the assessment task.

Before

After

My Final Postcard Series for TAFE

I was lucky as my TAFE assessment was on postcards, as my university assessment was, however, while I created the postcards in Photoshop for university, I had to create them in Illustrator for TAFE. 

I recreated two that I did not use for the university assessment as they were too touristy.  So they were abandoned even though I had completed them.  I decided to revisit them and recreate them in Illustrator and called my collection, "Reflections in Bathurst", with some changes to the back and front of the postcards.  Seriously am thinking of taking these down to the tourist information centre and seeing if they would like to use them as the ones they have are not really the best with information on the back not matching the front.

I reused Mount Panorama and Keppel Street, I then had to work hard on the third postcard from what photos I had taken and that was on the tourist trail.  I went through my images playing around with combinations as I have put an overlay on the bottom photo using another photo over the top.  It is like a transparency.  I finally found my best combination.  Two photo's taken in Machattie Park.  Below are the final images.

Documentary Photography Assessment Revisited

Documentary Photography Assessment Revisited

Having gain a lot of confidence working with Photoshop and learning what I can do with Photoshop and layers through the Linda tutorials, I decided to redo the photos, enhance the RAW images to see what I can do and see if I can improve the result.  I was very happy with the final result and the differences in the images to me was so good, I have created a portfolio for my camera club presentation.  When I finish the portfolio I will upload it to YouTube.

Can you name this ride?

I have decided to turn this photo upside down on a vertical view point rather than the pointing down as the ride is really turning you around and it gives it a different perspective on the poster itself.  

Can you name this ride?  if so please tell me.  I am clueless on these rides and I need the name to write up on my reflection notes as the final part of my assessment task.

TAFE - Moody Postcard - Week 5

Learning Activity:

Create a postcard that reflects a mood – content is up to you – you can use a combination of text and image or you might prefer to use text or image. Think about how colour relates to mood. Export your file for print – submit the print ready pdf.

They certainly had a hard life living with me!

CSU Uni - Design a Poster for a Local Event Assignment 3

Part of our brief.

Produce:
1. Create a design brief for your chosen event, outline the target audience. Explain what the event is about, its history and the general event details. You must include:
Where - the address and maybe a map;
When - dates and times;
Who - event organiser, include a logo and contacts;
Why - why should people come, provide a reason.

2. Choose three design examples from your chosen designer. Select designs that inspire you. Scrutinise the design principles and write a brief analysis of the works.

3. Make a rough mock-up for your event similar in style, layout, colour and/or typography to your chosen designer's originals. Whilst employing the designer's style, include in your design your specific event details.

4. Create one more final design for your event that has some reference to your chosen designer but is your original work.

5. Write a reflection on your finished piece including a self-assessment about how you thought it worked and how it was influenced or not by the chosen designer.

Rationale

This project will introduce you to how design can be used as a direct tool for communication about a specific event. It will involve researching a renowned designer, using their work as inspiration, and producing a unique, original piece that pays homage to your chosen designer.

Below are my mock ups with the original works of Paula Scher.  Followed by my designs and final poster design.

Mock up Number One.

 Mock up Number Two.

 Next two images are Paula Schers work.

Next two images are mine done very quickly which lead to my final design.

Next is another Paula Scher Public Theatre Poster design.

Next is my design still in its final stages.

Photo was taken at the Royal Bathurst Show, by me and edited in Camera RAW and Photoshop.