1 week until hand in

To help organise myself I have put together a check list of the work I need to complete in the next week.

WORK BASED LEARNING

• Get a file sorted
• Gather information on my own business
• Put together a time plan 
• Evaluation

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• SWOT ( which i have just completed )
• Time Plan ( busy doing now )
• Progress file
• Continue to build on my blog

S.W.O.T Analysis

I have listed my strengths and weaknesses, this will help bring to my attention any improvements needed in my work and skills.

Strengths

• Quick learner
• Quick to learn programmes such as photoshop
• Can work well individually or as part of a team
• Good communicator
• General ICT skills
• trustworthy

Weaknesses

• Find it hard to motivate myself when disengaged with topic
• Keeping interested in my work even if i think it is not up to scratch
• Prioritising work loads better
• Not rushing through a piece when i feel it is no longer of good quality

Opportunities

• Capabilities of producing work for my own business
• Going onto further education
• Starting up and doing free lance work
• Working for established company's 
• Going on to learn new skills using similar or the same programs used in animation

Threats

• Running own business ( Time Consuming )
• Work / Life balance
• Other interests

Black and White worked into

I wanted to work into a black and white image again without adding colour into it. I really like this piece and although i tried not to add any colour i felt it really needed something more so that is why i added the red to the tongue.

Black and white worked into

I originally was just going to work into this image with grayscale tones but as i worked into it more and more i felt it needed colour so i only used colour for the detail work and i am very happy with the outcome.

I still want to do a black and white only piece but i felt this image needed colour to make it work.

I again experimented with different brushes forcing me to find new techniques and i am very happy with how the outline has worked although not neat i think it still works.

BAKEA!

Whilst looking through blogs and browsing through the internet i cam across artist BAKEA!

As i am working into actual photographs i realised it is similar to some of Bakea's work.Although im not 100% weather some are photographs worked into or paintings either way i really like how well the characters fit in with the piece and especially the facial expressions on the characters. The colours used play a massive part in the feeling i get from the illustrations also helping things really fit into the one image.

I will take alot from the work of Bakea which will really help my own work progress the attention to detail is fantastic and that is something i will try to apply more in my work.

Different brushes

I have just ben experimenting with different brushes. This character was created using a brush which basically smudged a shape my aim was to try and create a character out of what ever shape the brush made when i had gone around the original picture.

This was just to again keep me out of my comfort zone and help me work with different shapes when creating characters.

I decided to use a multiple of brushes i would not normally use.

The original image has also had a filter applied.

Nose press silksworth skatepark illustration

I have worked into sections on the Bmx bike wheels also in this piece and not just the characters. I also experimented a little bit with different textured brushes in photoshop. Using bright bold colours also to make things stand out from the original photograph as much as possible. I am very happy with how the main character looks and how well the wheels stand out after i have worked into them.