It's the final stretch of Uni now- 15 weeks and my course will be finished!! It's quite a daunting yet exciting thought that in a few weeks time I will be done with my education after 17 years and out into the real world!! I have no idea what I want to do workwise but I intend to try and find a job of some sort to save up for travelling next year!!
However, I have a terribly busy (and probably very stressful) time before all that happens so one step at a time! For my Final Major Project, I have decided to illustrate Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" using the same cut-out technique I used for my previous project. As I did my dissertation on vampires, horror fiction has been on my mind a lot lately and so I felt it would be a good story to do although I am adament there will be no green skin or bolts through any necks!
I am also going to try and squeeze in a few competitions around the uni projects, time permitting!!
Wish me luck!!
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Minor Project Handed In!!
At last, my minor project on "Water for Elephants" has been handed in!!! I decided to work in a very different way to what I would normally by doing paper cut-outs rather than painting or drawing so I hope that it's paid off! These are some of my final images based on the novel which I made into a book;
Illustrations are Copyright of Abigayle de Young 2011
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Hola 2011!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Ok, so we're a little way in to the new year now but for me, so far, so good! At the moment, I am working my butt off to finish the Water for Elephants project I've been working on at uni, and the dissertation, in time for the hand-in dates at the end of the month. It's been a bit hectic and haven't really done anything else with my life apart from work on that! The following images are cut-outs I made to experiment with the medium and to try and get some characterisation needed for the final images. I coloured them on Photoshop although I haven't decided if I will use colour in my final piece. I have found I really enjoy working in this way but in doing so, I have damaged my finger-for the moment can't actually feel the top of it, it's gone numb!! But an artist has to suffer for their work I suppose!
Ok, so we're a little way in to the new year now but for me, so far, so good! At the moment, I am working my butt off to finish the Water for Elephants project I've been working on at uni, and the dissertation, in time for the hand-in dates at the end of the month. It's been a bit hectic and haven't really done anything else with my life apart from work on that! The following images are cut-outs I made to experiment with the medium and to try and get some characterisation needed for the final images. I coloured them on Photoshop although I haven't decided if I will use colour in my final piece. I have found I really enjoy working in this way but in doing so, I have damaged my finger-for the moment can't actually feel the top of it, it's gone numb!! But an artist has to suffer for their work I suppose!
Illustrations Copyright of Abigayle de Young, 2011
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