Final Sculpture

Here is a Photo i have taken of my final sculpture hanging, whilst playing around with the lighting. I really like the shadow i got with this photo i thin it looks really good. I then took it in to photoshop and just changed the tone and contrast to bring the shadow and lighting out a bit more.
I am really please with how it is looking and unsure if i want to use this for my final poster now.

Final Posters

Here are my 2 final ideas for posters for GF Smith paper. I am unsure which one i am off to use for my final poster. I am leaning towards the bottom poster the one which shows the shadow behind it, As i feel it has a bit more to give than the top one which is just a plain front few of the poster. 

The picutres them selfs are photo's which i have taken of my edited poster idea, played around with lighting and then in photoshop i have played around with the curves, contrast and tone to give me different effects which i feel brings out the poster.

Posters

Here are my new posters, i went back to my old poster design and edited it so it had the pattern which i had been working with from workshop 2 on it, so that it fitted the brief. I think the cut outs from the corner work really well and give a new depth to the poster. 

I am now off to take it into photoshop and play around with the contrast and tone of the photo to get the best result i can for a poster. 

Editing posters

Here are some photos of my idea for a poster which i have quickly taken in to photoshop and edited the colour, tone and contrast quickly. 

I am really liking the effects which i am getting with these photo's. 

However i have decided to back to my poster and cut out a design which i have been working with in task one so that the 2 relate. 

I found these 2 images via www.ffffound.com i find them very interesting and i think they go very well with the type of work that i have been creating using geometric shape patterns

A Very Useful Tip

I repeat this DO NOT, DO NOT pretend your a drummer in a punk band whilst in hold of a cutting knife =[ it hurts

Rob Ryan

I love Rob Ryan's Paper cuts they are so beautiful and well just amazing in my eyes. Even tho i have not yet tried any real work like Rob Ryan's his work are inspired me a lot. I am thinking i might try and come up with a few ideas of work like this for my poster.

Scanned in Pages from Sketch book

Here is  a few pages that i have scanned in from my sketch book, to show i have been coming up with a few idea for the poster.

Two of the ideas are inspired by Rob Ryan these two, will be made from a single sheet of paper which i will then cut out some images and fold them up so that they are 3D when you lay down the sheet of paper and that they will be on different levels aswel.

One will just be of a hopefully good guilty image of my final sculpture with text added on it in photoshop or illustrator.

And my last idea would be of the images that are below in my blog of the dog eared paper, which is explain down there.

Richard Sweeney

Here are some pieces by Richard Sweeney, who is a artist which has been coming in to our uni and helping us with the basics of paper folding.

I find his work so amazing how he can create some thing that looks so pure and perfect out of paper. I was amazed when are came in to do a work shop with us and in a few mins this paper was created into a beautiful sculpture with only a few cuts and folds it was amazing.

Myself i am find it very had to create something that flows out of paper. As i dont feel i have taken to this project that well.
This is way my work is very simple forms with geometric shapes.

Fail :(

My russian doll idea has kind of failed on me, as i wanted to hang them i have not been able to figure out how to suspend each cube inside the cube on its own. This has left me in a pickle of how to figure out how to fix it or i will have to go in a different direction.

I could stick with the doll idea however this would mean that they are placed on the ground so that the cubes inside each one another will stay in the place i set them in.

But i am thinking having the cubes still hanging but have them hanging one after the other from smallest to biggest

Quadra Gallery Posters

These Quadra Gallery posters done my Donna Wearmouth have really inspired my idea for geometric paper cutting. I think they are so powerful even tho they are so simple i think its amazing.

I hope my work comes out with the same effect that these posters do, as i have kept it simple with just geometric patterns that i have repeated.

Dog Eared Poster idea

Here are few examples of a poster idea i have been working on for GF Smith paper celebrating a 100 years of paper.

The idea is very simple its self which is what i like about it. It is all about the pure paper. The information of the GF Smith paper has been stencilled out of the poster its self in Helvetica. I chose this font as i looked on the GF Smith website and it looked like the font they where using, so I thought this would be a good idea to use.
The right hand corner has been dog eared. This is because when ever i see paper there is normal a corner that has been lent on or folded over to remember a page or been a bit battered and i thought it was quite a simple symbol of paper.

The idea for this was to have the poster hanging then shine light on it in different angels to create different lighting effects on the poster.

Here are a few examples of how it is coming out i am quite happy with it at the mo, but i think it needs to be played around with more.

Not much time left

Not much time left on this project and i am still unsure what is going to be my final image.

I am quite liking the russian doll idea with the smaller shape inside. I have also had the idea of creating a few of the same object the hanging them at different levels to see what that will look like.

Prymid

I have moved away from the cube here to a Pyramid. I found this shape quite a bit easier to work with than the cube template i am not sure why it just seemed to work better. This is also my 1st try of my russian doll idea by having a smaller pyramid inside the bigger one with the same design cut out. I went for a very simple triangle shape to cut out, this was to see if it would work but also so it would give you a big space to see through. I am quite liking how it looks and it will be interesting to see what they look like with a different pattern cut out.

Same Process

Here i am following the same template i have used to create the cubes before hand. However on this idea i have tried a bit more of difficult pattern to cut out. This was really fragile to work with and i had some trouble trying to put it together but i feel it was worth it. The pattern reminds me of a target locking on to a object.

Experiments with different shapes

Here are 2 quick photos of some quick work trying out different geo shapes being cut out of the sides. I am really liking the one of the Square been cut out of the cube i feel this works well.

Process of Creating a Cube

 I 1st decide on a size of what i want one of the squares to be. This will be decide on the size of paper I have, of maybe the design i want to create in side if i need more room or not. Once I have got this i start to draw my template and cut it out.

 Once I have my template cut out I start to work with a design that i want to cut out. If i am going for a repeated pattern I tend to use tracing paper to copy my pattern so it is near perfect ever time i draw it out.

 Once i have my design drawn on to my template i then get to work cutting it out.

And once i have cut out all the pattern i then tend to use glue or tape to stick the tabs together which brings the cube to life.

I am liking the way that this cube is looking it is simple with only a bit cut out but i feel it works and is quite effective. 

Here with these images which have been created by using a simple cube template then cutting a repeated diagonal line pattern out of each side. This when put together as a cube gives a very nice effect as when you look through it the patterns cross which i think looks really nice. 

I like the bottom image here I think the position of the cube in the photo works quite nicely and the lighting of the work i feel gives it a nice warm feeling. 

Russian Dolls

I have been looking at russian dolls which has given me a idea which i feel with work really well. As in russian dolls, they have dolls inside of dolls which follow a similar pattern. I have thought about shapes inside of shapes.
As i have been creating 3D shapes such as cubes etc. I have thought about creating a cube with a pattern cut into it, then following the same pattern and cube size it down to fit inside the original cube. Then i will continue this process until i have a few cubes inside cubes with the same pattern cut out.
I will also try adding colour to the cubes inside the cubes so there will be colours inside of colours aswel as shapes.