Pick me UP!

I was looking again at the possibilities and definitions of the disciplinary "illustration" in terms of the British market and the market culture. Illustrations can be drawings, picture books, storytelling, explorations of games, studies about layout, typography and graphic design, costume making, ceramics, and object of all the materials I can recall. 

Playful character designs using contemporary materials

I am very fond of the approaches, the marks, the colours and the textures this illustrator used to depict her feelings and reflections about the landscape surrounding her. The textures she experimented with on wood was another inspiration for me about recording landscape and my own feelings.

An approach to depict and explore the possibilities of storytelling and the space of scenes: several layers of wooden figures were combined together to discuss the relationships among different characters.

Costume making! THAT is a weakness in my learning. The models were built up on the cupboard.

Wooden and ceramics models can both be toys and tools for character design. To some extent the texture and the colours can show the characteristics of the character or the toys and feelings I wish to lend to the figure

Typography and Layout

Notes of Mr. Squirrel and the Moon

This picture book used its landscape format as a tool to twist scenes between medium shots, depictions of the squirrel's actions and his imaginations.

The highlight point of this book is some humorous actions of the squirrel pushing the moon to try to get rid of it and two wordless spreads about Mr. squirrel's imaginations about what would happen to him. These two spreads are drawn in only black and white with pencils, which distances them from the vivid humorous scenes of the rest of the book.



Children's picture book can be about a very simple idea or story with a lot of humorous and childish thoughts from an adult's perspective but meanwhile imaginations and hope for a sweet ending.


https://picturethisbook.com/2015/11/02/mr-squirrel-and-the-moon/

2016 Ceramics Art London

Some artists I am very fond of

Midori Takaki

http://www.midoritakaki.co.uk/p/gallery.html

Her works are full of spirits with weird faces.

"My world is full of spirits. I find them everywhere in nature; trees, woods, animals, winds, the moon and the oceans. Giving them shapes is what I do. Once I start creating pieces, they guide me through. They tell me who they are. Their stories are the key ingredients of my work. "

Fausto Salvi

http://www.faustosalvi.net/

The explorations of colours and textures lended a feeling of sci-fi novel to this piece.

Vistaerea

sQAURED headed

Dylan Bowen

http://www.dylanbowen.co.uk/gallery

"The clay can be thrown, hand built, carved or moulded depending on what is needed. Slips are poured, trailed or brushed on. "

"...The spontaneity of the making process. ..."

Craig Underhill

http://www.craigunderhill.co.uk/ceramics.html

"... I want an amalgamation of surface and form that creates a ceramic painting rather than a ceramic form that has a painted surface. My work evokes a feeling of places and landscapes I have visited without giving a direct literal reference to these places and landscapes..."

Ceramics can be a flexible material to explore textures, spaces, landscapes and relationships between ones who experience the environments and stuffs mentioned above.

Develop our brand workshop

The short introduction about the contemporary practices and how we arrived there

- Fordism

Assembly line

 Since 1960, people started to chase after the values like Authenticity, individuality, meaning, self expression, human condition, etc..

- Postfordism

In the companies staffs only produced the concepts and the way to promote their brands and products sitting in their offices. The real production is being fulfilled in China n Taiwan etc., which makes the products really cheap.

  Neo liberalism (Neoliberal capitalism)

Art practices today：Co-independent

E.G. Bernadette Corporation, Shanzhai Biennial

VIDEO: EXTREME CAPITALISM

MY PRODUCTS ARE THE INFORMATION I GENERATED

INCORPORATING MY IDENTITY

I BREAK DOWN EVERY ASPECT OF MYSELF AS A HUMAN AND COLLECT MY OWN INFORMATION AND MAKE MYSELF TRANSPARENT

Brainstorm Workshop

Every business needs a mission statement and u already have one.

Turn it into a work cloud

Mainstream

Everyone wants to become different, together.

Mass Indie

Isolation

Normcore: a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average-looking clothing.

Seeming like a clone

Aestheticized uniqueness of the mainstream

Infinite flexibility, situational, adaptable, non-deterministic, post-aspirational, empathy over tolerance

Authenticity and liquidity: I can do whatever I want whenever wherever expressing my true desire.

5 things which I believe belong to mainstream, 5 things not.

For me what is cool is stay objective and rational and calm. Take our life as a long experience.

Something that is mainstream in one cultural contet may be not in another one.

Flawsome Workshop

http://trendwatching.com/cn/trends/flawsome/

HUMAN BRANDS

TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH

Learn the golden rules of self disclosure

BE A REAL PERSON with flaws and emotions instead of a PSed dollg

Identifying the flawsome pics on celebrities

Lena Headey

Ideal homes

Moodboard Workshop

A mood board is a type of collage consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition.

Learn how to stage your homes for maximum productivity

Design a mood board for a certain kind of person. Build inspiration from your workcloud, cool memes and make it flawsome.

To show the characteristics of the owner of the house

https://uk.pinterest.com/camberwell3091/home/

A cat/ Wunderzimmer with weird collections / Equipments for scientific researches / Plants / An copy of an artwork by Klimt

Quantified self

测量

self actualized, self measurement and analysis of personal metries

Productivity (value producing): “self-management”

Self = business

Everything has become a project

Self-surveillance

Distillation Workshop

Evaluate, focus and optimize

Identify the immaterial qualities which make up your personal brand fill in the brand identity prism supplied

One of my directions: 

cozy scenes about daily life

complicated narratives in telling stories and thoughts

Lecture about Lumino City Game Design!

Game Design

Lumino City

http://www.luminocitygame.com/

http://www.stateofplaygames.com/work/lumino-city/

A Glance at Interesting Procedures of Designing a Game

-       Starting drafts of the whole city (world settings and scene settings)

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-       Making the model

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The idea must be prove beforewards. Ideas cannot be changed after modelmaking.

-       Filmng the model

Every scene needs bespoke treatment beforewards. They couldn’t change anything after filming it.

- Make moving scenes with selected tracks

-       Character design

All the shape and all the possible actions it may make should be set in advance.

They made the characters of a tangent papering.

And recorded the actions with Motion Tracking

The Gatehouse

The logo was made of LED lights.

They needed to reduce the scope when making models and enlarge the scope when filming them.

-       Interactive Design with film

Some Techniques referred to in modelmaking and filming:

Laser cutting

Metal work

Stop Motion with motion control cameras

Motion Tracking

Papering

Wood cutting

Game design can be related to many techniques we studied based on a college workshop. This challenged my knowledge about the boundaries of practices a illustrator can engage in. One of my main directions will be about world setting design and fulfillment of visualization through 3D modelmaking.