Thursday 28 November 2013

I was really hoping to have more done by this time in the week but unfortunately family life has got in the way.

Bex, Julia and I went up to site on Tuesday, and I am so pleased that I have chosen the sites I have. So much history and there are some fantastic old terraces that have so far escaped recent redevelopment - a glimpse into the past, all be it a cleaned up and sanitised version. Cemetaries and workhouses are a pretty bleak past, although pwc is not a particularly bright future. I did put some thoughts down on Tuesday night while they were fresh in my mind and have managed to do a bit more research since.

I really get the idea of overlays - an effective way of looking at the different aspects of a site, I just need to claw back some time from family and business issues to get it set down on paper. Planting hedges is nearly as boring as laying turf, the difference is that I don't have to lay the turf.

I saw this on a wall near All Hallows Church, it appealed to me, I think it was the combination of antiquated phraseology and shabby chic. I hope it wasn't bought online last week!




Something that struck me was the variation in sound - both volume and type of sound, in close proximity. Surrroundings have a profound impact - either as a buffer or an amplifier. Something for us to take into account and plan around/for. Also the dominance that things can have - the huge brick wall and the Shard in Xbones. 

Time to get some sleep - more hedge planting tomorrow morning so I can crack on with Southwark in the afternoon - a weekend of the H word again for both my girls, both days. AAAHHHH!

Thursday 21 November 2013

Metis Pages

My Metis submission. It took longer to sort the file formats to get it on the blog than to send it to Metis!

Reminder for file formats for the blog:
pdfs don't work, exporting jpeg from layout works but you have to save each page as a separate file (unless anyone has found a better way) and pdfs have to be taken into Photoshop to convert them to jpegs. You can export a pages file to pdf but you still have to take it into Photoshop to jpeg it.

 



    

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Metis - submitted

Hooray, I submitted my Metis in time. I'm sure that there is lots to critique but when I compare it to what I've done before, it's a big improvement. If I can keep getting better. I actually stand a chance of getting somewhere.

I'm learning so much this term, long may it continue.

The SGD conference was good this weekend, made me realise the importance of reading the brief, writing a good brief and that it takes time and practise to be good at something. It was also another good opportunity to get hold of materials information.

Here's my metis design, I'll put the files somewhere for Jamie tomorrow.


Thursday 7 November 2013

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Bloody H Word

I've just looked at the time. AAAHHH. The girls are home from school and I'll have to take them to hockey in half an hour. I'll take my laptop with me, I might get one image done while I'm there. Ross said he'll do some of the journeys on Thursday so that should help.

Happy Guy Fawkes day.

So much for 3 hours!

Well, I've been at task 5 for a bit more than 5 hours so far but I'm still happy, and it will be much quicker next time. I feel really good about spending the time working on these skills because I know that they are things that I actually need and will be useful, both for for course, and my career.

So far, I've managed to create my 3d model, select tree species, draw outlines and scan. It took me 20 minutes to scan 5 pages. That's definitely worth remembering - takes much longer than you think. I remembered to put the blank piece of paper behind the trace first (makes a bit difference). I eventually remembered/worked out how to do eye level views and I sent the images to print and pdf so I've got something for the blog:

The story so far, scans and pdf views. Not sure how the final images will be, wait and see.


Eye level views 1 - 3

Isometric - Iso with Perspective
I'm hoping that this really is an axo -  iso with parallel perspective



You'll have to wait until I've done the final images because blogspot doesn't like my .pdfs either (it didn't like the ones from InDesign the other day) and it's not a constructive use of time to take the print files into Photoshop and resave them.


Friday 1 November 2013

Quick Task 4

I had a go at making some patterns. Very play school but great fun. At least it was Halloween this week so my green hands didn't look out of place.

The renders seemed to have worked ok but they're not very colourful. Need to get some inspiration from Sid. Some bits worked well, but I'm still held back by really simple things like how to specify the size of a selection, then how to move the marching ants without moving the background. I tried different layers but then it wouldn't select anything.

I also couldn't get the fill to work on anything other than the background layer. I found the opacity but not the feathering etc. I'm still getting to grips with the fact that you can't edit, you have to redo things. Some of it seemed to work, just have to wait to be shot down in flames on Monday. 'It's all about developing a critical eye'. 

Must remember to get a glossy magazine - it's ok, Jamie says I have to!

Had to stop playing with the rendering and do something else. This is what I've got so far.