Samantha Landells

During my Christmas holidays I decided to experiment with creating some quick food based characters using my digital skills. I decided to create these fun little characters as a break from my environmental painting. I would like to continue working on this whenever I have a spare moment to hopefully create a full A3 print. Strengths: I really like the style of the characters with the rounder eyes as I feel it causes the facial expression to be a lot more inviting and friendly. Weaknesses: I dont feel the designs of my characters are as refined as they could be, perhaps I could do some research in order to explore the best way of effectively reaching my goals of creating cute characters.  Opportunities: I would love to develop these characters as they could be used for a variety of products and prints, for instance they could be made initially as part of a flash sheet, however each design can also be used as an independent asset all by itself. Targets: Work on the style ...

Today during our digital workshop we were instructed to digitally construct one of the three environments we had decided upon for our projects narrative triptych sequence. I decided to create my third environment setting which would be the inner cave, which I was aiming to portray as the hidden paradise. I decided to create my third environment as I felt it was the one I had spent the least amount of time focusing on up until this point and I was struggling to visualise how I wanted my scene to end up. I found that by creating my inner cave environment using my digital skills was extremely useful as it is a medium I am much more comfortable with compared to my traditional skill set. However, I am still aiming for my final version of this illustration to be completed using completely traditional mediums by painting them, as I feel that throughout this project I have really developed my skills using this method and would really like to continue to progress it further. I used the method...

I was unsure whether or not to include this within my blog as I am acutely aware that the majority of artwork within the illustration is not my own. However, I felt it was a nice inclusion of a quick side project I created as a Christmas gift for a member of my family. I photo-bashed the majority of elements making alterations where necessary to form a Rick and Morty, Final Space themed poster as they are extremely interested in these two shows. Considering the family member I created this for does not have a knowledge or understanding of illustrative techniques I decided to use photo-bashing as my main technique to ensure I could include statement pieces from the two shows. This was also meant to only be an extremely quick project as I needed to be able to get it printed before the break up for Christmas. If I were to repeat this process in the future I would like to create my own assets and elements to create a completely unique poster from scratch. However, it was nice to see th...

Today we focused on creating two detailed sketches focusing on portraiture, we were asked to use dry media for one and wet media for the other. I really enjoyed this session and feel as though my skills are developing regardless of my lack of traditional skill. I can clearly see a set style my work tends to take and I am happy to explore and develop this further over the course of these sessions.

Today we focused on using a variety of media on different coloured papers, I found I did not enjoy this session as much as the previous ones as I felt slightly stressed during the class due to the constricting time limits put on each task. Regardless I am happy with the life drawings I have created as I feel they have certainly improved from my first class, despite still not being great. I have also been able to focus on the styles created during the use of different mediums which will help me to identify which mediums I feel work best for me, which I can then use during my final drawing.