reinventing illustration, The bag...new and improved!

okay, my final bag took a lot of time and when I came to sticking the front clear panel on I had a lot of problems finding a glue that would work, in the end I used superglue which left a huge mark and made the whole thing look un-finished and more like a mock....not the look I was going for after hours of work! so after the final crit I new I needed to change the front, and along with that I decided to improve the back of the bag as I ended up not being able to do it as well as I had wanted due to time.

so here it is....

out of all of my previous projects I think this is the one I developed most from the beginning. I was really lost at the start and trying to make a good impression I didn't want to move out of my comfort zone, but when it needed to be much strong I decided to try anything, and ended up with making something in 3d which I have never done before. Every aspect of the bag relates back to the book "the secret lfe of bees", with the overall effect being the story trapped inside a honey jar.

my interpretation

photography!

after a lot of camera problems!...I decided to go into central london in rush hour to get some first hand photos.  Not sure if there is away to put them all on here so here are a few of them for the minute:

main focus

I have found it difficult to pick a main idea so quickly, but hopefully it will pay off with future work too. It still needs to obviously be worked into as an illustration but my idea is to focus on the london morning/evening rush hours. When I finished the last project I was hoping to use 3d work in more projects as I really enjoyed it but with the limited time and how I work I don't think at the minute this would be the route to go. Although i would like to bring the clock ticking but not moving into my final piece somehow, I think it would work with adding to the urgency really well. 


I've come across a really inspiring artist "Robin Eckardt" that I decided to look into a bit further, and discovered that the main focus behind her work was the fact she is from the caribean and so she has used her natural homely colours to illustrate the scenes she found over in London.


here are a few pieces of her work:

Her works full of life, particularly with the top image, you cant even see people but you can clearly interpret there presence there. 

Ideas for the new brief...

I 've picked the quote "even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day" Withnail And I


I began by brainstorming a few quick thoughts, (even the obvious ones) and these are what I came up with:

• use of typography, stretching the text, dragging through time
• hand of clock not moving, yet clock still ticking-3d
• hour glass 
• cogs jammed? 
• x-ray, broken hand?
• use photography, busy city
• thinking of where time stands still for different reasons/ people
• - when you fall over!, plane journey-literally sitting and waiting, hospitals ect
• rush hour
• snails?!
• acetate, laying a figure over different times of a day...getting complicated, think I could end up with a whole book!
• standing still in city while people rush around
• head made of cogs, brain function

New Brief!

The basics of the new brief is a one week project where we illustrate one of the sayings/ quotes that have been given to us. Im quite excited to do a one week brief as we haven't had one in a long time and I always feel I overcomplicate my ideas nearer the end, and give myself so much more work to do than I need for the final, I am hoping by doing a project like this I can  get over this feeling as we physically have a lot less time!

The actual bag...

I have turned the backing of the jar into a bag, where there is also a pocket inside to hold the controller for the lights. I have kept the continuity of the bag by using the same fabric to back it as I have done the top of the jar.