You are a line.

It was tricky working out what context to put my drawings in for this brief. The drawings were designed to reveal the subject/image by having light behind it. I thought about maybe producing something for a window in a public place, such as a cafe but I felt as though I was really trying to force a context onto a piece of work. The whole meaning of this selection of drawings is that it isn't posed, it isn't forced, it's simply an observation of people in their natural environment doing whatever it is they were doing before I decided to watch them. Which made me come to the conclusion that this solution should be just that. A way of documenting who is about, working in the studio at the same time I am. I haven't been able to draw everybody in the class which is disappointing, it would've been quite nice to have something with everyone on.
After talking to Amber I decided to photograph the drawings over a lightbox, this meant that the revelation still came through due to light, but also there were less restrictions on the format of the final work.
At first I was going to display the drawings in a grid which showed 5 drawings from each day. It was difficult to manage doing 5 every day due to timetabling/group work and so I kept the grid idea but didn't assign the drawings to days/a time.



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The final grid...its actual size is 550 x 550
It's been printed onto self adhesive paper so it can be stuck wherever or can be cut into stickers...
Pretty pleased with it, but now I want to do more drawing!!!!

ink

This is an ink mark I made when I was drawing the other day, I don't know why but when I look at it, it makes me really happy. I have a soft spot for it.

Visual Language - End of Module Evaluation

Statement of intent...what is a line...

After experimenting 3 different strands of *what is a line?* I have decided on one particular focus.

I am now using continuous line drawings to record people. It is important that the people aren't in posed positions but instead are continuing to do whatever they were doing before I started to draw them. I am going to continue to try and show their slight movements by layering these drawings over one another. This way the development over time can be seen.



All my previous experience of drawing has consisted of drawing something for a long period of time. With this method of drawing I am able to draw the figures more freely. By drawing them repeatedly I am learning to actually *see* the shapes that make up the figures more clearly and I have found that the drawings that are produced later on are of much better quality.

New Blog...

...http://emmaprice-designpractise.blogspot.com/

Most updates from ougd104 module will be on there from now on...

Puzzled...

...I chose to attempt the *Recognition Day* brief. My target audience was people who found it difficult to say *thank you* and so I began to think about who these people were and how I could help them. I decided that it would be interesting to make the postcards interactive as a way of helping. After our crits which discussed our intial ideas I decided to develop the idea of using puzzles...












...each of the puzzles were accompanied with a tagline which referred to both the nature of *recognition day* and the puzzle itself.



For the final upload I chose to scan in a copy of the blank maze and one filled in.