February 2012
10 posts
TRIBES
The theme of airports is BIG broad. There are many things that I could cover. But essentially what makes the atmosphere is people. I have started to look at the theme of TRIBES within the people that move through the airport. Here are a few sketches I have gone through. Subtlety was not something that I was going for. I wanted these characters to be obvious what they were. I decided to list the...
Observational Research in Interaction
With my new direction being under the theme Airports I decided to start studying the figure and how people interact with one another - seeing as a lot of this happens in a big public places. To do this I went out of the studio and into the streets. I found a good vantage point at the top of the Bargate Monument and the 2nd floor of the Pret in town. Here are the results. The emphasis was on people...
Airports - a new direction
Being what is now known as a TDK* (or Third Culture Kid) I have frequented various airports in various countries. I have decided to narrow down my experiences from growing up to airports now. It is important to point out that my brief hasn’t changed dramatically - just its focus and direction has been narrowed down to one aspect of my growing up.
I find airports intriguing. Their...
The Cabinet Idea
To further explore my set proposal I have looked into a way of displaying my ‘collection’ of memories from growing up. This is the idea that I will run with - a cabinet/shelf that will have stacked into it little ornament style things. I want to explore the senses to recreate many of the moments that I remember from my early childhood.
Above is a little sketch to get a good visual...
The Proposal
For my FMP I would like to do an autobiographical piece. Since early in my life I have never been able to come up with a straight answer to the question, “Where’s home?” Being born form Japanese parents but never having lived in my passport country has at times made me question my national identity. I was born in the Philippines and then moved to Yemen, Nepal and Cambodia before coming over to the...
Bruce Ingman tutorial and the beginning of my FMP...
Children’s book illustrator Bruce Ingman’s lecture was fun. His naïve sense of playfulness is heavily present in his professional work. From his talk I learnt 2 big things about illustrating a narrative text: first that literally translating the text into image is most of the time boring – illustrate the bits that happen in between. The text is already there. The other thing was that it is good...
Why a blog
I have decided to log down my progression throughout my FMP via a blog on tumblr because of its easy-to-use format and because it is on the Internet I will be able to make quick links to artists or images with a click of a mouse. I will use photos and digital copies of my work on here as well to illustrate what am I am doing at that very point in the project. It will also act as a reflective...
About the illustrator
I’m Ken, a studying illustrator on my third and final year on the BA (Hons) Illustration course at Southampton Solent University. My interest lies in the narrative side of illustration.
For my final major project (FMP) I’m sure that this is what I will be exploring. I have familiarized myself with the many mediums of image making made available to us on the course such as – screen-printing,...
Options Project - a review
For my previous project, I chose to recreate a Japanese folktale about the Yuki Onna (our version of the Snow Queen). Known to kidnap children and men in snow blizzards, little did I know about her back story. Originally, a divine being of the moon she wanders down to earth not knowing that she will not be able to make it back.
I took this story and retold it adding contemporary elements. For...
