CAD Elective

This last week has been our CAD Elective. I decided I wanted to design some skateboard graphics.

The other day I popped into the Vans shop in Leeds and was chatting to a really nice guy called Mark who let me take some pictures. We had a chat about New York, skating, fixed gear, vinyl figures and hipsters. They have a ramp in there but unfortunately because of the insurance it's only displaying clothes, and no skaters.

The following pictures are the finished concept boards with both skate deck graphics and t-shirt graphic ideas. Please excuse the quality of the photographs, they were taken on my iPhone.

The main image used was a parrot, I layered up patterns and text on the board. I then used elements from the parrot to create the t-shirt graphic repeat patterns. I also used the text 'this aint no paradise.'

Update Oct - Nov

Well it's been a really busy few weeks. I went and got my 120 film developed and there were some interesting pictures on there. Not all of them worked out but that's what you get with things like this. 

I love this shot above, it's one of my favourite's from New York.

I also had film in my Supersampler which I tried out. I like how it breaks the shot into four. This would be really good for action shots.

 There were some older pictures on the camera too. This one below is from when John, Chloe and I went to Paris a couple of years back. That was a great trip, very tiring though!

The next two photographs were taken in the garden of the V&A in London a few years ago. I went down on my own one day to visit some exhibitions. I love the V&A and the area it's in. It's so nice as well to sit in the gardens surrounding the Natural History Museum as it's such a beautiful building.

New York sketches......

Just a few sketches based around the idea of New York and New York fire escapes.....

We Don't Withhold.

Some of my work is currently being shown on the blog 'We Don't Withhold' which is a blog created specifically for people in Leeds that are interested in Art and Fashion and who want to show their work.

The blog can be found here; http://wedontwithhold.tumblr.com/

There is also a Facebook group here;

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161160367242941

Indeed.....

Soya hot chocolate.....

....is fantastic in my Hell Yes mug from New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY.

Dye workshops.....

Even though I was wearing gloves today in the dye workshop, I still managed to dye my finger tip blue and my thumb brown. 


I learnt about Indigo, Potassium Permanganate and Citric Acid dye's today.


I managed to get Indigo dye spots on my light grey jeans....I used the process of applying the Potassium Permanganate dye to remove the Indigo dye and then the Citric Acid dye to remove the Potassium Permanganate....it worked....was rather pleased with myself. 


Note to self, next week wear old clothes as some people aren't as careful with the dye's!!!