Perfume Personalities

Perfume Personalities

Outcomes:

I am intending to create an illustrative flow diagram to match up the viewer with a particular type of fragrance.  This would be interactive in an exhibition or could be used for a fun feature in a magazine.  This will need to be incredibly visually interesting and entertaining rather than serious.

    I will need to record the development of a variety of designs for this in a journal and on my blog.  Researching these flow diagrams, perfume advertisements in magazines and the typical colours used in promoting perfume will be necessary in creating an effective and visually stimulating piece of work.  I will also need to do tests on a number of people, to check that the diagram works practically and effectively and is fun, as it is intending to be.

Aims:

Through this project I will develop more skills in presentation and professionalism of final pieces of artwork as well as making diagrams visually appealing to a majority of people.  I will also need to consider how the diagram would work in a public gallery, as well as in a magazine.

Target Audience:

“Perfume Personalities” will be aimed at mainly females.  These are the target audience of the type of popular magazines that could potentially use this flow diagram.  However, it would also be an interactive piece of work that could be used by anyone that will visit the Art360 exhibition where it will be displayed.  It is fun, so could be used by anyone wanting to match themselves up with a particular type of scent from fruity, musky to oriental or tropical.

Perfume Bottle Illustrations with descriptions:

Illustrations should look beautiful & accurate to the actual object.  The descriptions should be fun & coincide with the actual illustration.

A) Parfums, Jean Paul Gauttier

If you’re a girl about town, who likes socialising & shopping with your friends, this is the style you will likely go for.  The fashion inspired design is sure to attract your interest.  Plus, it’d look great coming out of your Jean Paul Gauttier handbag.

B) Kylie Minogue, Sexy Darling

Interested in celebrity culture, style and glamor?  Enjoy smelling like your favourite icon? Why not go for a perfume bottle that expresses your personality and preferred celeb? As Kylie Minogue reflects in her scent’s bottle which is the shape of her famous hot pants, they are often designed to be playful and fun.

C) Eternal Magic

You love the perks life can bring! You treat yourself because you deserve it! This beautiful, smooth & curvaceous design is fitting for those of us who are attracted to sleek, lusciously subtle pattern & shape.

D) Versace, Red Jeans Woman

Versace’s crafted glass sculptural design, appeals to those who are attracted to traditional style & pattern, shape and well-crafted glass embellishment.  It’s more like a piece of art than vase for your favourite scent.  You are a classy woman, so why not show that with your perfume selection.

E ) Frosted Blue Sun Perfume Bottle

You are spiritual, open minded & enjoy trying new things! You desire to find out more about yourself & place in the World! This perfume bottle design is for you. It’s beautiful engraving is a design that appeals to your spiritual side & shows your interest in what the World holds for you.

F ) Frosted Blue Spiral Shell Perfume Bottle

This interesting spiral design could be inspired by the fascinating form and composition of the shell that nature gives us.  Its design could show your interest in the beautiful shapes & designs the natural World creates for us.  And any conservative or appreciative feelings you have towards this subject.

G) Marks & Spencer, Autograph, Blush

You are active and interested in your health.  Your style reflects this.  You like slender petite, simple design that is practical & functional. However, you do like appealing, sweet, delicate patterns to decorate what you require.

H) Suddenly, D’OR for women

This may be a simple container, but D’OR gives the impression that you don’t need brash colour or overcomplicated design.  This perfume bottle style expresses your love for functionality, things that just work & do what you need them to! This is simplicity & not overcomplicating matters in your beauty routine, this is practical, this is YOU!

This is my piece exhibiting at ART 360:

My Easter Holidays

One illustration each day:

Ive decided to keep my imagination flowing by creating one illustration each day, either depicting what I have done that day or of an idea.  They may not be posted each and every day but they will be created once a day. Promise!!!

Hope you like them:

I get so nervous making that first mark in a sketchbook

I created this sketch ages ago on the Easy Jet (well more like "Scary Jet") flight to Germany:

This is an illustration of my little cousin Jaime, I was trying to bring out her fun, energetically crazy personality in this image:   

(09/04/11)

This is more of a doodle, I tried to combine the duck with its environment (the reeds and river) in a colourful pattern:  

(10/04/11)

This illustration came about from me spending HOURS regimentally tidying and organising all my clothes in my wardrobe.  Yes I did have 2 black bags of clothes to get rid of:   

(11/04/11)



For once an active day!!!  The Wii "Your Shape" with a web cam style device shows you what your doing, whist the animated wii woman shows you what you SHOULD BE doing :-)

(12/04/11)

A lovely shopping day out with my friend Ceri in Hereford inspired this illustration.  I just had to illustrate a New Look changing room scene (other changing rooms are avaliable) as we spent 1hr 30mins in this one shop getting kitted out for the summer:

(13/04/11)

Ebook

The second part of the Illustration Futures project was to create an ebook.  I decided to do it as a children's short picture book about the creation & birth of an Emperor penguin chick.  I was highly inspired and learnt a lot from the film March of the Penguins.  Thus, that was my first port-of-call.

After making notes on the film I split it up into sections and then started to cut what wasn't necessary

Then from (happily) re-watching March of the Penguins to check I didn't miss anything out and could get a better feel of the film, I created these illustrations.  I love how traditional and aged the pencil lines make them look.

To make sure my thinking was on the right track, I created a 'Creative Synthesis' list on the problem:





Before starting to create idea's, I looked and reminisced on the successes of past penguin animations, and analysed why they were so successful in creating a connection with children.

A very helpful book to use with aiding an illustrator create successful work is:

This is where I learnt more about the physcology of composition:



THIS WAS THE POINT AT WHICH I DECIDED I COULD START TO DEVELOP SOME DESIGN IDEAS:

This then led me to start designing my characters from photo's I had taken in Berlin zoo:

The "Bloomsbury Guide To Creating Illustrated Children's Books" also was a helpful tool as it displayed examples and tools of ANTHROPOMORPHISM.  I created the following images with the tools I learnt from this research in mind:

I liked the strong, assertive lines that the Indian ink and biro created, as well as the soft and delicateness of the watercolour.  However, after developing these designs into being more fitting for a childrens book I decided upon coloured pencils.  Annotation surrounding the following illustration explains why:

In the development of the characters I also experimented with typography and image.  I created the following images in the print workshop and am pleased with what I've achieved threw developing my outcomes:

 The second of the last 2 images was an improvement on the first.  With the first one, the beak (A) blends into the body too much and its not defined. So with the second i raised the beak up and away from the body, making it compositionally improved and clearer to see.

The last image I created in the print workshop was created using varying sizing lettering, placed in a certain way that it created a image using text.  This way of using type really interest me.