Evaluation of Capture

Evaluation of Capture

For my capture project I was given the task of creating a website of my chosen topic and therefore I picked something along the lines of my style such as Gothic or alternative styles. This was a type of project I have never done before and so when it came to making my website I felt challenged.

I have researched many things in this project from capturing graffiti to David Carson and Neville Brody all things I have researched have been inspiring I managed to take things from each to make my style of art a little more unique. In this project I had to find other ways of capturing things in my work because most of what I was doing could be gathered using simple internet skills however I drew vectors in illustrator and even spending hours looking through fonts that I might use in my work and other forms that I worked to incorporate into my work.

In completing my project I wrote up a time plan in excel and tried to keep to it so that I would at least have my website result at the end however upon finding the programs to create website completely alien due to lack of experience working with them before I decided to just make templates of my site instead of making it go live, this doesn’t affect my designing and if anything helped to make sure that I create a website that was ready to go live when I wanted it to.

I feel that I had many successes in this project, on a personal level I found a way of working that kept me keen and willing other than getting half way through an idea and finding a problem to then give up if I have accomplished nothing else in the project then that is enough. However I had successes in areas of art, I was able to look at other people’s work and find aspects of their art or even the way they worked that inspired me and helped me progress on my path to creating my own unique style of art. My main success though was my phoenix that I used in my logo, when I designed the phoenix it was on a practise experiment in illustrator that was never intended to be in a piece of work however while drawing I felt immersed into the design using the touché screen to flow feeling into the design and from something that was just meant to be practising with brushes on the program one of my favourite pieces of work was created.

In future projects I would like to find a way to re-design the phoenix into a more complex image even a character. I feel that it could be my signature to work and that I can adapt it subtly or even bluntly into work that just feels like me. Such as when people look at certain work and know it’s a certain artist I want people to see the phoenix and know that it’s my work.

My research in this project really had effects on the way I design my website pages lots of the aspects in the style of my work, consists of tribal patterns and using blacks greys  and subtle hints of colours such as reds and yellows. It’s very much the same with certain flare from each artist in the style, Hence me finding my phoenix to be my flare. Influencing my work was the Designers of Spiral clothing however names of these people I have yet to find but their clothing designs amazing me. so when making my work I had to stay with the colours but put my own take on it I didn’t want a standard alternative clothing site, I wanted my own clothing site.

I think if I did this project again I would make my website a working site and just simply re-design the tribal and layout of the site because looking back once I finished I started to find more and more things that I didn’t like but it was too late to change them. However I feel that finding the faults in my own work will help me in the future to look for them before they become unchangeable faults.

Evaluation of the overall project would be that in my project I have learnt a lot not just from my teachers and their helping but from my class the help and support we all give it each makes those problems a little easier to deal with. I have learnt much as an artist and as a person from this project and I will take these lessons with me through every career path if in the future I am lead away from my art.

Connor Stephens

2011