Film Noir and the Beginning of The End

So, tomorrow I hand in my Personal Development Planning - the reason I have been blogging in such a way on my site, and being more concise with my descriptions and methods of work, as well as my influences and feedback.

In doing so, I have been able to monitor my work more, as well as see how I've developed and what directions my work has been taking - giving me an insight into what I need to concentrate more on, and to decide what path I want to take apon leaving university.

Taking the time out every week to publish some work online, and blogging about it twice a month, has been an experience a little tiresome at times, but I enjoy the feedback I recieve posting my work on this site, as well as sites like deviantart, where you can find my work at:
http://www.fayea.deviantart.com/

This site also has many of my sketches, works of a very similar nature to the ones you see on this site, works in progress and works I feel that don't meet up to the standard I'd like to keep on this smaller portfolio website.

Easter Holidays

Mostly this Easter I have been working on our mandatory "Add-Vantage" modules that the university requires us to complete. Mine is "Introduction to Project Management" and has been taking a fair bit of my time, mostly due to it being something I feel I am not naturally gifted at.
For Easter, I promised myself I would work on my personal projects, such as the graphic novel I have been working on, and my gallery now has two new pieces related to this, of an original character of mine featured in the comic. Hopefully over summer I can really get it going, without university deadlines looming!

Maths Postcards and More!

Tomorrow I hand in my second module at university - I'm very very nervous. I've spent a long time tweaking it, and adding more as I go, but there's always something you feel you can do better, isn't there?
So, tomorrow it's all over.

After that, it's all hands onto my Film Noir project, and expect to see many images in the style in my gallery quite soon.

Today I also updated the site a little, adding my Maths Postcards images, a project for a client through the university to design a postcard "advertising" maths to a young audience to be distributed in school libraries. I did four ideas, which can be found here. If you know of any competitions similar to this one, please leave me a comment - I'm always interested in getting my work "out there".
Also I added a piece exploring drawing to music, and how the styles, colours, methods and materials in an image effects the mood.

A Small Update

Just a few tweaks here today - updated my photograph to a recent photograph of myself at university, the one from the newspaper as it is so vibrant and bright and enthusiastic - just how I would like to portray myself on my site and as an illustrator.
Also added a note in the Awards page about my CPA Scholarship from Coventry University, which is currently funding me upgrading my PC so I can handle higher resolution and more detailed files in Photoshop, as well as buying some more modern image making software in both traditional medias and on my PC. Thankyou Coventry University, I won't let you down!

Hot Off The Presses!

Two friends and myself can be found in the Coventry Observer on the 31st of January issue posing for a photograph to publicise "The Big Picture", an initiative in the Coventry area to break a world record for the largest photomontage - with all the photographs used contributed by residents from around the area.

I'm glad I was able to help publicise the event, and also excited at being in the paper - the last time I believe I was still in primary school for a piece on pond dipping!

(If you are reading this from my website, please click on the "Hot Off The Presses" link at the top to view the cutting from the paper in which we feature!)

Watercolour Illustrations

Some new pieces added to the site today, including a few watercolour and mixed media pieces created for a fundraising project at university.

I felt that participating in the fundraiser would help people to see my works - the fundraiser is for the third years final exhibition, and they will be showing the "postcards" created by students in a exhibition, and inviting members of the public to purchase them to raise money.

I hope that people will see my works, and note my name, and like them! I love the thought that someone could pay money for my original watercolour postcards, and read the back and find thier way back here.
(If you do - hello, thankyou very much for buying one of my postcards, It really means a great deal to me).
Also I hope that people will like my style enough to commission me for further projects, and start to create a name for myself in the industry, even while I am still studying.

Award Winning

Today I was awarded the "College Award for Creative Achievement" at the Rutland College, Oakham.
This award is given to the one student they feel has achieved the most in the year, and I was nominated for it by my Graphic Design tutor, June.
In my time at the Rutland College, I worked very hard - I joined the college unsure of my skills and potential artistically and graphically (I had not done as well as I had hoped in my art based GCSEs, and had taken three years out of education to travel and work), and in the time I spent there I feel I learnt a great deal about Art, Graphic Design and Photography, which all has boosted not only my skills but my confidence in myself artistically.

I am very pleased to have this presented to me, and I hope I can live up to the title and talents of those awarded it in the years before and after me.