PPP Prep: Work Routine

My girlfriend is a full time primary school teacher. This means that she gets up at 6:30am and has left the house by 7:30am. I get up with her at 6:30 also (apart from the occasional lay in) and am working by 8:00am. This is usually the time I would leave for college however, now I don’t have to go in I’ve freed up two and a half hours of my day. Here is a time table of my average working day:

06:30am - Wake up, wash, eat breakfast, internet

08:00am - Begin work

10:00am - 20 minute break to stretch legs, have a snack and internet

10:20am - Continue work

12:30pm - Lunch time, watch TV, internet

01:30pm - Back to work

04:00pm - Read, have a snack, internet

04:30pm - Back to work, finish up for the day, tidy up

05:30pm - Wash up, do random house tasks or work out (depending on day)

06:30pm - Cook dinner

07:30pm - Watch TV, laze around, internet

09:30pm - Get ready for bed, read.

10:00pm - Wind down, sleep

Now you may think that there is a lot of internet time in there - and there is! But this includes; reading the Guardian in the morning (and checking it again later in the afternoon), updating social media with my work and looking at expensive houses I can’t afford.

Needless to say with this work routine, I feel quite on the ball at the moment. I wonder if I’ll be able to work from home for the entirety of my third year…

My Work Space:

PPP Prep: Beyond La La Land

Over the past few days I’ve been working on a few pages for a zine. The idea was forming during OUIL505 Applied Illustration - however I never got to fully realise the work at the time as The Scarlett Letter was suggested to be a stronger topic for the module. However with the constrains of module necessity taken away I’m now free to work on this.

It is a story of a young girl who is expelled from her home into a dystopian wasteland. She feels all is lost until she finds an idillic paradise and a warrior woman named Red. I have an idea for 6 zines which I will hopefully be able to collect together at some point down the line and form a graphic novel of some sort. 

During my Level 5 Presentation reflection, I mentioned how I intended to develop my skills past the solely digital method I use now. I feel that I have begun to do this through the process of play whilst working on this. I really wanted the sandy wasteland to come alive on the pages - I did this by creating different textures using ink and scanning them in separately. These textures were then imposed onto my line work digitally. The process for the entire work can be seen below.

I intend to sell this at Thought Bubble in November.

PPP Prep: External Examiner

Today I, along with several of my other peers, met with Nigel the External Examiner from Falmouth. Here we discussed what the year has been like, what we felt worked and what we felt didn’t. One thing that I mentioned was that, whilst the heavy work load was appreciated and understand it’s purpose - I did suffer from exhaustion at several points throughout the year. However, there were many positive things to say such as the good quality of teaching and presence of the tutors.

PPP Prep: BA Illustration Show

Today was the BA Illustration Show! Unfortunately I couldn’t make it due my dislike of things such as that - put it down to anxiety, however I will be going to view the show at some point in the next week when it is quieter. 

For the show I was told that my Queen’s Speech piece had been chosen to be shown in A2 size glory. I’m happy with this as it represents my work as it is now, and personally, I can’t think of another piece I’d want to show more.

PPP Prep: Thought Bubble 2015

So! I forgot to blog this earlier in the year, but Joe Shiels and I will be sharing half a table at Thought Bubble in November! I’m very excited, however I’m very aware that I don’t really have much to see at the moment so my plan is to create a few zines over the summer. Additionally - Joe has made this emblem for us that can be found on the Thought Bubble website!