“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realise your potential.” Joseph Campbell
A leafy ink doodle that I drew a few years ago has morphed into a digital picture — and even though I enjoy working on the computer, it’s been weeks since I held a paint brush and now I can’t wait to get back to my easel…
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” Karen Lamb
“Specialization is for insects.” Arthur Jones
My thanks to Greg Mercer blogging at Big Red Carpet Nursing for the quote.
A doodle based on various sketches used for the Happy Easter illustration. Coloured in Photoshop.
Our school building was badly damaged by February’s earthquake and we moved to a new site. It was less than ideal but it was okay. Life goes on.
Hand-drawn A3 patterns.
Student project: organic soap logo, names, illustrations and packaging design.
Student project: drawing – pigment liner, watercolour and digital effects.
Typography class: pigment liner and digital.
Personal project using parts of the ‘Type A’ letterform and watercolour backgrounds.
Student project for a new chocolate bar – name, logo, illustration and wrapper.
On September 4th, 2010, at 4.35 in the early morning, we were shaken awake by a terrifying 7.1 magnitude earthquake. It was scary, destructive, unsettling, inconvenient and ongoing. Worse was to come but we didn’t know that at the time. After a while, we were back at D&A, continuing with our studies and doing our best to ignore the cracks.
School project: type as image exercise.
School project: anti-butt-litter billboard. The campaign had to be positive and focus on anti-not-thinking rather than anti-smoking. The illustration shows Christchurch’s Anglican Cathedral in happier times (before earthquakes damaged it beyond repair).
Another couple of hand-drawn patterns (a dozen different patterns in total — all A3, drawn using pigment liner pens). Earlier this year, for photography, we were asked to make use of some of our patterns…
These made it into last Friday’s D&A graduate exhibition. One day soon, I would love to try my hand at textile design.
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 