Kingston short course

So recently I've been away in Kingston, I did a short portfolio prep course at Kingston uni which was reallyy good actually. Did a lot of drawingg, life drawing in particular, some illustration, and some colour block interpretation of objects. On the second day we did some life drawing of a friend of the teachers, he was wearing a christmas jumper and we had to make the jumper look as good as we could as well as the rest of the person ofcourse.. Well anywayy, I won the competition! The model chose the winner, he said that I made the jumper look heavy and you could really see the texture within the jumper. Still need to take photo's of these so I'll do a post on the photo's as it is Christmas eve today! However I do have photo's of the 3D object we made from a book. Basically the project brief was to create a 3D paper structure from the book we chose, about the book. We could use only the book pages and white card if we covered it in the book pages. I chose the book "The Golden compass" I havent personally read the book, but I have seen the film, and I decided to create something which intertwined the compass (being the very core of the book) the polar bear, and the journey to the north. I really enjoyed this exercise as 3D isnt really my thing and it gave the chance to step out of my comfort zone and create something really rather exciting and ultimately.. it tells the story with the sculpture.

 This photo is taken near the start of creating my book sculpture, I wanted to cover the inside with these dark illustrations so that the compass would stand out more and really stand up from the background. I created this shape for the mouth by stapling the edges together in the shape of a polar bear mouth.

 I sewed a piece of thread to hold the edges of the mouth closer together so it was shaped more like a polar bear mouth rather than a shark mouth, this worked really well, it held well and was difficult to see.

 The compass inside of the mouth, I showed the North by cutting out letters from the book, and stuck them in place. As you can see "The Golden compass" is written in gold, and it goes in a jaggered line from south to north to show the journey that they made in the book.

The layre on the top of the compass represent the armour that the polar bear wore in the book.

If I was to do this project again, I would cut out more illustrations to stick on the inside so that the compass would stand out more, however I would have done this if there was enough illustrations in the book! so i would have to create the darkness somehow else.

Ps, Christmas Day tomorrow! SO EXCITED.