I am currently studying at Macclesfield College on an art and design foundation course. In this course I have experimented with a wide range of techniques such as life-drawing, painting, printmaking, photoshop, film-making etc This was a great opportunity for me to make a decision with what I have enjoyed doing the most. After four months of experimenting with different aspects in art I have decided to specialise in graphic design. The reason why I chose graphic design as my specialism is because it encourages me to express my ideas with different mediums such as, painting, drawing, prints, typography, photography etc However I would like to develop my skills and knowledge further at your university in order to succeed in the graphics industry.

Pembrokeshire-Mixed Media Painting

This is a piece of mixed media painting which I did after visiting Pembrokeshire in November 2010. For the Pembrokeshire project I had been asked to base my work on any artistic techniques but it  must involve different  material varieties.  Therefore I had  chose to create an animation film base on a mixed media painting of Broadhaven sea coast. For this project I produce a piece of painting using materials such as acrylic paint, water colour, tissue paper and texture paste, which I applied separately on a piece of canvas. I also found this painting very challenging because I had to film each progression for 10 seconds while painting it. These procedures helped me to create a lovely piece of animation film which always reminding me of the impression of our Pembrokeshire trip.

Blackpool city

These are two poster designs which I did for one of my National Diploma projects last year. I based its theme on Blackpool city where I found it amusing to visit. I love the structure of Blackpool city which had encouraged me to develop my skills in graphic design.  In order to form a Blackpool city in my own way I used acrylic paint, fine-liner and collage on a piece of cardboard. This gave me a really effective image. Then I scanned the image on an Apple Mac to allow me to work digitally with Photoshop and Illustrator. I am very pleased with the choice of material that I had chosen to use, which gave me a really impressive outcomes.

Visual Studies

This is an oil pastels drawing which I did in my National Diploma course.

Collage technique from my visual studies class.

Positive and Negative drawing.

Light and tone-visual studies.

 life drawing.

My Nightmare

Photo-manipulation.
I created this design in order to respond to a brief which expected me to communicate my dream with my chosen specialist area. Firstly I blended some acrylic paint and PVA glue together in order to create a rough texture on the portrait image for a Photoshop stage. Then I scanned the painting on an Apple Mac and worked on layers on CS4. This method had helped me to describe exactly how creepy my nightmare was.

Same But Different-Silk screen printmaking

The following five images are based on a concept of Social Butterfly that I created for my t-shirt design brief on the National Diploma course. The reason why I had chosen to use a break dancing image with the Social Butterfly concept is because I believe they are related to each other.  Therefore I created this in order to show the similarity of human and nature performances. 

Jay Sean's CD Cover Design

This design was influenced by one of the most famous British singers known as Jay Sean. As a R&B, hip hop and pop star whose name is well known all over the world. As we share  an Asian background(Punjabi/Thai) I personally find him very inspirational. His songs always hit the dance floors wherever I go. However it's not the only famous side of him that I like, I also like his personality and his attitude which I believe made him become a successful world wide singer.

For the design  I decided to pick this image as it looked natural and straight forward without any additions. I then dragged the image across onto Photoshop CS4 and gradually worked on the filters I like. Again with the Liquify tool I created an elephant face by carefully swirling the lines until I formed the right face of an elephant. Then I placed it on the left to present Jay Sean's Asian background. With the text I used two different fonts, one is used as an eye-catcher and another goes with the swirled elephant face. I am really pleased with the overall image as everything worked very well together giving such a strong image that I will die for.