Degree Show Build 2015

3rd Years prepare for Degree Show

This years see's cartoon and comic arts 2nd lot of students graduate. As is now the practice at the end of the  the whole of the Art & Design department goes about putting on an end of year show. Comics once again played an important part in this.

Below is a visual documentation of how the show came together and the various in carnations it went through.

So Starting off with the room we were allocated. It was the same one as last year where it held 10 students, this year there was to be 12, so this meant that false walls had to be built and work had to be printed and put up.

Above shows the initial starting point, the room with the boards in ready for the interior walls to be built 

The partially built side wall was to allow 3 students to display their work 

The corner piece was taken out to allow for the space to be used more effectively 

The final panoramic view of the area in Henrion Room H009

After that the students moved in to start the job of turning the area into their Degree Show Space

We tried to stop the paint being put on the floor honest with the plastic wrapping 

It was great to see how everyone stood around and waited for Becci to stir the paint

then with a few well chosen adjustments the team kicked in 

The paint was stirred enough

and teh magic started to happen

yep... missed a bit. 

Once the room was done, the furniture was moved to one side to allow the floor to be polished.

Artwork submitted 

Kieran Hayes

Callum Lawrence-Bardsley

Will Kellioh

Michaela Betts

Ryan Moss

Will Vaughan

Reece Palattao

Becci Such

Emma Buxton

Connie Skerrett

Michaela Clark

Currently missing is Pete Dawson's work which is an animation which I hope to up load soon 

New Year New lick of paint

POP UP COMIC SHOP 

The 2nd year Cartoon & Comic Arts Students had a presence at the Degree Show, they were selling their work which had been on sale in London MCM. So from the old image of the Pop Up Comic Shop. the first challenge was to paint it white and come up with a new design on it. Here are some images of the students hard at work in the process of painting. 

You can see the final designs and comics at the Art show, in the Henrion Gallery!

London MCM

London MCM

2nd Years venture into the Big City

I cant believe that its been so long since I've had an opportunity to post work that we've done over the last couple of weeks. This will be a little out of order so please bear with me, but we nee to start of with the London MCM Comic Con 23rd May, 24th May, 25th May. 

2 things to note here. One is the 2nd years all attending as part of their AM50422-4 The Art of Cartoons & Comics module. This was/is based on the Apprentice (Many thanks Lord Sugar for the concept, Many thanks Esme Baran for the idea) 

The general idea as mooted by Esme was that she never had the opportunity to go to a convention or run a table. She ended up doing a Stirling job at the October MCM and sort of got the bug for it there. Though her main concern was that there was very little she knew about when people asked her about the work. This got me thinking that if the students were forced to produce their own work and sell it as part of the module then that would make more sense.

Aiming to produce the best work we could, we asked John Charles Marvel UK and 2000AD artist and writer Kevin Gunstone Markosi & Marvel to assist in helping the students to do this. 

Both John and Kevin diod great work, delivering bespoke lessons in helping the students to set up their ideas and giving feedback on things that were working and not.

The Cohort was split into 2 teams 

Red Pretzel - Becci Such, Kieran Hayes, Will Vaughn, Emma Buxton, Michaela Clark &  Ryan Moss 

Aqua Rhombus and the Imaginariums - Callum Lawrence Bardsley, Connie Skerrett, Will Kellioh, Michaela Betts, Peter Dawson & Reece Pallatto

The idea was to get as close to £60.00 as possible. Needless to say both teams did, but the clear winner was Red Pretzel. 

Everyone, including Area Group Leader Mark Garner Looking very happy and pleased we found a cheap curry in Brick Lane London.