A Matter of Principle:

Now, this is more for me than anyone else. So if this is amazingly boring, please do forgive me. I need to document everything I need to do, and put it somewhere I won't lose it. 'The internet!' I thought, 'Nothing ever gets lost there! Not even stuff on Facebook!' (Which is scary if you ask me.) Anyway. Here is my to do list;


Portfolio:

• Characters – Show personality and story through the character, pose, colour, costume etc.
  
• Costumes – Shows characters personality and history.
• Creatures – Use the research of animal and human anatomy to create realistic creatures that make sense anatomically but that are still interesting.
  
• Environments – Perspective, architecture, design, geographic and historic influences, fantasy and sci-fi. Interior and Exterior, Natural and Manmade.
  
• Tech – Be able to show how things are put together.
• Vehicles – Important -
• WORK IN DIFFERENT STYLES: Realism, Cartoon, Stylised, Painterly, Sketch, etc.

FIND ARTISTS and websites that are similar, work to references and save them.

• Dissertation: (4000 words)
• The Video Game Theory Reader
• Persuasive Games - The Expressive Power of Video Games
  
• ‘Win together, lose together, play together, stay together.’ An examination of literature related to the differences between player and character relationship in customizable and non-customizable games.
  
  Branch out into:
• How players customise thier characters
• Why non-customisable characters are made the way they are for their audiences.
• DO MORE READING.
  
  Life Drawing:
• Take photos of pieces and create booklet.

Okay I'm pretty sure that's all I need for now. I think if I think of more I'll come back and add it on.

Wow that's quite a bit. That's okay. I think I'll focus on creatures, tech and environments. They're what interest me the most. It's just a matter of getting a good amount done in the next two months.

CALENDER:
Week 1 (8th March): Animals - Finish sketches.
Week 2 (15th March): Environments - Pencil and Photoshop paintings. Natural and Manmade.
Week 3(22nd March): Environments - 2 main paintings adapted to fantasy and schi-fi.
Week 4 (29th March): Tech/Vehicles - Experiment with sketches and how things are put together.
Week 5 (5th April): Finalise some sketches of weaponary, etc.
Week 6 (12th April): Dissertation/Life drawing.
Week 7 (19th April): Dissertation/Life drawing.
Week 8 (26th April): Finish off all unfinished work, make website.
Week 9 (3rd May): Hand-in Week.

I will probably swap all of these around in real life, but hopefully this should... be okay. Time to get a wriggle on and get stuck in.

Thanks for the ramble, guys.

Yours sincerely,

Hannah.