Dream Dictionary

Hey there,

this is the latest project from my illustration course. 'Dream Dictionary' is a book by a guy called Tim Etchells where various things that we see in dreams have a definition. This was all fiction, but the definitions were quite interesting. The task was to illustrate 8 of these definitions and put them into a folded book. The process that we have to use was printmaking so the students had to go to the printroom and print images which we have planned in our sketch books.

These photos here are the before and after images of each definitions.

Image 1: Wearing a Wire

Image 2: Carpet Burns

Image 3: Cure for Cancer

Image 4: Crop Circles

Image 5: Moon Bisected by a Tiny Slither of Cloud

Image 6: Polystyrene Fruit

Image 7: Dissolving Stiches

Image 8: Movie

The Images of the right, has the writing the other way round becuase I thought that I'll be print the images on steel. I did the writing this way because it would be easy for me to write it when it cames to printing.

But now I have to use digital prining. This is done by:

* Scanning the images

*Positioning them in the correct order

*Saving them as PDF.

*Print them out on the sheet.

The images will be put in a certain position they would look like this:

The book will be very large. I decided to leave them as A3 images instead of changing them to A4. The images will be placed on A0 on computer.

Hopefully when the book is completed, I will be showing how it looks like.

Here are the before and after images of the greek myth that I have chosen. At first I didn't like the way the pastel portrayed my images. But it was nly unitl I contimued to work on them that they started to make a big difference. I sprayed hair spray in order for the pastels to not ruin my work. (^_^)

Cupid and Psyche

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Scene 8

Before I started on my costume I wrote the story plan for the people participating on the play, Naheed wrote it and I put it into my notebook. I typed it on to word and posted it on facebook. Bianca who was one of the members of our group wrote the script. Here it is:

Brief for Greek Myth Play for Ancient Greeks

Waine: Uncle George

Angela: Niece (Crystal)Cherish: Hair Clip Stall Owner

Naheed & Aarti: Jewellery Customers

Bianca: Narrator

Crystal: Sister (Crystal’s Mother)

Story + script plan:

• George comes up with idea with mixing chemicals to make jewellery ancient.(we can have Waine create the pieces of jewellery (in his work shop), holds it up to the light to make sure it look genuine)

• Takes jewellery to Sister’s house. Waine: i've come up with a unique ideaCrystal:what that?Waine: Take a look(looks in to the bag or tray)Waine: don't you think they actually look genuine?(Crystal has a closer look at the jewellery, putting it up to the light

• Sister and George create an idea to make money with ancient jewellery.Crystal: Just like the ones your get on the market stall, we should should try and sell them, we could make a fortune from it.(Same scene as before)

• Sister opens the stall for customers.(stall set up we should have Crystal, Waine and Angela behind one stall and cherish behind the other)

• Customers look at the first stall and lose interest of hair clips(Arti and Naheed going over to cherish's stall not taking much interest to it)

• Uncle and niece run the stall; mother supports the stall by persuading customers to by jewellery. Customers buy jewellery. Narrator shows a sign describing the highlight of the story.Crystal: Ladies come over, come!!! we have all sorts for pieces of jellewery, come and get your jewellery here I grantee that you won't loss interest.(Naheed and Arti leave Cherish's stall and make there way other to Waine's stall)

• Narrator shows sign of the months that pass after jewellery has been bought. Customers come to Uncle George’s house to get their money back. Within minutes uncle dies of shock from a heart attack.Bianca:the customers had returned to uncle George's house to retrieve the money form the fraudulent jewellery but within minutes uncle George dies of shock from a heart attack.

I also worked on the the costume for the play. I found tutorials, on how to make a tunic or a greek dress and commenced creating the costume. Before I started sewing the costume, I used safety piny to pin the points that will be sewn.

Picture A shows the three holes that have been revealed on the costume. This was the head and the two holes for the arms:

Picture B depicts more of the costume.

Picture C is my arms covering the waist. I did this because I yearned to see how the cloth would be shown.

Picture D, E and F, depicts what will happen if I use a belt around the cloth. It seems that I would have to buy a thicker rope to tie around the cloth.

Enjoyed my day in illustration. I had to show some of my images which were based on headlines from newspapers. So far I have done at least 2. Hopefully I'll so the rest very soon. There were 4 images that I had to create.

The first image is in charcol, where there were image was bad on a shrine for a cat who had a tumour.

The next image was based on baby tigers swimming with professional swimmers.

I was quite surprised with the way various mark making were shown. Plus how the view of perspesctive was shown in the first image. I felt that it would have been very interesting if I showed the cat on the side explaining how the headline would be more easier to understand.