Character illustrations

The Games Art Exhibition

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/10/22/the-games-art-exhibition-opens-today



"A free exhibition showcasing the very best in video game art is taking place at London's City Hall all this week"

Wish i could have gone

Moodboard - 1920s

Film adaptation of the novel "The Great Gatsby" Author F. Scott Fitzgerald associated this moment in American history – the Jazz Age – with materialism  and immorality

The 1920 saw the banning of all alcohol, for religious and moral reasons. This allowed men like;

Al (Scarface) Capone to rise up, making fortunes selling illegal alcohol. The government paid agents to enforce the prohibition law, however due to their low salary's they were easily paid off.

The Collaboration

Finished magazine collaboration with Mitchell
http://issuu.com/grillustdropbox/docs/skatepark

Design in context

1920 - Character Creation (Part 1)

2nd project this week. Creating a character from the 1920. 

Defining events of the 1920s 

The Volstead Act (Banning of all alcoholic substances) 1920-1933
Rise of organized crime syndicates. Capone (Italian) and 'Bugs' Moran (Irish)
Saint Valentines day massacre (1929)
The Jazz era 

The re-emergence of KKK (1920)
America became the wealthiest country in the world. Hire Purchase agreements, encouraged consumers to spend. Boosting the economy, however, forcing it too collapse and fall into depressing due to lack of repayments during the 1930s 
The wall street crash (1929)

Style of the 1920s 

'Most men who retained facial hair during the 1920s and 1930s limited themselves to a moustache or a goatee'

 Men typically wore suits, an era of money, may as well look sharp.

Still from the film 'The Untouchables'

The Volstead act allowed Notorious Gangster 'Al Capone' rose to prominence during the 1920s, by bootlegging alcohol, smuggling and prostitution.    

On Location. The start.

Finally a first year! Moving on.

The first project this semester involves studying a location for three days, in order capturing the essence of the site. by producing different images using a variety of materials and mediums (Drawings, paintings, ink ect ect). Then amassing all the work  into an ISSUU magazine.

The location we decided upon, is a skate park. I think this is a wise choice, because, there is so much raw emotions displayed in a skate park, due to the fact that skaters are trying to express themselves.

These are examples of things i've looked at for research and inspiration; These are some magazines already on ISSUU regarding skating. 

http://issuu.com/unomag/docs/uno_53 

http://issuu.com/abriefglanceskateboardmag/docs/lowres__abg_09_final_per_pubblicazione

These are examples of videos i've watched in order to try understand the emotions being expressed.

http://vimeo.com/45778774?pg=embed&sec=45778774

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BSu-M2ZyCI&feature=g-all-u&ytsession=JjBNSZa8gEAjXzfTGCdBSGXZDcJyi3_tYzLDVBB4JYUmE3PmNiqSkAqKq8TVmNTsFZvpk7iDCJrBhAA5HGn7hjyNJijJnSVdp7q2wV8FXEGiTqlAh9f7ku

and finally, location illustrators for inspiration 

Lucinda Rogers

Olivier Kugler