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PORTFOLIO UCAS ID : 1808270165 REECE PLANAS

HIGHER EXPRESSIVE ARTS RESEARCH DRAWINGS My chosen theme was reflective surfaces. During my process of doing my research drawings, I decided to explore using different mixed media within my pieces.

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- COLOURED PENCIL, WATERCOLOUR, FINE LINERS, PENCIL/GRAPHITE

To achieve the reflective look, I made sure to pay attention to the lighter and darker tones seen in the objects. I used a white pen to enhance areas that are reflecting to make it more realistic.

HIGHER EXPRESSIVE ARTS DEVELOPMENTS When starting the process of doing my developments, I rearranged my objects around and decided to go forward with using the material I was most strongest in.

For this piece, I wanted to play around with a different background colour to try make my drawings stand out more.

When finished, I thought the blue background allowed the objects to stand out more as the different colours and tones are more apparent and vibrant.

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CREATIVE THINKING For this project, I was given a task to redesign a van that helped the needs for a specific community.

UCAS ID : 1808270165 SKETCH IDEAS

I chose to create a van around the issue that most, if not all charity shops are only limited to having clothes and accessories for older people making it harder for more younger people to find something they like.

Creating mood boards allowed me to build ideas on how I wanted my van to look like in a way that would attract a lot of people to visit.

THEME – hippy, vintage, bohemian, nature Through research and creating mood boards, I then started looking at colour schemes and different materials that I wanted to include into my van.

CREATIVE THINKING MODEL

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BUILDING PROCESS, EXPERIMENTATION WITH MATERIAL After integrating different areas from my sketch ideas, I managed to create my final design.

To achieve the aesthetics and theme of my van, I used wooden straws to build the floor to give the look of wooden planks and used different sized popsicle sticks to build the furniture. Yarn was also used to add extra details.

To add that pop of colour, I wanted to mimic the look of having tapestries hanging from walls by using coloured/tie dyed fabric to contrast against the wooden interior.

FINAL VAN DESIGN

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Mini hangers!

I would’ve also liked to put more focus in adding some detail to the exterior of the van instead of leaving it plain white. This would’ve helped with the overall design of the van.

Overall, I was pleased with the final outcome of my van and my use of different materials to match the aesthetics I was aiming towards for my target audience.

There’s some areas that I would change like adding different textures on the wooden furniture to add more variety and less of the same colour.

HIGHER GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION

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My assignment for high graphics was to create a final 3D model of a toy truck.

FULLY ASSEMBLED 3D MODEL

4 MAIN PARTS – CAB, WHEEL, HOOK, BUCKET

PHOTOGRAPHY/OBSERVATIONAL SKETCHES I often like discovering and walking through alleyways and village streets and really appreciate the landscape and unique landscape Edinburgh.

I wanted to show these through observational sketches.

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SKETCHBOOK WORK PEN, GRAPHITE, OIL PASTELS

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HIGHER DESIGN

RESEARCH

Create a new menu cover for a restaurant of your choice.

DEVELOPMENTS

When starting, my initial idea was to go more oriental and have a more simplistic/ minimalistic look to my design cover. As I did my design sketches, I wasn’t pleased with the outcomes of the developments and felt like using watercolour and graphite wasn’t the best to use.

I decided to change the whole design completely and go for a more animated and cartoon style by working digitally ( SKETCHBOOK) and found this being better suited to be a menu cover for Yo!Sushi.

DEVELOPMENTS

RESEARCH

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