24hr Brief

As a little project to get us going frazer set us a 24hr brief that looked at coming up with an illustration to go with a speech about britain and british culture.

I started out buy drawing out things that make me think of britain or british culture until there was one good enough to use and develop. (photos to come later)

After a brief chat with frazer I decided to go ahead with the little drawing of the mustache and monocle. The concept was 'fake britain'. Taking things that weren't british and making it look like or come across as if it were.
From there I started thinking too hard and was making it more complicated than it had to be. I moved away from the monocle and decided to focus on a pipe, and though of a plastic childs pipe made out of plastic and  blows bubbles as a way of showing how people in britain try and portray this image but are infact fake.

I was ridiculously busy that day and had had no sleep for the past 3 days so my time management was ridiculous and I didnt manage to finish the project on time. I did get round to doing some potato prints but decided they were no good for the image I wanted to use.

If I'd managed my time more carefully and focussed a bit more I'd have tried out these last images in water colour to show the delecacy of the bubbles and how the image can be shattered at any moment.