02
Mar
Adobe Youth Voices @ Body & Soul – Final Workshops
Posted by Hannah in Animation, Graphics, Illustration
For six weeks now, Ben has been running his Adobe Youth Voices sessions at Body & Soul and now, sadly, they have drawn to an end.
The time seems to have flown by, but we have all really enjoyed it, and hopefully learnt a lot about photoshop, and attempting to teach a class of teenagers!
The last 4 weeks have taken us from the initial pen sketches to laptops, and you can see the wicked illustrations that the kids came up with! Watch this space for future talents!!
The hardest part of learning Photoshop was getting to grips with using layers, their importance, and why you bother!!!
Even more praise to the guys, as using Photoshop on a touch pad on a laptop is pretty tough, and half of them hadn’t used a mac before either, so there were lots of things to get to grips with in our hourly sessions!
The kids at Body & Soul have been amazing, and levels of talent have varied, but we have been really impressed by how quickly a lot of them picked stuff up!
Click here to learn more about Adobe Youth Voices and all the project!!
26
Jan
At Bold Creative, we are all really excited to be involved in The Day Project. The team took their first step towards creating the ground breaking graphic novel last week.
We worked with a small group to start collecting stories of their experiences of HIV. Everyone stepped up to the challenge bravely as they interviewed each other about major points in their lives affected by the condition, from taking medication, to chatting up girls, to explaining the situation to family members…
Read ALL about the project, keep up to date, and have the opportunity to get involved here http://thedayproject.org.uk/
25
Jan
We were back at Body and Soul again this Thursday for our second workshop!
Ben got the group to start thinking about their characters.
Last week he asked all the kids to bring in something they felt resembled their character, or something that was important to them!
We had a mixed response from the guys that remembered, from fried chicken, through 1920s art deco lamps, to the Justin Burber album, and Ben’s dragonball z wallet!!
Once we had gone round and asked all the guys about their things, it was time to start some actual drawing!!
Ben had brought in a bunch of illustrations, some of his own work, and a collection of children’s books, to get the guys thinking about the style possibilities when coming up with a character.
Using this and the object for inspiration, they had to start to create a character of themselves.
The results were extremely varied, one massive afro, a grandma’s cardigan, a foxes mask, a chicken bone in the head.
In general we were impressed with how the guys got stuck in to the drawing and really enjoyed themselves!
Finally, after they had finished doing their own characters they passed them around and the guys had to have a go at interpreting what other people had drawn of themselves in their own styles!
This was another amusing game and helped understand different styles and gave the opportunity to add extra characteristics you felt they left, which could be anything from a saying to an extra arm borrowed from an octopus!
We had a ton of fun again and look forward to going back again this Thursday!!
15
Jan
On Thursday Evening we went back to Body & Soul for the first Adobe Youth Voices workshop…
Ben is leading the sessions every Thursday for the next six weeks!
The aim is to teach participants how to draw, create interesting characters and how to use Adobe photoshop as an aid to make those characters look amazing and finished to a professional standard.
This was the first session so, after filling up on some delicious dinner, we spent this time really getting to know one another, the group are a great bunch of kids, and i think it is safe to say we all had a lot of fun!
Ben started with an ice breaker, getting us all to think of our favourite film and get the rest of the group to guess what it was without saying the name! Some were a lot easier that others!!
Next we played a game to get us thinking about characteristics, which would help the guys to develop their own characters. You had to first think of 10 for yourself, and then 5 for another member of the group! Again this had some very humorous results, and some members of the group had ALOT more to say than others! Ben was a popular target for the second part!
Finally we ended the session by playing the game (we had a lot of fun and games this time round) where you take it in turns to all draw a part of the body!
As you can see we had some interesting results! We’re all looking forward to going back again next Thursday where we will begin more drawing and individual character development!
04
Dec
Adobe Youth Voices- Body & Soul
Posted by Ben in Consultation, Design, Graphics, Illustration, WorkshopsSo Thursday night i presented the introduction to the Adobe Youth Voices project to the wonderfull young people at the Body & Soul Charaty. They where very warm and welcoming to what i had to say, even though i was a bumbling mess!
I told them about a project starting in the new year, where i will be teaching participants how to draw, how to create interesting characters and how to use Adobe photoshop as an aid to make your characters look amazing and finished to a professional standard.
These are some of the slides of my work i showed to inspire the young people into signing up for the project. There was lots of interest and it seemed many young people wanted to learn how to draw characters and have some fun doing it.
After i presented the project we all took part in a workshop making masks for the christmas ball at Body&Soul. We where making the masks to be warn by the young people for there masquerade ball. It was great fun to take part in some crafts with the young people, it was all rather crazy and i regressed to my 8 year old state of mind. So i made a Optimus Prime mask and a Batman mask with fire for hair!!! This promply got taken a shine to by a girl there. She then covered it all in purple glitter!!! From Batman to BatQueen it was amazing.
A great experance and a successfull night, looking forward to getting started in the new year.
12
Nov
Looking for amazing Illustrators and Artists !!
Posted by Ben in Animation, Design, Graphics, IllustrationHay Everyone in Boldink land.
I am currently in the process of looking for some awesome talent to get involved in a new exciting project coming up.
We are making a illustrated book telling the stories of 10 young peoples experiences with HIV. If you have what it takes to make beautiful images and tell an amazing story, you will be working along BAFTA winning designers and illustrators here at Bold Creative !
The graphic novel will contain stories illustrated in a wide range of styles taking influence from traditional western comic book art, to Manga, to experimental graphic novels, to a mixed media approach. Each illustration style will be as unique as the story that tell it.
Want to know more ?
Want to get involved?
Dont be shy, send a digital portfolio or some examples of your best work that shows off your unique style, and your C.V to me!
Ben@boldcreative.co.uk
Im a tough critic so
14
Oct
Invert your eyes with negative [ Space ]
Posted by Mured in Design, Graphics, IllustrationTags: graphic design, Illustration, Negative Space, Noma Bar
12
Oct
Jeremy Scott for Addidas, Directed by Nabil
Posted by Mured in Animation, Design, Fashion, Film, Graphics, Illustration, motion graphicsTags: addidas, Jeremy Scott, Nabil
02
Oct
Imma Work Towards My Dreams…Tee design..
Posted by Mured in Design, Fashion, Graphics, Illustration, WorkshopsTags: bold creative, Design, dreams, Fashion, Illustration, imma work towards my dreams, syed, tee
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“…A recent collaboration between Sayed from Mile End Community Project (MCP) and Bold Creative, worked together to develop one of his t-shirt ideas.
Syed worked with one of our in house designers at Bold Creative to realise design, …”
Read full post here
Imma tee
Imma hoodie
0_0 inspired?
Do Something!
01
Oct
Adding to the post from Becka, these are the images that i came up with at our session at The Big Draw exhibition.
I took inspiration from the art works of Quentin Blake that were on display in the exhibit. Using his simple style as my point of referance, i then created images to reflect our Bold values.
The image of ‘Denis the Dawg’ i drew using a pen attached to a spinning top, and while the pen was spinning on the paper i dragged the paper about to try and draw an image with out touching the pen. It was pretty fun trying to draw with out “drawing”. After i was happy with the line work i had made on the paper, i rotated the page untill i found an immage in the mess of lines.
And hence i found Denis the dog .. with his tongue out ready for DINNER!