Day 4 - Leeds Guide WE Diary

today was not as stressful as i thought! today was the day the magazine went to print and it was just like any other day. Some people from Thomas Danby college came to look at the Leeds Guide and how they work. I would have liked to do this instead of having a set time for a placement. I REALLY want to get on with my dissertation research and do some work for my summer brief ( i cant wait to make a zine, now i have had so much experience with InDesign) and with working 9-5:30 pm everyday, i am busy all day then tired at night. I think today was more interesting though, i got to start 'sketching' and playing in illustrator to create imagery for the "Student Guide" they print in December. I got to use stock images that were all vector sheets with random imagery and then i just got play! i started by using the images as they were and then on my dinner break i looked for some inspiration in some of my books, magazines and recently purchased zines and handmade magazines. i decided to use a collage technique and tried to mimic printing type imagery by using images and having a slight misalignment of the images outline, as though it had been screen printed and not fully aligned. i am recently really starting to like illustrating and would love to get more into it over summer so when i go back to university i have a basic skill set to work with and a vague idea of styles of illustration i like to use. i was asked by the head designer, what i thought would be popular and appropriate for a 'student style' and from all the PPD presentations i saw, my own interests and my observations of design, i recommended a hand drawn, crafted illustrated style. i was given free reign to create imagery and i can later try to create a kind of branding for the "Student Guide" I would love to be able to do this kind of thing as a freelancer, getting a solid brief (which i haven't been given, which makes me struggle to start), getting on with it in my own time ( as long as its done before certain deadlines) and having the freedom to explore in my own experimental style.