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5My piece is an experiment of combining typography with i l lustration, to make play with the audience's

imagination just l ike the tricky question played with my thoughts. I t l inks to pets being used as dress up-dol ls

and not having any say against their owners, so they pretend to be happy.

Therefore I have represented that idea with a l ine i l lustration of a pug dog hidden behind the typography,

just l ike hiding behind the l ies. From exploring ideas using CMYK one at a time I came up with the solution

to overlay text in two colours. Developing my image digital ly al lowed me to create a perfect mirror image

of “Did you know your pets l ie to you”. Also, the background colour l inks back to the original colour of the

animal 's fur. This created a dramatic contrast between the foreground and the background.

I have successful ly combined digital with traditional i l lustration to present my abi l i ty of creating both

i l lustrating methods. However this module made me explore new methods and techniques that I have

never tried before through digital printing and developed my monoprint ski l ls.

KARO CICHON

“Did you know your pets l ie to you”

This was my starting point the phrase itself has some meaning - bringing up thoughts of my own pets being

deceiving.

The way to start the brief was to first experiment on a range of different medias to expand my knowledge in

the world of i l lustration. Monoprinting was the first point of real ly expanding any knowledge, I had never

tried monoprinting before. Learning that its a very experimental process resulting in every print being

different. My monoprint was a series of muddled overlapping l ines creating a kind of tangled wire image.

After gaining some experience and confidence in monoprinting, I decided to take the print and expand and

develop using a printer. Using such tools as colour modes, negative and zoom I thought of an idea to use

tracing paper to make the design transparent. I did this twice one with the colour blue and the other with

the colour brown, overlaid the two and made it so the images were kind of off centre creating a 3d effect.

The final stage was to make the piece relate to the title. I scanned the image into Photoshop, edited the

brightness/contrast to remove the boldness of colour. I wanted to include typography in my piece so I went

on the fact of adding a si lhouette in my image, in which I used a black si lhouette of a cat. Next I brought in

type, using the phrase given to me. I created the title with a range of different fonts to make the design

dynamic and over ordinary. I final ly made a cl ipping mask with the text, to reveal that the font was going

through the si lhouette, to pul l the whole image together.

JOEL MAYNARD

To best portray the sentence 'did you know your pets l ie to you?' I looked into the body language and facial

expressions of animals with a focus on dogs. Thinking about the typical 'puppy dog eyes' I wanted to show

how dogs tend to look when feel ing gui lty (l ikely because they have done something wrong) . My idea is al l

to do with deceit and I have used contrast with the cute puppy dog eyes looking innocent with the

repetition of the negative word ' l ie' making up the image. The red tissue paper for me represents the colour

of the word l ie.

BETH MORRISON

My piece is inspired by the behaviour of animals in connection to lying to their owners. I was particularly

interested in cats so I studied a range of ideas and approaches that led me to experiment with monoprints.

The process includes scanning the monoprints onto the computer and using photoshop to make an effect

to portray that a l ie can be repeated more than once. For me, the colour red depicts a false identity and

draws someone's attention to look closer at detai l . The idea of a scratched sofa al lowed me to interactively

express the way l ies are normal ly hidden.

'Scratch me if you can' by Yolanda Perez

YOLANDA PEREZ

My idea for “did you know your pets l ie to you” was created with the intention of using al l the ski l ls I had

gained in the past two weeks. These included processes such as mono-printing which I used different media

and started visual ly playing upon these ideas. With no intention on the final outcome and just let the

process create pieces within their selves. Furthermore I col laborated this with the typography I had

experimented in week two to create a i l lustration/typography piece.

The background of my final piece was the i l lustration aspect of my learning this is where I took the mono-

printing and took these pieces mixed these single images up into a new col lage where I experimented with

the way people read an image. Places a ful l stop and the end of the bottom right of the page symbol ises

that it was meant to be read left to right the same way we read the Engl ish language.

I felt that my typography aspect of the piece was the weakest as only having a week experience in this field I

feel l ike I need to take it further. This made this part of the work very l iteral and direct where I feel I need to

be more sensitive in the way I put my ideas across, make it sl ightly harder for the viewer to understand.

CALLUM GOODGER