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Daniel Bailey Illustrator

Final Major Project 2013

February 2013

The brief for my final major project was given to me as follows:-

The museum of Daniel.Creating a visual museum of hand drawn or printedinterpretations of objects and ephemera. The completeddrawings/images will be presented and classified as

precursors to developing narratives and visualessays/collections that are starting points for appliedillustration.

What to do for this project?

I enjoy print work, lino printing, creating images in Photoshop, line drawing,still life, bookmaking.During the three years of the degree I have been successful in illustratingchildren's books, creating quirky characters, producing prints screen and

lino and digital image making. I have previously won two major prizes for myprint work at Hereford College of Art.

A Childrens Book

My first idea is to produce and illustrate a children's book. As research for mywork, I have been collecting photos, objects and ideas that inspire me whilestudying for the degree in illustration. Last summer, whilst on holiday wevisited a garden centre and I saw some extremely unusual and interestingplants. The ones which really captured my imagination were Gunnera.


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Huge plants (related to rhubarb) they look like they belong more in the jungleand I imagine a whole plethora of characters and objects inhabiting thisstrange world


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My illustrations would use similar subject matter to The Borrowers orHoneyI Shrunk the Kids, where the inhabitants of the strange world utilise objectsintended for another purpose, ie. to be used by life-size people, bigger peoplein a bigger world. This would give the illustrations and story a charm andappeal for young children.

Still from the film, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, 1989


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Still from the film, The Borrowers, 1997

I visited Waterstones bookshop to look through the book covers to findinspiration for a children's story. These book covers interested me and wereon a similar theme.


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March 2013

Discuss my ideas with my tutor today - this did not go well. I was encouragedto abandon my original ideas as described above and to focus on simplequirky drawings. My tutor told me to draw objects which I found interestingaround me. He told me not to worry about what I was going to produce but tospend the next three weeks (over the Easter holiday) drawing individualimages.

I hate working like this. I always need to know what I am aiming for in order toproduce my best work and to give myself a structure. I am really disappointedthat I cannot continue with my original idea which excites and interests meand for which I have done so much research but I will follow the tutorsinstructions.

I am, however, really confused..


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Apr i l 2013

I am collecting and drawing objects as instructed, however, I feel I do notknow where I am going with this idea and find it extremely frustrating. I musttry somehow to regain the passion and interest that I had in my earlier ideasfor this project.


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Objects

My tutor has told me not to focus on end products, however, I feel I need toknow where I'm going. I find it very difficult to research something whichseems to have no rationale. I decided to try to place a structure around the

images myself and selected objects to draw.

The Museum of Daniel

Things that surround and encompass me and that reflect my life and mychildhood. I found a range of such objects as ornaments and toys in mybedroom. All mean something to me and are mostly from my childhoodtherefore this would be a fitting Museum of my life.

Objects I selected included my collection of Lego models, my shells, woodentoys, boats, cars etc.

Random or meaningful groups of objects?

Saw my tutor again today. He told me to Get real and to Get on with it.Each time I have a tutorial I become more and more confused. He questionedwhy I had selected such a random group of objects to me they are clearlynot random - they form part of a collection of things I had in my bedroom

things I have collected over the last 20 years. Things that have an essence ofme in them and them in me. To be random implies that there is no rationaleor structure. Therefore something is not random if the author can describe therationale and structure.


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I researched The Surrealist movement before when I was doing thecompetition project entitled, A picture in Time in the Autumn term.

I looked at the individual images I have produced and created the followingideas as groups of images.


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This image experiments with shape, size and texture. The size of the imagesrelates to their importance in my childhood.

My ideas relating to textures led me to consider the materials from which theobjects were made. I started to group my objects together and created ideas

for the following images

I researched other possible ways of grouping a collection. I thought that thetoys could be grouped together in boxes as if they were on display in a shop.The boxes, however could mirror the work of Piet Mondrian as the simplestraight lines and colour would be perfect for presenting children's toys.


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The story in my illustration could include these predatory fish chasing groups

of other brighter, more colourful and quirky fish.

I was interested in the idea of the chase and the shapes that the shoals of fishcreate as they are trying to escape.

Having drawn the individual images of the fish, I used Photoshop to plan outand arrange the composition for the final images.


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In the second, I experimented with the idea of the octopus in the centre andthe other fish escaping in circles away from the predator. The fish made aninteresting pattern of concentric circles which mirror the shape of the octopusitself.


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In the third and final image I experimented with colour and shape. Here, incontrast to the last image, the fish are being encircled by the predators andare being pushed closer together into circles, each containing fish of adifferent colour. These groups of fish extend into the distance.


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The Aquarium of Daniel. Creating a visual museum of hand drawn (or printed)

interpretations of different types of fish. The completed drawings/images will be

presented and classified as precursors to developing narratives/collections that are

starting points for applied illustration.


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This is a swordfish I began to think about working with predator fish as well

and this is an example said to be the fastest fish in the world.


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This was my first attempt to collate an image using the individual fish I had been

sketching, I was beginning to look at them in terms shape, colour and combining

them to some kind of organised composition


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This is the first stage of the combined image, when I turn the silhouettes into fish

I will probably remove some


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The End

Daniel Bailey, Illustrator

For BA Hons Illustration FMPMay 29th 2013

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