Vacant Plot

30 November 2012

The vacant plot seems to be in my head. 

I have been devoid of blogging desire lately - largely because of the Calverley Grounds survey report. It was a beast. Publisher is not the greatest software (that's just my opinion), as it doesn't seem to allow you to import stuff without changing the line spacings and therefore the page layouts. The forums seem to suggest it's a fault in the software rather than with me.

We had 11 bodies in our team and everybody submitted 'stuff' for the survey report. All 83 pages of it. Perhaps it was just as well that Publisher made me go through everything in fine detail as there was a lot of work to do on it. It would be rude of me to go into specific examples...I'm not particularly clever but I think I possess basic common sense. Perhaps a GCSE on this might be worked into the basic curriculum.

I didn't realise I had signed up for a publishing degree. But actually the finished report is OK. I'm quite pleased with it. 

I seem to lose my blogging blog every time I write it - but let's have a go at putting a pretty picture on this page. Meanwhile, I am delaying the task of doing the sketch concept thingey for Calverley Grounds. I've tackled the Connective and Intensive interpretation but Reflective seems to be eluding me.  Must get on...

The Render Agenda

5 November 2012

Rendering was this week's practice session and I found it quite useful. But I seem unable to make decisions. It was easy to spot the more-effective and least-effective colouring when they were pinned on the wall at Avery Hill but now I have done some at home I can't decide which is best. I asked two members of my family which they liked and they chose two different ones, and I had already sort of chosen the third. Here are two, but for some curious reason I am unable to upload the third as it tells me the 'server has rejected'. I guess this might be a message from some divine power, telling me it wasn't great. Oh, and I seem to have acquired a block of two-tone grey under my rendering pictures. 

The left is rendered in pastel pencils and the right using marker pens. I think perhaps I preferred the third, which has now graced the page with its presence. It is coloured using Super Ferby colouring pencils. I need more greens though as the two I have don't look great together. The pastel pencils were by far the quickest to use - but also the messiest and very easy to smudge and spread where they aren't required.

An interesting exercise anyway, and I feel I'm not quite so 'precious' about colouring neatly now.