The book explains itself really. It was originally for part of Advanced Higher Graphic Communication but then the project took over and turned into a book. I interviewed / surveyed over one hundred and forty people to get opinions, photos, thoughts and memories on the Royal High’s Fringe production ‘Hairspray’. I’d really appreciate some feed back. 
Graphic Communication
Hairspray Book
Friday, May 6th, 2011
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Blender
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
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For Advanced Higher Graphic Communication i recreated the setting from the well known film ‘Toy Story’ as well as the main character ‘Woody’ In this he interacts with a watergun (which i made in Pro Engineer) and made it look as if he is shooting at Rex. In the slide show you can see some of the furnature and characters from different angles and interacting.
Trip to Glasgow
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
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On Wednesday the second of Febuary my Advanced Higher Graphics class had a day trip to Glasgow where we were kept busy all day visiting interesting places. We drove in the morning on the mini bus then headed straight to Kelvingrove museum. I took a picture of a stuffed tiger in here as it was relevent to my AH art project. We then walked to to the tube station and had lunch in a near by pizza hut. And pritty much cleared out the boofy. Shortly after we took to ‘the light house’ in it there was several design projects ranging from archatecture to enviromental. I took several pictures from the work displayed on the walls. At the top there was a view of Glasgow but we were so high you were mostly looking down on the roofs. On the way to the design offices we briefly visited Willow tea rooms, of whichs building is a Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We reached the Snook design offices which is run by Lauren Currie and Sarah Drummond who is a former pupil from the Royal High School. They gave me a great insite to a whole new area of design which they were clearly passionate about. I especially liked how a large amound of their work uses information and oppinions from either the client or who it is aimed at, simalarly to how I brought together my Commemorative Brochure for Hairspray. This approach will definatly give a better end result. It is inspireing to see strong motivation and confidence to start thier own company at a young age in Glasgow. After visiting them I feel that after getting to grips what area I would like to specialise in, start my own company. I feel that this would be a good path to take as it means you can be your own boss and I am confident in leading through experience mainly in guiding.
After this visit we went to see ‘Black Swan’ in the cinema. Personaly I did not enjoy this film but was mainly because of personal taste and small phobia of birds. Before leaving had a quick bite in KFC then drove home.
Watergun
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.
In higher Graphic communication I did my thematic presentation on a watergun. For this I had an actual water gun from which I did sketches and took measurements. Using these studies and information I could then recreate it in a 3D solid modelling programme called Pro Engineer. I encountered several problems with this program as my watergun had an intricate outer design which resulted with the extrude tool not working on it properly. I solved this by starting again and doing the outer shell with a different tool. This alternative approach resulted in a slightly altered appearance but it did get the job done. Once this section was completed, technical drawings were set out and printed. Along with this I made busness cards, envelopes and letterheads. I based a children’s story around the watergun and illustrated it using PagePlus, then had it printed by Blurb.com. Look at this link to see the full book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1404890. In the slide show I have included some pictures of the book being read.
Learning Blender
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
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Earlyer this week in Advanced Higher Graphics our class was introduced to the animation program ‘Blender’. After learning the basics it felt quite easy to use. We were given breifs and had to complete these tasks by a deadline. They have been so far quite basic along the lines of ‘create a cube with chamfered edges and that has different colours for each face’ but does make you try hard to remember the steps as opposed to following instructions. I personally find it MUCH easier to use than ProEngineer, though that might just have been because I never fully understood how everything was happening.
Calligraphy
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
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In Advanced Higher Graphics we were introduced to calligraphy. This gave me a better insight into text and I can now use the terminology knowing what it means. The slide show contains images of my first attempts. On the first slide you can see at the side my first attempts at trying to get a grasp of how to figure out the size of the letters. By looking at the different types of font it has become apparent there are more differences between letters than would appear.
Higher Graphics – C.A.D. 3D Model
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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In session 2009 – 2010, while studying Higher Graphics, I modelled this water gun using Pro/Engineer.
The main body was quite tricky to model, especially as the two parts needed to be ’shelled’. It was necessary to model carefully, and check that the model would still actually shell, after each modelling operation.
I’ll add a few more images of the model to the Flickr photo set soon, to increase the scope of the slide show.