Category: coursework

2d element

for my 2d piece i painted some lips with an eyeball in-between them. this graphic painting took me about 2 hours. i used acrylic paint, colour pastels and chalk to create my work.

3d element

no, your eyes are not deceiving you. that is a bloody magic 8 ball with chunks of brain on it.

for my 3d aspect to my project, i wanted to create an unusual murder weapon. i took a donated magic 8 ball and covered it in red paint , then molded bits of brain from airdrying clay.

this disturbing piece is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable and make you question why on earth would someone use such an odd weapon.

in history there have been many unusual murder weapons, so i took it upon myself to create a short video on the 3 strange weapons used to carry out the despicable crime.

Tim Burton research

another favourite artist of mine is tim burton. we all know his films and i don’t know anyone who doesnt love them. he is a household name that we all recognise.

burton has a very recognisable style of the name “burton-esque” named after himself.

4d- animation

here we were asked to make a gif, but i took it one step further and made an animation.

the animation is based on a video game, and uses audio the audio ‘falling down’. from the pixelated game, undertale. undertale is a 2015 roleplaying game where the player plays a young boy who has fallen into the underground, a large secluded region under the surface of earth. the game is spooky and has a dark colour scheme, displaying some horror undertones.

to create this animation i individually drew each scene on ibis paint and then took each scene into the video editing software capcut.

hell is a teenage girl

for my 4d project i chose to make a short video inspired by the “horrors” of being a teenage girl. the video starts with the iconic opening line from the movie ‘jennifers body’, a favourite of mine. midway through, the iconic line from the movie pearl. both of the main protagonists in these movies are teenage girls.

i wanted to take a spin on the traditional sense of horror and focus on what horror makes you feel. when i think of horror and the typical response towards the genre the words : uncomfortable, uneasy and disturbing come to mind. all these things can be felt just by existing as a teenage girl. wether its pressure from peers, i wanting to fit in or the over-sexualisation of adolescents in the media, they all have a similar feeling as a response.

some research on one my favourite artists junji ito’s work. ito is a japanese horror manga artist.

junji uses a comic book style with lots of linework to create really impressive pieces. i created this with the drawing software ibispaint.

the pencil task

for this task we were each given a pencil with hearts on. from this we had to generate an idea based on our project theme and create a relevant piece of work
i chose to create some slasher art of the pencil being stabbed in someone’s eye.

here are my prints from when we created negative images in the dark room. i chose to draw a vampire inspired by 1940s new orleans . using the dark room was a really interesting experience and would be something id look into using again.

idea generating for my theme

here i explored the different themes and feelings connected to horror , generating ideas for my final piece