Stressing is depressing

It's the run up to Christmas and I am running on steam. Deadlines are piling up and my extracurricular activities are starting to take precedent. But after this week I will have half finished my Neo-realism essay and can focus on the Newspeak brief. It finding time to do everything that seems to be the issue currently, I will need to work on my time management especially for next year's studio practice 2 I can't be putting this much stress on my shoulders it's not healthy.

Facepaint

 

After considering all my potential options for the Newspeak brief (for a costume design aspect), I have decided to look into using face painting as a way of communicating my emojis. The idea that I was thinking of was sticking with my poetry, and making up an emoji poem with my face and various props. I am quite familiar with face paints having done it every summer for the past four years at kids parties. The images below are what initially inspired me and I want to get to this level of accuracy for the final piece, none of this half-hearted pulled together nonsense. 

 

Branding

So this week we have to go and have a look at company ideas and essentially ways to sell our art to the outside world for commercial use. In all honesty I have been planning my ideas for a wee while, I want my brand to be a reflection of what I am like. I imagine my business cards being sharp clean and simple with just a touch of colour or gold. Just to add a bit of glamour. I got one of my friends to help in designing a logo that has my signature in it, but is for security purposes you can't see the full signature. I think once I get the card sorted the rest of my stationery designs will fall under the same or similar design.