Me

This will probably, eventually end up in some about me section - but for now I will just have it as a post and condense it later. At the moment I'm thinking for developments sake I should say a little about myself and start to post some work up. Looking at the blog so far I'm not sure it says as much about me as it should, so I am hopefully going to fix this. So far there is a little about what I have done, a bit about my opinions and mostly stuff about my current work, which is all well and good but I suppose I should say something about why I am where I am. So I shall start at the beginning and try to stick to what is relevant (as I often go off track). My name is Jemma Overend, and I love to design. I have always been a creative person - I do not recall a time when I have not been doing a subject that is creative. Even when I was younger I preferred colouring to toys. All through my school years I was partaking in art and design related subjects. I studied Architecture for a year at The University of Kent. I still enjoy looking at architecture and it will always be apart of me, but I have never enjoyed the work I'm doing as much as I do now I am doing Graphic Design. I am glad I did architecture - I don't see it as a wasted year - even though I've moved on. I see it as experience which will help me in what I'm doing now and in the future. When I first started this course I had very little experience with Graphic Design except for what I had done myself to have a little portfolio, and to gain basic skills. I am not proud of this work, it is not the best work that will ever been seen - but everyone has to start somewhere and this was where it began for me. So I guess all thats left to do is post some of it. Cringe. So here is my work from the very beginning (July this year).

  

Please keep in mind this is my first ever work before I even started a course, so I decided to leave room to improve. I hope. Well I guess we shall see. The Rainbow hat was not used as a piece of work. I just decided to scan a hat into a computer one day and make it into a rainbow, because I seemingly have no life.
There are only two recent pieces of work I have yet to show. One is my logo - which will change - I have not uploaded it so far because I suppose I didn't feel it was me. However as we are currently creating a base on which to develop it seems only right to throw my first and current logo out there for all to see. I would say don't judge me on it - but then what would be the point in having a logo?

So yeah thats it. It will change don't you worry. I also made a poster for Momentum the dance show. So here it is.

I handed it in like this, it was a quick brief and it could definitely improve. I wanted to do something different so I hand drew it. It is meant to look like quick drawings because to capture movement in dancing you have to draw quick. I couldn't just leave it like this so even though I had already handed it in, I decided to play around with it and see what else I could do. So this is what I came up with. 

I prefer this one, it's more dramatic, possibly because it is simple. It also reminds me of a chalk board. I very much like the contrast too. I shall hopefully be able to post more work soon and hopefully show improvement. Then I can look back and see where it all started.