My Career Aim

Over the past 5 years that I have been learning Graphic Design I have had various options and choices to make. I am at a time right now where I am no longer wanting to stay on in education and I want to spread my wings and get a taste for the real thingin the industry. I have a rather complex plan of what I want to do and I have still not fully made up my mind.

Right now where I'm at is I am nearing my first year of Graphic Design & Advertising in The Manchester College. I have a vary of options. My first option is to carry on to do a Degree in Graphic Design and that would give me a higher qualification and open a few more doors for me. Another option is to try and get a job as a Junior Graphic Designer and work my way up a company.

My preferable option is to go abroad and apply my skills over there. My country of choice is Dubai. I would love to work out in Dubai and work my way up a company and I feel I would be more motivated out there and enjoy it more than routine out in the UK.

So right now my current choice is to go out to Dubai and see what Designing jobs there is out there. I have already been in contact with a Graphic Designer out there that is quite established and she is putting my in connection with a few people who might be interested in me.

The Beast Within

I seen this piece of artwork on a website called Pinterest. The first thing that stands out to me is the amazing range of colours. There is a vast range of colours within the dragon and this could inspire a lot of different things.

I also like the fact that he seems to be coughing up the beast himself hence the title the beast within. This has definitely got to be one of my favourite pieces of Graphic Design.

Introduction

This is a brand new blog where I will be letting out my creativity! I will be updating this daily with what inspires me, doodles,  sketches, ruff ideas. Anything that I feel belongs on this silly little blog of mine =].

The main point of this blog though is to show the world my work and other peoples work that I feel needs to be given more attention than it should. I love sharing peoples other peices of work and explaining what I find interesting in them. Maybe it's the contrast of colours or the font. Anything that strikes my eye will be posted here for your enjoyment.

I just done a quick background for this blog as you can see it's currently on. I did this quickly in photoshop and had the idea of some sort of blueprint background. I looked for a sketchy sort of font and used that as my title font. I then had a look at a few blueprint pictures such as:

This had me thinking of how I could combine these images into a blueprint effect of my liking. So I created my own custom grid lines and used the font 'Sketchy'. I then just used the line tool and lowered the opactity and use a filter to get the sort of rough chalk look. I ended up with the following result.