overdue pictures

These are some watercolors I have been meaning to do for ages for a family friend. They are for a holiday home she has in a little seaside town called Salcombe!

The outsider characters

Just did these character drawings for the outsider. They are kind of more like fashion sketches and not really in the right direction for m work on the competition but thought I would put them on here anyways. I forgot how much I enjoy using ink washes!

Taste.

Taste from Katie Johnston on Vimeo.

Final Film. For some reason I didn't crop it when I was in final cut and there is about 19 minutes of strange sound at the end - ignore this!

Feedback on the work was good - the lettering was seen to somewhat detract from the food piling up which is more interesting imagery. I'm really glad I decided to just use the voice overs as it made the descriptions much more sensitive.

Taste according to children.

This was an exercise I filmed yesterday with two of Dan's cousins. I got them to try all the different foods and then group them into the four taste categories. The rest of the footage went ok but is very different from my original plan and (in a last minute stressful decision) I have decided to just use the voice over from the shoot and illustrate the food in this more simplistic way. I made a short stop frame using the food on a white background like above and I think it came out nicely so am going to attempt to carry on in that vein tonight/tomorrow.
I felt a bit like the footage of the children eating wasn't allowing me to be as creative as I was a bit worried about shoving the camera right in their faces and so didn't end up getting the extreme close ups I wanted. The shots ended up looking more like a documentary and were a bit static.

Visulising ideas.

Just been helping out with a pitch my boyfriend and a friend are making to a big record company on Friday by doing some sketches to aid the visualisation of their ideas; I'm actually quite pleased with how they turned out as I'm never that confident with drawing from imagination. They are pretty rough but the middle coloured one was fun. I have rediscovered the pro-marker pens which I got a bit obsessed with last year. I like how the ink sinks into the paper and ends up looking a little like water colour.
Update on fact project : Had a total nightmare this morning with trains due to the snow - Most of the services to my cousins house were cancelled or had severe delays so I didn't manage to make it down to film. I may have saved the situation though as I have found some friends who I can film in London on Saturday. Going to have a hellish few days afterwards trying to edit though. Meh watch this space for the final outcome...