Paint and stencil development

After attending a lecture by Dave Sedgwick (Studio DBD) me and a friend decided to get some paint and rollers and have some fun playing around with them, inspired by the process and production lesson I had with Nick. I decided to make some curvy funky shapes with different coloured paints and thought I could use them to help with designing for my new YCN brief in which I have chosen to do the art fund brief. I drew a couple of curvy shapes on A3 paper and used a scalpel to cut them out.

I then used red, blue and yellow paint and a roller to print the shapes onto a blank A3 sheet. 

Here is the final piece! I like the shapes and colours I am going to manipulate them digitally and to include them in my design work.

Here is a photo showing the print as well as the stencil cut out which I also liked the look of as the pain frames the cut out shapes. 

Here are the shapes scanned into my computer, and rearranged. Here are the shapes scanned into my computer, and rearranged. I then digitised them, tracing the shapes on illustrator with the pen tool. I then changed the colours to the colour scheme provided in the YCN brief package which is a light red, blue, green, yellow and pale pink.  

Below are some examples of where I used the shapes in my Art fund project! Theres an advert for the card which was given with the project pack, but I added the shapes to the image so that it matches the rest of the campaign and looks really good. I've also used them as a background pattern in this gif I made for advertising online and on social media. 

The shapes became a huge part of the branding, along with the strong and bright colour scheme and the characters I designed. The shapes add a fun element and inject colour into the designs and without them the designs would definitely be lacking. I am really happy and glad that I made these shapes as they have become such a large part of the designs.