Josh Norris OCA logbook

Exercise: Editorial Illustration I started by creating an action plan through Trello. This exercise tasked me firstly to buy a newspaper and analyse the illustrations, I chose to go down a different route, I found a website that follows the work of Maria Fabrizio. https://mymodernmet.com/editorial-illustration-wordless-news/ She produces Editorial Illustrations based on real-world headlines. I thought this would be more focussed and allow some deeper analyses. I saved a few of her illustrations and read briefly through the article that went with it. Her illustrations are super creative and I feel have inspired me a lot more than reading my local newspaper. While Fighting The Odds, Fiona The Hippo Became A Social Media Star https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538874374/while-fighting-the-odds-fiona-the-hippo-became-a-social-media-star?t=1568787775157 Fiona the hippo was catapulted into social media stardom from the day she arrived on the planet. The baby hip

This assignment was the biggest, in my opinion, it allowed a lot of creative control and I will admit it did make me feel a little unfocused to start off with, I had this feeling that I would pick an idea and then think of a better one and I would be going round and round in circles not being able to land on something. The first thing I did was dive straight into my sketchbook and to previous exercises, this is the final Assignment of Illustration 1 and I wanted to just brush up on the different techniques this course has taught me in lots of different areas, I created quite a few mind maps and took a look back into my previous hand-ins. When it came down to idea generation I stuck to mind maps and then a spider diagram, for me getting all the ideas down on paper is just the best way, I am a visual thinker but in terms of ideas I find it much easier to write down everything I'm thinking that way I don't miss anything. One thing that kept going round in my mind was the ide

This exercise wanted me to create the illustrations for a leaflet, the leaflet was called What is happening to my body it's all gone mad. I researched into the issue. I thought that with an issue like this that research would be the most important aspect because of how serious it would be to provide information. I used a few websites to gather information. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/coping-with-your-teenager/ https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/16-ways-relieve-stress-anxiety#section5 After the research I thought that it I wanted to go down a different path as I usually do with these exercises. I wanted to focus on the mental health aspect of puberty and how tough it can be when you have changes in hormones. I thought with today's current climate and how everyone is more open about mental health having a resource like this in schools will be so beneficial. I feel like I could go down lots of different paths however I focused on mental health is